spongeb00b

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by spongeb00b 5y ago
It's like they got things reversed. What I miss about old web dev is the simplicity of the tooling: no complex build systems, "CI" was just uploading your changes via FTP (maybe using something like Dreamweaver's feature
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by spongeb00b 5y ago
I legitimately thought I was looking at a parody when I first saw a still from a TV interview of him
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by spongeb00b 5y ago
I know someone who claims to be a visual learner because he prefers video tutorials. But I say to him: no, I like pictures too, but what I can’t stand about videos is the person talking. I want to be able to scan things at my own (varying)
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by spongeb00b 5y ago
I enjoyed that too. Mac user at home, but school only had Windows 2000 PCs with IE5, Office and not much else. Meanwhile I carried around my USB drive with Firefox (tabs and bookmarks!!) and Open Office so I could then edit the same docs on
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by spongeb00b 5y ago
The technical skills alone to do this are amazing, but what I'm absolutely in love with is the full on blinkenlights/rackmount/mini computer style of the hardware.
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by spongeb00b 5y ago
Yeah I’d love to see the internal construction. Also enjoying the Nixie tubes for the score on “Winter Hunt"
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by spongeb00b 5y ago
Also consider that when the clamshell iBook launched very few home users were buying laptops (it was also the first consumer laptop with wifi). The later G3 and G4 iBooks were well timed, however.
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by spongeb00b 5y ago
My high school physics dept were still using a then 20 year old BBC Micro to run experiments which only worked with a specific piece of ultrasonic experiment gear. I wonder if it still gets wheeled out on that cart to this day...
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by spongeb00b 5y ago
> Hide Park is a park in Ankh-Morpork with a small lake. Its unusual name comes from old times, when a hide was the measure of land a man with a bullock could plough on a wet Thursday I should have known Terry Pratchett had based this on
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by spongeb00b 5y ago
Regarding comments about manufacturing plants and the LCH, sure both of these examples aren’t software directly (but they also wouldn’t be possible without software), but they are also always under constant fixes, feature upgrades and optim
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by spongeb00b 6y ago
Even Blu-Tack for holding on the RAM expansion is still available to buy (sorry, too hard to resist)
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by spongeb00b 6y ago
Apple IIs are surprisingly hardy but with one exception: there's a Rifa-branded line filter capacitor in the power supply that tends to blow but it's easy enough to replace (some say you can even just remove it).
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by spongeb00b 6y ago
> 640kB is actually enough for anyone For a minute there I thought you were about to quote a certain Mr Gates... But I'm now claiming "Mr Gates" to be the name of my first FPGA project
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by spongeb00b 6y ago
Antex irons don't seem to get enough love in my opinion. They are (at least partially, I think) made in the UK and I've always preferred them as the handle/body is much thinner than many of the other available irons which I f
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by spongeb00b 6y ago
We know that Apple was investigating the successor to the 65816 as used in the then current //GS https://mirrors.apple2.org.za/apple2.caltech.edu/miscinfo/65...
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by spongeb00b 6y ago
Yes, I'm sure it's related to any of the softer parts of their devices, such as being able to lay and connect the various tiny flex connectors that need a certain amount of "feel" to assemble. And despite Apple's hi
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by spongeb00b 6y ago
The real overhead now is in interfacing: your CLI screen still needs to output (probably) VGA graphics, you'll need USB host support, wired and wireless networking, more sophisticated file systems...
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by spongeb00b 6y ago
Oh no, you’ve given me ideas now... How about old wardrobes painted to look like the cabinets? You could even get an old reel to reel tape player and put it behind some plexiglass for that tape drive effect.
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by spongeb00b 6y ago
The Apple Disk ][ 5.25 floppy drive has a disk inside with 2 patterns. When spinning under a florescent light the pattern appears to not be spinning when the drive is at the right speed. The 2 different patterns are there for whether you ha
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by spongeb00b 6y ago
For playing music or even calls you won’t notice any difference. The problem is trying to use and app like GarageBand where you need instant response to instrument control. In fact, first time you open GarageBand and it detects you’re using
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by spongeb00b 6y ago
Reports we did in high school were supposed to be submitted in Times, but I hated it for the same reason of it just being the default. I always used Garamond instead. I don't expect many of the teachers knew or cared about the differen
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by spongeb00b 6y ago
Well timed! I'm working on an LED matrix project and wanted my own font that would fit my specifics. Started writing something like this using the canvas element and JavaScript, but this should save me.
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by spongeb00b 6y ago
Yep - this is why I only use Slack via my browser. Also means that I never have to see the unread message notification if there's no icon for the Slack app in my Dock or Cmd + Tab. No other notifications enabled. I tab over to Slack wh
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by spongeb00b 6y ago
Maybe I was just the right age as a teenager back then and it does feel cliche to say, but there really was something special and magical about Mac software like this back in those days. I miss the pinstripes and aqua glossiness, but also t
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by spongeb00b 6y ago
Agreed. That's exactly why I've been using https://upverter.com Sure it's not as feature rich, but I found the interface much easier to get a hang of that for my small TTL and 6502 projects it's been great. I
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by spongeb00b 6y ago
As someone who has had to both communicate to clients what the rulings mean, and also implement these popups, I totally agree... (and I'm sorry for the the popups)
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by spongeb00b 7y ago
His channel is well worth watching for anyone who dreams of being so fearless to sneak into factories and climb unbelievably high structures.
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by spongeb00b 7y ago
I would love to know what Douglas would think of the modern smartphone. I’ve also always wanted to laser engrave “DON’T PANIC” in large friendly letters on the back of my phone
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by spongeb00b 7y ago
He also used the book to explore his hatred of poetry
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by spongeb00b 7y ago
I still can’t believe the amount of work Wolfgang Thaller puts into this project. I subscribed to the Github issues tracker and he constantly helping others with bugs, quirks and features. I just wish I could put time and effort into learni

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