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

Transferring some of today’s #NaNoWriMo work...

Drunken mages engaging in a magical fight while trying not to spill drinks... Now that’s literature! #NaNoWriMo

Love writing some #Rainbow direct video access and firmware keyboard access in #lua!

395 words is not how I wanted day 1 of #NaNoWriMo to go.

A little smaller than I had hoped for...

More specifically, I despise my #NeXT cube, and my patience for my #Atari TT030 has basically run out. Also, the power supply on this big, 'ol VAX 4000 is screwed up and the #Alpha is just useless. I feel like putting them all on the curb would make me happier.

And no, you can't have them for free...

Having vintage computers is hard. I really hate most of it at this point, so I want to sell it. Then again, I don't want to be ripped off or go through the hassle, so maybe it should all go in the trash.

I'm trolling my Mom and sisters for a "soy-free" cookie recipe. Who puts soy in cookies!?!

Episode 87 of the Jeff Reads His Book #podcast is now available! Listen in as we read about broken leg bones and familial tension!

https://jeffreadshisbook.com/?name=2020-10-30_jeffreadshisbook_b01_e87.mp3

A little write-up of what I think of my DEC Alphaserver:

gemini://rainbow-100.com/computers/as2000.gmi

Episode 84 of the Jeff Reads His Book #podcast is out now! Do you enjoy terrible descriptions of setting, including, but not limited to, vague mentions of interconnected hallways? Then this ep is for you!

https://jeffreadshisbook.com/?name=2020-10-12_jeffreadshisbook_b01_e84.mp3

First #gemini browser in the #Windows Store? I think so...

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/lr-87-a-gemini-browser/9njrwpxrwhj2?rtc=1&activetab=pivot:overviewtab

Warrant returns!

My favorite thing to do on Twitter now is to respond to every "promoted" tweet sarcastically.

After finally figuring out some direct video access, I've posted my modifications to Lua (based on 5.3.5) for the #rainbow 100 computer.

Most interesting is probably the Rainbow-specific library that is compiled in by default:

http://git.rainbow-100.com/cgit.cgi/rainbow-lua/tree/src/rblib.c

Episode 81 of the Jeff Reads His Book #podcast is out now! There's a sandwich in this episode! I feel like that was a major theme in Bringing Balance. There were a lot of magic sandwiches in that book...

https://jeffreadshisbook.com/?name=2020-09-18_jeffreadshisbook_b01_e81.mp3

My 8088-powered #Rainbow running MS-DOS feels orders of magnitude faster than the i5-powered Mac running Catalina sitting next to it...

I love having to add these kind of comments to my code for later...

I inquired about a used, first-run, caseless #firebee #atari clone on a forum that was for sale. USD 550 seems a bit steep, basically their price new, but the forum wouldn't allow me to reply anyway, so I couldn't tell him/her "no."

I have to keep reminding myself to stay away from the #atari stuff. I'm not a fan of a large portion of the "community."

VTE, an essential library that basically provides terminals in most GTK+ applications that have them (including GNOME Terminal), is a poorly documented heap of shit.

Just wanted to share...

If anyone has an alternative library, let me know.