Python vs Swift Unlike many languages, Swift behaves like Maths, passing objects as values instead of as references, which saves a huge performance hit of having to clone objects to avoid other processes changing those objects unexpectedly. In Python everything has a pointer👨‍💻

And here’s my 24 x 24 pixel art IRL (6 cm x 6 cm, 4 mm² per pixel mosaic brick).
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Here’s a concept of how a piece of pixel art could brighten up a boring bathroom door. The materials for creating said art have yet to arrive, and the door still needs a layer of paint. Well, one can dream of the result, can’t one?
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I have given blood to Mother Earth (I fell) while running. When I started I already felt unsteady, not quite awake. After the fall I was very awake and somewhat bloodstained. The rest of the run went without incidents. My only worry was if I had enough bandaids at home. 🏃

Couldn’t find a 32 x 32 baseplate for pixel art with beads, but I did find a 24 x 24 baseplate. So I adjusted my design for the bathroom door.
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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.