Wanted a decoration for my bathroom door, but the only things I could find was either from a sketchy company (possibly a swindler on Amazon.nl) or from far away (high shipping costs). So I guess I’ll have to craft my own, from beads.
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Pursuit of happiness seems best with as little material possession as possible. It forces you to ask for assistance instead of being self sufficient. Most people love to help, and in return you’ll get social interaction and life experience. Happiness will follow as a consequence.

Lots of day trippers on the road this morning, trying to reach the coast, 70 kms from where I live, before the evening falls, and most turn back for a return home after ten o’clock. It sounds like madness to me. I simply ran 13 km around my hometown.

When I see people writing on their blog “iPad this, iPad that… on iPadOS 15 beta” it often is about the iPad Pro. I’m still sporting the “iPad budget”, which has little use for the new enhancements. Sorry, I can’t afford being a Pro user. More power to you if you can. 🙂

While seeing almost no visitors per day on my self-hosted blog, I have to remind myself its purpose. Well, I’m doing what I set out to do, sorta, despite distractions and setbacks.

So… Am I doing my chores to have something to blog about, or do I blog to celebrate completion?

Data Serialization — The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Python Always handy to know if you have rolled your own, and wondered if this is a solved solution. In fact, there are several solutions. 👨‍💻

Nature seemed a bit out of control, but luckily enough people had gone over this path that I could see its way, barely. Because of the heat, I came across no one (human), though I saw lots of young rabbits hopping around.

Pass 1 of a 2-pass assembler in Pythonista 3 seems to work for a 256 times 8-bit word memory. I hadn’t done that before, so it’s a win in my book 👨‍💻

While reading all about how “modern” computers do all kinds of tricks to load executable code on the fly, doing this on an 1980s 8-bit computer seems rather cool, yet overkill. Though, combining built-in ROM routines and Basic with external executable modules is appealing 👨‍💻

Finding academic books and articles electronically is quite a hassle. Some sites want you to pay for it, others seem to insist on an .edu e-mail address. Talk about walled academic gardens! 👨‍🎓 Luckily, I found some free ones, now freshly pressed on my iPad 🙄 🧩❓ ⋯ 🧹👨‍🎓🏫🧑‍🎓 🧹 🙈🙊🙉 NO 😈 🧹

Currently reading: Assemblers, compilers, and program translation (Computer software engineering series) by Peter Calingaert 📚 👨‍💻

New profile picture. 🎨 64 x 64 px, 3 colors.
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I see people claiming that, being fully vaccinated, the pandemic is over. The WHO declared the current pandemic and has yet to declare it being “over.” I see a lot of red on the transmission chart, including most Western countries. More scary are the light blue areas (no cases).

Watching PDP-11 Assembly Lesson 3 - Conditions, branches and loops - YouTube to learn about how to do assembly language for this (then) groundbreaking computer. 👨‍💻 🏛‍🖥

Clearly, 🐱‍💻 ≠ 👨‍💻! If it were true, 🐈‍⬛ would rule the 🌎. Or maybe they already do, and we just don’t know it.

Before I write a basic assembler in Pythonista 3, I should be able to process a source file and output the result into an object file. Here I reversed each word in a text file. It’s very basic, doesn’t take into account punctuation, but it works, and that’s enough. 👨‍💻

I think I should implement this one-pass and two-pass assembler in Pythonista 3 on iPad. The project is from the book Assemblers and Loaders. 👨‍💻

I’m happy with my tiny town garden. When I came here, the previous renter had left it in a poor state. I think it’s quite an improvement. They used it as a rubbish dump, for burying larger items of trash. I dug up 240 liters or so, replaced it with garden soil. 🏠🌸

Writing a print file extension in Pythonista 3 seemed so easy… I had to learn a few new things, so, in the end, it’s all good. 👨‍💻

🏠 Someone had painted the wooden door frame of my bathroom with wall paint 🤪 So it needs two layers of paint primer. I couldn’t sand off the wall paint, since I don’t know how remove the door, and, more importantly, how to properly put it back into the frame.