pleroma.debian.social

pleroma.debian.social

Jonathan Dowland | @jmtd@pleroma.debian.social

Principal Software Engineer on #OpenJDK #RedHat. #Debian developer (dormant). Computer Science PhD student. Amateur Computing historian (Computer Science and H/W, esp. Commodore Amiga). Guerilla archivist.

New blog post: Amiga redux https://jmtd.net/log/amiga/redux/ #amiga

I’m also super interested in the home brew mini itx Amiga main board

Misplaced my Amiga 500’s PSU. Might have to buy one of those new usb-c adaptor things!

@suihkulokki ah good!

I recently bought an 8bitdo keyboard which comes with a pair of large “Mashable” programmable buttons. I mapped them to shift+ctrl+c and v, which works in my terminal and several apps which want ctrl+c and ignore the extra shift. They are surprisingly handy! Sadly Firefox didn’t.
A pair of large Mashable buttons, produced by 8bitdo

Happy 12th anniversary to my last blog post complaining about “persistent” network interface names in Linux. https://jmtd.net/log/puppet_and_interface_names/

Back then, the scheme to guarantee persistence had been changed for the third time.

Today I read the (excellent) Debian trixie release notes, which warn that interface names may change on upgrade…

I think I’m finally going to jump on an #amiga pistorm for my A500.

@sre4ever thank you for your suggestions! I've copied them to issues here (where I will track bugs and features for the service): https://salsa.debian.org/chronicles-team/chronicles.debian.org/-/issues

@neil can directors just use a VPN to get around it 🥁

Also I might finally buy a pistorm

And now I want to buy more Amigas

@neil @Edent me too! For me the ideal device is a barely-smart watch, with little else but that feature (auto tuning the time is also nice)

New blog post: School of Computing Technical Reports https://jmtd.net/log/tech_reports/ #cs.ncl.ac.uk #archiving

@sxa @kittylyst for me, and it could be that my experience is not more widely representative: I generally find Perl programs to be self-contained, and Python ones to have a dependency hell to navigate. That really impacts their readability and maintainability. Oh, and a Perl script written 20 years ago generally works today; the same can not be said for Python.

@sxa yum perl pie. I uesd to do that a lot :-) The starting point of my modern perl scripts is invariably the core loop that -pie provides (while(<>) {...)

@sxa I might write a blog post about this

I keep solving problems with Perl. Send help?

@mjg59 I loved his “sustainability” book. It would be great if someone updated it or wrote something spiritually similar with today’s numbers.

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