FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

so, umm, this is a 16 bytes intro

16 bytes

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvycyU-kLjg

#demoscene #intro

Fits on a Floppy: A Manifesto for Small Software

https://fitsonafloppy.com/

«
Software should be as small as it can be. Not as a gimmick, but as a discipline. The floppy disk is the measuring stick: 1.44 MB. If the software that ran entire businesses could fit in that space, then a modern, focused, single-purpose tool certainly can.
»

the four canonical bool values are, of course:

tNo,
tYes,
tMaybe,
tLim

this code uses a datatype with the questionable name of "tribool", but when I looked into it to make fun of it I discovered something terrible:

It's an enum with 4 possible values. It's a goddamn quadbool

oh sweet jesus, they handle displaying the splashscreen by busy-looping the CPU for 4 seconds.

I KNOW PROGRAMMERS WHO CARE ABOUT MULTITASKING AND THEY'RE ALL COWARDS

IT'S CRASHING ON BOOT BECAUSE THE BOOLEANS ARE TOO SMALL

some punk 31 years ago was tired of dealing with "correctly matching const char* vs char*" so they just did

#define CONST

and now it's my problem

there should be a word for that specific experience where you need to do a computer task you've done a couple times before, but it turns out they've made it way more annoying since the last time you did it

going to my vm host, bowl in hand, going "please ma'am, can I have some more cores?"

In a surprise to no one who has looked at the economics of cloud services before, I think a *lot* of people are in for a rude awakening. It's almost like these bigco's were acting like dealers all along...

https://bsky.app/profile/edzitron.com/post/3mlyuuwxkqs2l