modrobert @modrobert@qoto.org

Wanted to have some fun with my Playstation Mouse last night, put in Final Doom!
In this case you'd think the D-pad would be WASD, but actually left and right turn you (like the mouse does), and you have to hold the right mouse button down, and then left and right become strafe.

#retrogaming

"At this time, perceived wisdom is that the obvious stuff in the universe, stars, planets,
gas, clouds, and so on, are actually only 4% of its total content.
25% is so-called cold, dark matter.
The remaining 17% is even stranger.
It is known as dark energy, an axe to push the universe apart.
So, where do we come from?
Are we made of stars, or are we the children of darkness?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am0YzhRQXno

#U96 #DarkMatter

💚 my IRC runs without US-EAST-1 💚

@GossiTheDog the only explanation I have for that is that some of these cool-aid-gulping executives don't see a magic 10x increase in profit after paying ridiculous amounts of money on these things, and immediately assumes it's the employees fault because clearly they aren't using it enough.

Because the alternative would be that they made a bad call, and that cannot possibly be true.

Anti bloat IDEs. The good old days when you didn't need an internet connection, an API key/LLM subscription to write more bloat. People still built awesome games, apps, and solved real life scientific problems.

Because we need good news: Gary Larson is drawing again (he bought a tablet, taught himself how to use it, and suddenly drawing was fun again): https://www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/

this is all you need to run linux 🐧 and the best thing is it will not spy on you or steal your private data to train someone else’s shity AI 🤖

As we are getting closer to Advent of Code, and as a programming language designer, I obviously want to promote my particular dialect of APL.

So what should I do to encourage people to rry it for Advent of Code? For myself, others trying it will help me learn what can be improved, both for the documentation as well as the implementation itself.

Should I offer a prize?

https://kapdemo.dhsdevelopments.com/

#kap #programming

(comic) When low attrition has nothing to do with happy employees https://workchronicles.substack.com/p/comic-when-low-attrition-has-nothing

The IBM System/360 machine instructions reference card #s360 #assembly #mainframe https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2010/05/102678081-05-01-acc.pdf

I was discussing book publishing with a person who has been writing a really interesting book about making retro games for old computers.

Their problem is that to very a nice print (as opposed to epub) the screenshots have to be high resolution. And here's the question:

Is there a nice way to upscsle a small screenshot from an emulator and add CRT effects so that it looks like it has been photographed off an old monitor? Preferably something that can be run in batch mode?

Please boost for a bit better reach, since I don't think this is a very common need.

#retrocomputing

Do you have tons of branches and forgot the name of the last one you were working on? Don't worry! this oneliner will sort them by last commit date!

git for-each-ref --sort=-committerdate refs/heads/ --format='%(committerdate:short) %(refname:short)' | head -n 10