Alastair M. D. Touw @amdt@mastodon.social
Dilettante programmer, salaryman webmaster. 不本意な日本語話者.
Joined May 2017
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I hate computers (and programming is terrible). 💩
Before leaving I got airport sushi for breakfast. This worked well, I think I’ll do this again. 🍣😋
🛫HND → 🛬LHR
① Yes, ② some do, ③ not as much as you’d think, ④ some do, ⑤ in Silicon Valley they sure do!
‘There are few pieces of software as widely misunderstood as [#Emacs]. Emacs is frequently advertised and discussed as a text editor, but please be clear on this: Emacs is not just a text editor.’—Christoffer Stjernlöf, Why You Should Buy Into the Emacs Platform (https://two-wrongs.com/why-you-should-buy-into-the-emacs-platform).
Today I learned about overlays, a programming technique used on computers with limited RAM (such as minicomputers or early home computers) to enable use of programs larger than the available working memory. 🔗 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overlay_(programming)
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VSCodium: binary releases of VS Code without MS branding/telemetry/licensing https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium
AW YISS! 😋
This Miso Chanko Nabe is nearly cooked and looks delicious, I can’t wait to tuck in! 🤤
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I’ve had the Generation I Pokémon battle theme stuck in my head since waking up this morning.
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Tepid take on Free Software licenses Show more
I hate that almost all of the content about old personal computers on YouTube is about games. I like games as much as the next boy who grew up with a PC, but can we get some love for whatever implementation of BASIC came with the machine? How about the kinds of word processing software available? Let’s not forgot these were general-purpose machines!
I love programmers who invoke Dijkstra’s name as you would a deity.
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Linus Torvalds introspection(!) + Show more
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“I need to change some of my
behavior, and I want to apologize to the people that my personal
behavior hurt and possibly drove away from kernel development
entirely.”
I did not expect to see this kind of introspection from Linus Torvalds https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/9/16/167
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I love that the default Emacs scratch buffer text got into Mario Golf (GBC) somehow. I wonder if this was a mis-copy-and-paste from a developer, or if it was another case of a compiler taking random memory contents and using them for padding in the ROM...
I took my Teenage Engineering OP-1 out of the drawer and the battery was flat! Has it been that long since I last used it? I feel bad about that.
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In three months I’ll have been at the translation company for six years, and I’d rather it didn’t become ten. I’ve been here, at the company and in Tokyo, since I graduated but it feels too long. Maybe it’s just that it’s longer than I spent studying my joint degree, which was five years. 🤔
The diagram was originally published on @meetanais@twitter.com’s weblog in 2012, and has been reposted and adjusted by others countless times since. 🔗 http://bullshitelimination.com/purpose-driven-career/
