The ultimate in emulation, on the Coco3
Sock Master’s Donkey Kong Emulator for CoCo 3. There’s nothing like coding on a chicklet keyboard with 1.79Mhz of raw power.
Sock Master’s Donkey Kong Emulator for CoCo 3. There’s nothing like coding on a chicklet keyboard with 1.79Mhz of raw power.
A description of what happens in quirks mode in most modern browsers.
Regex is latin for “saw off thine limbs” Delvan (via bash.org)
Donkeys kill more people than plane crashes.
Useless facts
I haven’t seen anyone else complain about slow transfers from adobe.com, but when I download flash-player from any of my Linux systems it’s as slow as playing Doom 2 on a old 6505. I’ve tested it on a number of systems now, on different networks, and a few times over the past few months. I get the same result: 35 B/s. Yes, that’s bytes. Is Adobe filtering connections from Linux systems, or are they just incompetent?
Update - It sped up after 4 hours, hitting a whopping 10Kb/s. Wow.
My favorite new feature in Thunderbird 2.0 isn’t the tagging or improved list view, it’s the right-click “move-to-folder-again” feature. It’s something I do a few dozen times a day, to tend my inbox in GTD style. Sweet.
Marvin Minsky’s (MIT AI prof) famous AI paper about Why people think computers can’t.
An interesting thread on the Perl6 internals list: Is Parrot 1.0 too late?. Talks about how Parrot is still relevant and why.
Smashing magazine asks 35 designers 5 questions about web page layout and design.
GBA Programming with DevKit Advance talks about using GCC to build games for the GameBoy Advance.