# basic (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 182 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover basic. Page: Feed: --- ## [Plain markdown test](https://danielfrg.com/blog/markdown-templates/) _2100-01-01 · Daniel Rodriguez_ ## [Cherry Coloured Funk](https://varunhegde.com/cherry-coloured-funk/) _2026-08-17 · varun@varunhegde.com (Varun Hegde) · Over the Hedge_ I tried coffee from a new small batch roaster based out of Durham, NC last week. I've never reviewed a coffee before, but I've certainly drank my fair share of small batch roasters before. Here goes nothing. Viscous Coffee 's first coffee drop is called "Cherry Coloured Funk." It's a small batch roast Pink Bourbon coffee grown in Finca La Terraza. Natural fermentation of the coffee cherries yields… ## [What I missed: Markdown in OneDrive and SharePoint](https://www.noteapps.ca/what-i-missed-markdown-in-onedrive-and-sharepoint/) _2026-08-17 · Stone · Note Apps_ A personal update on what’s kept me away from Note Apps, including a new coffee-roaster project, the surprising rise of AI-assisted “vibe coding,” and Microsoft’s new Markdown support in OneDrive and SharePoint. ## [Chinese Posts 27](https://formerajatter.bearblog.dev/chinese-posts-27/) _2026-08-16 · formerajatter · Mr. FormerAjatter_ Basics Anki : ✅ Tones : ❌ Immersion : ½ Miscellaneous Thoughts On a twelve day Anki streak now so that's cool. Also listened to Mamdani's Chinese speech so that's my half immersion for today 1 . Link of Mamdani speaking here . I tried to embed it but no bueno 😠 ↩ ## [A Linux Clipboard to JPEG Utility](https://jimlawless.net/blog/posts/mintcap/) _2026-08-16 · Jim's Place_ Several months ago, I made the switch to Linux Mint (Cinnamon) as my primary OS for my computing activities. One utility that I used often on my prior OS was a utility that would capture images as they appeared on the clipboard, writing them to sequentially numbered files with a chosen name-prefix. I regularly try to save batches of images all in some sort of theme and I wanted a tool that could… ## [WAITS: Programming](https://timereshared.com/waits-programming/) _2026-08-16 · Time Reshared_ As an operating system for a research lab, WAITS was used extensively to write programs. In this post we'll look at which languages were used, the software development environment - and investigate an early implementation of Donald Knuth's MIX system. Cover of the FAIL manual.. Source: Bitsavers Lisp, FAIL and SAIL The three main programming environments used by the lab were all maintained in… ## [Touch points and buttons on M5Core 2" displays, Tab 5" display, and Sunton 7" display for keyboard emulation](https://techwithdave.davevw.com/2026/08/touch-points-and-buttons-on-m5core-2.html) _2026-08-15 · Dave VW · Tech with Dave_ I have targeted the following M5 Stack models with my C64/C128/Vic-20/Apple 1 emulator : M5Stack Fire IoT M5 Core2 M5 CoreS3 (Even though I have targeted other boards, I had only implemented touch on the CoreS3) The primary reason for targeting these boards was the common 2" 320x240 display perfect for most C64 emulation, and the availability of a wristband that works with Core2 and CoreS3 (it… ## [Why is Puzzle Bobble easier than Bust-A-Move?](https://huguesjohnson.com/features/bustamove-vs-puzzlebobble/) _2026-08-15 · HuguesJohnson.com_ I've wanted to write a tribute piece to Bust-A-Move for a while. I couldn't come up with the right premise for it. Then I tried Puzzle Bobble and found it was much easier than Bust-A-Move. So I decided to figure out why the only way I know how... by comparing these games stage-by-stage.... ## [Chinese Posts 26](https://formerajatter.bearblog.dev/chinese-posts-26/) _2026-08-14 · formerajatter · Mr. FormerAjatter_ Basics Anki : ✅ Tones : ❌ Immersion : ½ Miscellaneous Thoughts Not really sure if this counts as immersion but I heard some Chinese while I was watching youtube so that has to count for something right? ## [Ensim5](https://glouw.com//2026/08/14/Ensim5.html) _2026-08-14 · (untitled)_ Github Source Ensim5 explores compiler friendly SIMD expressions and cache locality for isentropic flow and kinematic equations. One can model