stevekemp

I've been using one of the numerous "RSS to Email" programs for the past 20 years. To me that's peak usability, I can use my mail workflow to have cross-device state, I can use my …

I've had a flurry of activity working with emacs, breaking out some things that were previously "Steve stuff" inside my local configuration into real packages. One thing that I've …

It's interesting how things differed so much across different countries. In the UK there was good split between Atari and Amiga, and before that the Spectrum and the C64. Lots of rivalries and in…

No when people attend courses, paying money for the privilege no less, and get told "Now open a pull request" they don't care about your project - they care about getting their instruct…

> started using the city bus system for the first time, and I started making it a point to go someplace new That's a fun thing to do when you move cities, or countries. I spent several weekend…

FORTh is awesome, so I wish you luck. As you say of the obvious high-level languages it should come top, so here's hoping it has enough performance to be usable and useful.

Council taxes could be considered propertie taxes, I guess, though I've always thought of them as paying for rubbish collection & etc. However council taxes are paid by the residents of a pro…

> while a piece of land pays property taxes. In some countries taxes are annual. In the UK you pay taxes when you buy/sell property, or land. You don't need to pay land/property tax…

I love FORTH and I agree that it would most likely run at a decent speed. But just for reference it's worth pointing out out there was an official high-level language released for it, back in t…

Does the cost matter? Many countries subsidize healthcare, so there's either no charge or a token payment which doesn't even pretend to cover the cost of treatment. Other countries use insu…

I run a terminal, emacs, and firefox. That's about all I need to work/develop, and I've not noticed anything negative since the upgrade. I guess I'm not a power-user though.

I just searched wikipedia and saw that it did: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrapheap_Challenge But I can't say I've ever heard of that before, or seen any. I used to…

Poland withdrew from the Ottawa Convention last month, with the aim of being able to lay anti-personnel mines along its eastern border. Whether it does or not is an open-question, and while I understa…

He's done a lot of things, but for my money the "Scrapheap Challenge" show was his best. (This is a show where two teams are left inside a scrapheap and given a day, or so, to build a c…

Interesting point, I'll take a look. (The z80 emulation was the only thing I didn't write myself, though it does pass the standard test-programs I've not looked at how complex/comp…

Silicon heaven .. hopefully free of talking-toasters.

I grew up with the Spectrum, and wrote a CP/M emulator a while back. I'd be curious to see how complete it would get. I struggled a lot with some complex software, which worked on some emul…

One thing nobody seems to have mentioned here is how unusual it seems to be to have a switch on sockets. I grew up with the famous British Plug, and while people make lots of comments about the safety…

I grew up in the UK and had never seen such a thing, until I moved to Finland where they are damn-near universal.

> What could you possibly get out of a vacation other than "consuming"? I sleep in a cabin next to a lake, or on a hammock in the woods. I drink beer, fish, and go to sauna every day. T…

It's not "spam", it's a "growth hack".

I think the people who complained about paypal stopped using it. Back in the day I had a paypal account, as did many friends, solely because it was the only supported payment method on Ebay. After a f…

I built a hardware display, with an LCD and a WeMos Mini D1, so that I can see the upcoming tram departure times outside my house. I could use the website, or a phone app, but having the departure ti…

You might also enjoy this tutorial, which started out being based upon a hacker news thread: https://github.com/skx/foth I go through stages to implement minimal language.…

Yeah flagged as a spammy source.

I have to agree, if only because when I hear "the emacs keybindings" I wonder, does that mean the defaults that nobody uses, or the ones I've carried around for 20+ years? As a quick ex…

I suspect there isn't a single "most popular" FORTH, instead there are a million niche-specific implementations. After all half the fun of using the language is writing your own interpr…