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At that time I don't think I was using either spreadsheet program at a level where I would have needed advanced features. I remember using both, and looking now at old screenshots …

woohoo, great post, brings back memories. My first internship when I was 19 and still in college (well, failing out at that point but that's another story...) was at a small consul…

I'm curious: the "Script" screenshot looks like it's using standard GEM Desktop, while the "Signum" is some other desktop. Are these both for ST? Was Signum written using some othe…

Wait, there is an 800x480 display connected, but the thing only has 46k of RAM. There's no explanation of the display approach being used. The extended graphics commands seem to al…

Machine Language for Beginners, Charles Mansfield https://archive.org/details/ataribooks-machine-language-for-... This book specifically targets beginners that are new to 6502 asse…

Atari Basic source with comments was published [1] in 1983. Literally published, as a spiral bound book! Teenage me learned a ton of 6502 from that book, back when learning 6502 wa…

And even the newest ink ribbons were not that black. And the dots were never so crispy and individually formed on real paper. And as discussed above, everything is far too wide. Th…

I have experimented with "Simple Keyboard Simply" and "SayBoard", both available on F-Droid. I don't love either of them. On the Signal App, you can request the incognito keyboard …

Happy user of Proton Mail/Calendar/Drive. Article doesn't mention the worst offender in my view: the default GBoard keyboard on my Android phone sends everything I type to Google -…

Just yesterday I witnessed a pretty gruesome scooter accident right in front of me on the sidewalk in Berlin. The young woman was just riding down the sidewalk bike lane, nothing a…

ASDF is also a -different- ASDF scientific data format. There are two! Adaptable Seismic Data Format: https://asdf-definition.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

I think these are the author's Atari Years, as he was laid off in 1984 :-)

This blog reminds me of -me- back in the day. I cut my teeth on programming bad Atari BASIC games, but eventually I learned 6502 assembly and wrote my own disassembler, modem routi…

Still no Turkish on DeepL, even though it is one of the most widely spoken languages across much of Europe and uses the Latin alphabet. Yet tiny European languages like Latvian are…

Pretty much same story here -- few things affected the path of my life as much as that one device did. I cannot overstate its impact on my ability to get creative with limited reso…

Ah, my Atari days *swoon*. Learning 6502 assembly on an Atari when I was 14 made me the person I am today. ahahahahah Atari 8-bit and Commodore machines (and Apple II as well) did …

Ah yes, I was an OS/2 evangelist for years, trying to get all my coworkers and friends to switch to it after 2.1 came out, I guess around 1992-1993ish. We used OS/2 almost exclusiv…

I can verify this: I upgraded my Deck.gl project from MapBox to MapLibre recently, and it was a simple matter of renaming some imports. This works absolutely seamlessly. I'm using …

I really would like to know if smoking is implicated. Are there any smoker/nonsmoker stats anywhere?

> The field is weakening over South America, and the red area over North America is losing strength. This nonsensical caption, saying the exact same thing twice while using differe…

Wow, I'll take a look. Looks awesome! This particular dataset was very small because the agency which did the data collection aggregated everything into neighborhoods before they g…

Nice things: simple tool that does one thing well. As mentioned above, it lets the database itself decide on permissions. If you want SSL support, just put it behind an NGINX rever…

Thanks for the clearer explanation -- you're correct, the database decides that. That's the beauty of it!

Sure - PostgREST provides a RESTful API endpoint for any PostgreSQL database. It's kinda magic. It's an interesting beast: it has almost no configuration at all, you just point it …