Thought I would be able to hold off until I have more time for gaming, but couldn’t help myself and started Zelda Tears of the Kingdom this morning!

Trying out cross posting from doug.pub to BlueSky, where I’m @dfj.bsky.social

A few photos from a weekend in Charleston, SC.

The sunset from Folly Beach.

The “Angel Oak” tree, which is 400 years old and hard to capture in a photo.

The Easy Roll and Slow Burn of Cassette-Based Software | Internet Archive Blogs

But nestled in a relatively short span of time is the era of cassette-based loading, where actual audio tapes could have data stored on them, and played back to load into computers. In terms of adoption, the cassette-based software period is marked by people entering it and almost immediately clawing their way out of it as soon as they can afford to.

My earliest computing memories are thoroughly in the floppy and hard drive era, so this was a fun read of what life was like just before this and how it connects to modern emulation.

I’ve been using the Arc Browser as my daily driver for the past few months. It’s a game changer for me. I’ve never felt like I’ve had my browser tabs so under control. If you are interested in an invite, let me know!

I’m reading about the Nostr protocol.

I don’t really feel the need for another social network in my life. But UseNostr shows some use cases for the protocol beyond social networking. Not sure how compelling any of this is…but maybe worth keeping an eye on.

I built some prototype stuff with Deno (a modern JavaScript/Typescript runtime) and Fresh (a server-side/edge rendering web framework) this week and it was a promising experience. I’d bet this is going to be popular.

🌎Happy Earth Day🌍

Currently reading: The Apple II Age by Laine Nooney 📚

Kottke is celebrating turning 25 years old which is an interesting look back at his experience with the web and how it has changed over the years. I especially enjoyed the linked 2016 post about the web as it appeared on Halt and Catch Fire. I loved that show when it was on the air and reading this … read more

Imported my tweet archive here…and then decided, you know what I don’t think I actually need to preserve these in a public place. It’s a history that was of its time and not useful to anyone else outside of that time.

Random thought of the day: are incandescent light bulbs totally phased out in the US or do I happen to just shop at stores that no longer carry them?

I prefer the LED bulbs for numerous reasons, so I won’t miss the incandescents. But I’m just surprised that stores stopped carrying them.

Microsoft has, from what I’ve seen, the most compelling use case of AI to augment work: YouTube announcement video I can definitely see myself using an AI assistant for work tasks like they demo. My big question is how accurate and trust worthy will it be? Will it hallucinate summaries of a … read more

📷 Day 13: Connection

Here’s the Connection Machine computer on display at the Computer History Museum. Sadly it was not powered on to see the blinky lights.

Hemlock Falls

Found another chronolog this weekend on the South Peachtree Creek Path trail: MMP-103

The Last of Us episode 3: holy moly ❤️😭

Views from Arabia Mountain, GA.

The third photo is from a chronolog station. First time I’ve seen this, it’s a cool idea!

Tina and some random daffodils we found along the trail.

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