Roger BW 😷<p>The Weekly Challenge 316: Circular Reasoning <a href="https://discordian.social/tags/Perl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Perl</span></a> <a href="https://discordian.social/tags/RakuLang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RakuLang</span></a> <a href="https://discordian.social/tags/RustLang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RustLang</span></a> <a href="https://discordian.social/tags/Postscript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Postscript</span></a> <a href="https://discordian.social/tags/CrystalLang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CrystalLang</span></a> <a href="https://discordian.social/tags/PerlWeeklyChallenge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PerlWeeklyChallenge</span></a> <a href="https://discordian.social/tags/BlogFiredrakeOrg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlogFiredrakeOrg</span></a> <a href="https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2025/04/The_Weekly_Challenge_316__Circular_Reasoning.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.firedrake.org/archive/202</span><span class="invisible">5/04/The_Weekly_Challenge_316__Circular_Reasoning.html</span></a></p>
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Su-Shee<p>I tried 20 years ago to program sewing pattern in <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/postscript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>postscript</span></a> <a href="https://seriot.ch/projects/programming_in_postscript.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">seriot.ch/projects/programming</span><span class="invisible">_in_postscript.html</span></a> I should give this another try :)</p>
Roger BW 😷<p>The Weekly Challenge 315: Find the Third Word <a href="https://discordian.social/tags/Perl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Perl</span></a> <a href="https://discordian.social/tags/RakuLang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RakuLang</span></a> <a href="https://discordian.social/tags/RustLang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RustLang</span></a> <a href="https://discordian.social/tags/Postscript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Postscript</span></a> <a href="https://discordian.social/tags/CrystalLang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CrystalLang</span></a> <a href="https://discordian.social/tags/PerlWeeklyChallenge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PerlWeeklyChallenge</span></a> <a href="https://discordian.social/tags/BlogFiredrakeOrg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlogFiredrakeOrg</span></a> <a href="https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2025/04/The_Weekly_Challenge_315__Find_the_Third_Word.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.firedrake.org/archive/202</span><span class="invisible">5/04/The_Weekly_Challenge_315__Find_the_Third_Word.html</span></a></p>
Blake Patterson<p>Thinking of NEXTSTEP this morning...I'd guess many aren't aware of the unusual color display arrangement. </p><p>The NeXTstation, which was the first "affordable" color solution for NEXTSTEP, has a 16-bit framebuffer, but instead of rendering the desktop in 65,536 colors (as per Windows or Mac hardware, say), it rendered in 12-bit color with 4-bits of alpha channel (transparency). </p><p>That means it had a palette of 4096 colors, with all colors available at once on the display (not like, say, the Amiga or Apple IIgs with a 4096 color palette, but video modes with a small subset of those colors available (yes, yes, HAM mode excluded). Additionally, anything on the screen had 16 levels of opacity available. </p><p>It's interesting to see in person, on the actual hardware (especially on a good LCD display). With dithering, it looks very close to 24-bit truecolor. </p><p>(The NeXT Dimension color board for the Cube allowed 24-bit color with 8-bits alpha, but that was not so frequently used -- less so than most NeXT hardware even...)</p><p>But that's not nearly the weirdest that NEXTSTEP-capable hardware got, when it came to color video display...</p><p><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/NeXT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NeXT</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/NEXTSTEP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NEXTSTEP</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/NeXTstation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NeXTstation</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/NeXTCube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NeXTCube</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/OS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OS</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/OpenStep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenStep</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/DisplayPostScript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DisplayPostScript</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/PostScript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PostScript</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/GUI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GUI</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/UNIX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UNIX</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/MC68K" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MC68K</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/vintagecomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vintagecomputing</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/computinghistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>computinghistory</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/SteveJobs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SteveJobs</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a></p>
Roger BW 😷<p>The Weekly Challenge 314: Stringy Columns <a href="https://discordian.social/tags/Perl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Perl</span></a> <a href="https://discordian.social/tags/RakuLang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RakuLang</span></a> <a href="https://discordian.social/tags/RustLang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RustLang</span></a> <a href="https://discordian.social/tags/Postscript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Postscript</span></a> <a href="https://discordian.social/tags/CrystalLang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CrystalLang</span></a> <a href="https://discordian.social/tags/PerlWeeklyChallenge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PerlWeeklyChallenge</span></a> <a href="https://discordian.social/tags/BlogFiredrakeOrg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlogFiredrakeOrg</span></a> <a href="https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2025/03/The_Weekly_Challenge_314__Stringy_Columns.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.firedrake.org/archive/202</span><span class="invisible">5/03/The_Weekly_Challenge_314__Stringy_Columns.html</span></a></p>
Michael Piotrowski<p>I’m about to try and teach <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/PostScript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PostScript</span></a> programming to <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/DigitalHumanities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalHumanities</span></a> students.</p><p>I used to teach <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/Inform7" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Inform7</span></a> in this course, which they hated. We’ll see how it goes…</p>
