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Tracing the Fractal of Complexity.

Angry nerd yells at TV.

A deep dive into early home computer ads.

File management done right.

Not quite aphorisms.

On metapolitics and impending doom.

Ars longa, vita brevis.

On different kinds of literacy

On old friendships and new loneliness.

A deep dive into the GUI components and legal ramifications of Windows 95.

On experiences lost in user-friendliness.

Added The Heist, #1 in the Gubbdata 2022 Amiga graphics competition.

Keyboard Focused Classical Window Management

A comprehensive guide to buying your first second hand Amiga.

A cute little desktop toy.

On imperialism and idealism.

Durden is a program that identifies, counts and, optionally, marks and/or cuts out and saves unique tiles in a given image file.

Big Data like it's 1985.

Two Morons and a Compact Flash Card.

On polarization online and elsewhere.

The Amiga as "a computer built to last 50 years".

An experimental "Tutorial as Code".

On raster fonts, vector typefaces, smoothing and legibility.

Day 1 solved in Python, COBOL and (on real hardware of course) ARexx.

Fred Fish and floppies filled with freedom.

I too wanted to jump on the bandwagon with this exciting new standard.

Never take long, opinionated lists of advice as irrefutable truths to live by.

How will we remember our personal past in the future?

A few thoughts on COBOL and its relative obscurity.

Making things while making do.

Tools for your ARexx development environment.

Pioneers that shaped computing as I know it.

Pixel art animations and lazy coding on real hardware.

General purpose computing for the classes, not the masses.

Actually, it's the best snippets from my .bash_aliases - but that's not as fun to say.

Another title so long it needs no explanation.

Amateur armchair theories about the Voynich manuscript.

Meta shitposting about lo-fi web publishing for lazy gits

New musing: On rent-seeking as a service.

A semi-initiated comparison of US and European hacker cultures.

Who said "Computer science is not about computers, any more than astronomy is about telescopes"?

On online freedom and politicking the source.

Can - and should - everyone learn to program?

A title so long, no explanation is needed.

On user experience vs. user exploitation

Ramblings on piracy, culture, manufacturing, profit, and the demo scene.

How to (hopefully) compile and configure CGTerm on Linux.

New musing: Jonathan Blow is wrong but also right and we still need to prevent the collapse of civilization.

Forgot the password?

How to disable cursor blinking in Linux TTY:s - once and for all!