a piston flow lane from plenum intake to exhaust as nine chambers (atmosphere, plenum, throttle, runner, piston, runner, exhaust, exhaust, atmosphere) and with eight nozzles, mapping parallel computation perfectly to floating point AVX256 or doubling point… ## [Screen Share With Real Control (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/h8tkxQNd0PLe) _2026-08-13 · **Sponsored**_ Collaborative screen sharing with simultaneous remote control — open source, like Screenhero. ## [The road to epsilon-zero: Productive programs and well-founded orders](https://blog.plover.com/math/ordinals/05-shortlex.html) _2026-08-13 · Mark Dominus · The Universe of Discourse_ Previously: Ordinal numbers and basic set theory Ordinals as nim-heaps Nim always ends, even with infinite ordinals Infinite Nim as a coin-moving game Coin-moving games without the coins Previously we saw how to interpret the difficult-seeming ordinal as a particular ordering of the set of finite sequences of numbers, revealing what seemed like a scary monster as gentle and straightforward. Now… ## [Pong.BAS – A TRS-80 Pong Clone in Your Browser](https://mcoorlim.com/pong-bas-a-trs-80-pong-clone-in-your-browser/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pong-bas-a-trs-80-pong-clone-in-your-browser) _2026-08-13 · coorlim · Michael Coorlim_ A two-player Pong clone coded in TRS-80 Model III BASIC, playable in your browser, coded in under 50 lines. The post Pong.BAS A TRS-80 Pong Clone in Your Browser appeared first on Michael Coorlim . ## [Foursquare Check-in Stats](https://www.spokenlikeageek.com/2026/08/12/foursquare-check-in-stats/) _2026-08-12 · Neil Thompson · Spoken Like a Geek_ Late last year I wrote a script that took my Foursquare check-ins and created an entry for each of them in the Day One app. This continues to work well and you can read more about it here: I felt that there was more that could be done with the information held in Foursquare and \[…\] ## [Commodore 8-Bit 5 1/4 Inch Disk Images](https://www.masswerk.at/nowgobang/2026/commodore-disk-images) _2026-08-12 · mass:werk – Now Go Bang!_ Presenting a new (web) tool, also a general discussion of Commodore 5 1/4 inch disk images. ## [There are two kinds of theorems](https://blog.plover.com/math/two-kinds-of-theorems.html) _2026-08-11 · Mark Dominus · The Universe of Discourse_ In mathematical study there are two kinds of theorems, which serve very different purposes. Math instruction follows the same pattern. Students are often very puzzled by this, and rightly so, because it's never explained, or at least I've never seen it explained. There is this crucial, critical piece of mathematical methodology which is never made explicit, students just have to figure it out on… ## [How to train your Elephant aka How to build Habits](https://www.chestergrant.com/how-to-train-your-elephant-aka-how-to-build-habits) _2026-08-11 · Chester Grant · Chester Grant_ A metaphor for the human brain is a man riding an elephant. Our brain consists of two parts, the neocortex and the limbic system. The neocortex is used for planning, reasoning, and deliberate decision making / responses. The limbic system is responsible for the automatic / unconscious / habitual responses. The neocortex is represented in the image by the rider and the limbic system by the… ## [Chinese Notes 25](https://formerajatter.bearblog.dev/chinese-notes-25/) _2026-08-11 · formerajatter · Mr. FormerAjatter_ Basics Anki : ✅ Tones : ❌ Immersion : ❌ Miscellaneous Thoughts Chinese is slowly coming back although the only thing I'm doing right now is reviews. Once reviews hit less than 10 reps a day, I'll start adding new cards back in the mix. 1 There was a point where I was doing just one new card a day to at least make some progress, but I ended up stopping. One new card a day is probably the better… ## [Chinese Notes 24](https://formerajatter.bearblog.dev/chinese-notes-24/) _2026-08-10 · formerajatter · Mr. FormerAjatter_ Basics Anki : ✅ Tones : ❌ Immersion : ❌ Miscellaneous Thoughts Ramadan came and completely fell off the wagon lol. Time to slowly try and work my way back up again and try and have some consistency by the end of the