Roger BW 😷<p>The Weekly Challenge 313: Broken and Reversed <a href="https://discordian.social/tags/Perl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Perl</span></a> <a href="https://discordian.social/tags/RakuLang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RakuLang</span></a> <a href="https://discordian.social/tags/RustLang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RustLang</span></a> <a href="https://discordian.social/tags/Postscript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Postscript</span></a> <a href="https://discordian.social/tags/CrystalLang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CrystalLang</span></a> <a href="https://discordian.social/tags/PerlWeeklyChallenge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PerlWeeklyChallenge</span></a> <a href="https://discordian.social/tags/BlogFiredrakeOrg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlogFiredrakeOrg</span></a> <a href="https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2025/03/The_Weekly_Challenge_313__Broken_and_Reversed.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.firedrake.org/archive/202</span><span class="invisible">5/03/The_Weekly_Challenge_313__Broken_and_Reversed.html</span></a></p>
Donald Hobern<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://tau-ceti.space/@ics" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ics</span></a></span> </p><p>For me, it was during a lull in my workload at the <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/IBM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IBM</span></a> Hursley lab in the UK when I worked my way through the O'Reilly <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/sed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sed</span></a> & <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/awk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>awk</span></a> book (the one with the two lorises on the cover).</p><p>I'm guessing it was 1995 because my annual birdwatching summary at the start of the next year switched from a fixed column text document to formatting in <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Postscript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Postscript</span></a>. My first big awk project was to process the underlying data to generate a PS document (something I also learned in the same downtime period).</p>
Roger BW 😷<p>The Weekly Challenge 312: Minimum Time in the Box <a href="https://discordian.social/tags/Perl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Perl</span></a> <a href="https://discordian.social/tags/RakuLang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RakuLang</span></a> <a href="https://discordian.social/tags/RustLang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RustLang</span></a> <a href="https://discordian.social/tags/Postscript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Postscript</span></a> <a href="https://discordian.social/tags/CrystalLang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CrystalLang</span></a> <a href="https://discordian.social/tags/PerlWeeklyChallenge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PerlWeeklyChallenge</span></a> <a href="https://discordian.social/tags/BlogFiredrakeOrg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlogFiredrakeOrg</span></a> <a href="https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2025/03/The_Weekly_Challenge_312__Minimum_Time_in_the_Box.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.firedrake.org/archive/202</span><span class="invisible">5/03/The_Weekly_Challenge_312__Minimum_Time_in_the_Box.html</span></a></p>
ITs History!Those <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/vectorgraphics?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vectorgraphics</a> are known as <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/infographics?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#infographics</a> or <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/schematics?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#schematics</a> to a few <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/computer?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#computer</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/graphic?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#graphic</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/geeks?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#geeks</a>. <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/IT?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IT</a>'s how <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/SuperPaint?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SuperPaint</a> worked #1973 for the first <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/digital?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#digital</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/artists?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#artists</a>. Deeply embedded <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/CGI?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CGI</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/irony?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#irony</a> is that this <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/legendary?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#legendary</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/image?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#image</a>-editor is reconstructed in <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/vector?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vector</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/tech?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tech</a>, not <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/pixel?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pixel</a>. The <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Art?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Art</a> work isn't realized with <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Xerox?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Xerox</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/InterPress?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InterPress</a>, nor <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Adobe?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Adobe</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Illustrator?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Illustrator</a> / <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/PostScript?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PostScript</a>, but made with <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/opensource?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#opensource</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/FreeSoftware?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreeSoftware</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Inkscape?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Inkscape</a> and <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/SVG?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SVG</a>
