daltont

Could have mentioned the use of the 6809 in the Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computer and the Dragon in the UK. Using the TRS-80 tag on something not using a Z-80 never made sense.

Comment · 6 months ago

Location: St. Louis, MO USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Java, Spring Boot, REST, Scala, Typescript, SQL, Python

Resume/CV: https://daltontf.github.io/Resume.pdf

Email: In resume

Site: https://daltontf.github.io

Taught myself Java in 1997 and was able have it do the heavy lifting over the years. Have "kicked the tires" on a lot technologies over the years for side-projects evidenced by the menagerie of repositories on my GitHub.

Comment · 9 months ago

Old one.

Coleco known for the ColecoVision home video game system and the Coleco Adam home computer started out as the "Connecticut Leather Company" in 1932. The business supplied leather and "shoe findings" (the supplies and paraphernalia of a shoe repair shop) to shoe repairers.

Comment · 10 months ago

An exercise in simulating sports fandom on a map. To do things like simulate expansion and relocation of franchises.

The idea of turning this into a simulation game is a possibility hence "warz" in the name.

It is a bunch of Jupyter notebooks being served by Voila. The "Blank.ipynb" one is more interactive but the ergonomics need work.

It is running free tier hosting so it could swamped if enough people use it simultaneously:

https://sportwarzsim-production.up.railway.app/

https://github.com/daltontf/SportWarzSim

There are instructions to run locally via Docker in the README.md

Comment · 1 year ago

A idea like this has been on the back of my mind but more like forming a taxonomy of embellishments and dramatic license. Figure out which ones are somewhat necessary and which ones are "bad". Particularly bad would be those that villainize a real person which role in the actual event was more benign. Coach Dan Devine in "Rudy" and boxer Max Baer Sr. in "Cinderella Man" come to mind.

Comment · 1 year ago

Paging Steve Austin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puvc-FodxV4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTWJc72p2pE

Comment · 1 year ago

Otherwise it is just a Strawman argument

Comment · 1 year ago

Saturn V rocket

Comment · 2 years ago

I've internally thought of a similar metaphor. Previous generations didn't have to conscientious of food intake. Food options were more limited, there wasn't as much processed/calorie-dense food, work was more manual in nature and people likely walked greater distances. My dad who grew up during the Depression in the U.S. weighed 140 pounds in his '20s, but hit 280 in his '40s. That generation was kind of blindsided by the affect of this.

Likewise, my generation is dealing with an explosion of easy to consume streams of information and entertainment and we are kind of blindsided by that I have to conscientious of spending too much time consuming online information with Reddit being my biggest vice.

Comment · 2 years ago

I was just thinking about something where I could design web based workflows that could use online services to perform transformations on items dragged into a dropped and perhaps the output would be downloadable.

Maybe this exists elsewhere, but is is free?. It is still a thought and I haven't dig deep to see what exists, but Flyde seems kind of close.

Comment · 2 years ago

I did a tiny bit in the late '90s at Mastercard. Wrote my share of TACL macros before that.

When I first saw the "99 Bottles of Beer" site, I was working for a company the was using the POSIX-layer OSS and C. I was able to "drop down" into Guardian and re-learn enough to contribute: https://99-bottles-of-beer.net/language-tandem-tal-437.html