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Old Fogey Computing: rants, hacks and miscellanea.
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On Working With Your Passion
20 Oct 2024 | original ↗

Are you loving every second of your job?

Misc: Quines
17 Oct 2024 | original ↗

An honest man scores a single point on a silly test.

The Annotated Hacker Test
21 Sept 2024 | original ↗

For those us who didn't receive a case of beer with our computer.

Cosy Computing
1 Sept 2024 | original ↗

On the soulful qualities of home computers.

New Pixel Art
11 Aug 2024 | original ↗

Added "Les Animaux", Amiga graphics released at Pågadata 2024.

The Effect of CRTs on Pixel Art
30 Jul 2024 | original ↗

On Cathode Ray Tubes, nostalgia and anachronisms.

On Complex Simplicity and Simple Complexity
28 Jul 2024 | original ↗

We all want the system we can't have.

New pixel art added
23 Jun 2024 | original ↗

Added "Frog" and "Zero Street Cred", two 8 colour images used in a small dentro/slideshow called "2024". Released at Gerp in January.

Stupid Slow
6 Jun 2024 | original ↗

On the perceived speed of computers.

Is Winter Coming?
20 May 2024 | original ↗

Thoughts on articifial intelligence and lofty expectations.

Gnome Files: A detailed UI examination
23 Mar 2024 | original ↗

Old codger yells at software, part the latest.

Swedish Puns
17 Mar 2024 | original ↗

In a strange turn of events, regular datagubbe programming will resume after this short break of Swedish nonsense.

How Doom didn't kill the Amiga
3 Feb 2024 | original ↗

A detailed account of the rise and fall of an Amiga zealot.

Well-known Secrets of AmigaDOS
29 Jan 2024 | original ↗

Documented, undocumented, unfinished and useful.

An Ode to Deluxe Paint
28 Dec 2023 | original ↗

The Kaleidoscopic Magical Motion Machine.

The Datagubbe Survey Response Survey
25 Nov 2023 | original ↗

We value your valuable input, valuable input valuer!

The Decline of Usability: Revisited
31 Oct 2023 | original ↗

In which we once more delve into the world of user interface design.

The Wachowskis and the Hacker as a progressive archetype
7 Sept 2023 | original ↗

Hacker culture and politics in postmodern fact and fiction.

Scene Archetypes
26 Aug 2023 | original ↗

The ones making Amiga 500 fun.

Nature for Nerds
12 Aug 2023 | original ↗

Hungry hedgerow hacks for city slickers.

The Future of the Software Industry
25 Jun 2023 | original ↗

On geopolitics, economics, class, looming austerity... and Twitter.

Why we don't trade with ants
11 Jun 2023 | original ↗

...and why hypothetical AI:s won't, either.

A Life Less Ads
5 May 2023 | original ↗

Angry man yells at late stage capitalism.

Everyday Carry
5 Apr 2023 | original ↗

Always prepared!

The Colorful Charm of Amiga Utility Disks
10 Feb 2023 | original ↗

Exploring the customized toolboxes of yore.

A Quarter Century of Web Coding
3 Jan 2023 | original ↗

Tracing the Fractal of Complexity.

Stranger Things and the Amiga 1000
28 Dec 2022 | original ↗

Angry nerd yells at TV.

Computers are for Girls
27 Nov 2022 | original ↗

A deep dive into early home computer ads.

Pixel art update
22 Oct 2022 | original ↗

Added a new pixel art image (GriMaPe Visits the Pub) and updated the design of the pixel art page.

Directory Opus - King of the Dual Panes
7 Oct 2022 | original ↗

File management done right.

Short Thoughts on Computers and Programming
21 Sept 2022 | original ↗

Not quite aphorisms.

New version of TTX
20 Sept 2022 | original ↗

TTX is back in business! Once again you can enjoy Swedish national teletext news from the comfort of your terminal.

New version of Durden
20 Sept 2022 | original ↗

Removed the crufty class, otherwise functionally the same.

King Charles III and the Swedish General Election
9 Sept 2022 | original ↗

On metapolitics and impending doom.

The Stubborn Computing Manifesto
6 Sept 2022 | original ↗

Ars longa, vita brevis.

The Problem With Computer Analogies
4 Sept 2022 | original ↗

On different kinds of literacy

Extremely Online In Real Life
31 Jul 2022 | original ↗

On old friendships and new loneliness.

Proprietary Art: How Microsoft didn't splinter the Linux desktop
28 Jul 2022 | original ↗

A deep dive into the GUI components and legal ramifications of Windows 95.

Tube 1.1.5 released
23 Jul 2022 | original ↗

Extracton method changed to account for JSON end token possibly being "head" variable instead of "meta" variable.

The Home Computer Generation
19 Jul 2022 | original ↗

On experiences lost in user-friendliness.

New pixel art: The Heist
15 Jul 2022 | original ↗

Added The Heist, #1 in the Gubbdata 2022 Amiga graphics competition.

FVWM: Daily Driver Config
9 Jun 2022 | original ↗

Keyboard Focused Classical Window Management

The Amiga Buyer's Guide
6 Jun 2022 | original ↗

A comprehensive guide to buying your first second hand Amiga.

