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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- Looking through my photos and noticed this strange nighttime glitch shot of the Adler Planetarium from a boat in the harbor. Trying to figure out how this happened but it’s kinda neat.
- I want to use a PET to explain simple shift ciphers. The challenge is comparing the current and standard English distribution with only 40x25 characters. Two graphs on the screen would be better. Giving it another think because I'm not happy with this.
- I’m thinking maybe a PET theme for August. Haven’t had the MiniPET out in a while so I’ll start with that.
- There’s a view I don’t get often.
- Second Great Lake this summer.
- Happy
- There’s a lunch provided at the conference but I have science data to gather.
- I’ve reached that part of my career where I’m supposed to write my own FORTH which is what FORTH is best at.
- Not a city boy at heart, but Chicago is nice to look at during the night.
- Studying 8-bit FORTH for a couple weeks mainly to look at problems differently
- Finally repaired my beloved Sharp 9300(from High School) so it’s in today’s episode of stupid races between old computery things. Fibonacci to 35 and the VIC-20 still wins. Good effort though.
- I use cartridge port expanders quite a bit. I don’t have much use past 2 ports on either the Commodore 64 or VIC-20. I kinda want to see if I can devise a memory map setup on the VIC-20 to use all 5 slots. For science.
- This HP-45 Emulator is freaking amazing.
- Found this in a box. I wonder what it is a backup of. Don’t have a drive to read it anyway.
- Happy Monday
- I have a friend who wants to start a new business with me. He just sent me mock-ups hand drawn on graph paper. This is my love language.
- Short bed truck problems.
- Okay, FORTH language people, what problem areas is FORTH particularly well suited for? I'm past the super beginner stages and ready to apply it to a problem area to see how I feel about it.
- Godspeed Kevin
- Four mile walk and wrote 833 more words on a position paper for a DevSecOps industry strategy before 8am so I rewarded myself with a random game on the VIC-20. Rod's Random Runner Picked Splatform which is one of my favorites. What are the chances?! Happy Wednesday!