Jeff Armstrong @jeff@toot.rainbow-100.com

Episode 71 of the Jeff Reads His Book #podcast is out now! Since I've totally forgotten to post about it in weeks, why not try catching up with this plot (hint: it's bad) and the book's characters (hint: they're generally unlikable)!

My favorite days at work are when I get to use the Win32 API. It's so fun and flexible. And I'm not being sarcastic. SendMessage is the greatest! It's a joy to use!

I've started a little series on #gemini concerning my (highly biased) thoughts on certain computers. I've only written two up so far:

gemini://rainbow-100.com/computers/

Nice addition to the office #atari

Reading about how Hacker News commenters would fix double entry accounting might be some of the dumbest shit I’ve read this week.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23964513

Episode 71 of the Jeff Reads His Book #podcast is out now! Since I've totally forgotten to post about it in weeks, why not try catching up with this plot (hint: it's bad) and the book's characters (hint: they're generally unlikable)!

And I spammed my feed because using ESC as a "send toot" key is stupid (arrow keys emit escape)...

I'll just delete this Mastodon client.

A toot from the #Rainbow!

(over a serial link to Linux, it's really not particularly interesting or difficult...)

I'm guessing it's just an issue trying to support these new-fangled vt100 terminals.

Ugh, arrows don't work in nano on #netbsd with a serial terminal for whatever stupid reason. This OS is untested, unreliable, and unusable. I should have used #linux...

My old composite capture card does pretty okay with the #Rainbow 100 as input. Top line is still cut off to some extent...

On a whim, I tried popping my old Bt848 PCI capture card in my semi-modern i5 desktop. Lovely to see that it still works! #atari

New coffee machine! It’s glorious!

I have Windows 10 machines, Linux machines, and two Macs. macOS Catalina is, without a doubt, the worst OS of the bunch. And I don’t even “like” the other two...

Starting to populate all this disk space!

Mounted my MFM emulator in the #Rainbow with a little window so I can see the blinkies

I have never seen that much disk space on a #Rainbow!

The #nwsl accepted a $1M to $2M loan under the PPP. Interesting, and less than I thought.

https://pppreport.org/company/national+women+27s+soccer+league+l+l+c

Finally! One #Rainbow is finally formatting a 67MB hard drive (albeit via an emulated drive)

On my #Raspbian desktop I added a workspace switcher to the panel, which resulted in all window manager controls no longer working (maximize, minimize, close, moving, etc.). Removed the workspace switch, but the problem persists. #linux sucks.