Posts for 2019-03-15

One side-effect of using Freedom to block social media sites for most of the day is the way that it renders articles that lean heavily on content from those places. All of said content disappears, leaving article very much talking about nothing. Truth revealed.

It’s Frustrating That Preview in Mojave Isn’t Better

I’ve run into occasional issues when viewing some PDFs in Preview, going back several macOS releases now. Not good. Surely folks at Apple must use it too, so why aren’t these bugs being fixed?

A New Lunar Lander for the ZX81 / Timex Sinclair 1000

This brings back memories. I owned a Sinclair ZX81 for a few years in the early 1980s. It got very hot, and was prone to crashing and resetting itself occasionally, usually after I’d finished typing in a program listing.

On the past, present, and future of COBOL

It’s seems that, much like the Hotel California in the Eagles song of that name, we can check out of COBOL but we can never leave it. At least, not for the foreseeable future…

Switching to posting here on my blog site instead of Facebook was an important part of weaning myself away from that place. But having my RSS feeds to look through was, and remains, the key.

At first, the fixed window size of the Micro.blog app for Mac niggled me. But now I can appreciate the fact that it doesn’t need to hog screen space in order to do its job. The clue was in the name the whole time! 🙂