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Oct 10

The simplest computer game

What is the simplest possible computer game you can write? A guessing game looks to be a good starting place but it turns out to have a few interesting wrinkles. Some might say Pong was the first computer game. But the early (1972) Atari version was actually built using dedicated…

Linux

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Linux

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Oct 3

AWK Word Art

While it is true that this article started out with the terrible (irresistible) pun, it also raised a couple of interesting issues. Firstly, are old computer languages worth using/learning at all or should we just let them fade away? AWK, a language supplied with most, if not all, ‘nix systems…

Awk

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Awk

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Sep 6

Falling out of love with Vim

M y love affair with Vim is done. I’m over it and have moved on. Perhaps the timing is bad — Vim has just lost a parent after all, but that was not my reason for splitting and I don’t feel too bad. The reason for moving on is that…

Text Editing

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Text Editing

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Jun 13

ChatGPT and Solar Power Prediction

Google-Fu or ChatGPT-Do? They say that ChatGPT can write computer code and that it will replace humans for many coding jobs. Really? I used GPT-3.5-turbo from MacGPT and my aim was to program some sort of solar power output predictor for a PV (Photo Voltaic or solar power) system in Python. …

ChatGPT

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ChatGPT

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