nemo 🐦 🦣 🐳 🃏
@nemo20000.bsky.social
Senior software engineer – graphics, print and font technologies; PIA/GATF award winner.
RISC OS bore: https://20000.org
RISC OS bore: https://20000.org
RISC OS nerdery: Now I’ve found a bug in OS_ReadArgs, by code inspection rather than experiment. What on earth could be the justification for this disappearing value?
December 5, 2025 at 11:43 AM
RISC OS nerdery: Now I’ve found a bug in OS_ReadArgs, by code inspection rather than experiment. What on earth could be the justification for this disappearing value?
Yesterday I mentioned a RISC OS oddity with the OS_ReadArgs call regarding evaluation of parameters, so I thought I’d document it more clearly.
WARNING: This will be deeply upsetting for Basic programmers...
WARNING: This will be deeply upsetting for Basic programmers...
December 4, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Yesterday I mentioned a RISC OS oddity with the OS_ReadArgs call regarding evaluation of parameters, so I thought I’d document it more clearly.
WARNING: This will be deeply upsetting for Basic programmers...
WARNING: This will be deeply upsetting for Basic programmers...
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December 3, 2025 at 11:50 PM
And on the subject of the RISC OS Filer, the fact that there is no standardised way to cause the LOADING of a file is utterly shameful, and purely a result of ideological not-invented-here silo-purity tribalism which everyone concerned should have grown out of in the school playground.
December 2, 2025 at 2:06 PM
And on the subject of the RISC OS Filer, the fact that there is no standardised way to cause the LOADING of a file is utterly shameful, and purely a result of ideological not-invented-here silo-purity tribalism which everyone concerned should have grown out of in the school playground.
Tiny RISC OS d’oh!
I was just documenting the Filer’s star commands (which are many, varied, and highly variant-dependent) when I noticed how bad RO5’s *Filer_DClickHold is.
This sets a delay which, if you hold the second click of a double-click for that time, simulates the Shift key.
I was just documenting the Filer’s star commands (which are many, varied, and highly variant-dependent) when I noticed how bad RO5’s *Filer_DClickHold is.
This sets a delay which, if you hold the second click of a double-click for that time, simulates the Shift key.
December 2, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Tiny RISC OS d’oh!
I was just documenting the Filer’s star commands (which are many, varied, and highly variant-dependent) when I noticed how bad RO5’s *Filer_DClickHold is.
This sets a delay which, if you hold the second click of a double-click for that time, simulates the Shift key.
I was just documenting the Filer’s star commands (which are many, varied, and highly variant-dependent) when I noticed how bad RO5’s *Filer_DClickHold is.
This sets a delay which, if you hold the second click of a double-click for that time, simulates the Shift key.
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I've now spent enough time on LinkedIn that I'm starting to see a pattern. I was too used to Twitter and Bluesky discourse, where people were sometimes wrong, but on retrospect they were mostly honest. On LinkedIn your average user isn't just clueless, they're just stupid, no other word fits.
November 29, 2025 at 10:35 PM
I've now spent enough time on LinkedIn that I'm starting to see a pattern. I was too used to Twitter and Bluesky discourse, where people were sometimes wrong, but on retrospect they were mostly honest. On LinkedIn your average user isn't just clueless, they're just stupid, no other word fits.
For anyone wondering whether our friend @nickpelling.bsky.social is ok - he's alive and well and has not been abducted by aliens: He appears to be researching a book on Roswell.
Oh hang on 👽
Oh hang on 👽
November 26, 2025 at 5:40 PM
For anyone wondering whether our friend @nickpelling.bsky.social is ok - he's alive and well and has not been abducted by aliens: He appears to be researching a book on Roswell.
Oh hang on 👽
Oh hang on 👽
I wouldn't trust an LLM to generate code, never mind what to code. However, they do make excellent Rubber Ducks.
I just solved a troublesome design problem while describing something to Gemini, which has cheered me up no end.
