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Forth! I was programming in those days myself (though only a little bit on CP/M), and was getting surprised that many people here seemed to think the only alternatives were C or as…

People started paying me to develop software in 1986. First time I ever used version control software was 1996. It was TERRIBLE. Two years later I left to start my own software com…

I don't remember the exact numbers, but I remember seeing a CAD file that was not working well a few years ago, and it turned out the coordinate system set up for the part was roug…

AppleCare+ is usually 48-hours downtime in my experience, and that's with the need to ship the laptop to and from the repair center.

I've listened quite a lot to her Rodgers and Hart songbook, and the idea she doesn't understand what she's singing never once entered my mind.

First span of the Blue Water Bridge (Port Huron to Sarnia) built 1938, doing just fine as far as I know. (Drove over it a couple of weekends ago.) Second span was 1997.

Was just looking at buying a new printer a few minutes ago. Do people have recommendations for printers free of all this HP-style nonsense?

Ugh, now I'm torn between wild urges to write a Raku backend for Fusion or port my C++ libraries to Fusion, neither of which is anything like a sensible project in the short term. …

That "not changing habits" thing has nothing to do with Ozempic. Based on my experience with the drug (taken six months for type 2 diabetes), you won't lose any weight at all on it…

I've been actively using Raku for work for 13 years now. (Okay, we didn't call it Raku yet at the beginning.) Pros: - Wonderfully expressive and powerful - The best glue language I…

I think the proof mindseet was a huge help to me as a beginning programmer, BUT that was in the context of high school Euclidean geometry, not analysis, around the same time I was …

I loved my Commodore 128, but I don't even remember a Commodore 128D being a thing. I suppose at that point I may have been fondly dreaming of the Amiga I would never get.

Ooo, I'll have to look into that. I had a fun couple of days a few years ago comparing Google Maps satellite images from St Clair County, MI with the old maps which showed where th…

First professional software development I did, we didn't even have hard drives or networking. Luckily I was the only developer and it wasn't a huge problem. First place I worked wi…

Weirdly enough, if I cam to believe Discogs got the liner notes faithfully, they're not crediting Jon with singing a solo on "Airegin". I'm still 99% certain Jon sings the last sol…

I was wrong about "Another Night in Tunisia" -- the solo Jon sings starting around 1:40 actually has lyrics. I think the melody scatting for most of the rest of the song is actuall…

He wrote the lyrics for that entire album ( Vocalese ) and sings on it too -- one of the solos on "Airegin", and a scat solo somewhere else (maybe the Night in Tunisia thing, been …

Oh, the blog post there is lovely. Just used the lyrics to sing through "Sing Joy Spring" while listening to the original Clifford Brown recording.

"Sing Joy Spring", lyrics by Jon Hendricks. Jon wrote lyrics to dozens (hundreds?) of jazz solos. Was one hell of a singer, too -- check him out singing John Coltrane's solo on "Fr…

Indeed, it's zero now, 15 minutes later.

Ha, pretty sure I heard Jon Hendricks sing "In Walked Bud" live, but never had a recording of it. Thanks for the tip on that it was on Underground!

30 years ago was right around the time I wrote JPEG viewing software so I could look at JPEGs on my computer. :) I mean, I got the actual JPEG decoding from whatever the standard o…

Geez, was the "open source" link there all along and I just missed it? Thank you!!

Right? Its creator obviously knows Forth, but it feels like they've gone to extreme lengths to make it prefix rather than postfix, at the price of making it much more confusing tha…

This is a fantastic idea! I had no trouble playing scales along the row. Is the source code available? As a C#/D player, I find the relationships between the rows unfriendly, and m…