Notes

Apropos of nothing, here's the story from last year of how the Wi-Fi in @bluescsi.com came to be:

https://jcs.org/2023/08/23/scsiwifi

Amon Tobin @ Metro, May 5, 2007

It's not too late

please help

It was called The Net, with that girl from the bus...

what is this magic

https://bandysc.github.io/AvaloniaVisualBasic6/

Years of remembering CSS's bounds shorthand order "t r b l" is now regularly clashing in my head with trying to remember QuickDraw's Rect bounds order which is "l t r b"

I always used "trouble" as a mnemonic to remember CSS and I'm now trying to use "litterbug" for QuickDraw

My son playing The Manhole

#VintageMacintosh

I had never heard of The Manhole before, but it was a children's game made in HyperTalk by the brothers that would later make Myst, released in 1988

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kX5E7yOHJg

#VintageMacintosh

Norton UnErase saving my ass this afternoon
#macintosh

Loop unrolling is slow now?

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Faster-CRC32X-x86

Imagine publishing this on your company's website and thinking it makes you look like the good guy:

https://www.malibal.com/features/dont-support-the-coreboot-project/

"Due to this experience with ..., we banned the entire country of Germany for life."

"Due to this experience with ..., we banned the entire country of Poland for life."

"Due to this experience with ..., we banned the entire state of Texas for life."

Weird, updating Firefox from 130.0.1 to 131.0 seemed to change how layout.css.devPixelsPerPx is interpreted. I had to change it from 1.5 to 1.25 to get the same scaling as before.

Apparently 6-8 weeks meant 2 days? 🤷‍♂️