I just solved a troublesome design problem while describing something to Gemini, which has cheered me up no end.
November 24, 2025 at 10:43 PM
I wouldn't trust an LLM to generate code, never mind what to code. However, they do make excellent Rubber Ducks.
I just solved a troublesome design problem while describing something to Gemini, which has cheered me up no end.
I just solved a troublesome design problem while describing something to Gemini, which has cheered me up no end.
@support.bsky.team You've broken your Android app such that:
1. I keep having to sign back in
2. You've messed up the login fields so the keyboard doesn't know it's a username/password combination so the password manager isn't triggered
It works correctly on the web, but not in the app.
1. I keep having to sign back in
2. You've messed up the login fields so the keyboard doesn't know it's a username/password combination so the password manager isn't triggered
It works correctly on the web, but not in the app.
November 24, 2025 at 10:30 PM
@support.bsky.team You've broken your Android app such that:
1. I keep having to sign back in
2. You've messed up the login fields so the keyboard doesn't know it's a username/password combination so the password manager isn't triggered
It works correctly on the web, but not in the app.
1. I keep having to sign back in
2. You've messed up the login fields so the keyboard doesn't know it's a username/password combination so the password manager isn't triggered
It works correctly on the web, but not in the app.
My Polestar was perfectly happy crawling along behind a motorbike in traffic, but when the bike stopped at the lights, the cruise control switched off complaining "No lead car"...
Which I think is species-ist or something? So not cool, car. Shame on you. Motorbycyclists can't help being like that.
Which I think is species-ist or something? So not cool, car. Shame on you. Motorbycyclists can't help being like that.
November 21, 2025 at 7:40 PM
My Polestar was perfectly happy crawling along behind a motorbike in traffic, but when the bike stopped at the lights, the cruise control switched off complaining "No lead car"...
Which I think is species-ist or something? So not cool, car. Shame on you. Motorbycyclists can't help being like that.
Which I think is species-ist or something? So not cool, car. Shame on you. Motorbycyclists can't help being like that.
If you've any doubts about EV ownership, check the responses of thousands of actual owners... It's certainly nothing like the headlines in some newspapers.
Global EV Alliance Releases EV Driver Survey Results: "Myths" (oil industry misinformation) Are Slowing EV Market:
survey.globalevalliance.com
#ev
survey.globalevalliance.com
#ev
The Global EV Driver Survey
survey.globalevalliance.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:41 PM
If you've any doubts about EV ownership, check the responses of thousands of actual owners... It's certainly nothing like the headlines in some newspapers.
Magic smoke escape route.
November 21, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Magic smoke escape route.
"The driver was stopped and given words of advice about the traffic offences he was committing and also reminded about the seriousness of celebrating Christmas before December" 🎄
Car decked out in Christmas lights in Poole prompts police warning - BBC News
Police issue safety advice - but also warn of "the seriousness of celebrating Christmas before December".
www.bbc.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 7:43 PM
"The driver was stopped and given words of advice about the traffic offences he was committing and also reminded about the seriousness of celebrating Christmas before December" 🎄
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Last month I was honored, w/ 200 peers, to be inducted into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. A surprise. Further, I was invited to give the featured talk at the closing session, followed by a conversation w/ Dr. Laurie Patton, the Academy’s president. 1/3
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aLI...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aLI...
David Dunning Presentation and Conversation - 2025 Induction Weekend
YouTube video by American Academy of Arts & Sciences
www.youtube.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Last month I was honored, w/ 200 peers, to be inducted into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. A surprise. Further, I was invited to give the featured talk at the closing session, followed by a conversation w/ Dr. Laurie Patton, the Academy’s president. 1/3
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aLI...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aLI...
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Whomst among us hasn't felt a little vacuum about snackie all done
November 18, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Whomst among us hasn't felt a little vacuum about snackie all done
Cloudflare are having a bad Tuesday.
