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I tink this was the one on pontoons -

https://archive.org/details/More_BASIC_Computer_Games/page/n...

Install Windows 11 for them.

How about wordle x 8 - Octordle - https://www.britannica.com/games/octordle/?mode=daily

> I have yet to run into a printer that doesn't just magically work under linux.

You haven't used a Canon IP-90 printer. :-)

DOGE to Employee: What did you do in the last week?

Employee: [lists of tasks]

A.I. to DOGE: *I can do that.*

DOGE to Employee: You're fired.

Maybe a check back later message, or a turn on notification for the site?

To encourage people to check back maybe have some sort of feature like a fortune cookie or a featured "resource of the day" they will find when the come back.

"Enter name and email to join waitlist" - stopped right there. Giving out name and email is one of my anxieties.

I had set one (Pi 3B+)up to do both a website as well as a public service announcement slideshow display for a local Community TV. Used PHP/CMSimple for the site and wrote a custom slider.

Things I learned:

- set the pi to reboot on poweroff

- Given this was TV used the AV output on the PI displaying in NTSC 4:3 (to support customers with older TVs), so had to be aware of overscan margins

- Added a startup script to start chromium in kiosk mode and open the slider page for the show side. worked 95% of the time, if not just power off then on.

- part of the troubleshooting was just unplug and replug - but SD cards will choke on too many power cycles, so instead of SD use a USB->SATA cable and a regular spinning rust HDD - slower but VERY reliable, the journaling file system can recover after power-outage.

- Get the right USB->SATA cable, USB-3 models seem to be more responsive and the PI can boot from them, there are some are too slow and the Pi will fail to boot.

- Slider had it's own login page (outside of CMSimple) to remotely manage the slideshow.

- Also changed the SSH Port to something uncommon to thwart bad guys.

Just about large enterprise data store like an enterprise payroll system, college general ledger (multi-fund accounting - fun!), DMV rebuild, etc.

Yeah for me OS9 is pretty retro - Classic Mac OS was great with some awesome apps many of which didn't make it into OSX and using the classic emulator in OSX doesn't help the experience.

The Mini is a great compact hardware platform to run them on. I have four minis that run various Mac OS generations.

This is something I get (better ways at storing and using information.

I like the of a list of ingredients with the quantity in the top and then repeated in the steps (if no quantity is mentioned in the steps its implied the whole ingredient is used). This makes sense in that you may need to have on hand 3 tbs of butter but 2 get melted and mixed in step 3, and 1 is used to grease the pan in step 5.

The next dimension would be a language/glossary of preparation terms (slice apple - how? radially or into x thickness sheets?) This would be helpful for those without any clue on common actions and maybe later for automation. Though cooking is way more an art than just a set of steps and standard unit quantities.

With a glossary you could search for recipes that use grated apples or recipes that use a food processor, or don't use an oven, etc.

Good "food for thought" :-D

My wife still uses her Chumby as an alarm clock.

Oh, the Places You'll Go at Burning Man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahv_1IS7SiE

Last time I heard about 211 in our counties - about 20 years ago - they (the agency that got a tri-county grant) had a resource directory website and were looking into doing phone support but funding left for some reason and the site is long gone. (Found Calaveras 211 - has only PG&E public safety/Hate crime support line/tobacco cessation info.)

Will see if it has regained any support up here - don't see much advertising for it in this rural area, and looking at the California 211 most of the resources point to the central valley... Thanks for the heads up!

This was a software project for me, wanted something that lets me know what things to do in the area, where are shops, what are their hours, how to contact them, etc. Not only for businesses but for public spaces (say you wanted to rent the local park for an event-contact info is there), also event information, local notices, etc.) I've used it several times checking if some store in the town I'm headed is open (go to the local info page, then click on the facebook link and see if it is actually open) as well as a place to point others local resources (like where can we hold a wedding near town X).

https://doplaces.com After ten years I've learned it's to get people to submit information (even if listings are free) also has been a challenge for this semi-introverted programmer to market it.

Another project (for my employer) we have had a printed community resource directory for decades this helps people find local government/aid resources for families and has got recognition for its handyness in emergencies. I have created a web version - the notable part on this one is putting in a facility so those on mobile can (via cookies) select favorites and write notes associated on those for later reference. https://rr.trcac.org/resdir.htm I guess the other challenge in this area is we are rural and a good portion of the population is not all that well connected or tech savvy. The paper one still currently wins out over the on-line version.

