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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Making things while making do.

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.

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

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.

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.

Advent of Shell
2 Dec 2020 | original ↗

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

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

A deep dive into a selection of ingenious AmigaOS features.

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.

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.

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.

Added a links section
24 Jul 2020 | original ↗

Links to other pages, for everyone's convenience.

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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