November 18, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Cloudflare are having a bad Tuesday.
I've just reminded myself that not only are Greek and Cyrillic Alphabets routinely confused with UTF-8, even Latin1 is not immune - something as typographically unremarkable as "×£" would be misunderstood as "ף", a Hebrew character.
This is why KeyPress must be interpreted in the current Alphabet.
This is why KeyPress must be interpreted in the current Alphabet.
I hadn't seen that. Matthew's done the best he can under the circumstances. There's a few minor mistakes, but the biggest error is the assertion that you can spot UTF-8 contextually without false positives - that's true of an Alphabet like Acorn Latin 1, but absolutely not true of Greek & Cyrillic.
November 16, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I've just reminded myself that not only are Greek and Cyrillic Alphabets routinely confused with UTF-8, even Latin1 is not immune - something as typographically unremarkable as "×£" would be misunderstood as "ף", a Hebrew character.
This is why KeyPress must be interpreted in the current Alphabet.
This is why KeyPress must be interpreted in the current Alphabet.
I'm now using &437 for that RISC OS Alphabet which required a little "handling" of OS_Byte,71 - so this module actually enables all other 16b Alphabet numbers.
Form an orderly queue.
Form an orderly queue.
And here’s a simple program to display ALL 256 CHARACTERS of codepage 437!
[I’ve put this on #123 for this demo but I haven’t allocated a number for CP-437 yet. Sadly the number 437 has b7 set so I can’t use that. Boo.]
[I’ve put this on #123 for this demo but I haven’t allocated a number for CP-437 yet. Sadly the number 437 has b7 set so I can’t use that. Boo.]
November 15, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I'm now using &437 for that RISC OS Alphabet which required a little "handling" of OS_Byte,71 - so this module actually enables all other 16b Alphabet numbers.
Form an orderly queue.
Form an orderly queue.
The "AI that's taking your job" drawing clocks...
AI World Clocks
The current time as rendered by 9 different AI models. By Brian Moore.
clocks.brianmoore.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:51 AM
The "AI that's taking your job" drawing clocks...
A creditable showing for the BBC Micro against various souped-up Apple IIs, but no Second Processor versions which (by the end of 1984) included 65C02, Z-80B, 6809 and 68000 options. All would have been faster yet.
Later there'd be 65C102, 80186, 80286, 32016 and of course ARM.
Later there'd be 65C102, 80186, 80286, 32016 and of course ARM.
Ever wanted to know how your ZX81 ranked against a CRAY supercomputer from 1984? Assuming your eyesight is good enough, now you know.
November 14, 2025 at 10:02 AM
A creditable showing for the BBC Micro against various souped-up Apple IIs, but no Second Processor versions which (by the end of 1984) included 65C02, Z-80B, 6809 and 68000 options. All would have been faster yet.
Later there'd be 65C102, 80186, 80286, 32016 and of course ARM.
Later there'd be 65C102, 80186, 80286, 32016 and of course ARM.
"I thought I was following that guy?"
<follow>
<immediately reminded why I stopped following>
<unfollow>
Six months later...
<follow>
<immediately reminded why I stopped following>
<unfollow>
Six months later...
a man with long hair and a beard is wearing a hat and making a funny face .
Alt: Gandalf about to admit he has no memory of this place.
media.tenor.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:20 PM
"I thought I was following that guy?"
<follow>
<immediately reminded why I stopped following>
<unfollow>
Six months later...
<follow>
<immediately reminded why I stopped following>
<unfollow>
Six months later...
I see the new version of the versatile Amazon Echo is specially optimised for listening to Ozric Tentacles.
That's a Wynne-Win for me.
That's a Wynne-Win for me.
November 13, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I see the new version of the versatile Amazon Echo is specially optimised for listening to Ozric Tentacles.
That's a Wynne-Win for me.
That's a Wynne-Win for me.
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He gets the job done.
November 12, 2025 at 11:30 PM
He gets the job done.