stevekemp

I live in Finland nowadays, and this system is nice. I moved from Scotland where there are frequently buildings containing multiple apartments - tenements - there are there are two systems for the lab…

For my money the Milgauss is the standout of that montage. I've always loved the "quirky" colours, and the lightning-bolt hand stands out a little. But watches are pretty personal, and…

I think if you're new to emulation it's generally a good idea to start with something even simpler - the chip-8 system http://www.emulator101.com/introduction-to-chip-8.html …

I put together a simple CP/M emulator here: https://github.com/skx/cpmulator/ Alongside that there is a collection of CP/M binaries, including the Aztec C compiler…

I think this is one of the reasons I started using rss2email back in the day - I could do the filtering, searching, and manipulation using my preferred email client. Originally that would have been mu…

I used to hire models to pose me, or have people volunteer. I'd expect to take maybe 500 pictures an hour, and out of that get ten average results and one perfect image. Taking more images is ab…

And here's my tutorial FORTH, based upon a thread from hacker news: https://github.com/skx/foth Forth is always appealing, whether literally, or in puns.…

I guess I should have explained more - he also plays minecraft on the xbox, he just chooses to play NES games with me. I think those two consoles are enough, but I've offered the switch when he…

Agreed, completely different games. When he plays minecraft he alternates between trying to build things he knows, or just wandering around and placing dynamite everywhere to blow things up.

He does! I guess I wasn't clear, he's got an XBox for minecraft and stuff, but I ignore it because I'm not interested in those games. So he plays that by himself, with his friends, or…

I've told my child, 7, that when he completes the original Super Mario Bros he can get a switch and play mario-kart. He consistently gets to the end of 8-2, so he's damn close, and he loves…

I use Wordstar v3.3, now and again. I know that Wordstar v4 runs under CP/M, but I've not made it a habit to use the upgraded/updated version.

For 20+ years I did all my coding, development, and miscellaneous tasks in Emacs. But I used vim exclusively for writing emails - initially with mutt, and later with different mail clients. There wer…

There's certainly no shortage of affordable hardware that can run CP/M 2.x, running 3.x requires RAM paging which is a pain, but still doable. If you go to https://www.tindie.com&…

Earlier this year I setup a CP/M emulator, in golang: https://github.com/skx/cpmulator/ It got some discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i…

This year I grew cucumbers on my balcony for the first time, and they were surprisingly low-effort. You do need to pollinate them, if you're too high for bees, or other insects. That aside I ju…

It was an interesting read, thanks for sharing. There were some communities out there, via both BBS and early internet forums, & etc. I remember reading Phrack, 40hex, and similar zines which had…

Hell I figured I eat about one onion a week, and one whole garlic bulb. I planted 75 onions and 40 garlic bulbs expecting that that would keep me going for a year. Not even close. Between some of th…

I wrote a system that allows that kinda thing, you'd fire a message saying "Hey alert me if you don't hear again in the next five minutes". This kinda heartbeat can be submitted v…

> Lox must have the highest ratio of (implementations : > production usage) of any language on the planet. It's probably up there, for sure! But I'd guess that there are …

Other sources always seem to suggest that Finland comes top, for example: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/coffee-co... All a bit random and unscientific to hav…

> I'm not sure how to take being rejected at the screener > stage, I'm sure some of my former staff might be able to explain it :) Ouch, I'd have imagined you'd be more than…

You ship a mobile phone application, with 10million installations. You have a marketing/research department that wants to run A/B tests on their schedule, gathering analytics, and metrics. …

I have to say I really enjoyed using the service. I paid Spike and Drusilla, from Buffy, to say/sing happy birthday to my wife. Neither are top-tier actors, but they're both completely rec…

Numega's SoftIce for me, but I always preferred interactive exploration over static disassembly. Disassembling a large binary would get you a massive text file that was painful to navigate - and …

Probably there is a limited market for it, but at the same time you wouldn't need to do much to support it in most of the major console-based clients. Back in the day I wrote a modal console-base…

Thanks for your writeup, that was exceptionally well-presented.

It's funny to read that comment, when the argument includes: Tcl has a peculiar syntax that appeals to hackers because of its simplicity. But Tcl syntax seems strange to mo…

Windows filesystem protection doesn't rely upon the filename, but on the location. They could have named their files "foo.cfg", "foo.dat", "foo.bla" and been equally…

At least their old name made sense, "micro-soft" - software for microcomputers.