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- A visual 100 Door Problem solution in Python · imapenguin
- Always wanted to add a python example the 100 Door problem article I did with the 8 Bit machines last year. Stumbled onthe fun Asciimatics library and then it was a snap.
- I’ve collected something like 30 calculators over the years. Most at least 30 years old. In the “modern” category I have 4 graphing calculators. In theory I should like the HP the most, but in practice the order of most to least used left to right is this. Even I’m surprised.
- Got the offending RAM off no problem but I just realized I don’t have a socket that will fit here. Off to mouser…
- In case you were just sitting there asking yourself “what DOES the inside of an HP-58c calculator from 1977 look like”
- Professionally packed… just like this loose rattling around in a box. Sigh.
- I've been on Udemy for a decade and started but never finished many courses. And this is now the second one I've completed this week. Learn. All. The. Things.
- Creating a simple hello world DApp. Have I ever mentioned how much a loathe nodejs and Javascript in general? Urg.
- This is gonna need some work. My shots at 25 yards are consistently grouped like this which ain’t gonna cut it. Practice practice practice.
- So cool. Made a jet engine sounding cook fire with a handful of dry twigs. Science is awesome.
- Pocket knives
- This numworks calculator is really fast
- Doing a couple thousand-word article on the history and some usage of the Logo language, including code examples. Here's an example of some supporting stuff I'm creating for it. Fractal tree on Python (turtle) next to the same algorithm on a C64. Super fun. #commodore #python
- I've signed up for 43 Udemy courses over the years. This is the VERY FIRST course I've EVER completed to the end. And… I'm planning to go through it from start to finish again.
- The Commodore 64 was introduced 40 ago at CES. You couldn't get one until about August, but you could argue that today is its 40th birthday. It was and continues to be a heavy influence in my career. This very C64 was in my bedroom for a decade. Still runs like a champ #commodore
- I love a program example that starts with "contrary to most available literature about USR…". This book is SO dense I have to go slow to keep from missing nuggets (rushing is dumb anyway). Like pulling the return address off of the stack at the end. SOOO GOOD. #commodore
- Okay, Julia's plotting syntax is SO much better. Kinda just fits the way I think without having to look things up. Might be my new goto language… #JuliaLang
- Alright, resistors are all placed. I’m leaving two out until I decide if this is going to be a PAL or NTSC board. #commodore
- I’ve had this 250407 replica board for months and haven’t built it yet. Time to get started. #commodore
- I hate it when I break something that’s a result of my carelessness. And… I don’t have any spares. Sigh