year. Maybe some Italki lessons or speaking stuff for encouragement? At the end of the day, I'm not trying to get suuuper fluent just some basic competency in the spoken language. ## [curried lentil rice loaf](https://grimgrains.com/site/curried_lentil_rice_loaf.html) _2026-08-09 · Rek Bell · Grimgrains_ This is a recipe we developed this summer to cook some of our favorite legumes and grains faster. Grinding brown lentils, chickpeas, buckwheat and rice into flour greatly reduces cooking time. We grind the flour in advance and keep them in jars. When we are ready to cook, we mix the chosen flour with water and add a variety of spices and fresh vegetables before cooking the mixture in our… ## [Lessons learned in Compiling Veritas](https://www.chestergrant.com/lessons-learn-in-compiling-veritas) _2026-08-09 · Chester Grant · Chester Grant_ Veritas: Truth Across Cultures is a book I compiled. It identifies common sayings/proverbs that have been independently discovered across cultures that I call Truths. It is my proposition that, due to our human nature and environment that common patterns recur, and cultures document these through their sayings. For instance, this Truth below: This is a pattern that independent cultures have… ## [Retro Grid Dungeon Crawler (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/IHblpQF7g38Y) _2026-08-09 · **Sponsored**_ Retro grid movement with first-person combat, loot and skill-tree progression. ## [WAITS: Arthur Samuel's Checkers](https://timereshared.com/waits-samuel-checkers/) _2026-08-09 · Time Reshared_ Although chess was a popular target, one of the earliest examples of using classical pre-LLM artificial intelligence to play games was checkers/draughts. Arthur Samuel wrote one of the first such programs in the early 1950s, ported this to the PDP-10 when he moved to SAIL and even created a version for a home computer in the late 1970s. In this post we'll look at Samuel's work on checkers and run… ## [Rick Dangerous for the CoCo 3](https://nowhereman999.wordpress.com/2026/08/08/rick-dangerous-for-the-coco-3/) _2026-08-08 · nowhereman999 · Glen's Weblog_ I finished a CoCo 3 version of the game Rick Dangerous For the TRS-80 Colour Computer 3, it requires 2 Megs of RAM and a 6309 CPU I originally planned to do a transcode from the Amiga version of the Continue reading ## [Checking which macOS apps rely on Rosetta](https://www.spokenlikeageek.com/2026/08/08/checking-which-macos-apps-rely-on-rosetta/) _2026-08-08 · Neil Thompson · Spoken Like a Geek_ Do you keep seeing this notification pop-up on your MacBook? Do you know what it means? Do you know what to do about it? If not read on to find out. What is Rosetta and why is it needed? Rosetta 2\* is Apple’s translation technology that lets Intel Mac applications run on Apple Silicon Macs \[…\] ## [Sega Genesis Programming Part 26: A less than optimal gradient background fill](https://huguesjohnson.com/programming/genesis/gradient-background/) _2026-08-08 · HuguesJohnson.com_ This isn't much of a tutorial. It's more like a really long way to motivate myself to start working on a new demo. Step #1: Create a gradient background fill that doesn't look completely awful... ## [Pico MZ at the RC2014 Assembly 2.0](https://z80.timholyoake.uk/pico-mz-at-the-rc2014-assembly-2-0/) _2026-08-07 · Tim · retrocomputing ephemera_ When the RC2014 assembly 2.0 was announced for Saturday 26th September 2026 at The National Museum of Computing, I decided to sign up as an exhibitor to give the first ## [Game of Life.BAS – A TRS80 Sim in your Browser](https://mcoorlim.com/trs80-game-of-life/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=trs80-game-of-life) _2026-08-06 · coorlim · Michael Coorlim_ Conway's Game of Life in TRS-80 Model III BASIC, with a little machine language as well, right in your browser. The post Game of Life.BAS A TRS80 Sim in your Browser appeared first on Michael Coorlim . ## [Artificial Intelligence doing CAD: ChatGPT, Codex and FreeCAD](https://www.tspi.at/2026/08/06/llmfreecad.html) _2026-08-05 · tsp · tspi.at_ Giving large language models access to CAD is one of the most direct ways to let them step out of the purely virtual