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Derek Fowler

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A massive geek who enjoys programming computers and watching science fiction television shows...and music...and football.

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Hyper-V

21.11.2025 23:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Said it there, I'll say it here too.

🐐

02.10.2025 20:04 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Think I used it once for novelty value then just resorted to zipping stuff like everyone else.

Guessing there was more to Binder than that but I didn't explore it much.

02.10.2025 18:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ima go back to Win2K

02.10.2025 18:02 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

BRB, just Googling "Retro 90's icon set for Android"

01.10.2025 21:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Fond memories of heading to the library with a fresh floppy disk and smashing some epic coursework.

14pt, 1.5 line spacing, title page in Benguiat Frisky with some sweet clip art.

01.10.2025 21:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Used to be more obvious

01.10.2025 19:53 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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They had perfection right here...

01.10.2025 19:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes!! Also really reminds me of Active Desktop, for some reason.

Which, with all the modern CSS and canvas stuff, would probably be a pretty sweet feature these days.

01.10.2025 19:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Keyboard overlay for Frontier: Elite on Commodore 64

Keyboard overlay for Frontier: Elite on Commodore 64

OMG... just unlocked this core memory of the one for Elite 🀯

01.10.2025 19:25 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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97 πŸ’ͺπŸ’―πŸ₯Ή

01.10.2025 18:12 β€” πŸ‘ 44    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 1

Very tempted by those Benq monitors.

Had one very like that back in the day and loved it.

The IT guys kept trying to sell me the "upgrade" to dual 16:9 πŸ™„

05.08.2025 18:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Catherine O'Hara portraying Moira Rose in Schitt's Creek.

22.07.2025 14:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Leaded petrol, similarly. Catch a whiff of it now and it's familiar but I'm stunned that I used to walk along a fairly long road to school in a cloud of that stuff. I guess when the majority of cars are electric we'll feel the same about all ICE vehicles.

14.07.2025 07:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Gave up after 7 questions.

11.07.2025 17:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Price drop on The Peripheral ebooks from July 4 - July 10…

04.07.2025 21:38 β€” πŸ‘ 341    πŸ” 74    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 22

What about WordPad? 😿

30.05.2025 17:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh good grief. 😭

24.05.2025 19:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Glitch shutting down and now Wheel of Time cancelled too?! 😫

What next?!

24.05.2025 11:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Every time I see someone using a Mac.

18.05.2025 16:44 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

O(1)

It's all constants.

Could just replace it with...

const total = 10000;

18.05.2025 09:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

These AI tech bros need to be reined in and held to account for spouting all this rubbish about jobs disappearing.

Going to really scare people off lots of careers and doing any kind of higher education and will cause a hiring crisis, not to mention mental health impact.

Massively irresponsible.

10.05.2025 22:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That looks promising. Gonna take it for a spin ASAP.

10.05.2025 19:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Kids don't choose to be born into poverty. How can ensuring basic nutrition and health for kids go *against* fundamental principles of the USA but spending loads on missiles is totally fine?! πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

23.04.2025 20:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This makes me wonder whether there's a WASM and canvas port of Shockwave and Flash.

03.04.2025 17:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Pleeeeeease can we have vertical taskbar back πŸ™πŸ₯Ί

03.04.2025 17:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What's that thing about HTML 5 and modern browsers changing how they handle them? I can't find any reference to that; is that a hallucination?

01.04.2025 19:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

For me it's never as egregious as that but usually correct enough that you might not notice the error.

30.03.2025 12:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

About once a day I wish C# had TypeScript's entire type system. 😿

26.03.2025 19:21 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Where have all the tech creators gone?

22.03.2025 04:28 β€” πŸ‘ 723    πŸ” 115    πŸ’¬ 50    πŸ“Œ 47

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