Alistair Grant

Combining software modelling and personal knowledge management @feenkcom

[Alistair Grant @akg044]

@eevblog Looks like one of the beach paths near Queenscliff…

[Torsten Bergmann @TorstenAstares]

Super good catch: in some situations socket IO on Windows was able to crash the VM with an access violation (due to a race condition).

Reported to @pharoproject by @feenkcom in issue 495 and solved using PR 497 in latest VM code.

Excellent!

Details in:
https://t.co/knd4XN2IBc

[Alistair Grant @akg044]

@eevblog I’ve often wondered if we have more than the usual number of breakers… Czech Republic from 7 years ago.

[Tudor Girba @girba]

This article 👇 offers an introduction to #MoldableDevelopment.

It's written for a first time reader. It's not quite short, but it's not that long either (~4000 words). It has concrete examples, but also a little broader theory.

https://t.co/6WGnYSeO5O

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[Alistair Grant @akg044]

@hackaday A microfortnight is 1.21 seconds. If I remember correctly, the VMS manual had a warning about how the timer wasn't very accurate, and somehow tended to be .21 seconds over. 😃

[Alistair Grant @akg044]

@pomeranian99 My partner refuses to give up her 2009 iPhone 3. Still looks like new, although the battery doesn’t last as long, but still a couple of days (only very light use).

[Alistair Grant @akg044]

@popey Can I use carbon copy paper in my typewriter to keep a copy for reference?

[Alistair Grant @akg044]

@sasa_vujanovic @CzechMFA https://t.co/R0UlyPnKzv
(google translate does a good job, if you want it in English)

[Alistair Grant @akg044]

@climagic PDP 11/04 running MONECS (https://t.co/15fYmmrVMX) and later RT-11 or RSX-11 with a VT-52. It had a couple of 8 inch floppies.
Thanks to https://t.co/Xwqh9vPAPQ for the photo.

[Clive Thompson @pomeranian99]

Here's @wphillips49 writing in @WIRED about "smokescreen trolling" -- a terrific parsing of the latest rhetorical bs-fueled strategies of the trumpist right: https://t.co/psyjsYWPq5

[Alistair Grant @akg044]

@dmejiacanales @spetznatz Couldn't agree more. I remember going interstate and having to deal with the inferior maps there. No other map was as clear and informative as the Melway's.

[Alistair Grant @akg044]

@traversymedia VMS Edit
Vi
VMS Edit
Emacs
VisualWorks
Vim
Pharo
Gtoolkit

[Alistair Grant @akg044]

@Ritesh64713350 @UBank Internet banking was unavailable again, but was able to login in incognito mode...

[Alistair Grant @akg044]

@ubank Why is internet banking "temporarily unavailable" about every second login attempt?

[Alistair Grant @akg044]

@Ritesh64713350 @UBank Hi Michael,
Thanks for your reply. This year I've probably had this half a dozen times (on Chrome), I normally log in between 2am and 6am AEDT. Today, of course, it worked first time. I haven't tried incognito mode - will try that next time.
Thanks again.

[Alistair Grant @akg044]

@SergeStinckwich @dfarmer @feenkcom I loaded PythonBridge in Gt while ago without any problems. There's also PharoLink and JSLink if you want remote Pharo or nodejs processes (I haven't tried PB with the others).

[Alistair Grant @akg044]

@LamoureuxEterna @BiruktiWrites Hi, I'm Alexander the Great

My understanding is (from my parents):
Alistair is derived from Alexander
Grant is derived from 'the Great'

[Alistair Grant @akg044]

They should get in touch with... https://t.co/2CMMWI54I4

[Quite Interesting @qikipedia]

New research shows that kangaroos can communicate with humans and ask them for help. Link contains very wholesome video. https://t.co/ksqPvs5yQv

[Alistair Grant @akg044]

@SpacePlaceNZ Feel free...
https://t.co/IVsipSrkTI
The shadow from the sign post is fairly distinctive in the satellite picture.

[Alistair Grant @akg044]

Just in case you're wandering through farmland in western Czech and wondering where @SpacePlaceNZ Carter Observatory, Wellington NZ is...

[Mutable OS @mutableos]

@CatoMinor3 @RoamResearch @observablehq @roamhacker @Jeanvaljean689 @cortexfutura If you find this amazing you need to see a demo of #gtoolkit by @feenkcom.

It will blow you away.