world and begin creating real objects. This article describes an MCP bridge for FreeCAD, why visual inspection turned out to be crucial, and how ChatGPT and Codex were able to generate manufacturable geometry ranging from vacuum hardware to a printable planetary gearbox. ## [The road to epsilon-zero: Coin-moving games with no coins](https://blog.plover.com/math/ordinals/04-coordinates.html) _2026-08-05 · Mark Dominus · The Universe of Discourse_ Previously: Ordinal numbers and basic set theory Ordinals as nim-heaps Nim always ends, even with infinite ordinals Infinite Nim as a coin-moving game In the previous article we saw how to interpret Nim heaps of up to beans as coins on a quarter-infinite array: The coin here represents a heap of beans. The heap can be reduced to any smaller number of beans. In the coin version of the game, this… ## [Vibecode Rescue: Auditing Vibecoded Apps for Common Mistakes and Failures](https://allanmacgregor.com/posts/vibecode-rescue-auditing-vibecoded-apps) _2026-08-04 · Allan MacGregor · Allan MacGregor | Elixir Engineering & Technical Leadership_ Code has become cheap, but having an agent generate an app doesn't make it a product. A new series reviewing SaaS apps that launched and failed to convert, or sit abandoned — and what went wrong. ## [Using Coding Agents Without Producing Slop](https://felix-knorr.net/posts/2026-08-04-how-to-make-ai-writer-maintainable-code.html) _2026-08-04 · Felix' Blog_ This article was first release in the german IT-magazine Golem . When it comes to AI coding, I see the following two sentiments almost exclusively online: AI is useless, and generates nothing but unmaintainable slop AI is going to replace all developers by the end of 2026 The truth is typically somewhere in between. For the last 6 months, I've been spending a lot of time with AI agents, and have… ## [Web Coding With AI, Live (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/NpilsBhhB1pp) _2026-08-03 · **Sponsored**_ Collaborative screen sharing with simultaneous remote control, open source. ## [Seven books I keep close because I love them](https://blog.plover.com/book/elbow-shelf.html) _2026-08-03 · Mark Dominus · The Universe of Discourse_ The bookshelf by my elbow, the one that I can reach without getting up, has seven books on it, not necessarily the ones I look in the most, but the ones whose emanations I most hope will infuse me as I write. Roget's Thesaurus (4th edition) The one I actually refer to most often is the Harper and Row Roget's Thesaurus . I thought I had acquired this in my teens, but the note on the flyleaf says… ## [WAITS: Getting data in and out](https://timereshared.com/waits-getting-data-in-and-out/) _2026-08-02 · Time Reshared_ If you were working at SAIL in the 1970s and wanted to get data into or out of the system there were several options. Print outs could be made to the line printer or the new XGP laser printer. Data could be exchanged with other sites and computers via magnetic tape (open reel and DECtape) and paper tape. The Arpanet, predecessor of the Internet, was just starting and you could exchange data via… ## ['No X, but Y' and Other Tells: Wiring an LLM to Write in Your Voice](https://allanmacgregor.com/posts/make-an-llm-write-in-your-voice) _2026-08-01 · Allan MacGregor · Allan MacGregor | Elixir Engineering & Technical Leadership_ How to use LLMs as part of your writing workflow. ## [Terraform Circular State](https://blog.mattsbit.co.uk/2026/08/01/terraform-circular-state/) _2026-08-01 · mattsbit@colamail.co.uk (Matt) · Blog - MattBits_ I am wanting to tackle an issue with best practice in AWS - IAM policies and resource policies. The immediate reaction would be to say: All IAM policies should be scoped to the actions and resources that they interact with All resource policies should be scoped to the principals that interact with them In a distributibuted micro-service architecture, where each application is deployed indepdently,… ## [Project-Specific clangd Configuration with a Temporary Shell](https://felix-knorr.net/posts/2026-07-31-lsp-config.html) _2026-07-31 · Felix' Blog_ I've been writing C and some C++ in terminal-based editors for