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Pusher of Pixels raised in a land of Commodore Pets.
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TIL that because the FFmpeg project has gained so much experience in hand-writing assembly code to provide huge speedups, they now are putting together a series of lessons for learning assembly:

Vibe coding is fun and all, but this is probably a better use of time!

https://github.com/FFmpeg/asm-lessons

GitHub - FFmpeg/asm-lessons: FFmpeg Assembly Language Lessons

FFmpeg Assembly Language Lessons. Contribute to FFmpeg/asm-lessons development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Crowdfunded effort (led by the awesome Cards Against Humanity folks) bought a tract of pristine land in Texas near the Mexican border a few years ago to prevent development (such as a border wall), and to leave it in a natural state.

This year, Space X unilaterally started building on the tract, without anyone's permission, causing irreparable harm to the natural state of the land. Not cool, says the owner.

Hilarity currently en-suing. https://www.cahsuesmusk.com/

Elon Musk Owes You $100 • Cards Against Humanity Saves America Day 7

Elon Musk stole your land, and now he owes you $100.

Amazing day on Lake Washington watching the Blue Angels practice.
Last night the Aurora Borealis was on full display in the Puget Sound, Washington USA. Such an amazing experience.
We just open-sourced DOS 4 (and found binaries of Multitasking DOS 4) https://www.hanselman.com/blog/open-sourcing-dos-4
Open Sourcing DOS 4

See the canonical version of this blog post at the Microsoft Open Source Blog! ...

GitHub - kevinbentley/Descent3: Descent 3 by Outrage Entertainment

Descent 3 by Outrage Entertainment. Contribute to kevinbentley/Descent3 development by creating an account on GitHub.

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New video upload! Finished editing just in time.

"Introduction to Ramen and Ramune Spectroscopy"

https://youtu.be/CjfLq3RsJbU

Introduction to Ramen and Ramune Spectroscopy

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Night-time helicopter flight with The Icelandic Coast Guard gathering info and estimating the extent of the lava field in the early phase of this eruption.
Yesterday night, I had some time to waste on a train ride and I had nothing better to do than creating a #Commodore64 sprite editor using Google Spreadsheets 🤓 Just draw a sprite by writing 0s and 1s in the cells and copy the resulting #basic code directly into an #emulator like #VICE 👾 A little test routine is included 👩‍💻 #retrocomputing
I neglected to post about this when it happened, but just about a month ago I took a trek down to the Bay Area to pick up a very rare system -- a DEC PDP-15 minicomputer. The PDP-15 was introduced in 1970 and is the last of DEC's 18-bit line (which started with the PDP-1). The last few weeks I've spent restoring the main power supply and this past weekend was the first power-up. I'm keeping a journal of the restoration here: https://wiki.unix-haters.org/doku.php?id=dec:pdp-15
dec:pdp-15 [The UNIX-HATERS Wiki]