Ellis Pritchard

@ellispritchard@cyberplace.social
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A green geek, condemned to code software in a cluttered attic for evermore.
Pascal was the first language taught on my undergraduate course in 1990, and I ended up using it for a couple of years 'for real' in the form of Turbo Pascal in my first post-graduate job, for Radar configuration and maintenance software. A few years later. the course switched to Modula-2...

"Remembering Niklaus Wirth: father of Pascal and inspiration to many": https://hackaday.com/2024/01/05/remembering-niklaus-wirth-father-of-pascal-and-inspiration-to-many/

(includes a great programming language joke)

Remembering Niklaus Wirth: Father Of Pascal And Inspiration To Many

Although perhaps not as much of a household name as other pioneers of last century’s rapid evolution of computer hardware and the software running on them, Niklaus Wirth’s contributions…

Hackaday
Tackling the nonsense talked about the national debt, and its cost https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2023/12/31/tackling-the-nonsense-talked-about-the-national-debt-and-its-cost/. Politicians are ending the year talking total nonsense about the national debt and its implications. Let me shatter a few myths about both its size and cost, both of which are being dramatically overstated right now.
Neoliberal education is failing around the world

The OECD has published a new report on the state of global teenage career preparation. As they say on their website: This report sets out key findings from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) as they relate to teenage career development. As the executive summary to the report says: Using data from...

Funding the Future

In case you intended to get some work done today:

https://c64.krissz.hu/online-playable-games/

I grew up playing many of those games. Also nice job on the CRT emulation.

#c64 #emulation

Online playable Commodore 64 games

Play with your favorite Commodore 64 games online! Enjoy the greatest classics of your childhood!

Commodore64 retro

Michelle Donelan was in Brussels yesterday to formally sign-up to the UK re-entering the EU's #Horizon research programme.

Now, the Govt. is going to spend up to £10k per organisation to help them (re)attract #scientists & prepare bids for the rest of the programme's duration.

So essentially, we've held out for a better deal (which we didn't get), but due to #RishiSunak's dithering, we now have to 'pump prime' appplicants who are out of the habit of applying and/or have lost key staff

idiocy!

I can finally reveal some research I've been involved with over the past year or so.

We (@redford, @mrtick and I) have reverse engineered the PLC code of NEWAG Impuls EMUs. These trains were locking up for arbitrary reasons after being serviced at third-party workshops. The manufacturer argued that this was because of malpractice by these workshops, and that they should be serviced by them instead of third parties.

1/4

I don’t know if any time of my life has blurred together more than the last four years

Carbon Bombs, https://www.carbonbombs.org/.

Transparent data and visualization about the world's biggest fossil fuel extraction projects, and their links with companies and banks.

Example with TotalEnergies, https://www.carbonbombs.org/companies?name=TotalEnergies+SE

- 17 carbon bombs
- 43.6 GtCO₂ emissions
- 55.7 $B financed since Paris agreement

Top banks financing TotalEnergies:

- Crédit Agricole
- BNP Paribas
- Société Générale

And so on.

Pretty useful. Banks have a gigantic impact. Choose a better bank.

#carbon #ecology

CarbonBombs.org

CarbonBombs.org is a tool to follow the evolution of carbon bombs in the world.

CarbonBombs.org
What the hell is happening in the Antarctic?
#climatechange
#climatecrisis

Can we all just sit here and gaze upon this mastery by Rick Parks in 16 colors? No scanning, done by hand in Deluxe Paint on an Amiga. It's almost photographic in its perfection.

Rick worked at Westwood Studios and worked on Eye of the Beholder I & 2, Dune 2, Kyrandia and other classics.

Rick died in 1996. His incredible creativity lives on.

#pixelart #commodore #amiga #80s #90s #retrocomputing