Photo of my wife's Batking uke bass, showing the gorgeous wood top, the f-holes . . . and the bridge, with four thick white polyurethane strings
I don't think I'm doing this right.... :)
Kids printing naughty words definitely wasn't what my dad had hoped for - he tried again with older kids, and eventually settled on Logo for introducing kids to computers
As one of the few kids interested beyond the naughty word printing, I had my own private programming instructor
Nice!
Image of the text from http://helloworldcollection.de/#Snobol, demonstrating a simple program in the computer language SNOBOL (unrelated to COBOL; its full name is "StriNg Oriented and symBOlic Language") The header is a rectangle with a background that is approximately navy blue in color, and text in white that reads: Snobol The body is black text on a white background, which demonstrates a comment in the first line, followed by a line that demonstrates writing the phrase "Hello World!" to the output device: * Hello World in Snobol OUTPUT = "Hello World!" See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNOBOL for more details on this interesting early computer language; the summary from that article reads: SNOBOL ("StriNg Oriented and symBOlic Language") is a series of programming languages developed between 1962 and 1967 at AT&T Bell Laboratories by David J. Farber, Ralph Griswold and Ivan P. Polonsky, culminating in SNOBOL4. It was one of a number of text-string-oriented languages developed during the 1950s and 1960s; others included COMIT and TRAC. Despite the similar name, it is entirely unlike COBOL.
My first computer program - a
#HelloWorld example showing text output in SNOBOL
My dad demo'd an Intro To Computing session, at #AntiochCollege, for students at #TheAntiochSchool; I loved it - tried different permutations, adding complexity, etc - but most of the other kids just wrote naughty words
Fascinating personal history of ColdFusion (the computer language)
www.cfwhisperer.net/p/the-story-...
I think it's that when I look at my timeline on other SM, I don't think I would want to follow me; it's a firehose of reposts from every area of interest, intermingled with occasional actual thoughts.
Multiple alts feels like it will let me organize my posts into feeds, kinda.
Thanks! I've been toying with that as well; they seem to work well together - perhaps because it feels like my conversations with folks in a specific feed blur with my conversations in a different feed. I'm not yet sure if that matters, especially versus the extra work of multiple alts. Thoughts?
Thanks for all the neat stuff you have done, and in particular, inspiring me to think about better ways to curate my own feed (currently trying separate alts for separate interests) - no need to follow me back.
I expect to be at least as boring as usual, so please don't feel the need to follow me back, unless you really want to - and kindly don't put me in any starter packs.
Still figuring out SM best practices for finding and following interesting people.
Here on Bluesky, I'm going to try splitting my interests into multiple alts, each one only following people who share those interests; we'll see how that goes.
This one is for coding, making, fixing, et cetera.