For me it was the MiniPET from Tynemouth / TFW8b.com all through hole components and when done you power it up and you have a Commodore PET computer without the bulky case. Made my pandemic shelter-in-place time awesome.

Looks like the current models are pre-built, but if you can get a kit it's easy enough even for a (dangerous with a soldering iron) programmer like me to solder it successfully.

To see what its about - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHAIuE5BQWk (this is showing the older version - newer ones have a handy inbuilt SD card "drive" and 80 column PET capability.

Depends on who makes it and how its perceived. If it is something like an up-front ad banner that is shown on the fly - (Movie premieres in 7 days!) it works, if it is somewhere not visited often people may forget to check.

I do event lists with the days in between listed... https://doplaces.com/events I make sure to list the day name as well as I think more about what day it is than the date.

X days might be confusing if it's not live like an email or facebook post (which I regularly discover after the events)

Micro the 6502 Journal was really good.

Early issues of BYTE are quite informative

Early COMPUTE! were also a bit more technical

Creative Computing kinda varied a lot but had some great bits in it.

Atas obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/

CSS can easily be really complicated, you can shovel layer upon layer on it and it still seems to work (a lot of guys just cut and paste in new styles). Most cutting edge CSS I see on sites is just to provide animated transitions and effects - you can reduce a lot of overhead if you don't care about animated headings and the like.

My suggestion is:

- Try to keep it simple - start with the basics - A older but very good book on CSS basics is: Stylin' With CSS: A Designer's Guide by Charles Wyke-Smith

- Use the inspect/debugging tools in your web browser to reveal the smoke and mirrors of website elements you like to figure out whats doing the actual work.

As an example is https://doplaces.com - not perfect but I tried to keep it to a minimum while still being functional and flexible...

Chuck Peddle has claimed credit for the PET's (and later Commodore 8-bit) user friendly screen editor. I have heard it in some interviews with him. The computer History Museum has one interview where he mentions it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enHF9lMseP8

Radio Shack's TRS-80 editor is also not that great either.

These skills are greatly enhanced by your tactile abilities

Massage

Keyboard/Piano

Tactile trinkets like Rubics Cube/Figet Spinners

Pottery/Sculpture

Construction

Climbing, Obstacle Courses

Cleaning/Washing

Cooking

Props to LibreOffice

Recently I was asked to locate an old form document which I found it was written in WriteNow for Macintosh, libreOffice opened it up easily (even without a filename extension) and except for some font substitutions the tables seemed to be all correct. Very impressive.

Some itches that I had scratched in the past - might give you ideas on your own ones to work out:

Text Formatter - paste in copied text with hard returns broken paragraphs, bad characters, etc, clean up text, reform to correct sentences, paragraphs...

Data Parser, take useful but unwieldy raw data and parse it into a readable text, HTML table, PDF pages, etc.

simple event list/tracker input events (name, date/time) and let it be a clock reminder of whats coming up. For next level do global events (event, date, time, country or timezone) and adjust for viewing realtime in local timezone.

One I have thought of but haven't started would be recreate a Commodore C/G telnet BBS in python, where C64s can connect and see it as a Commodore C/G BBS but no limitations of it running on Commodore 8-bit hardware.

Text Adventure Enhancer - that prompts AI creators with descriptions to create enhanced room descriptions and images to enhance an old text adventure...or do a choose your own adventure one where you begin with player adding their picture to use as an image prompt along with the description prompts.

Just try to use something you understand and/or that would be fun for you. so you can concentrate on just figuring out the code instead of having to figure out the subject matter also.

correct link - https://gizmodo.com/the-self-checkout-nightmare-may-finally-...

When you aren't up to coding do review of what you have written, make notes on corrections needed as well as any ideas for improvement.

Good time to review user experience from your diminished perspective.

There's Print to PDF printer choice - so far Chrome seems to do the best job of it - if the HTML/CSS is not too responsive it can be not good.

Phone book is one of my go tos, great for finding museums, bookstores and other shops...

This is a problem I've been working on in my area with doplaces.com but even a small area is a lot of work to maintain.

For Linux get one of those thick Linux bibles and read through it, digest what you can, note what you can't, bookmark parts that pique your interest. Doing this, I got a much better understanding of what Linux is about and capable of, also when I need to know more I have a better idea of what to look for.

This was probably the first website I regularly used when I got internet (late 90s) - because it had an awesome Commodore 8-bit archive. That archive is now hosted on another domain ( http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/ ) even now it's still an awesome resource for Commodore fans.