Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

Hackaday, "Kathleen Booth: Assembling Early Computers While Inventing Assembly": https://hackaday.com/2018/08/21/kathleen-booth-assembling-early-computers-while-inventing-assembly/

An article about her impact on early programming, computing, & coding from four years ago.

The Register, "RIP: Kathleen Booth, the inventor of assembly language": https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/29/kathleen_booth_obit/

Not just any branch or dialect of assembly. Assembly language itself.

I missed it, and I forgot to hit Toot. The next interesting number, one triple triple seven, is at Sun May 3 03:09:37 UTC 2026.

If Qbasic came from QuickBasic, then that means Qbert implies the existence of QuickBert.

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There is such a thing as QuickBERT: a test tool. Can Qbert run on it?

At Tue Oct 25 02:57:46 UTC 2022 (about three hours from this post), the elapsed time will be 1,666,666,666 seconds since the #Unix Epoch.

/bin/sh & #bash one-liner:

printf "\033[2J"; while true; do sleep 0.5; printf "\033[2H%s " "Current time:"; date; printf "\n%s " "Seconds since the Unix Epoch:"; sec=$(date +%s); printf "%s\n" "$sec" | sed "s/^\(.\)\(...\)\(...\)\(...\)/\1,\2,\3,\4/"; if [ "$sec" -ge 1666666666 ]; then printf "\n%s\n" 'Happy one triple triple six seconds!'; fi; done

`xmore` needs a text file to show, while `xless` can read stdin in pipelines.

However, xmore has only one button ("Quit") while xless has lots of wide buttons in a short, potentially wasteful column.

TimeAndDate, "Gregorian Calendar Reform: Why Are Some Dates Missing?": https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/julian-gregorian-switch.html

Output of `tmpfile=$(mktemp); if touch $tmpfile; then cal -y 1752 > $tmpfile; xmore $tmpfile; rm $tmpfile; fi`

Something looks a bit, shall we say, unique?

Catgirls & doggirls using mainframes & minicomputers. This right here is perfectly my dream aesthetic. https://68.media.tumblr.com/5d7183af03a076

The Friendly Edlin Page is gone, but the Wayback Machine captured it: https://web.archive.org/web/20120711213635/https://iskra.tripod.com/edlin/index.htm

Let's learn traffic lights! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbTj2-0tIXo

"Ariel, what made you think TV commercials were lies?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m15geAyLtVI

lftkryo via YouTube, "The Commodordion": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBCYvoC4muc [11:26]

linusakesson dot net, "The Commodordion": https://linusakesson.net/commodordion/index.php

An accordion made from 2 #Commodore64 breadbins, a stack of bad floppies, tape, & extra bits hidden behind one of the still-working 64s.

It's nice to see Microsoft finally giving File Explorer features other GUI file managers have had for 15 years. It's also nice to see Microsoft restoring Windows features they should never have removed in the first place.

The Verge, "Windows 11's new tabbed File Explorer and taskbar improvements are available today": https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/18/23411108/microsoft-windows-11-file-explorer-tabs-taskbar-changes-suggested-actions