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The world of desktop computing has coalesced into what is essentially a duopoly, with Windows machines making up the bulk of the market share and Apple carving out a dedicated …read more Continue reading SheepShaver: A Cross-Platform Tool For Retro Enthusiasts
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The holy grail of computing is to have some way to distribute a program to any computer. This is one of those totally unachievable goals, but many have tried with …read more Continue reading Color Us Impressed: Redbean Runs a Web Server on Six Operating Systems
I have been working on an app that uses a combination of different encryption methods; some of them are libraries, and the most important ones are my own implementations. The app is cross-platform that are compiled natively on desktop (Lin… Continue reading Need a cross-platform method of generating near truly random numbers
Despite the name, BASIC isn’t exactly a language recommended for beginners these days. Technology has moved on, and now most people would steer you towards Python if you wanted to …read more Continue reading QB64 Hits Version 2.0, Gets Enhanced Debugging
The idea of having software translation programs around to do things like emulate a Super Nintendo on your $3000 gaming computer or, more practically, run x86 software on a new …read more Continue reading Yo Dawg, We Heard You Like Retrocomputers
The holy grail of computer languages is to write code once and have it deploy effortlessly everywhere. Java likes to take credit for the idea, but UCSD P-Code was way before that and you could argue that mainframes had I/O abstraction like Fortran unit numbers even earlier. More modern efforts …read more
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I was taught horrible bad practice when I initially "learned" SQL, which baked in user-submitted input with quotes and attempted to "escape" this (in the beginning, I didn’t even escape it at all…). I then had to spen… Continue reading Why did "terminal commands" never get a version of SQL "parameterized queries"?
One of the goals of programming languages back in the 1950s was to create a way to write assembly language concepts in an abstract, high-level manner. This would allow the same code to be used across the wildly different system architectures of that era and subsequent decades, requiring only a …read more
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Our national nightmare is over: Microsoft announced today that Minecraft cross-play is finally coming to the PlayStation 4.
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