Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • 🔤SpellBinding: DHIKNOW Wordo: SWEEP

  • Some Sort of Transit Station

    Today is day **ZERO**! Amazing! I can only gawk at the implications! And very appropriate is that day **ZERO** lands precisely on Lee's birthday. My subconscious also acknowledged this small nugget of "truth". I dreamed last night of Lee. We met in a commodious transit station full of diaphanous haze. Yes, my dreams often feature ostensibly open spaces with walls or barriers or even membranes in the receding distance instead of pressing against one's senses. This may be a reflection of my claustrophobia.

• Technology and Free Software

  • A benchmark of three different floating point packages for the 6809

    I recently came across another floating point package for the 6809 [1] (written by Lennart Benschop) and I wanted to see how it stacked up against IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)-754 [2] and BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) [3] floating point math. To do this, I wanted to add support to my 6809 assembler [4], but it required some work. There was no support to switch floating point formats—if you picked the rsdos output format, you got the Microsoft floating point, and for the other output formats, you got IEEE-754 support.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • Dabbling in gemtext

      Around 1997 I took my first steps into the web at my school's computer room. Just a bit later I learned html through a magazine. Soon I had my own connection to the internet. I could write a lot about how it felt to wait an hour to download a file that's a meager Megebyte big, and hoping it didn't get corruptetd while saving to a 3,5" floppy disk. But that's not the point of this rambling.

  • Programming

    • Unit testing from inside an assembler, part IV

      I'm not terribly happy with how running unit tests inside my assembler [1] work. I mean, it works, as in, it tests the code and show problems during the assembly phase, but I don't like how you write the tests in the first place. Here's one of the tests I added to my maze generation program [2] (and the routine it tests): [...]