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A huge thank-you to the dev(s)! I love retro projects like this. I use Dillo daily, although it is for internal use. One thing I use it for is to view gemini protocol sites. The pl…

Finance professor Aswath Damodaran, and others, have made many useful insights as to how AI as an investment is likely to pay out. One technique is, instead of trying to pick indiv…

> Forth is at this point more of a culture than a language. As the saying goes, once you've seen one Forth, then you've seen one Forth. I've mucked around with my own Forths in the…

To add to the cool things you can do with Neoleo, I wrote a little TCL extension that loads current processes into the spreadsheet. I added custom bindings so that you could search…

Yes, I'm partial to a bit of retro. It does back to around 1991, IIRC. I don't think it had a curses interface in those days. And check this: version 1.2.2 is available on Aminet, …

Oleo is C, circa 50k of C code, Neo(-leo) is around 5k of C++ code. A 10th of the size, but not necessarily any less powerful. Oleo has some memory leaks in places, whereas Neo has…

Visidata is a fast popular data tool in python https://www.visidata.org/ if you just want data entry. If I may be permitted a small plug ... Oleo is a GNU spreadsheet going back ab…

You can have anything you want. You get what you design for. However, saying you're committed is not the same as being committed. Furrowing your brow and saying you'll try harder, …

In the words of Adam Ant: it took us 3 years to be famous overnight. I also heard about Matt Lucas, of Little Britain fame. He was slowly plugging away at it, and was about to give…

How about trying to run it on ReactOS?

Don't forget that Aminet is still receiving regular uploads: https://www.aminet.net/ It's amazing that a platform that's been dead since the early 90's is still getting so much lov…

There's also Fuzix, which is Unix-like. https://fuzix.org/ Supports Arm M0 (Raspberry Pi Pico), ESP32 and a variety of others, including Z80.

For anyone interested there's tinybasic, which will run on something as small as an Arduino. https://github.com/slviajero/tinybasic

I did see Debian on YT being booted up on an Amiga. It was, to say the least, a painful-looking experience. It seems sacrilege in a way. If you're going to use an Amiga you might a…

I tried Zig some time ago to use with microcontrollers. It has a generator for the pins, which was nice. But subsequent versions broke as Zig changed syntax. So I started going dow…

I've messed around with Forth before, and even created my own one. I could do cool things with it, and gotten a DSL-like language. I used words like IMMEDIATE and POSTPONE to creat…

As some wag on Reddit put it, "Digital Note Taking Systems: Cutting and pasting your life away, one note at a time."

As an experiment I tried yes | pv > /dev/null and was getting about 5.4GiB/s On the fasm code, I was getting a meagre 7.3MiB/s. Ouch! The non-assembly version is considerably faste…

A few days ago I had the very foolish notion of trying to learn assembly for x64 Linux. It came out to 73 lines of code and weighs in at 288 bytes. It doesn't support the --help or…

As Bill Burr said, if we were to eat just one billionaire, then all the rest would tow the line.

Brit here. IANAL, but there is a legal principle of "vicarious liability". So if an employee does something bad, it's the employer that foots the bill. This is vicarious liability.…

I'm currently using Slackware current. I use an approach of compiling from source or using AppImage. Things like Flatpak and Snaps are an opaque black box to me. I have AppImages f…

I have set up a Zettelkasten, which alternates between letters and numbers.21a5 is for my Alcatel 3085 mobile. So it's a similar idea, I think. Classification is a vexing problem I…

It also reminds me a little bit like DNA. There's a lot of cruft that doesn't do very much but the organism is still viable anyway.

I was playing around with GPIO some time ago. The Linux kernel seems to adopt this approach. The first rule of Linux ABI is that thou shalt not break ABI.The second rule of Linux A…