The IBM PC XT Desk Caddy
29 Apr 2022 | original ↗

A cute little desktop toy.

The Future of Open Source
24 Apr 2022 | original ↗

On imperialism and idealism.

Software: [Tiler] Durden
27 Mar 2022 | original ↗

Durden is a program that identifies, counts and, optionally, marks and/or cuts out and saves unique tiles in a given image file.

Tables and Strings in COBOL
22 Mar 2022 | original ↗

Big Data like it's 1985.

Romancing the Thinkpad 365
20 Mar 2022 | original ↗

Two Morons and a Compact Flash Card.

For Whom The Whistle Blows
19 Feb 2022 | original ↗

On polarization online and elsewhere.

Decades of Fun: Computers Built to Last
2 Jan 2022 | original ↗

The Amiga as "a computer built to last 50 years".

Stems as mock data structures in REXX
29 Dec 2021 | original ↗

An experimental "Tutorial as Code".

Fonts, a Fuzzy Fringefest
28 Dec 2021 | original ↗

On raster fonts, vector typefaces, smoothing and legibility.

Advent of Code 2021: Day 1 Three Ways
1 Dec 2021 | original ↗

Day 1 solved in Python, COBOL and (on real hardware of course) ARexx.

So long and thanks for all the disks!
23 Nov 2021 | original ↗

Fred Fish and floppies filled with freedom.

RxEnv 1.2 released
12 Nov 2021 | original ↗

RxEnv version 1.2 is released. The REPL now includes an IMMEDIATE mode, which will execute new code buffers instantly after closing them.

Tube 1.1.4 released
20 Oct 2021 | original ↗

Tube is back in business again and can now invoke yt-dlp and pipe its output to the configured video player. This mitigates Youtube's newfangled bandwidth throttling (all thanks to yt-dlp, of course).

humans.txt
17 Oct 2021 | original ↗

I too wanted to jump on the bandwagon with this exciting new standard.

Sage advice for a calmer, more fulfilling digital life
16 Oct 2021 | original ↗

Never take long, opinionated lists of advice as irrefutable truths to live by.

Fleeting Memories of Youth and the Increasing Impermanence of Culture
10 Oct 2021 | original ↗

How will we remember our personal past in the future?

A Lasting Legacy: Thoughts on COBOL
2 Oct 2021 | original ↗

A few thoughts on COBOL and its relative obscurity.

RxEnv v1.1 released
17 Sept 2021 | original ↗

Code cleanups, added an invoker script for rxpp.

The Joy Of Limitations: Writing an ARexx REPL in ARexx
6 Sept 2021 | original ↗

Making things while making do.

RxEnv
6 Sept 2021 | original ↗

Tools for your ARexx development environment.

Not as famous as they should be
19 Aug 2021 | original ↗

Pioneers that shaped computing as I know it.

colshift v1.1 released
24 Jul 2021 | original ↗

Generated GIFs are now 100x100 pixels. A workaround to silence shellcheck SC2059 was submitted by Bastian Bittorf.

Using an Amiga in 2021: Making an intro
22 Jul 2021 | original ↗

Pixel art animations and lazy coding on real hardware. Smell that? That's a warm CRT. Ahhhhh.... take a whiff!

Elite gatekeeping in the age of surveillance capitalism
16 Jul 2021 | original ↗

General purpose computing for the classes, not the masses.

Misc: Best of .bashrc
10 Jul 2021 | original ↗

Actually, it's the best snippets from my .bash_aliases - but that's not as fun to say.

The State Of The Unions - can workers unite to improve online privacy?
10 Jul 2021 | original ↗

Another title so long it needs no explanation.

Voynich, Hill, Crumb: A Hitherto Vexing Codex
8 Jul 2021 | original ↗

Amateur armchair theories about the Voynich manuscript.

The Amazing Workflow of Datagubbe
8 Jul 2021 | original ↗

Meta shitposting about lo-fi web publishing for lazy gits

The End of Ownership
20 Jun 2021 | original ↗

New musing: On rent-seeking as a service.

Pondering the Scene: Why are Demos European?
31 May 2021 | original ↗

A semi-initiated comparison of US and European hacker cultures.

On Attributing a Quote
30 May 2021 | original ↗

Who said "Computer science is not about computers, any more than astronomy is about telescopes"?

Controlled By a Cabal of its Enemies
22 May 2021 | original ↗

On online freedom and politicking the source.

Tube version 1.1.2 released
20 May 2021 | original ↗

Extraction method changed to reflect Youtube's removal of get_video_info

The Cults of Ken and Kay
12 May 2021 | original ↗

Can - and should - everyone learn to program?

New Musing: Unconvincing Conveniences, Elite Overproduction and Sweden's Single Point of Failure.
9 May 2021 | original ↗

A title so long, no explanation is needed.

New musing: Peak Web Has Passed
8 May 2021 | original ↗

On user experience vs. user exploitation

Tube version 1.1.1 released
3 Apr 2021 | original ↗

Added the now required CONSENT cookie to the search function. Please see the documentation for further details on this.

