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Have you played VVVVVV? Did you know that its soundtrack is called PPPPPP? And... did you know that there is a metal remix called MMMMMM? I did not know the later and discovered it via the orange site! Amazing stuff. open.spotify.com/album/67mFUe...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

EndBASIC dev kit finally shaping up—literally. But this is my first 3D design+print, so bear with me...

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

The SDL2-compat library in F42 (an SDL2 API shim on top of SDL3) isn't as "compat" as one would want, so I just wasted 2 hours figuring out why the EndBASIC console regression tests started failing 😒

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

I hadn't booted Fedora on my laptop for a few months now. I did last week, upgraded to 42 KDE Plasma, and OH WOW. I forgot how fast everything feels compared to Win 11. And Fedora 42 works _really_ well, especially now that the KDE spin is official.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Alrighty! I should have added this "project browser" a long time ago to the EndBASIC site... but better late than never. Next up: adding tiles for featured projects, with screenshots and the like.

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Got a cheapo luggage bag for the kid and, while packing, noticed this. Like… HTF does this happen?! The fix was two screws away but I wonder if this is why it was so cheap?

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Is that bump on the wall a trigger for a secret room? Or have I played too much Doom and Quake?

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

For the Googlers and Xooglers around here… I found the Noogler hat store and the auth system building.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

My brain wasn’t very happy trying to continue sleeping at 3am due to jet lag (but didn’t want to wake up either) and it ended up designing the next feature I have to add to EndBASIC. And it actually makes sense. Maybe I’ll have time to code it on the flight back home.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

This (via HN) looks like a great read for tomorrow's long flight. I've wanted to learn Elisp "properly" for a long time, but then... I've never actually felt the need to use it other than for configuration. "Coding my editor" is not how I think about it...

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Aaah, the joys of using a non-mainstream OS: having to learn and understand random stuff when you most need it. Today's edition: how profiling works under the covers. TBF this is how I learned A LOT about systems ~25 years ago, but it gets old.

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

BSDCan is just 2 months away so that’s the time I’ve got to learn me some CAD and figure out 3D printing…

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

Huh, I knew Debian's approach to packaging Rust apps was "weird", but I didn't know it allowed you to essentially develop without crates.io and network access. Pretty neat TBH. thomask.sdf.org/blog/2023/11...

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

Back to basics tonight. I’ve tried many, many PNW IPAs, and there are very nice ones, but I still find them too… sweet or juicy.

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

AI's take on what unifying code into a monorepo looks like. And this is after saying "please no graphs or diagrams", just a concept picture. lul wat

submitted 56 days ago • 1 comment

Happy 10th anniversary, Bazel! It has been quite a ride and I hope you don't take what I wrote here in the wrong way. There is always room for even faster builds 🙃 jmmv.dev/2025/03/baze...

submitted 60 days ago • 2 comments

Playing with cloudflared to stop paying an unnecessary ~$30 monthly cloud bill. Because... I should be doing my taxes instead.

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

It was really hard to find the date and only Gemini was able to guide me to a reliable source, but it seems like tomorrow marks the 10th anniversary of Bazel's public announcement—and I have a treat ready for you!

submitted 61 days ago • 1 comment

I've somehow decided to try this "remap ESC to Caps Lock" thingy. And oh wow, it's so comfortable. But retraining my hands for the new keys (including not reaching for the Ctrl+[ clutch), will be difficult.

submitted 61 days ago • 1 comment

The second book in the 8080 Books “series” is out. I read the first and it got pretty boring with all of the LLMs stuff. Not sure if I should get this one. Any reviews so far?

submitted 61 days ago • 1 comment

Now with support for font and default colors selection, plus functional reboot and power off options!

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

TIL that the V6 Unix shell came with a goto(1) binary to jump around. How it worked is "neat": the shell spawned goto(1) and _shared_ the descriptor of the running script with it. goto(1) then seek(2)-ed to the label, affecting the shell's next reads. v6sh.org

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

Not quite the same, but I get a similar vibe from the question style 😜 (The privilege separation via an RPC mechanism I was posting about yesterday works!)

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

I'm having "fun" "over"engineering the EndBASIC dev kit image. Here, a sample of the new background daemon for privilege escalation that the shell calls into. But... why? The thought of running everything as root in an embedded device that may not get updates makes me uneasy.

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

After two years in the making, we at Snowflake ❄️ have completed the migration of our build system to Bazel, leading to faster and reliable builds. Here is the recap of our journey. www.snowflake.com/en/engineeri...

submitted 71 days ago • 1 comment

Well, I guess I'm going to @bsdcan.bsky.social this year 🙃. Now I need to push for the final stretch to get this toy ready for showtime!

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

And now I think I've found another tweak to support configuring the WiFi from _within_ EndBASIC as well (keeping the CONFIG.BAS accessible via the FAT partition) 😁 Weekend goal: make this work.

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

Oh wow. The handling of merge conflicts in a chain of commits with Jujutsu VCS is mindblowing-ly good.

submitted 77 days ago • 1 comment

I had the day off and... I spent it flushing an article idea that was at the back of my mind and that I had been wanting to write for ~2 weeks. I'm not an expert on this topic but I think the content is a reasonable intro! Happy read and happy weekend! blogsystem5.substack.com/p/hardware-a...

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

This wall just needs a memory test counter next to it.

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

After the last painful weekend getting this to work… I spent the week cleaning up the code and the experience. All done! 😎 Next up: pairing the LCD with the Pi Zero, which is probably going to give me some grief…

submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment

Based on recent articles and discussions, I _know_ I should spend some time mastering Jujutsu or Magit... but then I'm too comfortable with the Git CLI on a day-to-day basis and I can't make the time for either. I know I'm inefficient though.

submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment