8 Bit computers: from 1977 to 1985
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Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now from $35 – Raspberry Pi
We have a surprise for you today: Raspberry Pi 4 is now on sale, starting at $35! Here are the highlights: A 1.5GHz quad-core 64-bit ARM Cortex-A72 CPU (~3× performance) 1GB, 2GB, or 4GB of LPDDR4 SDRAM Full-throughput Gigabit Ethernet Dual-band 802.11ac wireless networking Bluetooth 5.0 Two USB 3.0 and two USB 2.0 ports Dual monitor support, at resolutions up …
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GraalVM
GraalVM is a universal virtual machine for running applications written in JavaScript, Python, Ruby, R, JVM-based languages like Java, Scala, Kotli n, Clojure, and LLVM-based languages such as C and C++.GraalVM removes the isolation between programming languages and enables interoperability in a shared runtime. It can run either standalone or in the context of …
Ring – Cache interface as a programming language integration
Ring – Cache interface as a programming language integrationRing provides function-oriented cache interface for various backends. Repository: https://github.com/youknowone/ring/ Source: Ring – Cache interface as a programming language integration — Ring 0.7.2 documentation
Coming soon 8 Bit computers: from 1977 to 1985
Hi all! I decided to write a book called “8-Bit Computers: Retro computer history in the ’80”. It is my first book on this topic, so I need you comments & advices! A small extract is right here for download. You will be able to buy the Kindle edition for little as € 0,99 by …
WebAssembly
WebAssembly (often shortened to Wasm) is a standard that defines a binary format and a corresponding assembly-like text format for executables used by web pages. [….] WebAssembly code is intended to be run on a portable abstract structured stack machine,[27] which is designed to be faster to parse than JavaScript, as well as faster to execute,[21] and to enable very compact code representation.In …
NES.css – NES-style CSS Framework
NES.css is NES-style (8bit-like) CSS Framework.#InstallationNES.css is available via either npm or Yarn, or a CDN.Please read README.md.#UsageNES.css only provides components. You will need to define your own layout. Source: NES.css – NES-style CSS Framework
Comments are evil?
In the 1980 comments were used to reduce the “gap” between unstructured code and “rationale” behind the code. C/64 Peek and poke where oscure. Gosub on function pointed by numbers was bad 8-bit systems was tight on command names and so on (think to write a python interpreter in Arduino/bbc:Micro, or look at the memory …
Playstation Now in Italy: Well but not Perfect
We have tried the PlayStation Now 7-days trial (after pricing is 15€/Month, 100€/year) Pro: Good Game Selection. Also PS3 and PS2 strong sellers are here, like Red Dead Redemption (1) and Bloodbone, Prey, etc Seamless experience: the streaming never take a slow down Subscription has a 100€/year offer which is quite aggressive. We will see …
Commodore Retro Magic Dream
When I was young I was able to play with my Vic20/Commodore64. I learned to love programming with these small 8-bit *real* computers. I was between 11 and 12 years old, and just learning basic English, with only a data-casette to store my stuff. Now my son is 9 years old, and I was unable …
Danilo Spinella’s site – Makefiles, Best Practices
Makefiles are widely used to build a lot of languages and projects, with C/C++ projects being the majority. Whenever you are developing or testing software, it’s highly probable that you will encounter them.This post will try to address some common errors in Makefiles, as well as good practices and cross-compiling support. Take a look at: …
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Power Start
After some tweaks, we changed a bit of things on Gioorgi.com in Winter 2019 First of all, we moved Gioorgi to a powerful server at the end of 2018, tuning it during the autumn. An Apache Solr server was added to get better search results, with indexed stuff. Quality We decided to reorganize the major …
Introduction to org mode parser
Org-mode is an Emacs mode for keeping notes, maintaining To-do lists, doing project planning, and authoring with a fast and effective plain-text system. Node.js is a event-based server for the V8 JavaScript Engine. So Org Mode Parser for Nodejs is a parser for reading org-mode files. Follow OrgMode updates and news clicking on this link …
UTF-8 and Unicode Standards
Character encoding is a very bad beast when you write code, but UTF-8 will save us. Belive me: You will love the Big Brother and the UTF-8. Unicode Transformation Format 8-bit is a variable-width encoding that can represent every character in the Unicode character set. It was designed for backward compatibility with ASCII and …