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@jim__
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Oldschool portable gaming. “Rogue” is still really fun - I can see why it spawned a whole genre that is still thriving today, despite the terrible interface (key bindings keep changing depending on how many objects are in the inventory) and basic graphics. #gaming #retro #retrogaming
“Rogue” is a surprisingly fun game in 2026 - it’s the originator of a huge number of video game mechanics which are everywhere today. #gaming #retro #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing
I’m glad I’m learning Common Lisp instead of something more minimal, or exclusively trying to build my own language. When I find myself needing something again and again, I find that some smarter people than me already built it into Common Lisp, better than I would have done it. #lisp #programming #sofware
Somehow I ended up obsessed with 80s pocket computers. Unfortunately, their weird protocols can make some of them almost impossible to develop for. This project uses the #RaspiPico and no doubt some fantastic use of its PIO, to make a universal interface for a whole lot of them. I need to get a hold of one of these! https://n1ugk.com/2025/12/pocket-computer-universal-interface/ #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing
Pocket Computer Universal Interface

I began development of a Universal Pocket Computer Interface for use with Sharp, Casio, and Texas Instruments pocket computers and graphing calculators.

N1UGK’s Amateur Radio Blog - Observations, Experiments, Discussions about Amateur Radio

Sagt bye-bye zu Microsoft GitHub A.I. Slopsim und installiert euer eigenes Git auf Hetzner.

Keine Kubernetes Kentnisse notwendig.

Berichtet gerne von Alternativen!

https://torbjorn.dev/blog/forgejo-on-hetzner/

Moving to Forgejo on Hetzner

How and why I moved my repos off GitHub and onto a Hetzner VPS.

Torbjorn.dev
Headsup for anyone who wants to use Lisp but hasn’t spent their whole life learning emacs. There’s a new editor called Mine which works like a modern IDE and has the expected key bindings, but has as tight an integration with the REPL as you’d expect from something more arcane. It even has tutorials. 5/5. #lisp #programming #softwaredevelopment
Cool, Crash Bandicoot was scripted in a compiled Lisp variant: https://all-things-andy-gavin.com/tag/gool/ #lisp #gamedev
Gool – All Things Andy Gavin

All Things Andy Gavin
If you want to do LLM assisted coding and don’t want to give your money and private data to tech behemoths, this 100% locally hosted open source combo works shockingly well: ollama, qwen code model, zoo code agent. Tested on: 64GB Silicon Mac, Python and Lisp. It runs slower, but the only limiting factors are power (100% renewable) and wear and tear on the chipset. IMO the technical strengths of this make it a contender, before even considering the ethics and security. #ai #foss #llm #coding
My Lisp interpreter, on the oldest computer I have that can run Python. Now with macros. This means that the language can be easily tweaked without modifying the interpreters: I added “if” and looping on top of the language. Lisp macros are ridiculously powerful; I hear Rust has something approaching it, which would really sell that language for me. #lisp #rust #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #python #programming
Engineering without measurements, Cloudflare style.