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For the uninitiated, the Paula chip is the mother of all trackers [1][2]. Decades since, way too many talented people obsessed over whether F-3 is 22168 Hz, 20864 Hz or something e…

Poster here: the first thoroughly researched documentary I've been able to find on this and it came out just a few months ago. Acquired all of 90 views on YouTube. Vice had a good …

Linux/GRUB protip: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="video=efifb fbcon=rotate_all:1 quiet" GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="video=efifb fbcon=rotate_all:1 quiet splash noautomount" GRUB_GFXMODE=1200x…

Trying not to spam, but extremely satisfied with GPD Pocket 2, which I purchased recently. Old enough to have used the very first laptops on the market, was looking for a Libretto-…

Writing this from a GPD Pocket 2 (see my reply above): The key size is very similar to a standard laptop for most keys. The key travel is longer than that of a 13" MacBook Pro, and…

A recent convert to GPD Pocket 2. Decades of programming experience from kernel hacking to 3d engines and distributed systems. After a few days reached 60-80 wpm (depending on the …

Moved white queen in front of black (computer) king under the cover of the white knight. Computer went ahead and captured my queen using its king. Was tempted to capture the king w…

November 15, 2018 publication: Discovery of volatile biomarkers of Parkinsons disease from sebum https://doi.org/10.1101/469726 (free full-text PDF link on site) From the abstract:…

I would say that in this particular domain going from: WinForms -> ASP .NET MVC and then Backbone -> AngularJS -> React (including participating in React development) gave you the …

IMHO, teams using a certain stack have agency to see that stack win the hearts and minds of other developers. Additionally, the opinions of popular leads, managers etc on what shou…

If you are not working on Browser frontend, you will also enjoy the API stability. Here's an older verison of the same guide by the same author, more than 2 decades ago: https://we…

I wish we had more historical overviews like this. The number of new developers has been outstripping the number of old developers in most environments and this has been happening …

Ha! :) Sorry, meant to write "rhn is still out there", but I dropped I replied to hastily and by the time I figured it out it was too late to edit my post..

I consider Andy Hertzfeld's site a very accurate reference as well as a patchwork of authentic fascinating stories that just draws you in. However, Ron Nicholson (rhn) is on the Ma…

I just realized I can't find the original code on this guy's website but I have the extracted Amiga disk image from a public domain disk circulated at the time... so, here's the an…

Correct, just like with the Commodore 64, the CPU clock actually differed based on the graphics hardware output, which was back in the day adjusted for the household CRT TV sets. T…

Yes, this ran on an 1987 Amiga 500 with the Commodore A501[1] 512K RAM expansion. This means: * 1MB RAM * 256K ROM * 7.16 MHz (yes, that's 0.007 GHz :)) Motorola 68000 plus a whole…

The hardware owes it all to Jay Miner and Ron Nicholson (rhn). Jay Miner passed a long time away from a long term kidney condition and is still out there doing lots of stuff: http:…

9 Fingers "making of" video, where the Spaceballs dudes videotaped their highschool friends for the dance shots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgriMuXZ3QY I think Jannicke, the s…

For some context, this was the first raytracer that ran on any personal computer. Some more context here: http://home.comcast.net/~erniew/juggler.html and a bit more here: http://w…

The talk was both profoundly touching, informative and surprisingly cheerfully optimistic. He really did convince me that MIT and Harvard are some of the best places to be at if yo…