the past five years. By default, clangd searches the current file's parent directories for a compile\_commands.json . This becomes annoying when a repository contains several independently built firmware projects that share code and have a common repository root. Each project needs its own compilation database. Replacing a single… ## [Git-managed agent routines that propose their own fixes](https://brtkwr.com/posts/2026-07-30-git-managed-self-improving-agent-routines/) _2026-07-30 · brtkwr.com_ TL;DR This is about Claude’s scheduled cloud routines specifically, which is the only agent platform I have tried it on. I moved my routine prompts out of the scheduler and into a git repo, leaving a fifteen-line stub behind that reads its instructions from main at runtime. Changing a routine is now a commit rather than a form edit, and each routine has standing authority to open a PR… ## [Slots.BAS – A Slot Machine in Your Browser](https://mcoorlim.com/slots/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=slots) _2026-07-30 · coorlim · Michael Coorlim_ Slots from David Ahl's 1973 book "BASIC Computer Games" converted and refactored into a browser-playable version. The post Slots.BAS A Slot Machine in Your Browser appeared first on Michael Coorlim . ## [Protecting Children Without Turning the Internet into an Identity Checkpoint](https://www.tspi.at/2026/07/30/pcwtiic.html) _2026-07-29 · tsp · tspi.at_ The debate surrounding age verification often presents a false choice: either leave children exposed to the unrestricted internet or require everyone to prove who they are before accessing online information. This article argues that the first concern is entirely legitimate - children do need protection - but that mandatory identity or age-verification systems are the wrong pseudo-solution.… ## [The road to epsilon-zero: Infinite Nim as a coin-moving game](https://blog.plover.com/math/ordinals/03-track-tokens.html) _2026-07-29 · Mark Dominus · The Universe of Discourse_ Previously: Ordinal numbers and basic set theory Ordinals as nim-heaps Nim always ends, even with infinite ordinals In the previous articles I talked about the game of Nim, a very simple game for two players: There are some piles of beans Players alternate turns A legal move is to take any number of beans from one pile Whoever takes the last bean wins I wrote about how Nim could be extended to… ## [Installing n8n on a RaspberryPi 3B+](https://www.tspi.at/2026/07/29/n8nrpi3b.html) _2026-07-28 · tsp · tspi.at_ A practical guide for installing n8n via npm on a RaspberryPi 3B+ with only 1 GB of RAM. This article explains why the usual advice to just use Docker is not always helpful, how to work around the memory bottleneck with temporary swap, and how to run n8n reliably enough for small experimental workflows on low-power hardware. ## [Physical Review Research: Ghost imaging with free electron-photon pairs](https://www.tspi.at/2026/07/28/ghost.html) _2026-07-27 · Sergei Bogdanov, Alexander Preimesberger, Harsh Mishra, Dominik Hornof, Thomas Spielauer, Florian Thajer, Max Maurer, Pia Falb, Leo Stöger, Thomas Schachinger, Friedrich Bleicher, Michael S. Seifner, Isobel C. Bicket, Philipp Haslinger · tspi.at_ Published in Physical Review Research: Coincidence imaging, also known as ghost imaging, is a technique that exploits correlations between two particles to reconstruct information about a specimen. The particle that relays the spatial information about the object remains completely noninteracting, while the particle used to probe the object is not spatially resolved. While ghost imaging has been… ## [“Steph Curry: fluke or breakthrough” ten years later](https://blog.plover.com/games/sport-flukes-followup.html) _2026-07-27 · Mark Dominus · The Universe of Discourse_ ( Previously ) Flukes and Breakthroughs In the NBA 2015–16 season, Steph Curry set the all-time single-season record for three-point field goals, 402, completely crushing the old record of 286. Curry's record still stands. The New York Times was rather breathless about this : The record is an outlier that defies most comparisons, but here is one: It is the equivalent of hitting 103 home runs in