Better check how my Microsoft shares are performing today.
L Break Into Program
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Software developer & electronics dabbler. Restoring & programming vintage computers from Acorn Atom to ZX81.
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James has won Geekery this year with this absolutely gorgeous steam-punk Raspberry Pi based computer.
Normally I'd be doing last-minute testing and packing around now. Feeling strangely relaxed as I'm missing the event this year due to a calendar clash. Anyway, it's a very interesting event packed full of retro goodness. Well wroth going if you're into that kind of thing.
The Centre for Computing History@computinghistory.org.uk · 5d agoJust 6 days until the Retro Computer Festival, and we can feel the panic rising among our exhibitors as they get all their machines working! Will they all have successful lift offs? Or will some have to abort and splash down in the River Cam? Come and see! www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/77371/re...
And talking about fixed-segment displays, I can’t wait until this is generally available. I’ve already got it’s bigger brother, the MicroBeast, and get a lot of pleasure out of using it.
Feersum Beasts@lockfarm.bsky.social · 7d agoJust over a week before the Retro Computer Festival at @computinghistory.org.uk - where I'll be showing off the Zorkulator and... something else. I hope. Gotta get it working first. #whooshdeadlines
Going through some bags daughter asked us to bring home and discovered this beaut. I think it belonged to her ex-boyfriend. Regardless, Casio really know how to appeal to 10-year old me.
Nice to see that analogue film making is still a thing. This sent me down a rabbit-hole. My uncle used to shoot a lot of Super 8, holidays and special events. Used to use Ilford stock, if memory serves. Must see if he's still got the reels and projector. Be good to see some old family movies.
WittnerCinetec.com@wittnercinetec.bsky.social · 2w agoFirst look! 👀🎞️ Here’s the new packaging for WittnerColor 100D Super 8! After our Field Test Edition sold out so quickly, we’ve now ordered film for our first regular batch. We hope to have it ready for release soon! We can’t wait to get more WittnerColor 100D into your cameras. ❤️ 🎥 🎞️ 🎬
Might get the Spectrum Next out later. I believe there is new firmware with blitting? Wonder if I can use that to speed up my vector graphics primitives…
Local fireworks display went a bit high tech this year.
Got some ideas with regards to sound in my Speculation emulator. It’s not something I’ve been looking forward to tbh, writing audio code when you’re deaf has its challenges. First I need to test and release the natural keyboard symbol entry functionality. breakintoprogram.github.io/emulator-z80/
Speculation Emulator
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The Independent newspaper website with some pretty weird ad placement here.
Prices are way beyond silly now. Three years ago I bought a Macbook Air M2 (8GB/256GB) with 15" screen for just over 3 times that amount.
Linuxiac@linuxiac.bsky.social · 2w agoRaspberry Pi raises the price of its 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 by $80 to $385, citing rising memory costs and supply constraints. linuxiac.com/raspberry-pi... #RaspberryPi
Finally gotten around to ssl’ing my blog today. Turns out since I last looked into this my hosting company had rolled out Let’s Encrypt for customers. Job’s a good-un. www.breakintoprogram.co.uk
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This reminds me of the time I accidentally set the font size in Windows 95 to a very large size by mistake, so that only two or three characters in the menus and title bar could be displayed on screen. Took a while to unpick that.
Goth aesthetic gone wild: a user's self-inflicted black screen of non-death in Windows 3.1’s
Labeled in black on black - controls for a galactic hyper-hearse or ill-advised Windows theme?
theregister.com
Highly recommend. The exhibitors are a good bunch and in addition to their collections there is the museum to explore.
The Centre for Computing History@computinghistory.org.uk · 2w agoIt's two weeks to go until the Retro Computer Festival! The exhibitors list is live - a great mix of new exhibitors and old favourites - and tickets are selling fast. Buy yours now before we run out of ... space! (see what we did there?). www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/77371/re...
Lovely walk around Alderley Edge today with friends. It’s been a few years since we last did this walk. Completely forgot about the Wizard of the Edge carving in this stone face.
Haircut done. Popped into the nearby Costa for a special latte and cinnamon bun. Also did a quick charity shop disappointment. Nothing of interest. I guess all the good stuff is sold online these days.
I’ll have to quiz one of my board game playing friends about this. Pretty sure he’s heard of the game.
‘We’re looking at a 30-year run’: UK pair aim to complete world’s most complex board game
Decades from now, friends may become first people known to have finished The Campaign for North Africa
theguardian.com
Racking my brain trying to remember where I last saw through-hole resistors like this. I think it might have been an audio amp I was repairing. Or a radio.
Tube🍂Time@tubetime.bsky.social · 2w agojust a normal through hole resistor here, nothing to see
That’ll learn me for putting my life savings in crypto. Better check how my tech stock is doing today.
Update on the Velux windows. Armed with my research and a bent paperclip, mum's friend instructed the seemingly non-technical window fitters and got her powered skylight windows paired to the remote control switches. Job's a good-un.
L Break Into Program@breakintoprogram.co.uk · 3w agoIn Norfolk seeing fam and doing some tech support. So far I’ve sorted out some of mum’s old tech for recycling, helped transfer photos off sister’s Android phone, and attempted to pair mum’s friend’s Velux windows with the remote control. Tip run booked in for Tuesday.
I discovered this by accident whilst visiting the office at ${previousJob}. Wandered in after having lunch in the nearby gardens. It was a wonderful surprise.
Reading Museum@readingmuseum.bsky.social · 2mo agoHaven’t got tickets for the Bayeux Tapestry at the British Museum? Don’t worry you can visit Reading's full-size copy, faithfully embroidered by 35 women in 1885-86 (plus extra pants!) Or latest blog compares the two tapestries www.readingmuseum.org.uk/blog/comparing-bayeux-and-reading-tapestries
Saddened to hear the news of Patrick Stewart’s passing. An absolute legend on stage and screen.
Still fine-tuning the bike. Can hit 100km with the assist on the middle setting (3). A little lower than advertised, but acceptable considering I've got panniers fitted and I'm not the lightest. Tyres are pumped up to maximum pressure, just a little uncomfortable on rough tarmac and gravel.
I started using AngularJS just before it was deprecated and looked to using Angular 2. This article pretty much sums up my confusion at the time. As the project was still in early development I ended up switching to React as, if memory serves, it seemed more mature than Angular 2 at the time.
How Google fumbled the frontend with Angular 2
All Things Open Talk provided lessons in how not to upgrade a software package
theregister.com
All my games are currently HALF PRICE until the end of the month, as part of the itch.io Halloween sale.. so be quick if you want to grab them with 50% off!! loudscotsbloke.itch.io
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