New FVWM2 config and screenshot
2 Apr 2021 | original ↗

Added my current main FVWM2 config.

New musing: Art Will Not Disappear
28 Mar 2021 | original ↗

Ramblings on piracy, culture, manufacturing, profit, and the demo scene.

CGTerm on Linux
23 Mar 2021 | original ↗

How to (hopefully) compile and configure CGTerm on Linux.

Is Software Abstraction Killing Civilization?
25 Jan 2021 | original ↗

New musing: Jonathan Blow is wrong but also right and we still need to prevent the collapse of civilization.

How to boot a NeXT cube into single user mode
21 Jan 2021 | original ↗

Forgot the password? Reset it like this.

No blinking in Linux TTY:s
6 Jan 2021 | original ↗

How to disable cursor blinking in Linux TTY:s - once and for all!

Nothing is New
2 Jan 2021 | original ↗

On inventions, improvements and stagnation in the software world.

New musing: A Hope For Reliving 1994
29 Dec 2020 | original ↗

The repeating history of platform diversity and dreams of reviving the home computer.

igdl version 1.0.3 released
28 Dec 2020 | original ↗

Added user-agent header to initial request, which now seems to be required by Instagram.

New musing: Explaining the Internet in 2020
27 Dec 2020 | original ↗

A succinct summary for anyone who's spent the last 20 years in suspended animation.

tube version 1.1.0 released
23 Dec 2020 | original ↗

No real functional changes; mainly a thorough refactoring and better error handling. Also, Merry Christmas!

Advent of Code 2020
18 Dec 2020 | original ↗

Solutions for day 1 through 16 of AoC 2020. Don't think I'll be doing any more this year so I decided to put them online now.

tube 1.0.23 released
3 Dec 2020 | original ↗

Youtube changed their search response data format again. Fixed this, so searching works again... for now.

Advent of Shell
2 Dec 2020 | original ↗

Advent of Code 2020, day 1, part 1 solved in pure AmigaShell. No ARexx! No cheating!

tube version 1.0.22 released
23 Nov 2020 | original ↗

Fixed broken pipe error that occured for example when quitting less before having scrolled to the end of the complete tube history listing.

Little Things That Made Amiga Great
18 Nov 2020 | original ↗

A deep dive into a selection of ingenious AmigaOS features.

tube version 1.0.21 released
14 Nov 2020 | original ↗

tubeshell now (crudely) silences the "Playing:" output from mpv.

New Musing: No Config for Old Men
12 Nov 2020 | original ↗

No Config for Old Men - or anyone else, for that matter: The curious disappearance of configuration.

Sane Visual Studio Code
9 Nov 2020 | original ↗

How to disable all the annoying pop-ups, tooltips and auto suggestions in VS Code.

New Musing: Website Colophon and Mission Statement for a Better Web
7 Nov 2020 | original ↗

In which my thoughts on speed, accessibility, privacy and usefulness are discussed.

TTX version 1.2 released
1 Nov 2020 | original ↗

TTX v 1.2 contains a bugfix defaulting the foreground colour to white when foreground colour information is missing from the teletext XML source.

Version 1.0.5 of colshift released
27 Oct 2020 | original ↗

New version of colshift with nicer HTML output.

New Musing: Subversive Computing
23 Oct 2020 | original ↗

Better digital living by making things harder for yourself - mostly by not feeding the infinite ad machine of Google and Facebook.

tube version 1.0.20 released
23 Oct 2020 | original ↗

Search function now supports new scraping format from Youtube.

ttx version 1.1 released
23 Aug 2020 | original ↗

Mostly code cleanups.

tube version 1.0.19 released
23 Aug 2020 | original ↗

Added "last" parameter to delhist

ttx - Swedish Teletext reader
17 Aug 2020 | original ↗

ttx is a Python script for reading SVT:s teletext pages from the comfort of your terminal.

Advent of Code 2016
16 Aug 2020 | original ↗

Boredom struck, I did a few AoC 2016 challenges and decided to create a page for them.

New version of colshift
8 Aug 2020 | original ↗

Colshift v 1.0.4 released

New version of Tube
8 Aug 2020 | original ↗

Tube version 1.0.17 released. Tubeshell now only lists the last 100 viewed videos by default.

New version of Tube - with omxplayer support
4 Aug 2020 | original ↗

Tube version 1.0.16 released, featuring support for omxplayer.

FVWM config for Raspberry Pi
4 Aug 2020 | original ↗

Added the FVWM config in use on my RasPi 3B+, plus a screenshot.

colshift - X11 Color Tool
27 Jul 2020 | original ↗

Colshift is a POSIX shell script for manipulating and previewing colors, mainly based on the X11 color table. It can also generate colored GIFs from arbitrary hex values.

Added a links section
24 Jul 2020 | original ↗

Links to other pages, for everyone's convenience.

New version of Tube - with search function
22 Jul 2020 | original ↗

Tube version 1.0.15 released, featuring an experimental search function

xvol - X11 Volume Indicator
21 Jul 2020 | original ↗

A bash script to raise/lower audio volume and display an xmessage with the new volume level.

RSS Feed
21 Jul 2020 | original ↗

Added an RSS feed!

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