ITs History!<a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/RAMAC305?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RAMAC305</a> was the first <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/HDD?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HDD</a> for <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/computers?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#computers</a> and developed at <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/IBM?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IBM</a>. Compared to <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/punchcards?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#punchcards</a> it was a breakthrough in speed of <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/digital?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#digital</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/dataaccess?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dataaccess</a>.<br>
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<a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/retrocomputing?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/hardware?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hardware</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/cgi?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cgi</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/vectorgraphics?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vectorgraphics</a> are created in <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/svg?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#svg</a> not <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/PostScript?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PostScript</a> with <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/FreeSoftware?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreeSoftware</a> like <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Inkscape?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Inkscape</a>, not <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Adobe?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Adobe</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Illustrator?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Illustrator</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Ai?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ai</a>
Roger BW 😷<p>The Weekly Challenge 311: Lower the Sum <a href="https://discordian.social/tags/Perl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Perl</span></a> <a href="https://discordian.social/tags/RakuLang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RakuLang</span></a> <a href="https://discordian.social/tags/RustLang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RustLang</span></a> <a href="https://discordian.social/tags/Postscript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Postscript</span></a> <a href="https://discordian.social/tags/CrystalLang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CrystalLang</span></a> <a href="https://discordian.social/tags/PerlWeeklyChallenge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PerlWeeklyChallenge</span></a> <a href="https://discordian.social/tags/BlogFiredrakeOrg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlogFiredrakeOrg</span></a> <a href="https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2025/03/The_Weekly_Challenge_311__Lower_the_Sum.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.firedrake.org/archive/202</span><span class="invisible">5/03/The_Weekly_Challenge_311__Lower_the_Sum.html</span></a></p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://unstable.systems/@0x2ba22e11" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>0x2ba22e11</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.monoceros.co.za/@uastronomer" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>uastronomer</span></a></span> ad now you know why I only deploy <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Xerox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Xerox</span></a> cuz they at least give a shit and provide <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/PostScript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PostScript</span></a> support, drivers from MS-DOS & OS/2 to Linux and from A/UX to Solaris and worst-case support print from & scan to USB, eMail, SMB & FTP…</p><ul><li>Only better are like <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OKI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OKI</span></a> needle-printers, but those are loid and exoensive...</li></ul>
Roger BW 😷<p>The Weekly Challenge 310: Odd Arrays <a href="https://discordian.social/tags/Perl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Perl</span></a> <a href="https://discordian.social/tags/RakuLang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RakuLang</span></a> <a href="https://discordian.social/tags/RustLang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RustLang</span></a> <a href="https://discordian.social/tags/Postscript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Postscript</span></a> <a href="https://discordian.social/tags/CrystalLang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CrystalLang</span></a> <a href="https://discordian.social/tags/PerlWeeklyChallenge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PerlWeeklyChallenge</span></a> <a href="https://discordian.social/tags/BlogFiredrakeOrg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlogFiredrakeOrg</span></a> <a href="https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2025/03/The_Weekly_Challenge_310__Odd_Arrays.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.firedrake.org/archive/202</span><span class="invisible">5/03/The_Weekly_Challenge_310__Odd_Arrays.html</span></a></p>
Roger BW 😷<p>The Weekly Challenge 309: All You Minima <a href="https://discordian.social/tags/Perl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Perl</span></a> <a href="https://discordian.social/tags/RakuLang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RakuLang</span></a> <a href="https://discordian.social/tags/RustLang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RustLang</span></a> <a href="https://discordian.social/tags/Postscript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Postscript</span></a> <a href="https://discordian.social/tags/CrystalLang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CrystalLang</span></a> <a href="https://discordian.social/tags/PerlWeeklyChallenge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PerlWeeklyChallenge</span></a> <a href="https://discordian.social/tags/BlogFiredrakeOrg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlogFiredrakeOrg</span></a> <a href="https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2025/02/The_Weekly_Challenge_309__All_You_Minima.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.firedrake.org/archive/202</span><span class="invisible">5/02/The_Weekly_Challenge_309__All_You_Minima.html</span></a></p>
Les capsules du prof Lutz<p>⬆️ 👀 <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://merveilles.town/@neauoire" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>neauoire</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@raph" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>raph</span></a></span> This page has even big PS code chunks in it! 🍪 Not using Cornu spirals, but cool to see PS in the wild.</p><p><a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/stack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stack</span></a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/RPN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RPN</span></a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/ProgLang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProgLang</span></a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/Postscript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Postscript</span></a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/computer_graphics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>computer_graphics</span></a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/FontDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FontDesign</span></a></p>
