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Awesome. Have starred the repo and will have a look through it later tonight when I'm done with work.

True, that's an option, but a native build would be optimal

Presumably though Canva subscriptions?

Shame it's only Mac/Windows compatible. I'd kill for a Linux build.

I had it several years ago when I was running my own one-man consultancy [ie: self-employed] ... somehow I'd managed to have six or seven people on LI claiming to work for the same company.

Reported them to LI and nothing was ever done about it. Eventually the accounts disappeared as I guess they were either shut down or repurposed.

Love the closeout of the article: "On page 112 there are coffee stains where the caffeine blots are somehow still a valid Perl program."

There were a couple of cartoon series by Cosgrove-Hall that were _really_ well done. (Wyrd Sisters and Soul Music)

I read it, and I cried like a baby. Still do whenever I reach for it.

LN2 had something in a bathroom? You have to position yourself in the doorway and do a squat of faith)

Sounds like every time I go to the bathroom ... :D

I get the same. Work has shifted to being agentic first - and whenever I use anything other than Claude Opus it seems that the model easily gets lost spinning its wheels on even the simplest query - especially with some of our more complex codebases, whereas Opus manages to not only reason adequately about the codebase, but also can produce decent quality code/tests in fairly short order.

Oddly though, when using at home I'm using Sonnet via the standard chat interface and that, whilst it will produce substandard code in its output is still reasonably capable - even in more niche tasks. Granted though that my personal projects are far simpler than the codebase I handle at work.

"I think it depends on what you find enjoyable"

Exactly this. I use agents every day to either produce tests for code I've written according to the guidelines I set out for it, or to produce the boilerplate code (which is seldom enjoyable) before I get to add the cool stuff.

Furthermore, when I inevitably get stuck on a thornier section of new code, or revisiting a codebase which I've not investigated for some time, I can use the agent to provide ideas and suggestions of where/how to start/get unstuck.

Like any tool - it's how you apply it to the job in hand (and ensuring the job is relevant) that counts.

That, and never 100% trusting the output.

Cannabis in the UK is still illegal, so unless you're picking up weed from your local dealer, it's not a big thing outside the home.

But price of booze is killing pubs here. Getting close to £8 a pint now in London. £10 for a pint of Guinness in many bars.

They're mentioned in the article (with a photo)

I always thought the internals were encased in potting compound for these things to prevent exactly this scenario (certainly the ones I had for LightWave back in the day were)...

Copying listings from computer magazines into a ZX81 ... could never get the damn tape drive to save anything that would then reload (either a cheap tape deck, or cheap tapes)... so had no choice but to hand-code.

Also, didn't have the cash to go buy games from the local computer store so this was the next best thing...

You could try the new remake of Avernum 4: Greed & Glory (first part of the second Avernum trilogy - no need to have played the first trilogy as this is entirely standalone): https://store.steampowered.com/app/3882020/Avernum_4_Greed_a...

Geez ... that's a heckuvalotta pron consumption ...

How hard is that to fix? Aren't they using CoPilot? Just ask it to fix the invisible icon.

They would, but no-one in the development team are able to log into their PCs due to no longer being able to locate the password icon ...

This was also similar to my first thought.

Damn. I want pizza now as well...

No, the truth of the matter is they needed Copilot in there to analyse and identify the bug for them. And then write the code to fix it...

No, but it is an odd trend I’ve noticed on several websites recently, and from an accessibility standpoint is something that should be addressed for any public facing site.

Yup. There were drivers for both the Electron and the BBC Micro (required the Model B IIRC, Model A didn't have enough spare RAM for the software)

Wasn't the Microwriter was it perchance?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwriter

The website needs debugging for sure.

In dark mode, the text towards the bottom of the page renders as white on white ...

nah, dogs eat far better than this ...

Not since the last Steam sale (and every single Steam sale before it) ... really, Valve need to sort out their creaking server infrastructure for big events and launches. It's not like no-one could have predicted this ...

Then, if you haven't already tried it, I can heartily recommend Nine Sols as well. Not _quite_ up there with HK, but not too far behind ...

... or just not running Faecesbook at all.

This! I actually kinda miss the Win7 enhanced switcher (I actually kinda miss the whole Win7 Aero desktop, but I digress) ... Win-Tab bringing up a scrollable stack of the actual windows you have open and being able to either directly select the one you want or just keep Win-Tabbing through them. The Win10 tiled view is similar, but lacks the charm somehow...

CODE is still going. Very focussed on .Net and the whole Microsoft ecosystem, but you can still get hold of it (although I think it's subscription only, won't find it on any newsstands)

Absolutely this. I've tried in the past to unsubscribe from publications from both Future and Dennis and in both cases it was a tortuous exercise to actually get the subs cancelled.