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I shudder to think how much I spent on UDXLII tapes.

Adding page-turn buttons to the cover sounds clever.

I find it entertaining. I'm doing it for me, not to boost any metric.

I am my target audience.

I use AI-themed images for the opener to my blog. It's typically a steampunk robot image that is not related to the topic of the post.

The actual content is written by me. If there are any code samples that were AI-generated, I'll call them out as such.

I was starting as a software developer when the Amiga first came out. We used Lattice C at work on MS-DOS. I bought it for my A2000. Being able to write code on a proper multitasking OS made it easier for me to learn C. I kept updating the compiler through the SAS/C days.

I was registered in Commodore's developer program and was porting one of our statistical apps when Commodore imploded. I had a nice A3000, running pre-release versions of Amiga DOS 3.1. It was a cool platform and I enjoyed it.

I wrote a book on localization for Xamarin many years ago. I get about one email a week "inviting" me to join a book club. The well-crafted ones tend to impersonate an actual person on Goodreads.

At this point, I would happily give away my book, but Apress has the publishing rights. And since the sales are about a century away from being profitable for Apress, I don't see them letting me give away the book any time soon.

There were multiple reasons.

Simons' BASIC was still interpreted. If you wanted graphics and performance, you used Assembler.

Many/most people were using a disk speed-up cartridge like Epyx's Fast Load. You could only use one cartridge at a time. If they placed Simons' BASIC in the C64 ROM, that could have made it less compatible with existing software.

They didn't want to pay the licensing cost for an application that only a minority of C64 owners would have wanted.

I moved my blog from WordPress to Jekyll a few years ago, and it's anything but an over-engineered system. I used WordPress for years, and it was overkill for a personal blog.

I used to use em-dashes and en-dashes in my work emails and other writings, but stopped using them when they became AI markers.

Back in the VIC-20 days, I had the VIC Forth (https://ia800304.us.archive.org/34/items/VIC_Forth_1982_HES/... and https://photobubba.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/an-intervi...) cartridge and the book Starting Forth (https://www.forth.com/starting-forth/). It was my second programming language, after BASIC.

Like everything else, it was easy do simple things, much harder to do anything else. My brain also rejected doing stuff with postfix notation.

It always fun trying to explain Forth to developers used to higher level languages. It always came down to "a word is like a function, but not really"

I was using this before 2018. I used to write TSR applets for data collection. Knowing what interrupts were being was critical. It could mean the difference between your code working and it dying somewhere in expanded memory space.

I could see using this for a specialized use, for a game or a presentation. But day to day use, the jarring design of the letters that would have had descenders would be like a mental speed bump for me.

I grew up in the 70s and I loved cassettes. I would take my records and copy them to cassettes so I could play them on horrible and not-so-horrible boom boxes at parties. And of course making mix tapes.

But I don't miss wow and flutter, or tape hiss. Or the fragility of the tapes. For years, I had a recording of Joe Jackson in the late '70s, when he played at a local club. A local radio station simulcast the concert, and I was able to record most of it on a C-90 tape. That tape wore out long before I could digitize it into something more permanent.

As an Amiga developer and user in the same timeframe, I could see the handwriting on the wall. The consumer market had shifted to Windows 3.1 and then 95 on those awful Packard Bell computers. I like the asteroid analogy. The Wintel commodity took out the boutiques.

An Hombre-based Amiga would have been interesting, but I wouldn't have bought one.

Moby licensed every song from "Play" for commercial use. The exposure made "Play" a huge hit for him. This is just a variation of that.

This is an attempt to grab a slice of the pie before AI-generated music kills the market for session musicians. His terms of use are odd, but that's his choice.

I'm so sorry for your loss. I remember buying licenses for Qmodem and later on Qmodem for Windows. I think I spent more time tweaking scripts to log me into various BBSs than I would have spent just typing in the username and password. But where's the fun in that?

There is a similar type of app called NetPad. https://github.com/tareqimbasher/NetPad

It's not as good as LINQPad, but it runs on the Mac.

Is it just me, but when I see a reference to a map of time, I get a vivid flashback to a scruffy band of little people pushing a bedroom wall back into a portal.

WSA wasn't intended for calls or messaging. It was intended to allow developers who had developed apps for the Fire tablets to also provide or sell the apps on Windows.

It was also an alternative way for Android developers to write and test code on Windows. You could edit/deploy faster to WSA than to an Android emulator. And WSA apps are resizable, which is handy for seeing how well your code could handle different Android layouts.

The drawback was that WSA did not have any Google Play services. So no map, no Android push notifications, etc. That could have been addressed if Google wanted to license all of the Play bits.

I spent years in the Delphi ecosystem, starting with Delphi 1. In the early years, it was a great tool for building desktop apps. I haven't used it in 15+ years, but no regrets.

The $5k limit for the Community Edition is very limiting. Unless you are a student with no income, you'll hit the limit almost immediately. Even if you were to write an app for a non-profit, you'll hit the limit.

UPS that can run my PC, monitors, USB hub for 10-30 minutes. I rarely have power outages, but when I do have one it's a non-event Cheap boom arm for the webcam. Stream Deck makes it was to quickly control audio and lights and aps Tourbox makes it easy to edit video Elgato Keylight Airs for video calls Neumi powered speakers. Corsair K100 keyboard. I love the feel and being able to disabled the capslock key Logitech MX Vertical mouse. I hate using any other mouse at this point Syba Sonic USB DAC. Better audio to the headphones plus a big volume knob Jabra Evolve2 30 wired headset. They are comfortable and I don't need to charge them. Since they are USB-C, I can plug them into my phone for longer calls. Audio-Technica ATH M50 headphones. When I want to listen or work on video. Under the desk headphone mount. The convenience of being able to quickly grab either headset without having to look away Desktop mat from drop.com. It looks better and it's another layer of padding for your hand. ErgoFoam Adjustable Foot Rest. It makes my feet happy Steelcase Leap chair. Spend the money on a good chair. Your back will thank you STEALTHO Office Chair Caster Wheels Set. Replace the wheels of your office chair with polyurethane wheels and skateboard quality bearings. Amazon Echo Show 5. It's a desktop clock and a display for the doorbell camera.

This thread has mentioned that it was unacceptable for the interviewer to walk out without saying why they were leaving, or even saying goodbye and thanking you for your time.

While that was an enormous red flag, so is that they had laughed in your face about your choice for a favorite language. That person was extremely rude to you and that behavior was accepted by their co-workers.

While wanting to end that interview right on the spot is a natural reaction, I would have kept going. Depending on the size of the your market, you could get tagged as that person that bailed in the middle of the interview. Depending on how the rest of the interview went, you could be direct and ask about that interviewer and if that was indicative of the company culture.