Edd Barrett

@ebarrett
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Computer scientist, Programmer, OpenBSD Developer.

OK, I’m old

Apparently it was this week in 1982 Sony launched their first CD Player

Sony CD-101

Mine still works, its had a re-cap over the years, but that’s about it

Playing an SQ Quad CD. In the rush to market some early CDs accidentally had Quadraphonic Masters used

Sony SQ Decoder SQD 2020

Fwiw, wttr.in seems the best so far.
Does anyone know a lightweight weather app that can forecast a few days into the future and that would work well at a glance on a low-res raspberry pi screen?
OTD 1999: #SunMicrosystems announces the Sun Ray thin client. Great blog about its development: https://marcschneider.weebly.com/sun-ray.html
Joel J Miller (@joeljmiller)

I apologize in advance.

Substack
Then: "Save a tree, don't print this email"
Now: "Burn the trees, AI the email"
if you put a webserver up on the internet. anywhere, hosting anything, you will see "the background radiation of the internet", and it looks like this:

What's this? An abstract syntax tree? A bytecode? What does that even mean anymore?

Next Wednesday, Octave is going to explore those questions in his ICOOOLPS presentation.

Our draft paper is online already: https://2025.ecoop.org/details/ICOOOLPS-2025-papers/4/AST-Bytecode-and-the-Space-In-Between-An-Exploration-of-Interpreter-Design-Tradeof

#interpreter #design #tradeoffs

Iconography of the X Window System: The Boot Stipple | Lobsters

Good news for anyone running heavily threaded programs (using futexes) on #OpenBSD.

David Gwynne (dlg@) has followed up on previous work on __thrsleep/ __thrwakeup, mostly improving Go programs, to now also avoid lock contention in futex(2) calls as well.

Zoom zoom. ​ 🏎️​

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=174657800928110&w=2

Context: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=173275914606965&w=2

'CVS: cvs.openbsd.org: src' - MARC