😺 u/k8quinn
Cat lover, retired developer & ham-radio operator (K8QN)
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Something different - a meditation on love and magic on my gemlog. [gemini link] Love is Magic
It's after Thanksgiving here in the US so it must be time for a Christmas-time story. Though I've slightly embellished the storytelling, this actually happened and my daughters (and granddaughter) have ever since asked me to tell it again. [gemini link] Wolfgang the Blue-nosed Reindeer
New post on my gemlog: [gemini link] High School Programming (1965 Edition)
I now have a capsule in geminispace! Not much there yet but if you wish to visit [gemini link] I'll be adding stuff in the next few days and weeks. Things like: Once I was a switchboard operator. Yes, one of those. When "the net" meant USENET Learning to program in high school - 1965 edition Broadband network in 1975? Yes! An early industrial-control microcomputer A better version: 4 SBCs with a common memory The Edmund Fitzgerald tragedy And more!
Hello I'm Bill from Metro Detroit. I am a retired software development supervisor ("player/coach" since I did a lot of the development in my group). I've worked with a variety of minicomputers, microcomputers, and large servers in a multitude of different languages. Applications ranged from factory machine controllers to a large business-critical company-internal application with users worldwide. I love my family, my cats, classical music and .... Ham call is K8QN and I've been licensed...