josemanuel @josemanuel@qoto.org

Y sí, sé que mi tono sentará mal a algunos y seguirán usando el anglicismo por un sentimiento de rebeldía mal digerido, pero me suda la polla porque llevo razón.

¿Por qué hay gente que usa el término gamificación, que no es más que un anglicismo de lo más ordinario y ramplón, en lugar del mucho más elegante ludificación?

I’m learning MSX-BASIC and I’m finding it so stupid and braindead that I’d much rather write in assembler.

And it’s not that I dislike assembler. I just honestly think it would be easier (both to code and debug), faster and less error-prone than BASIC.

I have to admit my least favourite instance is mastodon.social. There seems to be an 80-20 mix of hollier-than-thou individuals vs just nice people.

I just can’t stand the do-what-i-say attitude of most users there.

Today I finally watched the last Evangelion movie. I’m satisfied and disappointed at the same time.

Something inside of me dies when I see a scientist using imperial units.

Now completely contradicting my previous post, I will say this: there should be a meme comparing old and current tech books. They would be like this:

Old tech books: «Since the Z80 uses NMOS technology, one is cautioned to become familiar with the rules for handling such devices before trying to handle the Z80 device. Those rules are actually very simple, so failing to follow them will net you what you deserve—a zapped IC.»

New tech books: «I will teach you this programming language assuming you barely know what a computer is.»

You can tell the first example is real (from Z80 Users Manual, by Joseph J. Carr) because the writing is terrible.

I love old tech books.

From Sony’s A Guide to MSX-BASIC Version 2.0, page 20: «(The blank space is made by hitting the space bar once.)»

Dude, you’ve already told us about PRINT, LET and arithmetic operations. What made you think we didn’t know how to type a space yet? Also, you didn’t say which key was the space bar.

Today is Margaret Hamilton’s birthday.