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Two cool things appeared in the Amiga BBS-world: * 100 download codes for COMPOID was released by Bandcamp Bandits, available at least on The Northern Place, DiGiTAL HiGHWAY, Fastline and METAL iMPACT. * A telerip of Telephone Radio Hotline with the crunchy phone audio provided in 24-bit 48khz....
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Wplace is a site where you can pixel stuff, and me and my crew have filled Gothenburg with smilies. Wplace just showcased Gothenburg on their Instagram, and it looks great. :) Btw, a word of advice: wplace can bring out the worst territorial sides in you, if you’re not careful.
Martín Villalba
As a software developer I constantly have to fight the urge to say "this is nonsense" whenever something new comes up. Or, to be more precise, as a software developer who would like to still find a job 10 years from now. I may still prefer virtual machines over clouds, but I also realize that...
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Let's say you are a band and you want to keep scalpers from buying all of your tickets and reselling them at ridiculous prices. By now we know what works: you sell tickets with assigned names on them, and check at the door that the name on the person's ID (or, alternatively, credit card) matches...
Martín Villalba
Here's a list of short thoughts that are too long for a tweet toot but too short for a post. On old computer hardware I spent the last month of my life fixing the computers of my family. That meant installing Roblox on a tablet with 1Gb of RAM, fixing antivirus on Windows 7, dealing with Alexa in...
Martín Villalba
Here's a thought that has been rattling around in my head for the last 10 years or so. My first word processor was WordStar, but I never got to use it fully. After all, what use does a 10 year old have for a word processor in 1994? I then moved on to MicroCom's PC-Flow for several reasons. First...
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The compiler as we know it is generally attributed to Grace Hopper, who also popularized the notion of machine-independent programming languages and served as technical consultant in 1959 in the project that would become the COBOL programming language. The second part is not important for today's...
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You might have heard of this new, alternative take on medicine called Homeopathy. If you haven't, the basic idea is that you take a (possibly active) substance, dilute it with alcohol or distilled water, and repeat the process until only the "vital energy" of the original substance remains....
Martín Villalba
It is tradition to start every new year with a blog post lamenting why I haven't posted more. Instead, I have decided to kickstart 2020 with a list of the changes I've made to the blog to ensure I write more, why I've made them, and what interesting tools I've found along the way. A big problem in...
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Tell me if the following sounds familiar: Oh, hi! It's been such a long time! They told me that you are a researcher now, right? What are you working on? Me? Oh, well, ... ... I am developing a new carbulator theory that can hiperstat a maximum-entrophy logarithmic equation. ... it's...
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One of the most enjoyable aspects of gaming for me is to try and pretend I'm the protagonist. That includes making choices the way I'd do them in real life. Of course, I understand that games are escapism, and I'm not blaming those that use games as an opportunity to murder pretty much anything...
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Dear Spotify, I think it's time to realize that you are not the service you once where. At first it was subtle, like that time when you changed the shade of green of your logo to the ugly one you are using now. Then there was that issue with offline mode, in which I lost a whole playlist because...