Luckily the .exe’s MZ header is pretty small. But in this case it was necessary: when DOS loads a .com binary, it can’t know how much memory it will need, so DOS just gives it all free memory. But then the program can’t launch another, because all memory is in use. So that’s why I had to add the MZ header which allows specifying the memory needs.

Turns out it’s from an old translation of James 4:15, here formulated as: “[If] so the Lord wills and we live”

The English equivalent would be “God willing” and in Dutch, a lovely archaic phrase: “Zo de Heere wil en wij leven”

I started the Witcher 3 and immediately the world feels like a checklist and for some reason I can’t take Gerald seriously. He looks comical, like a teen’s drawing, and the movement feels completely ungrounded.

• Circut Superstars. I’ll never become good at this but close to finishing it on Amateur
• Diablo 4. I dislike the MMOification and despite Blizzard, but got it with the Xbox so might as we’ll play it. The campaign and monster bashing are fine
• Sound Shapes. Sweet game, taking it one album at a time
• Trials Rising. Cleaning up the Hard tracks and that ain’t no lie
• Dirt 2.0 demo. I’m OK at CMR 2 and 05 but I have no idea how to control my car in this one. It’ll come with time

Programming. I don’t like where it’s heading and I don’t like the culture

I like retro programming, in particular Windows 2000.

Now I’m making a little 3D toy now that works with OpenGL on Windows with WGL and on X11 with GLX (also on Cygwin). No third party abstractions!

I want to keep adding backends, like DX 7, 9, Vulkan, WebGL, bare Linux KMS, and then stuff like screen space reflections, shadows, materials, ray tracing where possible, maybe get it running on a console or two too.

I was about to move on until I read someone asking if this was a Bit Trip Runner clone. NOW you have my attention

Netherlands: successive governments have been putting off actually addressing issues causing them to become a pile of confounding crises, such as nitrogen emissions and housing, which complicates migration, etc.

Note that ProtonMail actually supports automatic encryption to email accounts that publish their public keys in a Web Key Directory, which I’ve set up for mine. When you type such an email address in the To field, it’ll turn into a special color with a lock symbol.

Likewise, ProtonMail also exposed a WKD so people can send encrypted emails to ProtonMail accounts. I don’t know of any mail clients that support this though (I used the command line to pull keys)

Kéés (Texels Dutch, my wife’s home dialect)

Flikken Maastricht. Not because it’s so good but we always try to match the drum beats in the intro

Go read The Freeze Frame Revolution!

A cop once asked me to shake my backpack to make sure there were no graffiti cans in there. Obviously there weren’t.

Now I’m involved a bit in activism get searched on the regular. It’s mostly procedural, I have the privilege of being not really considered a criminal.

iPhone SE2:

1. Use until it turns off due to empty battery
2. Put on charger, wait for it to boot.
3. Unlock at the earliest opportunity.

Problem: after unlocking, the background disappears (goes black).

Only the home screen though, the lock screen wallpaper works. ‘Fix’ is to change the wallpaper.

Don’t tell them about baby powder!

It’s how non-Latin Unicode domain names are encoded, in this case one made out of Japanese characters. I suppose it depends on the browser whether or not it shows them.

“Nationalists of all nations: unite!”

The A12 protest is very willing to coordinate emergency routes, in any case they allow for emergency service passage (this regularly happens), and their location is easily routed around. Overall their impact is less than run of the mill roadworks and not comparable in the slightest to a major event.

I hope they don’t organise marathons or street fairs where you’re at, or worse, resurface a road.