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Published: September 5, 2026 01:59

I love these kinds of quizzes, probably because I confuse them. I've lived in St. Louis longer than anywhere else but neither of my parents were from here. "You" is either plural or singular, by the way. https://mydialect.us/quiz-standard.html

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Published: September 4, 2026 14:15

The Internet used to get flooded with n00bs every September, as first-year college students discovered the Internet. And then in 1993, AOL opened up access to Usenet, leading to the September that Never Ended.…

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Published: September 3, 2026 21:20

A year ago, Microsoft open sourced 6502 Basic, giving an unprecedented inside look at the programming language built into the Apple II or Commodore 64. https://dfarq.homeip.net/microsoft-6502-basic-released-as-open-source-sept-3-2025/ #retrocomputing…

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Published: September 3, 2026 21:18

Spam text messages wanting to buy your house are nothing new but today I got a message trying to sell me one. That's a new one on me.

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Published: September 2, 2026 23:36

The Atari Lynx, the first handheld color game console, made its debut Sept. 1, 1989. It should have been a huge hit, but Atari squeezed its software development partner out of business and it's hard to sell a game console without a ready supply of games.…

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Published: September 1, 2026 12:59

When the Commodore 64 launched is surprisingly hard to pinpoint today. In this blog post, I make the case for September 1, 1982. And then Commodore underestimated its shelf life. It was still selling 10 years later.…

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Published: August 31, 2026 22:31

At the end of August 1994, Adobe bought Aldus, bringing Pagemaker under the same roof as Illustrator and Photoshop. It was a merger of the two biggest names in desktop publishing. And I think we know how the rest turned out.…

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Published: August 30, 2026 18:10

43 years ago today, Apple prevailed in court over its largest clone maker, establishing the legal precedent that software can be copyrighted. Franklin Computer never really recovered, and retreated into selling handheld computers.…

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Published: August 29, 2026 16:28

The second of today's twin spin blog posts covers how I build streaming boxes that don't inject ads or spy on you while still being easy to use. The irony of using discarded corporate PCs to do it is kind of fun.…

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Published: August 29, 2026 16:25

I'm posting some modern content today, and it's a two-fer. First is a deep dive on Dell Optiplex Micro PCs, the models I look for, and what I use them for, including building TV streaming boxes. The second is a deep dive on building streaming boxes.…

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Published: August 26, 2026 23:45

Once upon a time, Digg was bigger than Reddit. And in 2010, Digg learned that a move-fast-and-break-things approach can be fatal. We could have learned a lot from Digg's mistakes. I'm not positive we did.…