I've gone through the same thing over the past few years. It's interesting to so directly see/feel the migration of skills between different "systems" (in the System 1/System 2 sense).

Got experimenting with Matplotlib and GeoPandas. So here's countries colored by the colors hiding in their names:

Create an embedding from Ruby using a good small model, quickly on CPU only. Create an embedding from Ruby using a good small model, quickly on CPU only. - embedding.rb

Fine, here's a gist :-) gist.github.com/peterc/bb77a...

Rubyists: want to generate embeddings of text with a 25MB model that punches far above its weight and runs on CPU wherever you want? `gem install informers` and then this is it.

And it seems I can't type today. But yeah 😅

Moyle would make sense. The first time I heard this song was when he played in on Radio X several times last year.

Yeah it's fab and that is quite the freebie you got there 😄 I do believe the new 4K is an entire re-master of the audio though which might sway me..

Any variant of "touch grass" or "wrong answers only"

Are you equipped with the right hardware to take out non-compliant vehicles?

A huge collection of classic text mode fonts in modern formats (TTF, WOFF): int10h.org/oldschool-pc... .. think EGA, VGA, Tandy, Acorn, all the 80s computers, etc.

I also remember when Tescos sold bread for 9p: news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2727...

Looking through an SD card of photos from 2006. The same product now is 5x more expensive than then 😂

Ooh, nice layout! Good to see you writing :)

We're expanding: cobolweekly.com

As a Rubyist, Windows would have been impossible for many years. Ruby notoriously hates Windows and doesn't consider it a first-class platform, despite people's valiant efforts to make it work!

No, macOS and Linux. I was 100% Windows till about 2004 then never again (for day to day, anyway - I have access for ditzing with it if need be!)

GitHub - ZaneDubya/Small-C: Small-C Compiler, Assembler, Linker, and Library for 16-bit MS-DOS. Includes "YLink", an object file linker for MS-DOS executables. Small-C Compiler, Assembler, Linker, and Library for 16-bit MS-DOS. Includes "YLink", an object file linker for MS-DOS executables. - ZaneDubya/Small-C

Here it is, BTW. The dude is a full time attorney and he works on a C compiler for 16 bit MS-DOS in his spare time. Love it! github.com/ZaneDubya/Sm...

I'm looking through a SIMTEL CD from 1992. I see a (rare for then) open source C compiler called Small-C. I Google to see if anyone has ported it to modern systems. A dude made his latest commit to one an HOUR ago. What are the odds.

Ah you had the benefit of not running an OS written by Microsoft then!

😂 Yes, I'm guessing you too enjoyed the fun of squeezing out the last few KB in DOS to try and get something to run!

Discovered the source code for QBasic. First step in the build notes:

"1. Make sure you've got a lot of memory (around 570 K)"

Had a funny "Scunthorpe problem" on a social site I run today. A legit looking post kept getting rejected. Turns out the word "specialist" contains "𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒔"...

I need to do a writeup of how to efficiently do ancient Windows app ports as I picked up some interesting techniques along the way. But modern tools make it at least possible to do in a non-prohibitive amount of time!

Thanks! Works on mobile now as well (though rather cramped on a phone..)

Yep, good sleep! Except for the night when the clocks moved forward as I forgot and woke up early in the "old" time 😅

And of course it has this. You can press W to trigger it whenever you like.

My Borland Resource Workshop flashback earlier might make more sense now (spent a day looking at Windows EXE internals, rc files, etc.)

Windows 3.1 Solitaire for the Web A JavaScript port of Windows 3.1 Solitaire, playable in your browser. Using original game logic and Windows 3.1 font and colors.

enjoy peterc.org/solitaire/

Yeah, it came with Borland C++ 4.5 I *think*. I noticed someone still maintains a modern variant of it! www.angusj.com/resourcehack...

Just had a heck of a 30 year flash back: Borland Resource Workshop!

It let you open EXEs/DLLs and edit their resources, text, and sometimes even the form layouts. I used to customize Windows 3.1 apps with it for fun.

Any fellow oldies remember it?