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I'm still alive. But I've retired or at least taken an extended hiatus from my writing hobby, which in retrospect was probably a pandemic coping mechanism more than a lot of things lol.

I only came here because my in box is blowing up due to the traffic hacker news is driving to my site, and so then I see that this article is like #3 today. Not bad considering I don't really remember writing it!

More Marshmallows!

It's a rainy Saturday here, thought I'd give this one a second shot since the mood seemed right!

This is a great resource for aspiring FPGA tinkerers like me. Thanks for sharing!

Wish granted! @the.bessie.report on Instagram

haha yes, excellent suggestions! I did think about ternary logic actually but I don't know of an FPGA that supports it. I considered creating like a primitive that burns 2 register bits to approximate it even, and just throw away the 4th state and pretend I have 3-state logic on all the layers above. but i have enough on my hands just trying to get the stupid timing working on a simple CPU. Im not actually a CPU designer so I dont really know what I'm doing lol.

Thanks Scott - I'm really enjoying sitting back and reading all the great discussions you've been having here and interesting questions people have, nothing makes me happier as a writer than to be able to spark something like that.

I was really honored for a chance to talk with one of computer gaming's true pioneers, Scott Adams. His text adventure games launched an entire game genre and influenced and inspired a lot of other programmers and game developers.

If you read the interview and come away thinking, "why didn't he ask him about X?", today's your lucky day, because Scott has graciously agreed to stop by here and answer a few questions. He's new to HN, so be sure and give him a warm welcome!

Abandoned stuff is always so cool. My favorite continues to be this exploration of the abandoned power plant and tunnel under Niagara Falls:

https://freaktography.com/canadian-niagara-power-william-b-r...

only partially related, but I laughed the other day when I googled 'emacs' and it said 'did you mean vi?'