Being Left Behind Enjoyer

Lotus 1-2-3 on the PC w/DOS VisiCalc started it, but 1-2-3 finished it. "It" being the discussion of what a spreadsheet can be, and also VisiCalc itself.

🪨 Lotus 1-2-3 on the PC w/ #DOS 🛠️

Did you know #Lotus123 is still referenced in #Excel documentation, but not #VisiCalc? I spent time getting to know #VisiCalc's killer. When I struggled to make a chart, I called on the help of #AI. AI from 1986!
#retrocomputing

stonetools.ghost.io/lotus123-dos

Imagining it plays out like this

Alec grinning

Gonna make stickers for my local gas pumps with “I DID THAT” and this photo

Fun fact, as an immigrant I had to get a bunch of required vaccinations to be allowed to taste the freedom.

My biggest gripe is that this is further denigrating people who are actual victims of racism by creating a false equivalence

Wait they’re not gonna plaster “I did this” Donald stickers on every gas pump?!

It’s amazing how many people do not understand that this is not a question or statement about laws and neither is it asking for clarification or edification

As in “vibe” + “commit”

TIL agent-generated code contributions are called “vommits”

Newton keyboard

This is where I skeet from

Great post to weed out replyguys

Nintendo suing US government over tariffs
aftermath.site/nintendo-tarif...

That war was started “legally” by Germany claiming self-defense against Poland ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

This should be in a lollipop form factor

“Oh yes this war is legal so it’s of course good and proper to set children on fire”

It’s like levels in Diablo

I will always fail to understand what the difference between a legal and an illegal war is

Columbo scene with a man and a woman in a medical lab with lots of caged mice, the man says “Sorry, I don’t have a Willie.”

meanwhile, in the 70s

if god loved us he would made us pee consommé

Tangent: the mixture of high-level and low-level work is exactly what makes making* software interesting as a profession.

I don’t think you can be good at making software without doing both and everything in-between as it informs each other.

*as in soup-to-nuts

you will need to install Acrobat® Reader® to read those PDSs

“generic” is short for “generative Eric”

non accetto domande per il momento

Did you know?

“Genitalia” is short for “generative Italian”

I’m (in a loving way) teasing Amy that I’ll buy her sippy cups and bibs.

(Fwiw, I’m also often dropping or spilling things.)

same

How many belts are left lol

Also, congrats!

it’s the waffle factories

It’s fascinating how on posts pointing out terrible things big tech does there’s always a rush of replyguys riding in as white knights to relativize it and protect the trillion dollar companies exploiting their users

SimCity 2000 running on a Mac Color Classic, a city called “Bluesky” is open

#Marchintosh