Alan Ralph

Wearer Of Many Hats


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Posts for 2019-05-27

One of the downsides of installing new packages from within Sublime Text is that you’ve no real clue as to how good they are, what dependencies they need, or even if they’re still actively supported. And then I find that the package doesn’t work anyway. Very annoying!


I’m going to give Visual Studio Code a try-out for my coding tasks. Getting tired of wrestling with Sublime Text.


Before Netscape: The forgotten Web browsers of the early 1990s

Back in the 1990s I was accessing the Internet over dial-up. When I finally got Trumpet WinSock (remember that?) working, I tried out both Mosaic and Cello on Windows 3.11, before the first Netscape beta showed up…


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