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I find it entertaining. I'm doing it for me, not to boost any metric. I am my target audience.

I use AI-themed images for the opener to my blog. It's typically a steampunk robot image that is not related to the topic of the post. The actual content is written by me. If there…

I was starting as a software developer when the Amiga first came out. We used Lattice C at work on MS-DOS. I bought it for my A2000. Being able to write code on a proper multitaski…

I wrote a book on localization for Xamarin many years ago. I get about one email a week "inviting" me to join a book club. The well-crafted ones tend to impersonate an actual perso…

There were multiple reasons. Simons' BASIC was still interpreted. If you wanted graphics and performance, you used Assembler. Many/most people were using a disk speed-up cartridge …

I moved my blog from WordPress to Jekyll a few years ago, and it's anything but an over-engineered system. I used WordPress for years, and it was overkill for a personal blog.

I used to use em-dashes and en-dashes in my work emails and other writings, but stopped using them when they became AI markers.

Back in the VIC-20 days, I had the VIC Forth ( https://ia800304.us.archive.org/34/items/VIC_Forth_1982_HES/... and https://photobubba.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/an-intervi... )…

I was using this before 2018. I used to write TSR applets for data collection. Knowing what interrupts were being was critical. It could mean the difference between your code worki…

I could see using this for a specialized use, for a game or a presentation. But day to day use, the jarring design of the letters that would have had descenders would be like a men…

I grew up in the 70s and I loved cassettes. I would take my records and copy them to cassettes so I could play them on horrible and not-so-horrible boom boxes at parties. And of co…

As an Amiga developer and user in the same timeframe, I could see the handwriting on the wall. The consumer market had shifted to Windows 3.1 and then 95 on those awful Packard Bel…

Moby licensed every song from "Play" for commercial use. The exposure made "Play" a huge hit for him. This is just a variation of that. This is an attempt to grab a slice of the pi…

I'm so sorry for your loss. I remember buying licenses for Qmodem and later on Qmodem for Windows. I think I spent more time tweaking scripts to log me into various BBSs than I wou…

There is a similar type of app called NetPad. https://github.com/tareqimbasher/NetPad It's not as good as LINQPad, but it runs on the Mac.

Is it just me, but when I see a reference to a map of time, I get a vivid flashback to a scruffy band of little people pushing a bedroom wall back into a portal.

WSA wasn't intended for calls or messaging. It was intended to allow developers who had developed apps for the Fire tablets to also provide or sell the apps on Windows. It was also…

I spent years in the Delphi ecosystem, starting with Delphi 1. In the early years, it was a great tool for building desktop apps. I haven't used it in 15+ years, but no regrets. Th…

UPS that can run my PC, monitors, USB hub for 10-30 minutes. I rarely have power outages, but when I do have one it's a non-event Cheap boom arm for the webcam. Stream Deck makes i…

This thread has mentioned that it was unacceptable for the interviewer to walk out without saying why they were leaving, or even saying goodbye and thanking you for your time. Whil…