A large update to my Wallops IRC client is available:
13159d1a73d6ca4af96e4e28a9f550c2This update includes a number of new features and bugfixes:
As teased on Twitter, the first release of my Wallops IRC client is now available:
459421124a43787236de58842fc6376fA future update will support multiple channels but for now it only supports one channel at a time.
Amend 3.2 has been released:
8daec2d4bed7d3b7b4c0bbade81028b3Changes in this version:
I tweeted asking if anyone would be interested in a Q&A, and to my surprise, I got many Qs to A.
It's a new year and my old computer is still old.
A bug in Amend caused it to crash during a commit, which corrupted the repo beyond repair. I quickly came to realize that using resource files as a database for Amend and my new BBS was a bad idea. I NIH'd the problem and created my own file format that will be a bit more resilient to crashes and partial writes.
Let's have a chat. Continuing feature development of my BBS software.
I review some recent commits covering user authentication and telnet negotiation, then write some ANSI output code and a broken function for returning a number's ordinal suffix.
I'm starting on a new project and I needed a cooperative threading mechanism which didn't exist in System 6, so I created one.
I started using the Tindie platform in April to sell my WiFiStation kits. I've now sold out all of my initial inventory and am not planning on making any more, so I thought I'd offer my opinions of Tindie as a platform for selling things.
It's been almost a year since my last
confessional video.
A few weeks ago I started working on a small revision control system to handle
my C projects developed on my Mac and it's now at the point where I can at least
manage commits to the tool itself.
My old 2017 Huawei MateBook X has been my most reliable laptop and continued to be my daily-use workstation despite trying half a dozen others (and a desktop or two) in the past four years. Every time I'd try a new laptop, certain components wouldn't work properly, or the keyboard would feel strange, or the screen quality would be poor, or a constantly-running fan or some coil-whine noise would drive me nuts. And every time, I'd return to my trusty MateBook X and everything would just work silently.
I finally have a newer model of the MateBook X and I'm happy to say it lives up to its predecessor and has replaced my 2017 model.
Framework is a new company offering a laptop that is designed to be repairable and upgradeable, both in terms of internal components like the screen and motherboard, and in pluggable expansion cards.
After the disappointment of my X1 Nano and learning that all future Intel "Evo"-branded laptops would lack S3 suspend, I started thinking about returning to my M1 MacBook full-time or building an OpenBSD desktop. I chose the latter, building my first desktop machine in many years.
I've created an adapter for the Cidco MailStation Z80 computer which adds the ability to use WiFi for data transfer, code uploading, and to act as a WiFi modem for my msTERM terminal emulator.
Lenovo has finally made a smaller version of its X1 Carbon, something I've been looking forward to for years.
