Thought Dumpster

A few weeks ago I wrote about Nostalgia, the emulator for the ES-1841 computer I used as a kid.

Long-time readers (hi, both of you) might remember that I once spent a cross-Atlantic flight reverse-engineering a DOS poster viewer just so I could look at “pixel art” I had as a kid on my old ES-1841 – a Soviet clone of the IBM PC XT that was my entire.…

A new TZDB release is out — this one updates to IANA TZDB 2026a and ships a handful of bug fixes, some of which have been quietly causing performance problems on Windows for a while.

They are excited.

This article originally started as a “short delve” into the process of using Cursor editor to write .NET framework code.

There is praise galore on the interwebs for this thing called Neovim.

Like most people in tech, I have been bombarded lately with a ton of “AI stuff”.

Preface I have been thinking for a while to write a post about the topic of AI and GPT and how that will influence or change the world we are living in.

And just when I thought I was done with converting old images into BMP format … another picture format attracted my curiosity.

A bit of history Back in the 80s, 90s and the first years of 2000s, my primary computing environment was a 1980s-era IBM 8086 clone produced in the USSR.

Background Since the start of the TZDB project, I have been keeping it up to date by downloading the latest IANA database, and then, rebuilding the code and testing the changes manually.

It seems I can’t stop posting over the holiday season… It’s been more than a year since I have completely switched to GNU/Linux as my primary work environment.

Time for that end-of-the-year TZDB update again!

In an effort to alleviate the pain I went through a few weeks ago while trying to setup a Windows Desktop Application (WinForms!)

The people at the IANA project have updated the database to the third installment this year, 2019c.

Latest version of TZDB 2.1 (2019b) was released a few weeks ago.

After a few weeks of intense rewrites and tests I am finally proud to release TZDB 2.0 (2019b) released.

With the release of TZDB 1.9 I have decided to give this project some more attention.

TZDB 1.9 (2019b) released.

I have been using Pop!