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Programming, retrocomputing
Joined Aug 2018
Slowly getting familiar with GTK for a port of my nonogram game (https://codeberg.org/sjmulder/nono).
It doesn't look like much but this has the basic app structure with GtkApplication and GtkApplicationWindow subclasses, a Builder UI definition, and a Puzzle widget desperately in need of a paint() implementation.
Game idea: a chaotic farming sim where you manage spherical, frictionless cows in a vacuum, keeping them fed, aired, entertained, and moored
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📣 More Dutch companies are making their Android apps inaccessible on alternative mobile devices, by using the strictest Google Play Integrity API settings. 📣
After Funda and Rabobank, now a public collective for emergency controlrooms has made their app inactive on open source OS's. Caught by @rikviergever from @murena .
We can't keep being dependent on two US big tech companies. If we want more digital sovereignty, we'll need to invest in mobile alternatives.
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Yes, we can count to 11!
> The real Fallout is the layoffs we made along the way.
ouch
(https://bsky.app/profile/aidanmoher.com/post/3mqtwt3jfw227)
"Poems, an .ISO puzzle"
I've crafted an .ISO file with 16 hidden poems for you to discover by careful reading of its ISO file structure and some deduction. A fun challenge for the CTF-minded and curious tech enthusiast alike.
I'd be delighted if anyone tried it ☺️
Introducing the shorthand arrow assignment operator for C:
/* old */
cur = cur->next;
/* new */
cur=->next; /* pre-assign */
cur->=next; /* post-assign */
Lukewarm take: every shell and shell-adjacent language should support bmake variable modifiers
My new laptop has a CoPilot key. Should map it to man(1) 😄
And so we come to the end of the #OldComputerChallenge. The game is done!
Features:
- Fully playable
- Loads puzzles in the .non format (find some in nonogram-db by Michael Terry
- Support any Windows version since Windows 95 and NT 3.1, and Wine
- ...but also modern Windows features like high-DPI screens
- Comes as a .exe download as well as a floppy disk image with the game, source code and several example puzzles
- Hidden "developer tools". Find and try them!
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I Did Not Kill Stanley Lieber: How to draw (with 9front)
The penultimate paper on paint(1) and the 9front art machine.
https://triapul.cz/automa/i_did_not_kill_stanley_lieber
#unix_surrealism #plan9 #9front #art #guide #computers #oldcomputerchallenge
Windows NT 3.x is such an interesting thing. It looks like Windows 3.1 but feels decidedly unlike it. Proper native 32 bit, no DOS booting before it, support for long filenames, real users accounts, etc.
And it runs my little game without modification!
It's all fun and games until your DLL gets hit with export restrictions
Gaming YouTube is no longer my happy place. That went "Grim Vibes Gaming", "Angry Console Gamer" and "a somewhat muted welcome" real quick.
I suppose a calming aspect about #RetroComputing and #RetroGaming is that all their history has happened already, and now it just is what it is, frozen, the good things, the bad, and the could've-beens.
c o d e p a g e f u n c t i o n c o m p l e t e
Nono now runs at 4K/120Hz on select hardware! Without janky scrolling, this time.
Back to the XP laptop today, implementing improved scrolling (with mouse wheel support) and some refactoring and fixes.
On Debian, Firefox is unusably slow but Dillo works well enough on my simple site so I'm using that now. Doesn't get past the #Codeberg proof-of-work captcha though.
Binaries here, if you want to try: https://codeberg.org/sjmulder/nono/releases
Programming, retrocomputing
Joined Aug 2018
