hotkey

@hotkey@toot.lgbt

Software developer • lazy gamer • cat and capybara enthusiast • cracking egg 🏳️‍⚧️
I miss 80s computers.

In my free time, I tinker with electronics and I work on my emulator and other software projects.

I toot in French and English / Je pouette en français et en anglais.

#retrocomputing #emulation
#cats #capybara
#electronics #arduino
#ActuallyAutistic | #Autisme #TSA
#Quebec #Canada :meow_canada:

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hotkey, to random

Have you ever put a timer to remind you to do a thing and when it goes off you get up and go do the thing but you don't actually do the thing, you do another thing, and then go back to what you were doing, without having done the thing you put the timer for and got up to do?

Yeah.

hotkey, (edited ) to random

They really should do something about that crazy toddler.

miah, to random
@miah@hachyderm.io avatar

Today I repaired 4 hanger joists on our deck. They were basically disintegrated by rust. This is why you need rain gutters! It was easy to install new hangers, removing the rusty hangers was difficult though. My arms are noodles.

A wood joist under a deck. The joist hanger is new, held in with ceramic coated screws and some nails.

hotkey,

@miah You got rid of all the load-bearing rust!!

hotkey, to random

I managed to make what is arguably the worst pea soup in human history.

So that instant pot recipe said that you don't need to soak the peas before cooking. So I didn't. After half an hour of pressure cooking, the peas were still rocks.

So I added 20 minutes.
And another 20 minutes.
And maybe another? I don't recall.

So the peas did get softer. Eventually.

But now the vegetables and everything tastes like burned mush and sadness and horror.

Kids, soak your peas.

hotkey, to random

My Mac isn't done but I think I need a change of scenery, maybe go back to 8 bit computers.

Don't really have a "new" CPU to implement though (I've done most of the "big" 8 bit ones). So... erm... MSX? Tandy CoCo? Something weird and/or obscure?

I dunno... I'm open to suggestions.

What I have done, at various levels of "done":

8088: XT, Tandy 1000, PCjr
80286: PC/AT
6502: PET, VIC-20
Z80: Sinclair Spectrum, ColecoVision, Amstrad CPC
6809: Thomson MO5/TO7
68000: Macintosh 128k

hotkey,

@grum999 Thanks yeah I had started working on the Sega Master System but got stuck a bit on the graphics chip.

The thing with consoles is that often they have different rom mappers for different games cartridges and you have to handle all of that. Also you need to be more accurate which I'm usually... not much 😆

I guess I could do gameboy/NES/etc but I mean everybody does that :meow_dunno:

For CPUs there's the 6800 but meh, and it wasn't used much other than in very early computers

LucyCoella, to random

Sentences that cause fear to :

  • Cannot push, origin is 35 commits ahead
  • Ünîçødë În FìlèñaMêß.lol
  • "No binaries, just build it from source"
  • You must accept the EULA
  • Misco() is deprecated, use Mis.Co() instead
  • type: any
  • UTF16 surrogate bytes
  • XML instead of JSON
  • int intAddsTheTypeOnTheVariableName=0;
  • "Our backend (still) runs on PHP"
  • "You need Python2.7 to run this"
  • 30 minute daily stand-ups
  • "The requirements have changed"
  • Log in with a Microsoft Account
hotkey,

@LucyCoella

  • 30 minute daily stand-ups

yep, and:

  • three hour sprint retrospectives where we don't even cover half the points because "we have to let everyone speak their minds"...

Congratulations, we've accomplished nothing and wasted 3 hours!

Now let's repeat this every two weeks!

rooster, to trans
@rooster@chaosfem.tw avatar

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    hotkey,

    @keira_incognita Maybe because it's the only freaking shoes that comes in trans femme sizes? :meow_derpy:

    @Tweetfiction @rooster

    hotkey, to random

    Don't you love it when an update completely borks a game?

    hotkey,

    I always laughed at the gamer kid trope who screams "literally unplayable!" but yeah this game has published an update that makes is literally unplayable. (e.g. it gets in a state where you're stuck every 10 minutes or so and have to reload) (and it's not just me, the forum is filled with people in the same situation)

    QA is for chumps apparently.

    hotkey, to random

    Clicking a link in iOS and having it open the proper app challenge (impossible)

    Yuki, to random
    @Yuki@im-in.space avatar

    Fun fact: the national sport of Québec isn't hockey, but actually quoting François Pérusse

    hotkey,

    @Yuki iiiish

    hotkey, to random

    I guess my "reward" for getting over covid will be having to catch up with 2 weeks of not cleaning up the apartment, doing the laundry, dishes...

    The perks of living alone 😒

    miah, to random
    @miah@hachyderm.io avatar

    All your rebase are belong to us!

    hotkey,

    @miah @jerry followed by "git rebase --abort" (and sadness)

    hotkey, to random French

    Cher Larousse,

    tu peux te mettre ton dictionnaire où je pense.

    Yuki, to random
    @Yuki@im-in.space avatar

    oh yeah, I should apply to work in an ISP so I could get their highest-grade, most expensive entreprise gigabit fibre internet connection for like 80% off

    hotkey,

    @Yuki Pendant ce temps je paye beaucoup trop cher pour 30 avec Vidéotron parce que je refuse d'"upgrader" a Helix mais que je suis trop chieux pour changer.

    hotkey, to random

    That's 100% a real person. I know because some real people really speak like that.

    I'm all about organizing competitive quotes!

    hotkey, (edited ) to random

    The only acceptable dress code.

    (I'm torn, on the one hand it's cute, but ewww javascript)

    (unknown source, sent by a friend)

    (edit: found source, and yeah it's a skirt lol https://twitter.com/jessie__wu/status/887440669102551041 )

    hotkey,

    @aburka Stop ruining the joke!

    hotkey,

    @moon Ooh, C++ too!

    saramg, to random
    @saramg@fosstodon.org avatar

    People: It's okay to disagree, but always remember to be respectful.

    Me during debate:

    hotkey,

    @saramg @Aut oh I'm wayyy past the "Works," part. Now I'm 97% sad noises!

    hotkey, to retrocomputing

    Laptops peaked in 1982.

    The Epson HX-20, arguably the first "true" laptop, had an integrated printer and micro cassette drive

    16-32 KB of RAM and two CPUs running at 614 kHz!

    Oh and ~50h battery life running BASIC!

    I want one (but they're pretty rare and expensive so... yeah... that probably won't happen)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epson_HX-20

    hotkey,

    @kryptskiddy I have a TRS-80 Model 100 (posted about it on my old account: https://mstdn.ca/@hotkey/109954813835295848 ).

    It has a lot of siblings with similar specs. They're a bit more powerful but not as cool as this Epson (I mean, a printer and a micro cassette!)

    hotkey,

    @swelljoe Yeah that thing was underpowered even for its time (maybe to save power?), most 8 bit computers of this era ran at 1-2 MHz

    hotkey,

    @pvaneynd I see it's made by Clive Sinclair so there are indeed good reasons to worry about the keyboard 😅

    StacieBee, to random
    @StacieBee@mastodon.social avatar

    I love the ridiculousness of this 😆

    hotkey,

    @StacieBee I love Chris (Simpsons artist)! (https://www.instagram.com/chrissimpsonsartist)

    I've got his book "The story of life" and it's silly and funny and stupid and I loved it.

    And the last page managed to make me cry so that's something.

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