Weasel @wildweasel@computerfairi.es

The Dig

Due to illness, I was unable to present at INIT HELLO 2026. In this thread I will post my slides and what I was planning to say about them.

COPY OF A COPY: How I set out to fix a 40-year-old bug in Copy II Plus and ended up rebuilding the entire application (and fixing the bug)

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#AppleII #retrocomputing

This quote has been circulating recently, from a 1985 paper that was part of a conversation at the time about what a computer program *is*. Is it the source code? Or the final executable binary? Or the sum of its versions? Or the people who wrote it?

I've been programming for over 40 years, and I can tell you with great confidence that Naur was right. When I'm building software, first and foremost what I'm building is me.

Who’s ready for my famous posta sance

This is by far one of my favourite 386 machines, the Acer AnyWare 1100LX (1990), complete with detachable mechanical keyboard.
I've upgraded the ram from 3MB to 5MB, so I'm running memtest on it, love how clear the screen is.

anyone know anything about #greaseweazle ?

i just got a V4.1 i'm trying with two amiga drives, i have --drive=0 option, both drives properly spin and seek (if i force a cylinder or use the clean function), but any read operation returns Command Failed: GetFluxStatus: No Index

i'm hoping the greaseweazle itself isn't the issue, still waiting on a pc floppy drive to arrive

That blows my mind.

Dimming the screen for the screen saver on #PicoIDE was boring so I added flying toasters as an option. Sprites borrowed from the PicoPOST project

this is weird and cool looking

seems like i've been stuck on seafile 9 since who knows when and now they're up to version 14 and docker is a requirement. looks like upgrading / migrating will be a pain and not worth it.

nextcloud looks to do everything i want (i remember only giving up on it in favour of seafile becaue of how slow it ran on my 4th gen i5 server a decade ago) but i'm not keen on how bloated and ai-happy it looks today.

what other self-hosted file/docs cloud are people using today?

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