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I'm a crusty old nerd who chases bright shiny things and loves playing with old computers :) Especially my Atari 800XL and Amiga.

I build castles in the cloud(s) […]

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@dashdsrdash This whole thread and your response in particular are making my point for me in 40 foot tall blinking neon.

You're basically saying that humans can't create programs if they don't understand pointers.

That's provably false. See my initial thesis about tools like Hypercard and […]
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oldbytes.space
November 12, 2025 at 6:12 PM
@oscherler I don’t have to fuss with any of that anymore. The sinus rinse theologist gave me goes right up one Austro and out the other, so no more crazy trying to figure out what angle to cock my head at to make it work anymore. :-)
November 9, 2025 at 8:11 PM
@glyph For sure. The key is the way it integrates into your dev workflow SO seamlessly. Any other stand alone GUI thing loses on that score just as a starter.

@neovim has Neogit and Gitsigns and I've used both but neither provided the same kind of bang for buck that Magit does so ultimately I […]
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oldbytes.space
November 7, 2025 at 7:09 PM
@glyph Magit and Forge are just about the only things I miss from my Emacs days.
November 7, 2025 at 7:02 PM
@brouhaha Thank you! I'll try anything :) I suspect you just need to get used to it.
November 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM
@brettcannon I feel like you should preface a statement like that with “long long ago and land far far away” :-)

Clearly I have burned away the memory of all my year is working for a Megacorp, where we ran antediluvian Python versions :-) Very grateful to be back in academia where we’re running […]
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oldbytes.space
October 31, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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October 31, 2025 at 6:59 PM