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Shawn Hooper (he/him)

Neighbourhood cat coming over to say Hello to me. #caturday

Shawn Hooper (he/him)

“I’ll come out when it’s #Caturday and not a minute earlier!” -Murray

#CatsOfMastodon

Shawn Hooper (he/him)

Niklaus Wirth, the inventor of the Pascal programming language, author of "Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs", and more, passed away on January 1.

Wirth's law, named after him, is an adage which states that software gets slower more rapidly than hardware gets faster.

#programming #computerscience

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Bill Zaumen

@shawnhooper I have a copy of Niklaus Wirth's book, "Programming in MODULA-2". One fun quote from it is the following gem:
After all, complicated tasks usually do inherently require complex algorithms, and this implies a myriad of details. And the details are the jungle in which the devil hides.

The only salvation lies in structure.

If only more people wrote like that! (Page 86 of my printed copy, but
Google suggests Page 89, possibly due to counting unnumbered pages)

@shawnhooper I have a copy of Niklaus Wirth's book, "Programming in MODULA-2". One fun quote from it is the following gem:
After all, complicated tasks usually do inherently require complex algorithms, and this implies a myriad of details. And the details are the jungle in which the devil hides.

The only salvation lies in structure.

Shawn Hooper (he/him)

Just found this in my office closet. Got it at the Ottawa PC Users Group launch party for MS DOS 6.

#MSDOS #Nostalgia #RetroComputing

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DELETED

@shawnhooper I think I never used it. I was a DRDOS user.

Erik Hollensbe

@shawnhooper i destroyed a drive messing with the compression ratio

fraggle

@shawnhooper I remember using DoubleSpace. Storage was so expensive back then. But ISTR it got some pretty bad press because of some high-profile data corruption bugs?

Shawn Hooper (he/him)

I installed the ActivityPub plugin on my #WordPress blog, and now if you follow shawnhooper.ca/author/shooper you'll get a toot when I write a new #blog post.

Here's the plugin: wordpress.org/plugins/activity

It also adds a screen in wp-admin so you can see who's following you from the Fediverse.

(If you follow me, I blog infrequently, but about #PHP, #Laravel, #WordPress, or miscellaneous tech subjects).

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Donncha Ó Caoimh

@shawnhooper I totally forgot about that Followers list. I'm not sure if it's entirely accurate. On my multi-site, my two blogs both show the same 30 followers!

Kuma Chan

@shawnhooper neat let us know how it goes with that plugin that's pretty cool

Dr. Quadragon ❌

@shawnhooper can you follow and read other people using this plugin, cand respond to them?

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