banyek

So I made a ZX Spectrum development environment with Codex, because I COULD. I owed it to my 8-year-old self, whose first computer was a Spectrum, and who learned to program in BASIC on it.

I was curious how far I could get by vibe coding, and here’s the result: a VS Code plugin. You can write and format pure Spectrum 48K BASIC in it, then with the press of a button generate a .tap file from it — and if you have Fuse (Free Unix Spectrum Emulator) installed on your machine, you can even run it.

In the long run, it would be nice to support other BASIC dialects as well as other emulators. If you’re interested, give it a try; if it’s lame, just ignore it.

omg, this is so good. My son keep asking me to buy it somewhere, and now he play it.

Face it. I was really afraid to fly for years, but when I had the opportunity to travel overseas, I decided that I'll fly - even I am frightened about flying. Actually I have to say that my fear always vanished when the plane's door was shut, I guess I realised that I can't do anything against it - and it calmed me. I played with a lots of flight simulators when I was a kid, that helped a to know what exactly happening, and knowing is the best way to overcome fear - but that wasn't enough. Before each flight I my guts were sick, I just can't do anything against it, that came from my nerves - fight or run. I clearly remember the moment when I get over my fear: I was sitting on a plane which flew from Dallas to San Jose, sitting next to a huge guy, and that was my 23rd hour awake, and that was my 20st hour of the trip with several layovers. And I started to HOPE that we'll die. I mean I was exhausted, I was nervous, I wasn't able to sleep, and then there came the thought 'how easy it would be if we just crash now, that misery would be ended' and BAM my fear was just out. It just went through on my mind, and I guess that was the moment when I accepted the idea, that I could die on a plane. Who cares? Probably I wont. And my fear was over.

I am really curious what is your solution?

I have an 1.7 Ghz i7 processor, and 8 GB of ram. I mostly use a browser and an iterm in my workflow, this macbook air will be still enough for years. And my biggest problem with that machine was the keyboard, which is not good for me.

I am working with vim for about 18 years now, I won't change my preferences just because some smartass decides that a sparkling fun touch bar will be better for me.

Heh, I got mine from my company, because they said, 'that is the laptop for the engineers' and nobody cared when I said I don't need that. And the 13" without touchbar would still be an usb-c one (I still had to replace all my stuff) and still have that crappy keyboard. I work with my machine, not just show it off for the people. Apple is over the zenit. Period.