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Programming

  • TIL: Apple tried to create their own CPU much earlier than you may know, Secret History: Apple’s first attempt at making a CPU, by RetroBytes on YouTube.

  • Oooh 😯 fancy ascii art for the coding aficionados (front end developers) among Flickr users
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    html code of page source, showing ascii art
  • Repeat

    In the olden days we all could still write computer programs to illustrate today’s prompt. It isn’t old, though, but retro. It was a brief period when one person could still fully grasp every aspect of their computer and create carefree.
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    ballpoint sketch of Commodore 64 computer and monitor, displaying basic program and its output from a for-next loop

  • Cathode Ray Tube Display

    As Adrian Black often explains on his retro computer YouTube channel, cathode ray tubes are disposables, meaning they wear with use. Either they are dim or don’t work at all, but can be revived sometimes, making Adrian exclaim with enthusiasm.
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    ballpoint sketch of man sitting in front of an Apple II computer with CRT display on top of it

  • After having gone through the HTML Tutorial on W3Schools at almost breakneck speed (for my doing), I’ve hit a roadblock at HTML Layout. I guess I need to study this more thoroughly before continuing. HTML5 certainly was a step up from previous versions.

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  • It appears Mastodon has no valid rss feeds for a user’s posts, other than if you run a bot on your own server that watches that user’s Mastodon feed and creates an rss feed on the fly. Or something similar. Mastodon is like Twitter in that respect, a closed web application πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’»

  • I finished the Cloudcannon tutorial, and as usual, it went totally off the rails for me with too advanced stuff. Ah well, it seemingly only was to wet one’s appetite to start learning Hugo. Read more…

  • Isn’t it customary for people who need their iPhone to work, to wait for at least a point update, like 16.1? πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’»πŸ“±

  • I can easily spend 2 hours researching a simple question and not finding any answers. Google search isn’t as good as it used to beβ€”I suspect foul play through SEO πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’»

  • Developing C64 programs with Kick Assembler, VICE and Visual Studio Code on my Raspberry PI 400 😱 It’s a hassle, yet doable. πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’»

  • I’m in that part of my Go language course where things might get confusing. That would be pointer arithmetic β€πŸ˜± πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’»

  • I 😊 can has Go on iPad running on Pi πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’»

  • This new Go course on Udemy is much better suited for me, at least, so far. The presenter is not cutting corners and patiently digs into each line of code to explain the underlying concepts πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’»

  • Trying to teach myself the Go language. I’m still lacking a pet project to bring me to the next level of beginner Go programmer πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’»

  • I’ve upgraded my Raspberry Pi 4 to the newest OS, 11 Bullseye, and reinstalled the third-party software. What I like is that new updates are automatically shown in the task bar. No longer needlessly typing sudo apt update. πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’»

  • Thinking about consumerism… I have no need for new gadgets, so I’ll skip Apple’s presentation today. It’s just another sales pitch to unload some of the burden of having disposable income, preying on FOMO of the tech and adjacent enthusiasts. This is how I rationalize it πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’»

  • And then everything broke, SMB, SSH, on my Pi. So I removed all the software, turned off the services. Should teach me not to install 3rd-party software. Back to file exchange via USB-sticks.

  • The official Hugo primer is already way above my pay grade. The intro by Mike Dane is much gentler, and doesn’t assume any prior knowledge as the official primer seems to do. πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’»

  • I can has Remote Desktop Access to my Pi πŸ₯§ now, with TeamViewer for personal use (free) πŸ€“ πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’»

  • πŸ’‘When in doubt about a feature on Linux Desktop, try the Windows equivalent. My question was: “What key combo is used to switch between apps?” Alt+Tab on both Windows and Linux Desktop πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’»