HelixI’ve tried the Helix editor and, to be honest, I’m split. I have three specific things to say, though.
Retrocomputing Emulators on Your BrowserIn the past I’ve been explaining how to use various emulators to run old operating systems on your Linux box; today, we’re going to use a much simpler approach: just click on a link, and run them on your browser!
Conway in C89Another year, another version of my Polyglot Conway project, this time for C89, also known as “ANSI C”, targeting quite a few compilers of the early 1990s, and some others from our more recent times.
FreeDOS on QEMUFollowing with my recent explorations around running vintage operating systems on various virtualization platforms, I’ve recently tried to run FreeDOS on QEMU, and these are the steps I followed.
WordStar 7 for DOSI’m a Fedora Linux user, a very happy one at that, and there’s no shortage of decent text editors for Fedora; yet, I have to say that for the past few months I’ve been happily writing my text on the most awkward and backward editor you could think of… and it turned out to be one of the most pleasant writing experiences I’ve had in the past few years.
The Playlist of 2024After the list of books and movies, here’s the playlist of the songs I’ve enjoyed the most in 2024, aka the playlist of my life last year, including what Spotify had to say about it. Enjoy!
Best Books of 2024In 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013 I published lists of books I enjoyed every year. Then I enumerated those I read from 2014 to 2019, and then the ones of 2021, 2022, and 2023.
Shows and Movies of 2024I have published the list of shows and movies I watched or re-watched in 2022 and 2023. Here is the list of 2024. I do not recommend them all; some of it was great, some was utterly forgettable.