Notes

A quick writeup of how I debugged a problem with a Ruby module calling ioctl on OpenBSD this morning

https://jcs.org/2022/02/16/ioctl

I never thought I'd see the day this actually came out

I may have taken this a bit too far...

https://amendhub.com/jcs

Huzzah, my solder job wasn't terrible and the RGBtoHDMI works

Here is the first release of Wallops, with source code and THINK C 5 project

https://jcs.org/wallops

Owning up to mistakes is something I still struggle with. It can really be detrimental to relationships to get defensive and since this behavior often stems from childhood, I'm trying to go easier on my son when he makes mistakes so he doesn't try to hide them or get anxious
https://twitter.com/awesomekling/status/1489723782642216962

I wrote an IRC client over the past couple days to chat from my Mac Plus (and to distract me from working on my BBS code)

In the mid/late 90s I would often try to clone mIRC in Visual Basic just to get better at Winsock programming and it usually looked just like this

Well now I need to know why Discord's website is running a regex against a base64-encoded PNG

https://youtu.be/QTm-fqPzjY8?t=3902

I finally got all of the components for this RGBtoHDMI project but I've never done SMD soldering before and there's a lot of tiny components... any tips?
https://twitter.com/jcs/status/1404826162761768964

OpenBSD has a very rigid way of doing things, which is great for security and attracts developers who have similar rigid thinking in life. I'm sure it appealed to me as a younger know-it-all. But over time, it's harder to cling to decades-old practices while the world moves on.

In my Q&A video I suggested OpenBSD could improve by reaching out to younger developers by making it easier to contribute with Git/GitHub.

A discussion on the ports mailing list came up and I suggested it... which went over like a lead balloon:

https://www.mail-archive.com/ports@openbsd.org/index.html#109661

get a room already alice and bob

A periodic reminder that I made a website and I would like you to use it

https://deskto.ps

This is a great video about Norton Desktop which makes me kind of sad I never knew about it back in my Windows 3.1 days

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD7AezjG5YE

Thanks to everyone that sent in questions!

https://jcs.org/2022/01/14/q&a