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gave up on pybasic on top of circuitpython, have now been porting stefan's tinybasic 2 to the gizmo

some text printing and scrolling is still bad but this is slowly becoming a much more functional basic machine

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BASIC is a really nice language to just Get Something Done On The Computer Easy

i think more people should try BASIC dialects

Today I was reminded that old online chats offered context awareness for the people online: you knew you won't be a bother to a friend who has a smiley flower as a status; and you knew you might not be getting a quick reply from someone who's Away.

Today I don't even know if my friends are online or not. The messenger apps make the assumption that everyone is online, and if not, they will receive a push notification, and will reply to you as soon as possible. But this assumption is barely true. I bet it makes lives harder, especially for ND people

"agreeing with" and "not questioning" are two distinct things

steam summer sale is a funny little pocket universe where deus ex game of the year edition is roughly half the cost of lumines remastered

like i have more luck using openscad to even get a cube the size and position i want let alone more complex shapes

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it's sincerely impressive that freecad is so incredibly impossible to use that i'm considering just using blender instead to design a 3d printable shell

Did you know that new #Emoji can be proposed by anyone, simply by following some guidelines laid out by the #Unicode consortium? There's a time window each year where they accept proposals, and a select few might make it into future sets.

This year I turned one in: "Circuit Board", which I was surprised to find 1. didn't exist and 2. had not been proposed before (though CPU and Microchip have both been submitted and declined in the last 5 years)

You can read my proposal here:
storage.googleapis.com/greg-ke

and you can see the Unicode emoji proposal guidelines here:
unicode.org/emoji/proposals.ht

Anyway, the odds aren't great of getting accepted, but if it IS then you can say "hey! I know the guy who submitted that one!"

Attached are the sample images I drew up for the proposal - which, incidentally, are now Public Domain as well. Enjoy!

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