Question to the community…

A responsible and accountable person doesn’t measure their wealth in Snickers bars. So what budgeting solutions do you recommend for someone who has no clue about (nor experience with) double-entry bookkeeping? 🏠

I made a very basic and working 1-pass cross-assembler in Pythonista. It was more of a proof of concept, to help me understand the book I’m reading (Assemblers and Loaders) 👨‍💻

PS Notice it’s still big-endian, while it should be little-endian. 😬

Currently reading: On Writing Well, 25th Anniversary: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction by William K. Zinsser 📚

Today’s 🏃 was easy run-walk-run. It was raining slightly, but still warm, which made the heat worse.

For those interested, I ran 8,1 km in 55:46 min (6:53 min/km). Considering the circumstances, not bad. For more deets, see my Garmin page.

Currently reading: Assemblers and Loaders (Ellis Horwood Series in Computers & Their Applications) by David Salomon 📚 👨‍💻

I wondered about how to build (in Python) a linked list of tagged items, and how to print its tagged items. Each item has three containers: a link to the next same-tagged item (-1 if it’s the last item with that tag), a tag and a value. Here’s my solution. 👨‍💻

Today’s 🏃 was an easy walk-run-walk (800 m 🏃 200 m🚶🏼) of 9 km. Ran 7.2 km in 48:20 min (6:43 min/km), for those wanting deets.

Learning about iOS’s sandbox limitations. Pythonista has full access to its own private folders (on device and/or iCloud). You can edit external files, even run Python scripts, but iOS gives scripts no access to files outside mentioned private folders, unless files are shared to it. 👨‍💻

To bring variety in my 🏃 training, today I did an interval training. It was hot, 28℃ (82℉) in the shade, me in the sun. Still, well-hydrated, it was doable.

In case anyone wants to know, 5 times 200 m, with my heart rate above my LT heart rate, or 5:15 min/km on average.

Now it’s two weeks after my first 💉 I thought it safe enough to do some masked shopping (no not that kind 🔫 🤡 of shopping) in my local town. On my way back I walked through a park, back home to my two feline buddies, still locked up in a cage.

I had to make a peace offering when locking away my 🐱 darlings for their safety (renovation going on). Unfortunately, one of them can’t have it, since he’s allergic to regular cat food. Luckily, he’s up for cuddling and petting instead.

I guess I need superior knowledge, not reinvent the wheel. For creating a proper assembler, I need to know how others build those, and better non-fiction writing is a good thing too, since I’ll be communicating to others (including my future self) via code and comments. 👨‍💻

I find it empowering that one can build somehing useful inside a computer. What I do, I don’t think qualifies as programming, but is more like scripting, using macros, which is useful in its own way, though not as generic as an app on a phone or on the web. Doesn’t need to be. 👨‍💻

Wow, such a slow 🏃 At times my imaginary self could’ve pass me by power walking. Ah well, another one for the books, as they say, don’t they?

P.S. I found out why I was so slow, overreach, Runalyze told me so. A rest day was in order, as well as re-evaluating my training “plan”.

It’s a bit sad to see my two 🐈‍⬛ darlings locked up in a cage, but it’s for the best. My house is being renovated. They complain now and then, begging with all their feline charms to be released. Of course, I tried to make them as comfortable as possible.

Still two days to go before I’m partially protected against COVID-19. According to the Dutch CDC (RIVM) most people showed up when it was their turn. No significant political divide on vaccination in the Netherlands so far, despite of a vocal splinter group of pandemic deniers.

Continuing my 65c02 assembler project in Python 3, with defining “the rules.” Without rules, there’s unruliness, right? 😉 The script still runs. If it wouldn’t have, I could’ve rolled back using the Working Copy app. PS, notice the typo! 👨‍💻

My 🏃 was so terribly slow. I blame it on the sudden rise in outside temperature. Nature was beautiful, though.

Now I’m (seemingly) successfully able to filter syntax elements into their own tagged bins, now the question arises how to turn that into object code (byte values)? So I still call it version 0.0.1, very premature, possibly, yet again, stillborn. I hope not the latter, though. 👨‍💻

I have no idea what the best method is to approach an assembler, specifically for the 65c02 CPU. So I scrapped my previous approach and started anew. I also bought the newest version of Pythonista, because the old version crashed too often (new version seems rock-solid). 👨‍💻