Brion Vibber @brion@mastodon.technology

I am just all over this wood-panel aesthetic. It's like their design consultant reached into my head and said "american computer nerds in their late 30s and early 40s will buy this to relive the electronics of their childhoods" AND I LOVE THEM FOR IT

https://system76.com/desktops

😬

This media encoding has become... unstuck in time!!!!

I found my DOS port in my old old archives! Still runs in DosBox with QuickBASIC 4.5 which is easily obtainable.

https://gist.github.com/brion/c4e86fe381974201694635b01fe8261c

May be end of the line for this old Surface RT tablet. 32 gigs was barely enough for Windows RT and Office in 2012...

I remember typing in this BASIC game "Karma" from Compute! magazine. We had a PC not an Amiga, but I was able to port it to QuickBASIC pretty easily.

https://archive.org/details/1987-12-compute-magazine/page/n101

My favorite part is that all the possible dialogs show up as HTML templates, just plopped right in the document.

Your broken-CSS fallback behavior is bad and you should feel bad

Success! Mid-2010 15" MacBook Pro is now much zippier with double the RAM and the vintage HDD replaced with a modern SSD.

MicroSD cards are too small for the label maker but their adaptors are not!

Ah I see it's time for the notification badge that never goes away. #iOS1201

aaaand success! back in business on this machine \o/

Lots of weird failures trying to update from flathub lately on Fedora 29 beta.
"SSL connect error", "Failure when receiving data from the peer"

Found them! Five photos, taken in fading dusk light after panickingly searching for my camera during what I sincerely hoped was a _test_ missile. ;)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/brionv/sets/72157700619810761

This was the October 3, 1999 antiballistic missile system test described here http://articles.latimes.com/1999/oct/03/news/mn-18259

Files scanned October 14, 1999, and sat around for aaaaages. :)

Y2K: Year of the Linux Desktop

heck yeah

*sob*

I found this text file in my home directory. Seems legit.

Nice addition to Windows 10's latest insider build - improved African font support including some new writing systems.