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From my new piece concerning the Anthropic settlement:

https://catvalente.substack.com/p/blood-money-the-anthropic-settlement

This: https://jneen.ca/posts/2026-03-27-how-to-make-programming-terrible-for-everyone/

which led me to Peter Naur's 1985 article "Programming as Theory Building": "the proper, primary aim of programming is, not to produce programs, but to have the programmers build theories of the manner in which the problems at hand are solved by program execution."

When I'm building software, first and foremost the thing I'm building is me.

how to make programming terrible for everyone | jneens web site

how to make programming terrible for everyone

This: https://jneen.ca/posts/2026-03-27-how-to-make-programming-terrible-for-everyone/

which led me to Peter Naur's 1985 article "Programming as Theory Building": "the proper, primary aim of programming is, not to produce programs, but to have the programmers build theories of the manner in which the problems at hand are solved by program execution."

When I'm building software, first and foremost the thing I'm building is me.

how to make programming terrible for everyone | jneens web site

how to make programming terrible for everyone

Apple IIc using Unidisk external floppy drives as coprocessor

(those floppy disk drives contains full-featured CPUs that can be programmed)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwzRoEJi7qM

#appleII

Apple IIc using Unidisk external floppy drives as coprocessor

YouTube

This is relevant to my interests: https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2026/03/6o6-v11-faster-6502-on-6502.html

Code is here (the README alone is worth your time): https://github.com/classilla/6o6

#retrocomputing

6o6 v1.1: Faster 6502-on-6502 virtualization for a C64/Apple II Apple-1 emulator

I'm doing periodic updates on some of my long-term projects, one of them being 6o6, a fully virtualized NMOS 6502 CPU core that runs on a...

I think I found the memory leak…

#MARCHintosh

Transfer Point is now available! It’s a point-and-click adventure game about regret, forgiveness, and email. It was made in World Builder, a Mac app from 1986. You can play it free in your web browser. InvisiClues are also available here if you need a hint! https://robotspacer.software/transfer-point.html #MARCHintosh
Transfer Point for Macintosh

An adventure game about regret, forgiveness, and email, created in World Builder. Made almost entirely live on twitch.tv/robotspacer, from March 2023 through June 2024, with the help of many wonderful people.

robotspacer.software
#BurgerDisk news:
A new option for the BurgerDisk, two new devices, partnering with @MuseumJoe, and sourcing unobtainium connectors thanks to very kind people from the Fediverse.
https://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2026/03/28/burgerdisk-news/
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