Every year I make a list of ”good” software alternatives for myself based on a few metrics: Open Source and future proof, UX and simplicity, Privacy and Security, and Broad OS Support. This year I took it to the test and even surprised myself with the result. From a Linux perspective most things just work, […]
A yearly software review Läs mer »
Already last year in January I had the ambition to switch to Linux again after a few years living in MS world. Didn’t have time to actually convert thinking into doing back then so I muddled along. Its nice, it works and it doesn’t give too much of an headache. Fast forward a year and
Tonight I connected my old Commodore PC20, a dusty 8088 machine running MS-DOS 5.0 to Claude via a null modem RS232 cable. No internet on the Commodore side, just a serial port and a QuickBASIC program I and my friend Claude wrote to shuttle bytes back and forth. The setup is simple in principle: a
Talking to Claude through a 1985 Commodore PC20 Läs mer »
Back in 2004 I took a class in genetic programming at the university and one concept that stuck with me was the so called ”30 monkeys in a bus” algorithm introduced by professor Peter Nordin. The name highlights the essence of an algorithm where different genotypes are elected in a body, in this case a
Evolving Self-Awareness: Return of The 30 Monkeys Läs mer »
Around 1993-1994 (when I was 13), in school we went from a typewriter machine to the educational workhorse COMPIS computer to a 486 PC within a year. One nice thing about the 486 was that it ran DOOM – the pinnacle at the time of what gaming had to offer. But that is not the
This is just a test mainly, but it seems entierly possible to show code written in dartpad on blogs etc. This example is based on the original theme tutorial on https://docs.flutter.dev/cookbook/design/themes#apply-a-theme
Dart, Flutter and Gists Läs mer »
This winter holidays I spent a lot of time organizing, tying up loose ends (while discovering new ones), archiving and looking through the many corners of a digital backlog. Safe to say – it’s a mess, but being me it’s also time for revelation and realization. I had forgotten a lot about what happened about
New Year – New Perspectives and Retrospectives Läs mer »
Catching up with the latest AI news, I got inspired to try out some new concepts. So in this first example I’m playing with a half-finished project concerning a RPG adventure. It has some text and perhaps one day an AI will complete it for me. Until then, lets see what we can do. First
Welcome, I’m getting stuff ready! Meanwhile please feel free to read some really old posts from my old website and then check back in a week or two.
Some intial reflections setting up React Native. So what is React Native? Basically its a cross-platform framework for developing native mobile apps for Android and IOS using java-script. So far the environment is up according to the install-instructions covering all steps from cocho to nodejs to firing up AVD. Part from a red-screen when running