Pseudo Nym @pseudonym@mastodon.online

@RL_Dane grab joy where you can, even in just moments. Kind words, a silly meme, it's all good.

I've found a lot more human empathy here.

@Ventronik hah. When I started following you, I looked back over old toots to get a sense of the content you posted.

@Ventronik so all uuebsites uuould look like uuuuuuu.example.com ?

@maddiefuzz check out any archives of "Nibble" magazine from the 80s. They had program examples and write ups of all sorts of stuff. Oh look, the Internet archive has a trove of info.

https://web.archive.org/web/20201122011636/http://www.nibblemagazine.com/

@maddiefuzz Awesome! Surprised I recalled that correctly. As I remember, that was the best book. I think there may have been something called the "gazetter" (???) That was just page after page of all the assembly memory locations.

Thrilled that an other generation gets to play with this stuff. I learned to program on the Apple][e.

Had a whole disk of programs and games I wrote. Thanks for the nostalgia.

@maddiefuzz OMG, an other human familiar with RWTS on 6502. I wrote an article for "Nibble" magazine (refused for being 'too technical') for the Apple ][e about how to change the track, to hide the "catalog" information. It's a single memory location you can "peek" and "poke" from Applesoft basic, or read directly in assembly.

@maddiefuzz was that image from "Beneath Apple DOS"? I recognize it, but can't place it for sure. I know I had the book it came from.

] Call -151
* 3D0G
]

Still burned into my memory after... four decades or so.

@BathysphereHat "I'll never not be by your side."

"Turning Red" was so good.

@BathysphereHat wild guess here, brain is always simulating possible "what if" futures for threat detection, trying to be ready and plan. The cliff is an obvious, big, threat. So just like planning for "what do I do if a tiger jumps out of that bush?" Brain is planning for "what if I fell/jumped/were thrown in by a sudden gust of gravity?"

Dishwasher broken (it was old enough to buy beer in the US, so not surprising) so now I have to wash dishes by hand, like some caveman, with running clean water, dish soap, and dish towels. Barbaric, I say.

@pixouls tracking down and fixing an obscure bug in code older than I was, in /bin/sh. AT&T SVR4 Unix. My first software dev job, back in the 90s.

@warriorstar I'd add that we wield powers that were literally the sole province of gods, in many mythos. The ability to communicate with nearly anyone in the world, or see images of things happening far away.

The list goes on and on. But like you, I try to remember that in the history of the world, I and my family enjoy luxury beyond kings and emperors, with indoor plumbing, running water, refrigeration, and safe food .

Humbling.