Stuff that I have found interesting over a few weeks of avoiding work.
Dev
Interesting DearIMGUI interface builder
Leads to Python Lex-Yacc which I didn’t know about.
https://github.com/dearimgui/dear_bindings
Input Prompts Pack
Some lovely artwork for input prompts in game
https://juliocacko.itch.io/free-input-prompts
Squeezing more out of byte code interpreters
https://stefan-marr.de/2023/06/squeezing-a-little-more-performance-out-of-bytecode-interpreters/
Infinigen - 3D world generation
Tied to blender, BSD license, pretty cool.
Python Development Mode
Seems quite late in the day to be learning about this but here I am!
https://docs.python.org/3/library/devmode.html
TOML
I need something other than JSON for this stuff. The best thing is that it support comments and JSON does not.
PyGubu
Looks like an interesting GUI designer for TkInter. Feels like 1990 again :wink:
https://pypi.org/project/pygubu/
Easier to use Search: TypeSense
Tech
Physically freeze, remove and read a RAM chip
Very cool indeed.
https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/09/cold_boot_ram_theft/
Basemaps from Apache
Good to see someone in the map world challenging the big boys
First ever 64-bit version of Windows rediscovered … and a C compiler for it too
I love these stories and while esoteric I think it’s important that the history is maintained. Soon these things will be legends.
https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/19/first_64bit_windows/
Windows XP activation without MS
Truly amazing the length people will go to. XP is still a great OS and a lot of games need XP to run. This is good.
https://tinyapps.org/blog/202304230700_xp_wpa.html
Earth and Grass OS
Interesting minimal OS.
https://github.com/yhzhang0128/egos-2000
What would the PC be like with a 68000 as opposed to the 8088
Very interesting.
https://microcorelabs.wordpress.com/2023/04/28/ibm-pc-8088-replaced-with-a-motorola-68000/
Human
The Case Against Travel
A bigger lie is rarely told than “Travel Broadens the Mind”.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/the-case-against-travel
Building a ZX Spectrum from Scratch
https://www.lostretrotapes.com/building-a-new-zx-spectrum-from-all-new-parts-mostly-part-1/
Answer - Fredric Brown
https://www.roma1.infn.it/~anzel/answer.html
New line drawing technique in the C64 demo scene
While this is a tech article what interests me more is the human element of endeavour
Software
Hurl
Tool to automate curl… great name.
A Regular Expression to check if a number is prime
Just weird. Weird I tell you!
https://www.noulakaz.net/2007/03/18/a-regular-expression-to-check-for-prime-numbers/
Omniflop
Write various floppy formats from a PC
http://www.shlock.co.uk/Utils/OmniFlop/OmniFlop.htm
IDA Reverse Engineering Software
This is the kind of th ing I need to get in to I think.
https://hex-rays.com/ida-home/
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