In 2015, Iwrote a custom BBS server in Rubyand had been using it to run the Kludge BBS on a small OpenBSD server in myhome office since then.

Last year after writing a lot ofC on my Macintosh Plus,I had the itch to write a new BBS server so I could move the BBS to run onanother Mac Plus.As with all software development projects, it took quite a bit longer thanexpected, but last month I finally got far enough with the development to deploythe new BBS on a Mac Plus.

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Amend 3.4has been released:

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Amend 3.3has been released:

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Introducing myWallopsIRC client, then returning to work on the BBS adding a serial module to join theconsole and telnet inputs to allow calls through a modem.I got stuck for a while trying to figure out why writes to the serial port wouldhang the machine.

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Since recording a handful ofC Programming on System 6videos, I’ve occasionally wanted to live-stream the more casual dailyprogramming being done on my Macintosh Plus.After getting all of the pieces together, I now have a working self-hostedbroadcasting setup.

If I happen to be programming on my Mac right now, you can watchhere at my website.

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I was trying to use a V4L2Ruby moduleon my OpenBSD laptop but ran into a problem where sending the V4L2 ioctls fromthis module would fail, while other V4L2 programs on OpenBSD worked fine.

Since I got a fewquestionsrecently about kernel development and debugging, I thought I’d write up how Ifinally tracked it down and fixed it.(Spoiler: it was not an OpenBSD problem.)

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A large update to myWallops IRC clientis available:

This update includes a number of new features and bugfixes:

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As teased onTwitter,the first release of myWallops IRC clientis now available:

A future update will support multiple channels but for now it only supports onechannel at a time.

Amend 3.2has been released:

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Itweetedasking if anyone would be interested in a Q&A, and to my surprise, I got manyQs to A.

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It’s a new year and my old computer is still old.

A bug inAmendcaused it to crash during a commit, which corrupted the repo beyond repair.I quickly came to realize that using resource files as a database for Amend andmy new BBS was a bad idea.I NIH’d the problem and created my own file format that will be a bit moreresilient to crashes and partial writes.

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Let’s have a chat.Continuing feature development of my BBS software.

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I review some recent commits covering user authentication and telnetnegotiation, then write some ANSI output code and a broken function forreturning a number’s ordinal suffix.

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I’m starting on a new project and I needed a cooperative threading mechanismwhich didn’t exist in System 6, so I created one.

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I started using theTindieplatform in April to sell myWiFiStationkits.I’ve now sold out all of my initial inventory and am not planning on making anymore, so I thought I’d offer my opinions of Tindie as a platform for sellingthings.

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