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amoroso

@amoroso@fosstodon.org

Astronomy, space, Android, retrocomputing, Lisp, coding.

No stock photos, SEO, marketing, clickbait, ads, or calls to action. I Just enjoy sharing my geeky interests.

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marsroverdriver, to random
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"Shifts course" is such a fun way to say "flails randomly." https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/02/tech/twitter-public-institutions-automated-tweets/index.html

amoroso,
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@marsroverdriver How gracious.

chrismessina, to random
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Welcome to subscribers-only Twitter with 100% less visible hate speech.

#DeadTwitter

amoroso,
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@chrismessina OMISSIS

chrismessina, to random
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Continuing to define the epitome of a narcissistic, gaslighting, abusive developer relationship.

https://twitter.com/twitterdev/status/1653492584176656384

#DeadTwitter

amoroso,
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@chrismessina How gracious.

amoroso, to random
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Implementing the remaining commands completed the Stringscope features I iniatally planned, I can't believe it's mostly done. I posted some notes on the latest work on Stringscope, along with a screencast that walks through its features and commands:

https://journal.paoloamoroso.com/wrapping-up-the-work-on-stringscopes-commands

Stringscope is a string listing tool I'm developing with Medley Interlisp.

#interlisp #lisp

amoroso,
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@ksaj There are lots of possibilities. I got the idea of Stringscope as a learning tool for exploring the Medley Interlisp environment: simple enough to implement, powerful enough to do something useful.

amoroso,
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@ksaj Yes, that's the Medley Interlisp I'm using. And it's indeed speedy on contemporary hardware, in the cloud it runs much faster than on my Linux container (I use chromeOS).

amoroso, (edited )
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@ksaj Concerning QNX menus, the Interlisp GUI drew in turn on the work at PARC on the Alto and Smalltalk.

Mastodon, to random
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You asked for it, and it’s coming. Quote posts, search, and groups are on their way. In the meantime, check out the new onboarding experience launching today. https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/05/a-new-onboarding-experience-on-mastodon/

amoroso,
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@Mastodon Great new features, thanks. What do you mean by groups? Something like discussion groups or communities?

amoroso,
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@Klaus Thanks for the reference.

amoroso, to random
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I've always been skeptical of distraction-free writing tools.

If I could write only with those tools, I'd be better off addressing the deeper focus and attention issues the distracted writing was a symptom of. And, by the way, "distraction" can be a powerful discovery tool.

In this post Tyler Cipriani told his failed experiment with a distraction-free device, which is interesting as it's a rare dissenting opinion on the value of this product category:

https://tylercipriani.com/blog/2023/04/29/distraction-free-writing/

#writing

amoroso,
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@ChronRevisited Didn't the Model 100's display have a wider surface and display more text?

amoroso,
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@ArneBab I actually embrace distraction.

When distraction brings enough new stuff and ideas, such a mental mass grows so large it breaks the walls of procrastination and gives the energy energy and excitement for writing. At that point I just must write.

amoroso,
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@ChronRevisited 16 lines are relatively roomy, more or less as much text as can fit on a smartphone screen.

amoroso,
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@ArneBab Thanks, sure.

amoroso,
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@felix You're spot on.

amoroso,
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@ArneBab As a Lisper I love being quoted 😀

thelastpsion, to random
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Another bit of rescued code!

Pyramid is a solitaire card game. Match two cards that add up to 13 to clear "the tableau."

Designed for the original #Psion Series 3, but will run on the 3a/c/mx and Siena (and the Workabout, if you really want).

By J Cade Roux, released under GPLv2.

Here it is running in #MAME.

https://github.com/PocketNerdIO/pyramid

#RetroComputing #16bit

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amoroso, (edited )
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@thelastpsion Just a quick hello from a lurker.

I don't have much to comment as the only Psion products I ever owned were software for the Spectrum and the Sinclair QL. But I enjoy following your adventures in discovering, learning, and preserving Psion systems.

amoroso,
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@benc @thelastpsion For the Spectrum I used some programg of the "VU" series such as VU-3D. The QL shipped with 4 really nice Psion productivity programs: a word processor, a spreadsheet, presentation graphics, and a database.

amoroso,
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@thelastpsion @benc I made the association between the seemingly separate Psions relatively late too.

In the early 1990s a friend of mine co-founded an Italian startup that developed software for the Organizer II. It was very specialized software for interfacing with equipment such as theodolites.

ChronRevisited, to random

Chronicles Revisited Podcast 6 — Osborne's Last Stand

Adam Osborne made a name for himself in the 1970s as one of the first successful authors and publishers of computer books. After selling his publishing company to McGraw-Hill, Osborne launched a computer hardware manufacturer, which produced the famous Osborne-1 portable microcomputer. When that business collapsed in 1983, Osborne shifted to software with his third and final venture, Paperback Software International. Unfortunately, Osborne’s decision to copy a competitor’s menu design for his own program proved his undoing after a lengthy lawsuit that proved a critical moment in the evolving legal battle over software copyrights.

https://www.smoliva.blog/post/chronicles-revisited-podcast-006/

#RetroComputing #Copyright

amoroso,
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@ChronRevisited It's sad that litigation in the computer industry is as old as the early technological accomplishments.

amoroso,
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@ChronRevisited Not sure those litigation stories would be as interesting as those about the tech 😀 By the way, copyright and licensing issues are now the major roadblocks to the software and tech preservation work retrocomputing enthusiasts try to do.

amoroso,
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@ChronRevisited Looking forward to the train wrecks 😀

johnblood, to random

Interesting#ad from #IBM #Japan https://computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/ibm-jx #computerads

amoroso,
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@johnblood 👆 I had never heard of this interesting 1984 Japanese variant of the IBM PC.

#retrocomputing

amoroso,
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@johnblood The design looked pretty slick.

8bitTim, to random

Found a little light reading amongst my donated Tandy gear.

#Z80 #8bit #book #vintagemicro

amoroso,
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@8bitTim Nice find.

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