I write about the past, present, and future of technology across three sites. imapenguin.com explores retro computing and programming fundamentals, milkcrunch.com covers modern software development and engineering culture, and evadot.com examines commercial spaceflight and the new space movement.
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RSS- Well, #AdventOfCode2022 is off to a good start. I'm using @JuliaLanguage this year, and I realize I'm not nearly as good at Julia as I thought. The month's challenges will be hard, and that's great.
- We have two Christmas trees, so naturally there are two trains.
- It’s that time of year. My kids are grown but trains have schedules to keep.
- I have 3 Raspberry Pi 4s that are being used for tasks like FPGA development. They are unobtainium these days but I do have 8 Raspberry Pi 3s. Any fun uses for these you can think of? Putting Homeassistant on 1 so that leaves 7 left. Happy Monday!
- Can’t say I didn’t get my money’s worth out of this thing. Waaaay better than modern phones.
- A year ago I got suspended from Twitter for posting this video because the post had the word “snowflake” in it. Ahh, the memories #commodore
- My favorite album this year is by@lukhash. Bought the CD last December, but the vinyl was sold out. New pressing was announced and ordered on Jan 28. Supplier screwed up many times. Those with patience finally received this gorgeous record this week #Commodore game is on side 2
- Did @somacdivad's weekly code challenge in BASIC this week. Because, uh, science or something. It's a “peculiar English dialect in which the numbers of letters in successive words follow the digits of the number π.” Pretty fun. #commodore
- Does your holiday travel go bag have the proper emergency supplies? Mine does. #Nintendo
- Knot untangler
- Nice, new Floppy Emu firmware has graphics now. #appleiie
- Working on a code challenge from @shieladixon. Part 1 is total permutations 1 to 9 as fast as I can manage on a #Commodore. Here's an NTSC C64 doing it without printing in 48 seconds. Part 2 is a little harder, have to give it a think.
- A little silliness while waiting for backups to finish. Happy Friday! #commodore
- Christmas tree farm day. You know the day when the animals wonder why we’re bring a tree into the house. Crazy hoomans.
- I get asked a lot about how to do the “off screen” images on the SwissMicros calculators. The short short version is crop your photo to 400x240 and run this little Python. Then just copy it over usb to the offimg folder.
- I need to pay attention to details more. I meant to buy 10 SN74LVC245A’s and bought 100. If you need me, I’ll be looking around the shop for a couple dozen more things to level shift :)
- Everyone uses @JuliaLanguage to create data statement sets to do calculations on vintage BASIC machines right? I can’t think of a better use for modern computers than the assist for their elders. Happy Monday!
- I forgot that I DO have one calculator that can do very large exponents. But calling it a calculator is kinda a stretch. More like an ARM computer running python in a calculator costume. Still a fun device, though.
- This morning’s #NaNoWriMo22 word count was at 5 am on my Electra 120.
- Family game night tonight is @theRealKiyosaki ‘s Cashflow game. Who knew doing finances could be such fun?