stevekemp

I have a small collection of "curated" CP/M software, which works alongside a CP/M emulator I wrote: https://github.com/skx/cpm-dist The distribution of Borla…

If you have 30 minutes to spare the old program "The Secret Life of Machines" has an episode demonstrating how sewing machines work, in a delightfully quirky way. https://www.yout…

We did get the term "myspace angle" for selfies though back in that timeframe, from a different kind of manipulation..

Cool URIs don't change, as we should all remember: https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI …

Things might change in the future, it seems that WhatsApp is gonna start offering usernames, I saw the notice on my app a few weeks back. That would allow using it with strangers, without sharing a nu…

I guess it's the luck of the draw, but unfortunately Sunday's are no good for me. The curse of parenting :) But it's still a great idea, and I wish you all happy meetups. Would be nic…

I wanted something standalone I could implement and understand from the ground-up, that's why I did everything myself, rather than using LLVM. In the future I might try to repeat the process with…

I've worked in a couple of companies who used bitbucket, and I've been glad when each of them migrated elsewhere. Bitbucket managed to be slow, annoying, and suffer more outages than github …

We already have linkedin for that!

I wrote a lisp compiler recently, and that involved generating assembly language. My output is linux/amd64 assembly language which is compiled by nasm. I don't link to glibc, so I had to im…

LSP services make it trivial to jump to definitions, as well as local cross-references and filesystem views it's just not something that's a concern. Could I scroll around 5ms faster with a …

I'm a pale-skinned redhead, covered in freckles. For me there is no such thing as a "base tan". I get can get sunburnt from as little as 30 minutes in the sun at times, and I almost al…

I think there are phases where it becomes more popular, if some discussion topically references FORTH, or Lisp, you know that within a few hours other people will read them and make submissions on the…

And I used to use the Numega SoftIce debugger to debug the anti-copying protection of itself, back in the day. (Allegedly. Shout out to +fravia, RIP.)

I buy films from local charity shops for €1/film, but it seems the local electronics stores are not selling many DVD players any more. It seems like streaming "won", which is disappoint…

https://zserge.com/posts/fenster/ is what I used when I wanted "basic graphics" in a cross-platform way. But of course that's X11 and much simpler.…

Github has public keys available, so the server owner could compare the key you sent to those - and that would identify your github username. Whether that's a concern or not is an open question, …

The parent was talking about it being a "landlords market" and wanting that to be changed. I asked how that might be possible. Improving advertisements to make them accurate, detailed, and …

While that would be useful it would not change it from a landlords-market - which is what the comment I replied to was about.

It's a landlord's market because there are not enough properties, if there was a larger supply the tenants would be able to make choices and defacto reject bad options. How do you change tha…

I don't get snobby about food very often, but I have to say that these days strawberries and tomatoes are things I never buy any more. They're so large, watery, and tasteless, that I grow t…

That sounds like a good match! I learned with an ex partner that I could assemble furniture, or she could assemble furniture, but if we tried it together we'd both get fustrated and snappy. Easi…

Since I was curious I searched for it, and you can find it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiOLrsl6WSQ …

Zaks is a name I remember fondly, but for me the starting point was "An Introduction to z80 machine code" by R.A & J.W Penfold.

There are clones, and updated packages these days like the EZ80, but they're not the same and they don't have the easy-to-use DIL form-factor. Still I've always loved the z80, since my …

I'm surprised that the article even said "but you don’t always have the luxury of sitting down to set the time and get the watch ready for the day". I wear an automatic all the time, in…

I grew up in Yorkshire, though I'm half-Scottish there's no link to Dundee! But the Spectrums were the best-selling UK machine at the time, so I'm sure there were lots of regions where …

Speccy for me too, and most of the local people I knew. Aged 11, going through the ring-bound orange manual just after Christmas, because the cassette-player we had was broken. When a replacement was…

For sure, learning new languages is helpful even if you don't use them. But that said there's also a significant difference between playing with new/toy languages for fun, and using th…