Someone created a fully funcional 16-Bit 3Hz CPU in Excel!!! with 128KB of RAM 16 color display, and a custom assembly language to run some programs in it. It’s open source too
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rg7xvTJ8SU
Code: https://github.com/InkboxSoftware/excelCPU
I just realised it's been over a year since I last touched a relational database in a professional setting. Guess that makes me a systems programmer now.
We're finally ready to announce ticket sale dates for EMF 2024!
* Saturday 3rd February at 14:00 GMT (UTC+0)
* Sunday 11th February at 11:00 GMT
* Tuesday 20th February at 21:00 GMT
Tickets will be on sale at https://www.emfcamp.org/tickets - prices are available there now.
More info: https://blog.emfcamp.org/2024/01/21/emf-2024-ticket-sales/
Things that annoy me, #8363: YouTubers opening with “only n% of people who watch my videos are subscribed”.
I’ve only known of your existence for the last 25 seconds, stop asking me to put out before you’ve even bought me a drink.
Hello, is this the International Bureau of Weights and Measures? I’d like to lodge a complaint, I think there must be a problem with the atomic clocks, my watch is telling me it’s midnight but that can’t possibly be right because I just sat down half an hour ago.
This is an article that took a lot of strength to write and I might take it down again. But I felt like it is an article that is very necessary right now. https://bastianallgeier.com/notes/grandpa
Why is it all text editor colour schemes mute the colour of comments? They're often the most important thing in a given source file, don't make them so damn easy to skim over.
Me, a teenager in the late 90s: “Hackers is unrealistic, you can’t just hack into a sprinkler system and set it off by phone”
Me, today, sitting at my desk: “I’m logged into the building management system, you should find the Secret Room on the upper ground floor”
Got tired of having this conversation over and over again so I just spent way too long making this:
Not to alarm you about modern software but "emulate a complete 486/120 system and play an MP3 in it" turns out to be one of the more CPU and memory efficient ways to listen to music on my laptop.
Dear God, please stop asking me to rate things. There is no 5 star scale for a parcel delivery, there's just "I received the parcel intact" and "I did not receive the parcel intact".
Just had an offer accepted on the flat I’m currently renting, leaving me equal portions of excitement and trepidation.
After several years of “oh, I should get round to sorting that” in the past five days I’ve been officially told I have ADHD and unexpectedly started buying a flat after my landlord put it on the market. Tune in next week as I get remarried and adopt a dog in my speed run of being an adult with their shit together.
so, if you had an .af domain, does that mean you just got tali-banned?
🧛everyone loves .af, the fun domain name that everyone is positive af about! haha [five seconds later] we regret to inform you the domain is being used to fund the taliban
I am one (1) day into trying to buy a flat and already I’m wondering whether it would be better to just resign myself to renting for the rest of my life.
I have entered the world of trying to purchase property, which is apparently being run via some sort of time portal from the 1990s where nobody is able to use email.
It has been A Day. Recovered from it by spending three hours straight watching For All Mankind and I’m deeply thankful for being able to lose myself in some excellent people doing stuff in space TV.
Once again thinking about the film version of Children of Men and how scarily prescient it was, while hoping one day we’ll get past the current madness so I can once again watch it as a great film rather than a documentary of the next ten years.
Today in internet companies use data on everything I do to fail in targeting: YouTube recommended a video to me in which the host of a channel I’ve never watched before explains why he’s not going to be doing any more videos.
