[Ed. note: While we take some time to rest up over the holidays and prepare for next year, we are re-publishing our top ten posts for the year. Please enjoy our favorite work this year and we’ll see you in … Read more
Recently I decided to give some time to retroprogramming, and in particular to explore the architecture of some famous microcomputer and consoles of the 80s and 90s. Glorious 8-bit systems like the ZX Spectrum, the Commodore 64, or the Nintendo … Read more
Here’s what I learned from starting to read the source code to fff – in particular, the main function. fff is “a simple file manager written in Bash”. As I’m always on the lookout to learn more about Bash, that … Read more
Recently, I’ve come across a not so efficient implementation of a isEven function (from r/programminghorror). bool isEven(int number) { int numberCompare = 0; bool even = true; while (number != numberCompare) { even = !even; numberCompare++; } return even; } … Read more
Everyone had their weird pandemic hobby, right? Well, mine is that I bought an arcade video game. Not the whole cabinet – just a board, to hook up to a TV and a game controller. If I can’t go to … Read more
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InfluxDB IoT app training – Space is limited and it’s free to join Hands on guidance to build an IoT app with InfluxDB. You’ll build a fully functional sample application called IoT Center and built on InfluxDB. The app is … Read more
Editor’s note: All this week, we’re running articles about the software and engineering behind SpaceX’s rockets, starships, and satellite internet. Each article covers a different part of the process. We hope you find it as exciting as we do! Spaceflight, … Read more
In “things you can do with a terminal emulator that renders images”: One way to look at a database’s structure is as a graph of foreign key relationships among tables. Two styles of visual representation predominate: models or entity-relationship diagrams (ERDs) created as part of requirements negotiation and design, and descriptive diagrams of an extant database. The former are … Read more
Last week I took a dive into the office life of yesteryear with Microsoft Works 3.0 for DOS. Now I’m exploring some more retro business software, this time delving into the ancient database management system known as Borland dBase. dBase … Read more