Roger BW 😷<p>The Weekly Challenge 308: Count Xor, ha ha ha <a href="https://discordian.social/tags/Perl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Perl</span></a> <a href="https://discordian.social/tags/RakuLang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RakuLang</span></a> <a href="https://discordian.social/tags/RustLang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RustLang</span></a> <a href="https://discordian.social/tags/Postscript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Postscript</span></a> <a href="https://discordian.social/tags/CrystalLang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CrystalLang</span></a> <a href="https://discordian.social/tags/PerlWeeklyChallenge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PerlWeeklyChallenge</span></a> <a href="https://discordian.social/tags/BlogFiredrakeOrg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlogFiredrakeOrg</span></a> <a href="https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2025/02/The_Weekly_Challenge_308__Count_Xor__ha_ha_ha.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.firedrake.org/archive/202</span><span class="invisible">5/02/The_Weekly_Challenge_308__Count_Xor__ha_ha_ha.html</span></a></p>
Dave<p>Afterthought</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Photo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Photo</span></a> Photography <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Sheep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sheep</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Sheepodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sheepodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Thursday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Thursday</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/PS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/PostScript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PostScript</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/SheepOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SheepOfMastodon</span></a></p>
Vector Hugo<p>The history of <a href="https://burma.social/tags/vectorfonts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vectorfonts</span></a>, <a href="https://burma.social/tags/digital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>digital</span></a> <a href="https://burma.social/tags/typography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>typography</span></a>, and <a href="https://burma.social/tags/DTP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DTP</span></a> starts with a <a href="https://burma.social/tags/typefoundry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>typefoundry</span></a> known as <a href="https://burma.social/tags/URW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>URW</span></a> and an almost unknown pioneer. Peter Karow came up with the concept of <a href="https://burma.social/tags/scaleable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scaleable</span></a> <a href="https://burma.social/tags/vector" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vector</span></a> <a href="https://burma.social/tags/fonts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fonts</span></a> when only a few nerds knew what <a href="https://burma.social/tags/Bernstein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bernstein</span></a> has to do with <a href="https://burma.social/tags/CAD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CAD</span></a>. <br><a href="https://youtu.be/uOsYMctPRNg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/uOsYMctPRNg</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>That's why we illustrated the <a href="https://burma.social/tags/portrait" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>portrait</span></a> of Dr. Peter Karow in visual context of <a href="https://burma.social/tags/DEC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DEC</span></a> <a href="https://burma.social/tags/MiniComputers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MiniComputers</span></a>. His <a href="https://burma.social/tags/fontdesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fontdesign</span></a> software was running only on <a href="https://burma.social/tags/digital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>digital</span></a> <a href="https://burma.social/tags/VAX11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VAX11</span></a>/780 systems at first. The name <a href="https://burma.social/tags/Ikarus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ikarus</span></a> was given based on stability issues long before it was ported to <a href="https://burma.social/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> <a href="https://burma.social/tags/Mac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mac</span></a> <a href="https://burma.social/tags/Computers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Computers</span></a> with <a href="https://burma.social/tags/68K" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>68K</span></a> <a href="https://burma.social/tags/CPU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CPU</span></a>. When <a href="https://burma.social/tags/Adobe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Adobe</span></a> came up with <a href="https://burma.social/tags/PostScript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PostScript</span></a> fonts, <a href="https://burma.social/tags/TrueType" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrueType</span></a>, and their ATM <a href="https://burma.social/tags/TypeManager" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TypeManager</span></a>, it wasn't good news for URW. But <a href="https://burma.social/tags/AltSys" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AltSys</span></a> offering <a href="https://burma.social/tags/Fontographer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fontographer</span></a> way cheaper on <a href="https://burma.social/tags/Macintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Macintosh</span></a> was fatal, even without tablet. On top of that <a href="https://burma.social/tags/PierreBezi%C3%A9r" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PierreBeziér</span></a> promoted the cheap competitor.</p>
Roger BW 😷<p>The Weekly Challenge 307: Anagram Check <a href="https://discordian.social/tags/Perl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Perl</span></a> <a href="https://discordian.social/tags/RakuLang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RakuLang</span></a> <a href="https://discordian.social/tags/RustLang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RustLang</span></a> <a href="https://discordian.social/tags/Postscript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Postscript</span></a> <a href="https://discordian.social/tags/CrystalLang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CrystalLang</span></a> <a href="https://discordian.social/tags/PerlWeeklyChallenge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PerlWeeklyChallenge</span></a> <a href="https://discordian.social/tags/BlogFiredrakeOrg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlogFiredrakeOrg</span></a> <a href="https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2025/02/The_Weekly_Challenge_307__Anagram_Check.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.firedrake.org/archive/202</span><span class="invisible">5/02/The_Weekly_Challenge_307__Anagram_Check.html</span></a></p>
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