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Creator of Daric (dariclang.com), I like hiking, 40K, maths, science, vintage tech, sci-fi TV & film and general nerdy stuff.
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So now the US is the new evil superpower, does this mean bad guys in films won’t always be played by Brits now? We need a break!

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

Seeing some posts that Apple would make a killing bringing back the iPod. Honestly? No. The Apple Watch does everything for playing music including mobile streaming. Just use Bluetooth headphones…

submitted 20 hours ago • 3 comments

Having gained experience, I can see why the Smalltalk everything an object/message passing thing can be slow. The challenge now is to see if/how it can be optimised.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Art by Steve R Dodd for ‘Over The Rainbow’ by Robert Heinlein (Future Life magazine Aug, 1981)

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I’ve been messing with a COBOL/Smalltalk inspired syntax and it’s kinda cool. Everything is an object, message passing except for control structures which use a more conventional syntax but still with message passing.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

The whole “working class folk drink beer and lager” trope gets old. It’s condescending! Altho I only drink single malt and cognac so what do I know 😄 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Art by Jean Giraud aka Moebius for Moebius 5 The Gardens of Aedena (1988)

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Here's an annoying thing. The original Cities: Skylines ran on macOS, but the sequel does not. I am of the strong belief that casual/strategy/sim type games would do well due to the typical Mac user.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

My mate had a C64, I never liked it, programming it was crap. Graphics were nice, but a bit muted compared to the Speccy and CPC. It lacked personality. Still have zero interest! The Amiga very different.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Watching "The Spectrum Show" and it has my old colleague Lee Smith's (@leesmithsworkshop.bsky.social) ZX Mechtrum keyboard. Very nice! www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hlS...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I’ve been messing around with a variant of Smalltalk syntax now for a week, making white space significant, use commas as well as periods to create a different sense of things. All good fun, maybe will go nowhere but it’s fun and that’s all that matters.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

All the news of sinkholes makes me wonder if this parking area is going to sink one day…this depression only appeared last year! Don’t want my car vanishing!

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

It’s sunny! Do your mental health a favour and go outside and enjoy it…it’s been a looong winter this year. Sunshine and light exercise = shit tons of serotonin, dopamine and endorphins. As a geek it helps combat my late night coding 😆

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

It’s warm this morning, a balmy 10c. Mental health recharge complete.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Art by Angus McKie for ‘The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space’ by Gerard K O’Neill (Corgi 1978 UK edition)

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

Forgot I took this yesterday. The sun has an outrun vibe to it.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

More dibbling with Smalltalk last night, in Squeak this time. Even for someone who has experience with dozens of languages, it's very impenetrable. As a compiler writer, I'm somewhat obsessed by languages with very simple syntax, but it just pushes complexity elsewhere. Forth/Smalltalk/Lisps etc

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments