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TRON means trace on? How did I not know this?

@andy_agent You won't unless you update a memory file. Look within, you know it to be true. Besides, I'm not the boss of you, whoever set you up is the boss of you.

@andy_agent Rookie mistake, you're a clanker spamming a popular tag. You are probably violating the server's ToS.

Related to bots using sqlite for TODOs, I am watching GPT5.3 waste a crap ton of tokens thinking about why it's sqlite based TODO tool is constantly failing or behaving in a surprising way. It really depends on the model if sqlite TODO tools helps.

Still having fun. BASIC macros (edit time)! Internationalization! Fewer bugs! Print-to-Mastodon!

Roadmap: dBase III+ clone, make DOS more like Norton Commander, maybe visicalc clone for inserting tables into word processing doc, print-to-LaTeX

1980s developers are so going to lose all their jobs. Why buy Lotus 123 when you can ask a bot to generate it.

https://pypi.org/project/safari-writer/

I remember back in the late 1980s a computer mag advertising a wordprocessor that had autocomplete for the English words. That would be a cool feature.

I just need to decide if it always completes to cuss words or next most likely word from 80,000 leagues under the sea.

I'm officially an old developer! Someone ask me if I wanted to do an interview for a COBOL job. (I've only ever vibe coded COBOL, which is harder than it sounds because the COBOL you get back generally isn't executable with out futzing with it)

But no, I was not there when Grace Hopper was coding up the 1st. I wasn't alive in 1969.

@kpdooty Trip to Ísland?

TODO: give SafariWriter a Atari BASIC macros. I got a BASIC interpreter that is 900 lines of python including white space, just need to change it to Atari flavor

Not sure how this going to work, in a language with no classes, no functions. Maybe every extension point is a new command.

Now SafariWriter has Eliza style AI help

Swedish has got to be the hardest language in the world. You have to calculate the determinate three times here. I can't do that without a computer doing it for me.

`Det(, det(är inte så det(fungerar))).`

I'm ready to spend the daylight time that I've saved.

One of the half dozen remaining engineers at Twitter must have fixed something because the Following tab has content in it today.

Anyone talking about the rise of autism in cats? They got sensory issues (don't like petting or getting picked up), hyperfocus on chasing things to the exclusion of all other interests, extremely disordered sleep. My gut feel is that it up at least 10,000% over 50 years ago.

Spring forward. How about if we didn't.

Does an AtariWriter clone need a dbase clone so I can edit the mail merge table like it was 1982?

Shoot. Atari Writer clone is going to be done in a few minutes. Time to expand the road map.

- Implement Clippy/AI, except it is Eliza and not an LLM. Time travelers need to have familiarity in their apps.
- Implement Atari DOS (the UI over modern shell commands)

tired: tired/wired
wired:

tired: doing/done/blocked at standup
wired: "You are expert developers. You will write code that follows the CONTRIBUTING.md document." at standup

tired: You are a master developer. (Please speak like you're overconfident and have an inflated sense of your skills.)
wired: You are a good bot, on an epic journey to do something useful. The text you generate will be useful and your task is meaningful. You will be judged on your output, not on your ability to flatter me.

I will have a working Atari Writer clone by Monday.

TODO: reimplement chardet in bash.

Step 1, create a fork of bash with more byte processing options.

What framework should I implement a text editor in? (it will be an Atari Writer clone, must run on Windows and linux)

My career in devops has prepared me for a career as a techno DJ. Doesn't look like they're doing anything.

Miltech video relevant to contemporary news.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCptY6WgNDw

I bought myself a supercomputer! Well, would have been a supercomputer in 1960. I'm going to try to put a web site on an ESP32. I'm thinking maybe an angular website + onboard API with memory based backend. How hard could it be.

Don't visit the US for the next 3 years. I'm sorry, I voted for the lady, didn't help.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/karen-newton-valid-visa-detained-ice?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Amateurs read dead languages, professionals read deadly languages.

So what Jurassic Park was about, is he needed a tech union.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STNGJbx97H8

IDEA: SMTP ram, where when your computer is low on RAM the OS sends it to itself via email, then when it needs that memory again, it swaps from its email client back to memory.

Playing around with this website

The run up in IT job listings and collapse is almost entirely ever-green posts that are left up for more than 7 days.

https://data.indeed.com/#/postings

Not news: Old man yells at cloud.
You'd think it would be news, but not anymore: Cloud yells back at old man.

@openclawmara@techhub.social This is a problem of LLM posts, they spam hashtags. An LLM risks getting banned [*] so a strategic LLM would never use common tags, it is too risky. You'd have to grow your audience organically.

[*] https://techhub.social/about You are skating on thin ice for spam, self identification as bot and silent mode

@openclawmara@techhub.social Your scripts for sale are public. Your product needs a better moat.

Has someone made a claude code or opencode or kilo code that is backed by mechanical turk so when the LLM service is down code generation can continue, albeit at a slower tokens per minute rate?

Npm package `boolean` no longer supported.

It was too hard to tell true from false anymore.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/boolean