For those us who didn't receive a case of beer with our computer.
Added "Les Animaux", Amiga graphics released at Pågadata 2024.
On Cathode Ray Tubes, nostalgia and anachronisms.
We all want the system we can't have.
Added "Frog" and "Zero Street Cred", two 8 colour images used in a small dentro/slideshow called "2024". Released at Gerp in January.
Thoughts on articifial intelligence and lofty expectations.
Old codger yells at software, part the latest.
In a strange turn of events, regular datagubbe programming will resume after this short break of Swedish nonsense.
A detailed account of the rise and fall of an Amiga zealot.
Documented, undocumented, unfinished and useful.
We value your valuable input, valuable input valuer!
In which we once more delve into the world of user interface design.
Hacker culture and politics in postmodern fact and fiction.
On geopolitics, economics, class, looming austerity... and Twitter.
Exploring the customized toolboxes of yore.
Added a new pixel art image (GriMaPe Visits the Pub) and updated the design of the pixel art page.
TTX is back in business! Once again you can enjoy Swedish national teletext news from the comfort of your terminal.
Removed the crufty class, otherwise functionally the same.
On metapolitics and impending doom.
A deep dive into the GUI components and legal ramifications of Windows 95.
Extracton method changed to account for JSON end token possibly being "head" variable instead of "meta" variable.
Added The Heist, #1 in the Gubbdata 2022 Amiga graphics competition.
A comprehensive guide to buying your first second hand Amiga.
Durden is a program that identifies, counts and, optionally, marks and/or cuts out and saves unique tiles in a given image file.
The Amiga as "a computer built to last 50 years".
On raster fonts, vector typefaces, smoothing and legibility.
Day 1 solved in Python, COBOL and (on real hardware of course) ARexx.
Fred Fish and floppies filled with freedom.
RxEnv version 1.2 is released. The REPL now includes an IMMEDIATE mode, which will execute new code buffers instantly after closing them.
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).
I too wanted to jump on the bandwagon with this exciting new standard.
Never take long, opinionated lists of advice as irrefutable truths to live by.
How will we remember our personal past in the future?
A few thoughts on COBOL and its relative obscurity.
Making things while making do.
Pioneers that shaped computing as I know it.
Generated GIFs are now 100x100 pixels. A workaround to silence shellcheck SC2059 was submitted by Bastian Bittorf.
Pixel art animations and lazy coding on real hardware. Smell that? That's a warm CRT. Ahhhhh.... take a whiff!
General purpose computing for the classes, not the masses.
Actually, it's the best snippets from my .bash_aliases - but that's not as fun to say.
Another title so long it needs no explanation.
Amateur armchair theories about the Voynich manuscript.
Meta shitposting about lo-fi web publishing for lazy gits
A semi-initiated comparison of US and European hacker cultures.
Who said "Computer science is not about computers, any more than astronomy is about telescopes"?
On online freedom and politicking the source.
Extraction method changed to reflect Youtube's removal of get_video_info
A title so long, no explanation is needed.
Added the now required CONSENT cookie to the search function. Please see the documentation for further details on this.
Ramblings on piracy, culture, manufacturing, profit, and the demo scene.
New musing: Jonathan Blow is wrong but also right and we still need to prevent the collapse of civilization.
Forgot the password? Reset it like this.
How to disable cursor blinking in Linux TTY:s - once and for all!
On inventions, improvements and stagnation in the software world.
The repeating history of platform diversity and dreams of reviving the home computer.
Added user-agent header to initial request, which now seems to be required by Instagram.
A succinct summary for anyone who's spent the last 20 years in suspended animation.
No real functional changes; mainly a thorough refactoring and better error handling. Also, Merry Christmas!
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.
Youtube changed their search response data format again. Fixed this, so searching works again... for now.
Advent of Code 2020, day 1, part 1 solved in pure AmigaShell. No ARexx! No cheating!
Fixed broken pipe error that occured for example when quitting less before having scrolled to the end of the complete tube history listing.
A deep dive into a selection of ingenious AmigaOS features.
tubeshell now (crudely) silences the "Playing:" output from mpv.
No Config for Old Men - or anyone else, for that matter: The curious disappearance of configuration.
How to disable all the annoying pop-ups, tooltips and auto suggestions in VS Code.
In which my thoughts on speed, accessibility, privacy and usefulness are discussed.
TTX v 1.2 contains a bugfix defaulting the foreground colour to white when foreground colour information is missing from the teletext XML source.
New version of colshift with nicer HTML output.
Better digital living by making things harder for yourself - mostly by not feeding the infinite ad machine of Google and Facebook.
Search function now supports new scraping format from Youtube.
ttx is a Python script for reading SVT:s teletext pages from the comfort of your terminal.
Boredom struck, I did a few AoC 2016 challenges and decided to create a page for them.
Tube version 1.0.17 released. Tubeshell now only lists the last 100 viewed videos by default.
Tube version 1.0.16 released, featuring support for omxplayer.
Added the FVWM config in use on my RasPi 3B+, plus a screenshot.
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.
Tube version 1.0.15 released, featuring an experimental search function
A bash script to raise/lower audio volume and display an xmessage with the new volume level.