ChristopherDrum

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by ChristopherDrum 13d ago
Yes, that is the same point I came in to make about mugs. The author cites "1,000 uses" like its some grand, rarely achieved accomplishment in the life of a mug, when 1/3 of that count represents a single year of once-a-day u
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by ChristopherDrum 2mo ago
While I can appreciate the general concept of designing withing limitations, 1.44MB just isn't quite the limit it's being presented as. Look at Pico-8 games, for example. With the full Pico-8 runtime environment bundled in, typica
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by ChristopherDrum 3mo ago
Very strange. I'll send that off to the Ghost admins and see if they can help me with it. Thanks for the error report.
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by ChristopherDrum 3mo ago
I included a shout out to ToolBook, with screenshots and comparative features, in the article. Specifically, I show how it addresses some of the complaints I had with Visual Basic's IDE.
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by ChristopherDrum 3mo ago
That would be Visual Basic for Applications, not the full-featured Visual Basic, if I'm not mistaken. I don't think it's possible to save out standalone executables that can run on machines that don't have Excel (or perh
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by ChristopherDrum 3mo ago
Also like that, yes. (I did include an Epstein-related link in the post)
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by ChristopherDrum 3mo ago
Thank you, that's great to know! (I also found the method for reporting false positives to AdGuard, and hopefully that will get cleared up on their end one day.)
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by ChristopherDrum 3mo ago
Author here. Let me first note that the site is 100% free, and requires no account to read anything. I only use the built-in Ghost blogging subscription for those who want it delivered to their email, but it is absolutely not necessary. Tha
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by ChristopherDrum 3mo ago
Something like that, yeah.
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by ChristopherDrum 3mo ago
Commodore's CEO said in the press release about this phone that he wanted it because he, himself, had become addicted to his smartphone, so he switched to a dumbphone "And my two year-old daughter doesn’t see me staring at somethi
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by ChristopherDrum 4mo ago
I think the part I keep forgetting is the "Menu" mouse button. In the RISC OS case, having the application icon in the Icon Bar is, effectively, like having the application "foreground and running." A "Menu"-cl
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by ChristopherDrum 4mo ago
Author here. That still doesn't get at my confusion over the UX. It wouldn't change any of the memory management issues to have a double-click on an app icon jump straight into the application. That user intent seems pretty clear
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by ChristopherDrum 4mo ago
Author here, thank you for pointing that out. I don't know why "Tray" was so stuck in my mind; the vernacular of the OS never quite embedded itself in my brain. I've updated the article to "Bar."
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by ChristopherDrum 4mo ago
Author here. Working on getting better takes, sorry. (in my defense, I called out my own "bad takes" in the Captain Planet image)
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by ChristopherDrum 4mo ago
Author here and... what the heck?!
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by ChristopherDrum 4mo ago
Author here. Technically the webmaster is Ghost blogging platform itself, because I just rent a subdomain on their servers. This is frustrating and I'm checking it out now.
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by ChristopherDrum 4mo ago
Author here. Fireworkz was next, then Fireworkz Pro, both of which are discussed in the article.
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by ChristopherDrum 4mo ago
Author here. Yes, I don't self-host exactly because I was hoping to avoid stuff like this by relying on a more robust back-end than I could provide.
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by ChristopherDrum 4mo ago
Author here. This is strange, as I only use the Ghost site itself for hosting. I don't do any self-hosting or anything. Until this week, I'd never heard of anyone having troubles, but over on Reddit I saw a long-time reader gettin
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Show HN: Continuum, a pedantic recreation of the OMNI font(github.com)
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by ChristopherDrum 5mo ago
Here's how a refinery works: https://www.myabandonware.com/game/simrefinery-e65 (built for Chevron, in fact) And the manual: https://archive.org/details/sim-refinery-tour-book_202006/mo..
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by ChristopherDrum 6mo ago
I'm a big fan of Pico-8. Great community ready to help beginners and pros alike. The feedback loop between its built-in tools is really satisfying, plus its system design forces us to scope our ideas down, though there is surprising de
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by ChristopherDrum 6mo ago
At the end of my VisiCalc post I show the Multiplan ad that made Dan Fylstra nervous. It will eventually be covered, but not for a while.
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by ChristopherDrum 6mo ago
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it so much. I do try to make the posts more than just "here's what the software did" otherwise someone could just crack open a manual and get the same impact. I flip-flop on using TrueType
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by ChristopherDrum 6mo ago
Thanks for your support!
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by ChristopherDrum 6mo ago
I did include a link to Tavis's site in the post (but I see now I misspelled it as Travis...yeek!)
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by ChristopherDrum 6mo ago
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoy it.
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by ChristopherDrum 6mo ago
Author here. Yeah, I took a risk with the timeline layout. I try to challenge myself and add a little extra spice to the posts. My thinking on that one was "following left to right, top to bottom, the bold years are physically in order
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by ChristopherDrum 6mo ago
Author here. I'm not really sure how I could tackle Lotus Notes, as it requires also setting up a backend Domino server (IIRC). That level of enterprise setup strays from my purpose with the blog, as I'm evaluating the software wi
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by ChristopherDrum 7mo ago
Were you a developer for FoxPro?

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