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.

Today’s 🏃🚶🏼🏃 (900 m : 100 m) went surprisingly easy. Also special was that at some point there was no traffic in sight, while around 4 pm it’s usually pretty busy with commuting cars. Didn’t last long, though.

Went shopping for 🏠 improvement. Some paint and primer, degreaser, lacquer roller and brush, tape, system to catch the mail from mashing cat teeth. Not much, still 160 euros 😣

I thought my body deserved an interval training for my 🏃 It’s an acquired taste, I believe. I ran 200 m pretty hard, eased down 200 m, and did that five times. I needed 4:56 min for that fast-paced kilometer.

Someone in my hometown using a Mac (or a hacked Mac, overtaken by a criminal elsewhere), guessed my Google password, and the next day got into my iCloud account. I changed my passwords and turned on two step verification. I hope this is enough.

I wonder if 📚 lovers are prepared to goes as far as Ray Bradburry’s Fahrenheit 451, in which book lovers can recite their favorite book. Obviously, George Orwell’s 1984 would countermand this, by Newspeak, removing the words from those books out of the language’s vocabulary.

My cats have been quite behaved today, despite I had to catch them earlier than usual, because renovation workers needed access to my house. Maahir was easy enough, but Aziz is always suspicious when things go out of the ordinary. I had to mix 🐱 diplomacy and human determination.