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Ken Faulkner
@kpfaulkner.bsky.social
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Developer, primarily Go these days, and loving every minute of it :)
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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 2d
I can feel myself turning to dust just reading this. Not only do I STILL remember a bunch of phone numbers from my childhood, I remember that my Dad would use the *letter* variation for the first two digits, rather than numbers. Our home number started with "AR1" rather than 271.
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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 2d
If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing? 2? Questions I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up. Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?
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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 2d
If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing? 2? Questions I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up. Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?
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Kristen Immoor @kristenimmoor.bsky.social · 3d
Enjoyed the New Yorker interview with Tim Curry, a free-wheeling conversation in which there were several sensitive questions about his paralyzing stroke. But oh my goodness, why was there no follow-up at all to this staggering answer? www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
Screenshot of text from the interview: You’ve always been an incredibly physical performer: your strut during “Sweet Transvestite” in “Rocky Horror,” or the way you run around unfurling the mystery at the end of “Clue.” Do you still feel that in your body? Does that live somewhere in you still? I think it does, but it’s angry. My mobility is angry to get out. But it’s not happened yet. I do a certain amount of physical therapy. I did a whole bunch of it at Cedars-Sinai, and I got very close, I think, to walking. That was tantalizing. For insurance reasons, I had to withdraw. And I have a visiting physical therapist now, but I can only really do exercises from my bed, which is pretty pathetic. It’s not going to get me walking, I don’t believe. [I have underlined the sentence "For insurance reasons, I had to withdraw."]
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RetroBytes(John) @retrobytes.bsky.social · 12d
This video has taken a long time for me to put together. However I think it might be the first time a Kubernetes cluster has been used to provide file/print services to a BBC micro using Econet. youtu.be/-Hs55amrFW0?...
Because we can: Retro Stuff on Kubernetes
YouTube video by RetroBytes
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Ken Faulkner @kpfaulkner.bsky.social · 14d
6502, Z80, 8086, Pentium-Pro, 68K, ARM (in general)
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Ken Faulkner @kpfaulkner.bsky.social · 15d
Cheers!
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Ken Faulkner @kpfaulkner.bsky.social · 15d
Do you happen to know when/if the recording of that talk is coming out?
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/noclip @noclipvideo.bsky.social · 16d
🚨NEW DOC ALERT 🕹️

The Making of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle

We dive into the design of the game's three main open levels, how the team mirrored the cinematic language of the source material, the GRIP system in charge of Indy's hands and loads more.

WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsxT...
The Making of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle - /noclip Documentary
YouTube video by /noclip
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Mick Ryan @warinthefuture.bsky.social · 16d
My conversation on Times Radio about the latest developments in the war in #Ukraine, why Putin cannot win this war, is now available.

youtube.com/watch?v=tCUo...
Russian oil shortages reach Moscow as Kremlin halts oil exports due to Ukrainian Strikes
YouTube video by Times Radio
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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 17d
So yay he got away, but looking at where they are doing this? People are talking about tourists and I'm giving it 5 minutes until they lay hands on someone with ties to real bad people. Like major Republican donors kids.
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 17d
ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards
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Scott Hanselman 🌮 @scott.hanselman.com · 24d
Wow. Excellent teaching and rhetorical technique! I wish I had a math teacher like Howie!
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Howie Hua @howiehua.bsky.social · 25d
Did you know that we can visually see why sqrt(40)=2sqrt(10)? Let's see how we can visualize rewriting square roots!
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Mick Ryan @warinthefuture.bsky.social · 24d
A good piece on the drone & missile defence #adaptation battle in the skies over #Ukraine.
united24media.com/war-in-ukrai...
Why Russia’s Shahed Drones Are Now Deadlier and Harder Than Ever to Stop
With soaring civilian casualties in Ukraine, the challenge of countering advanced Shahed drones heightens, necessitating improved defensive solutions.
united24media.com
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Mike Dailly ™ @mdf200.bsky.social · 29d
Back onto the C platform engine.... Once I have it scrolling around, I'll look at a CSpect plugin to play with the level or something...

#ZXNext #gamedev #retrodev
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyGx...
Platformer Engine progress
YouTube video by Mike Dailly
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Big Finish Insider @bigfinish.bsky.social · Sep 15
The game's afoot!
Doctor Who star confirmed to play Sherlock Holmes in "captivating" new series
He's ready to exterminate the mysteries.
www.digitalspy.com
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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · Sep 10
Toub's annual "break mobile browsers due to size" blog post is up.
Performance Improvements in .NET 10 - .NET Blog
Take a tour through hundreds of performance improvements in .NET 10.
devblogs.microsoft.com
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/noclip @noclipvideo.bsky.social · Sep 8
According to some other YouTube creators, YT is using AI age gating to incorrectly censor content for many users.

So in case you missed it, here's our latest video which features a whole section about Hitler's penis. Thank you.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=E189...
The Making of Wolfenstein - Noclip
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The Cave (Neil) @visitthecave.bsky.social · Sep 7
What’s it like to visit us?

cybergeekgirl.co.uk/review-a-jou...

Thank you to @cybergeekgirl.bsky.social for the wonderful write up, it was lovely to meet you.
Review: A Journey Through Computing History at the Retro Collective - Welcome To Cyber Geek Girl - The Official Blog by Lisa Ventura MBE
Cyber Geek Girl Twitter
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · Sep 2
Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha... HARD pass.

#TheLongWalk
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DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · Sep 1
The treadmill screening of ‘THE LONG WALK’ took place, where every person had to walk on a treadmill faster than 3MPH for the whole movie.

If they stopped, they were escorted out of the theater.
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Ken Faulkner @kpfaulkner.bsky.social · Aug 25
Can't believe it's been almost 20 years since Three men in a boat with @daraobriain.bsky.social , Griff Rhys Jones and Rory McGrath came out. Wow time flies!
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thepudds @thepudds.bsky.social · Aug 20
Ooh, the SIMD WIP stdlib API for #golang is ready for people to poke!

From Cherry from a few minutes ago:

> As of today, we've landed a preliminary version with a reasonable API coverage. You're welcome to check out the dev.simd branch and try it with your use cases.

github.com/golang/go/is...

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proposal: simd: architecture-specific SIMD intrinsics under a GOEXPERIMENT · Issue #73787 · golang/go
Update (08/20/2025): A preliminary implementation of AMD64 low-level SIMD package is being developed on the dev.simd branch. You're welcome to check it out and try it with your use cases. Feedback ...
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Andrea Barisani @andreabarisani.bsky.social · Aug 19
TamaGo 1.25.0 has been released!

Quite a smooth merge to bring in all the Go 1.25.0 major release goodies.

github.com/usbarmory/ta...

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Release tamago-go1.25.0 · usbarmory/tamago-go
This is a release for the Go distribution as modified by the TamaGo framework, which enables compilation and execution of unencumbered Go applications on bare metal AMD64/ARM/RISC-V processors. Thi...
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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · Aug 15
Better and better
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Aug 13
The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?
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Go @golang.org · Aug 12
🎊 Go 1.25.0 is released!

📝 Release notes: https://go.dev/doc/go1.25

⬇️ Download: https://go.dev/dl/#go1.25.0

#golang
$ go install golang.org/dl/go1.25.0@latest $ go1.25.0 download Downloaded 0.0% ( 0 / 58130695 bytes) ... Downloaded 50.0% (29065347 / 58130695 bytes) ... Downloaded 100.0% (58130695 / 58130695 bytes) Unpacking go1.25.0.freebsd-arm.tar.gz ... Success. You may now run 'go1.25.0' $ go1.25.0 version go version go1.25.0 freebsd/arm
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