In 1998 we’d just got married and I decided now or never to get a degree so OU. Here’s the book - Now including WWW! 🤭 Really enjoyed the Smalltalk/OOP class but my daughter came along I. 1999 and was born super early and then I immediately lost my job so sadly no degree for me.

Got my performance review.

My online IDE now has Turbo C running under DOSBox via JS-DOS

Working on the next retro development tool to include in my online IDE 8-)

Thanks to @electrongreg.bsky.social hard work I was also able to add the BBC BASIC version of Super Star Trek to my online retro IDE for your code-squinting delight: ide.retrogamecoders.com?platform=bbc... (Get the .ssd disk from Itch.io at electrongreg.itch.io/trek-beeb)

when the rich Do Crimes

Thanks to @colinhoad.com and his series on YouTube my online IDE now has the BBC BASIC game Cosmic Invaders for your retro entertainment ide.retrogamecoders.com?file=cosmic....

Teaching at colleges doesn't pay as well in the UK as it did in Canada but there are perks. I actually love teaching, it is the horrible things people say in feedback forms I hate. Only takes one person out of 50 to wreck the whole experience.

One of the famous things about Cuba is the community of extremely talented car nerds. How anyone could think they have little neuroflavour is beyond me.

Amazes me what can be done in JavaScript now wokwi.com

PCBWay and Squarespace must have huge podcast and YouTube sponsorship budgets. Wonder how that works for them 🤔

If you wanted to destroy the brainpower and earning power of a country, messing with universities, skilled workers, and vaccines would be an efficient way to do it

Funnies aside, you can actually do this and it’s useful. You don’t even have to use lake-emptying data centres or have your own power generator to do it.

Consolidated a bit more. Don’t think I can reduce it more than this and still make the videos I want to film 🤓 Tell me I chose wrong in the comments 😉

If I had a supply of paper I’d connect this guy to the internet

#Septandy “Color” computer plus micro panther butt

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

Nostalgia versus space and convenience .. Should I get rid of my tapes and old disks? I’m desperately low on space so don’t have the luxury of retro “purity”, they might need to go 🥲

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

Online is where an adult man who chooses a Japanese cartoon of a child as a picture to represent themselves will appear in your mentions to tell you that you are “cringe”

There’s a lot of people who say “you should build in public” who seem to mean “give me something to be angry about”

The 6502 is fifty!

When I say I have been "working on a Laravel site today" what I *meant* was "I have been watching my terminal as I attempt to import the data yet again"

Google Search Console impressions dropped overnight? This is why -

Because @bhaalspawn.bsky.social shared her childhood sketches, here's mine from 1989 - this is what I did in art class instead of what we were assigned, hence my grade suffering 🤦‍♂️ (That last guy was an attempt at a Robocop+Iron Man mashup)

Grok is being sent to the reeducation camp

This looks amazing 🤩 Well done @sandpenguin.bsky.social

Got Rogue running on CP/M+ on my Amstrad CPC 128 emulator 🧙‍♂️ Turns out this CP/M uses Z19 terminal emulation so I found a version adapted for the Heathkit, found a disk utility compatible with H8D disks, extracted it, used CPMTools w/ CPCSYS disk definitions and now I can mount it in the emulator 😅

Putting YouTube Guru Advice to the Test – Organic Growth Experiment Results https://www.chrisg.com/youtube-reach/

After spending close to a decade fighting viral hoaxes, Meta is letting them flourish in the US — and even paying people to produce them. A longtime FB hoaxster confirmed he's been monetized and is earning payouts from Meta. My free to read report:

If releasing a list of pedophiles is a hostile act against you, then you are, statistically, on that list. Alternatively, you’re protecting someone on that list. No exceptions.

Amstrad CPC Emulator added to the collection - run Amstrad software right in your web browser :) amstrad.retrogamecoders.com

Google developer #1: "That's it. Our search engine is simple, efficient, and reliable. It's perfect. We're done." Google developer #2, presumably: "But wouldn't it be *more* perfect if the first search result was always a robot who mansplained your search results to you incorrectly?"

I need to slim down and organise my collection better now this space is also going to need to be used for electronics work and, well, work work. Not that I want to part with anything!

This is a great interactive explanation, and I didn’t know SVG had displacement maps kube.io/blog/liquid-...

Since today's discourse is on how "not everyone grew up with Nintendo", I'll reshare this: medium.com/@felipepepe/... And reinforce that this is systemic - a consequence of US hegemony. It's NOT a personal attack on American journos, youtubers & gamers, but rather a reminder of our differences.

Giving up the workshop so now we have to use every spare inch of space to avoid having to dump/sell off good stuff or pay for storage. But I’m also thinking “Chris needs a dedicated ‘retro-loft’ space” 🤭

The retro programming hobby I do to relax and take my mind off things is getting depressing. Trying to improve my CP/M emulator has made it significantly worse to the point where nothing works and I might have to delete this branch. Perhaps I should ditch everything and go make candles.

Darned last second outbidders! Guess I’ll need to get my M4 board working or figure out how to put my files on wav “tapes” with my CPC 464

West of House You are in an open field west of a big white house with a boarded front door There is a small mailbox here > From the vaults of the Zork Users Group in '82: a gorgeously illustrated map of the adventure that'll take you into the depths of what was once the Great Underground Empire.

Population reduction used to be a dystopian fiction plot

Microsoft open-sources its 6502 BASIC from 1976 www.theregister.com/2025/09/04/m...

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A *computer*? In the *home*?? Don't make me laugh! That will never happen! youtu.be/w6Ka42eyudA

*Now* it’s really working 🥳 Microsoft BASIC Star Trek on my CP/M emulator running in a web browser

I don’t understand … if the “brave American” is brave why does he need the venue to be his lil’ safe space?

Can’t wait to try out this new gadget! Xberry Pi (not related to Raspberry) which is a tiny #zxnext

Been working on something new (old?) cpm.retrogamecoders.com Any existing projects out there broke when web browsers moved on from the way they were implementing their database features so I started by bringing it up to date so we could go back in time 🤓