I'm pleased to announce that #qbsh has a new release! Version 1.1.0 is out with significant improvements in the shell pipe handling for interactive CLI programs like vim.
Does anyone remember the Gorillas game that came with #QBasic?
I was just putting together the show notes for next week's @geekingout_pod with guest @hazelweakly. The convo included a sidebar into QBasic and the Gorillas game. And then...I found an online version of that game!
Wrote a tool in #QBasic (#QB64) to modify INI files and I thought it’d be quick enough even in BASIC but it’s incredibly slow, taking seconds to modify a file. I suspect this is because the process of reading a line from the input file and writing it to the output file is causing the disk-cache to ping-pong between files so I’ll have to do it in-memory
From an URL in a game's README I ended up at sites that to this day host collections of game libraries (that are written in Assembly for speed) and games that look way too advanced for QBasic. And there's still life on some forums, too. Amazing.
It seems like it is a rewrite/alternative server to the mastodon server. Looks to be written in Rust. It is a fork of #misskey, which seems to be written in typsescript
But since it uses ActvityPub, it's interoperable with Mastodon
Seems like you can't migrate your Mastodon account over.
So basically an alternative microblogging interface to the fediverse with different server software.
OC Here is some code to generate UUIDs/GUIDs in QuickBasic
I couldn't sleep. Also I don't know how to deal with formatting this because of the apostrophes and I don't care that much...