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- Solving problems for fun with 3583 bytes of memory has made me dramatically better at my day job. Embrace constraints.
- Solving problems for fun with 3583 bytes of memory has made me dramatically better at my day job. Embrace constraints.
- Really loving Pocketbase for my personal database. The Python library is a little behind, so I forked it and updated it to bring it current with the new API syntax. Now to import the last 15 years of finsihed books from a CSV file :)
- I’m about to let some air out of this sealed package from the 90s. Should I play Nirvana or something while I do it?
- Took me an hour this morning to troubleshoot my Corsham board. Turns out the ribbon cable was bad. All better now.
- Move over iPhone. My new (in the box) planner even has a dedicated secret button. It’s where I’ll keep all of my passwords from now on and it’ll still be more secure than LastPass :)
- Our neighbor’s ducks are laying eggs faster than she can eat them. This is a good thing for us :)
- I try to spend a month with a particular retro computer at a time. January 2023 is the Corsham KIM-1 clone.
- Bo dee do we. Boop beep. Somehow this has survived in my possession for 43 (ish) years and even works.
- Still on the prowl for an HP-16C. My replica is cool. Similar in size and it does feel solid thanks to the aluminum construction, but nothing beats the key feel in the voyager series.
- Stays crunchy in milk
- More Atari VCS/2600 programming fun this week. Hats off to the folks who made decent games with 128 bytes of RAM.
- For no particular reason I've been learning Atari VCS/2600 Assembly this week. It is pretty challenging with no built in fonts and it makes the 3583 Bytes in a VIC-20 seem like a luxury. Anyway, counting up a score was satisfying.
- I’m trying to remember if I’ve ever made it through this whole show. Ever.
- Many of us in North America should maybe embrace this opportunity:)
- Off of work for a while now. I relax by studying and/or outdoor activities. As the temps are plummeting in the US this week, going to be more study than outdoors. On my current list are these two gems.
- Figured I should take a stab at #VCCC2022 this week. I've got the algorithm I want, now to rewrite in Assembly and shrink it ;-) Happy Monday! #commodore
- Wim Hof
- Put a 128 motherboard and PET next to it so we can appreciate how big this 6510 die shot is on my wall. Amazing.
- Lunch break shenanigans… first time I’ve ever done this in under 3 mins.