Gemini* and Gopher

• Technology and Free Software

  • Entering WiFi passwords

    Entering WiFi passwords is not my hobby.

    Often they are very long, computer generated alphanumeric strings, mixing upper case and lower case.

    Which is great as a password, but not fun to enter.

    This becomes worse when the WiFi password has to be entered in something else than a file using the editor.

    There are forms where the input is shown as stars. This at least gives the feedback that you have actually entered a character. Until, in some environments, until you have reached a certain number of characters, and the display of new stars stops.

  • Programming

    • FIFO Fum

      A blocking FIFO has various gotchas. First up the open needs to be done non-blocking so that the process does not wedge at that point, as presumably you want other parts of the daemon to get up and running first: [...]

    • Limitations of a two-pass assembler

      I've come to realize that supporting foward references in a two-pass assembler [1] isn't always easy. The simple case of forward references I support: [...]