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Brook Miles

I got an email about my Win32 programming tutorial (circa 1999) from a 12 year old girl whose hobby is making "programs in languages used way before i was born" ...

First of all yes, excellent, this is a good hobby.

Secondly, don't mind me, I'll just be over here crumbling to dust. :blobimfine:

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Petri Salmela

@brook I gave a Linux course in a high school few years back. I told the students about its history and mentioned DOS and Windows 95. And realized, that all of these students were born after the year 2000.

I felt old at that moment.

Syd Polk (he/his)

@brook @lisamelton I should talk to her about 65816 assembly used in the Apple IIGS and the Super Nintendo.

Brook Miles

I've posted a small update to my AUTHORIZED_FETCH write-up from last month to hopefully improve its clarity (particularly around what Suspend does and doesn't do), as well as covering an additional example situation which came up in recent discussions.

hub.sunny.garden/2023/06/28/wh

gold

@brook Thank you, very clear write up.

Clover

@brook as someone who isn't very good with tech stuff, this was very understandable and easy to read. Thank you for the explanaition!πŸ‘

Brook Miles

I've seen a bit of discussion lately about Mastodon's AUTHORIZED_FETCH and DISALLOW_UNAUTHENTICATED_API_ACCESS settings and since I had a hard enough time myself figuring out what they do based on the documentation and Discord comments, I wrote up what I hope is a more approachable explanation.

hub.sunny.garden/2023/06/28/wh

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heathen

@brook thank you for taking the time to explain this. I've seen people talking about this but had no idea what any of it meant, so I truly appreciate you putting this out there.

Jon

@brook A great and badly-needed explanation, thanks very much!

One potential minor suggestion: for people who aren't familiar with web programming, "fetch" might be a term of art worth defining.

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