a… ## [Build a Basic AI Agent From Scratch: Security III](https://ruxu.dev/articles/ai/build-an-ai-agent-security-3/) _2026-07-27 · Roger Oriol · Blog | Roger Oriol_ Previous parts of Build a Basic AI Agent From Scratch : Basic Agent Tools Long Task Planning Human in the Loop & Security Security II You can find and clone this code in this blog series' Github repo . In the previous part we started closing the gaps left open by human-in-the-loop: a Docker sandbox to contain runaway commands, prompt-injection defenses so the model stops trusting tool output as… ## [The List](https://olliegreen.info/posts/14/the-list/) _2026-07-26 · Ollie Green · Ollie Green_ What follows was assembled at considerable personal risk, through years of quiet fieldwork. Discretion is advised. Forbidden words “A rush of blood to the head” “A stiff drink” Abutting Analogue Analyse Annus horribilis Arsenal Aspergers Assassin Back fill Back-end query Backlog Backpack Backtrack Bagging area Bagpipe Ballboy Balzac Beachhead Beavertown Becoming Bedhead Beefeater Bell curve… ## [Why AI Will Not Replace the Classroom](https://www.chestergrant.com/why-ai-will-not-replace-the-classroom) _2026-07-26 · Chester Grant · Chester Grant_ Would you leave your infant in the care of a robot, assuming that the robot could perform every practical caregiving task that you could? I would venture that most of my readers would say no, although for varying reasons. In this post, I will outline why AI will not completely replace humans in education. 1. Biological responses During human-to-human interaction, we are not merely conveying words.… ## [Artifact caching](https://blog.mattsbit.co.uk/2026/07/26/artifact-caching/) _2026-07-26 · mattsbit@colamail.co.uk (Matt) · Blog - MattBits_ Before I get into GitLab functions and components, I wanted to cover how I manage build and deployment artifacts, as it’s a dependency for a lot of what comes later. I generally block internet access across my homelab. Aside from specific external APIs, everything is either pre-downloaded or accessed through a caching proxy. I use Nexus for PyPI, apt, go etc. package pull-through caches. For… ## [Homelab history](https://blog.mattsbit.co.uk/2026/07/26/homelab-history/) _2026-07-26 · mattsbit@colamail.co.uk (Matt) · Blog - MattBits_ Homelab history I’ve been running some form of home infrastructure for a long time now. Looking back through old notes and photos, it’s interesting seeing how much it’s changed. Some of it was planned, a lot of it wasn’t, and there were more than a few dead ends along the way. Like most long-running homelabs, it grew one project at a time rather than from any grand plan.… ## [WAITS: Editors](https://timereshared.com/waits-editors/) _2026-07-25 · Time Reshared_ Today we'll look at the text editors available on WAITS . There are two classes of editor: traditional teletype editors like SOS or TECO, and display editors like TV or E. Although the latter class is not fully working on emulation yet, it's interesting to get an idea of how they operated as they represent an early example of interactive editing. The SOS (left) and TV (right) editors. Source:… ## [Stability Is Key: How Lasting Systems Create Real Progress](https://www.tspi.at/2026/07/26/stabilityiskey.html) _2026-07-25 · tsp · tspi.at_ Technology is often described as a race where success belongs to those who move the fastest. New frameworks, new interfaces and constant reinvention are frequently celebrated as progress in themselves. But is that really how civilization advances? Or is the true foundation of innovation something far less glamorous: the ability to preserve yesterdays achievements so tomorrows work can build upon… ## [Privacy Policy](https://varunpant.com/privacy/) _2026-07-25 · Varun Pant_ Last updated: July 25, 2026 This policy covers this website only — the blog at varunpant.com. It does not cover any app. Apps are separate products, distributed through app stores, and each has its own privacy policy that stands entirely on its own. Nothing in this website policy applies to them, and nothing in an app’s policy applies to this website. 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