Try Bubba

He calls him Donny

Moroccan oil is the main sponsor.

Hint: it’s not a Moroccan company.

It’s an easy mistake to make.

They’re sold as “Thomson streaming stick” in Europe.

Mine works well.

My original Průša i3 mk0 has been going for 11 years now. It did receive a mk1 upgrade at some point when 3mm filament was getting scarce.

The IEC heatbed connector melted twice. But it’s been solid since I replaced it with an XT60.

Looks like I’m finally getting some metal fatigue in the heatbed temp sensor. I’m considering a new printer. The rest of the components are probably close to giving out after all these years.

I’m not sure I would recommend programming on an actual C64. The keyboard is horrible, and crossplatform toolchains are so much more powerful. I do my development in a modern IDE, crossassemble with tass64, link and load with spindle. Single file programs I might pack with exomizer. The workflow is just so fast to build, pack and run in VICE.

VICE is a powerful emulator if you don’t want to spend money, or just dip your toes.

In the old days we’d write our stuff straight in machine monitors, but that takes a special kind of masochist to learn these days.

I do test on a real device with a turbo chameleon. I’d recomment getting that cartridge even withouth a C64, as it works great as a standalone C64 - great when travelling. And you can flash in machine code monitors if you want to try that out - at least for debugging.

I’ll be getting one of them new commodores from perifractic once I can make sure it doesn’t get delivered while I’m away on extended xmas leave. They have 64 ultimate internals which are on par with my turbo chameleon.

I use my dog’s name as password for my WiFi.

Ed&1e.78x!

We call him Eddie for short.

I’m currently working in data automation.

My job is to take away as much of the monotonous work as possible from skilled workers. In many fields it would probably mean the end of many jobs. For s start-up with much more growth to do, it means that we can hit our goals while still hiring even more skilled workers.

It’s a weird age for my line of work.

We’ve been married 12 years now. She still doesn’t have a clue.

Yes, but now you get all the bad news streamed straight to you 24/7.

Previously you would have to pick up a newspaper or turn on the TV at the right time to hear about it.

Back in these days you’d install your distribution and stay there until the next major release. There were no online software repositiories for updates.

And exploits were plentiful. It was an easier time if you were up for mischief.

Well… last time I bought a commodore I got the full schematic of the computer in the box. And the user manual taught me programming.

I didn’t know how to operate it when I bought it, but I learned fast.

What’s next? Soon you won’t be allowed to call it baby oil unless it’s made from real babies.

On a more serious note, I did order a “flexi” burger at Max by mistake. I thought it was a gateway burger with one patty replaced by halloumi. All I got was veg.

I flipped in 1997, so any software I might have missed since those days are probably not around anymore.

Windows 95 was pretty shitty in comparison to Linux, and a lot of software broke with NT 4.0

It was an easy choice at the time. Linux was the operating system for this new fancy thing called the internet. Software development turned into a career, and Linux is just a very nice stack for building backends and infrastructure.

I do have an old ThinkPad around running windows 10. I’ve only used it three times in the past five years: To unbrick an Android phone, to set the MMSI on a marine radio, and to update the maps on my car’s satnav.

Choices are getting fewer and fewer. I went with OpenSUSE a couple of years back.

ubports have continued maintaining it. It was based on 16.04 for the longest tie, but they’ve made good leaps in the last two years.

They do scan and try all ports.

I have a tiny VPS as reverse proxy with SSL termination for my fiddling. That one has a wireguard network to my hardware at home to which it forwards some hosts.

The tiny VPS is definitely the bottleneck in the equation, and if I were to have loads of traffic I’d probably go with cloudflare or -front in front of it.

Memory Management Unit was the first thing that came to my mind when I read that title.

I don’t know what that says about me.

I’m a software engineer. I also do programming as a hobby.

Programming as a job can be draining, but I find that autonomy makes it enjoyable. If I’m just checking off tickets that I don’t care about, I’d have very little motivation to so so. If I can plan the road map and start at the end where my work makes the most impact, then I’m a lot more passionate about doing so.