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I heartily endorse Wordle as a word game.

I didn’t do great on Sunday, August 28 2022 Wordle:

This is something:

Iceberg

The Go programming language has a unique, built-in concurrency model that can make some processing much easier.

Have one goroutine do some (probably recursive) work. It puts results on a channel. The main goroutine reads results from the channel and possibly does some filtering on those results, like output unique values.

Explanation of my design of a binary tree Golang package

I built a Z80-based RC2014 Zed computer from a kit.

Looks like three groups of marine diapsids, ichthyosaurs, mosasaurs, and thalattosuchians, all evolved “hypocercal” tail fins.

A Museum You Should Visit

If you happen to be in Casper, Wyoming, you should visit Tate Geological Museum. It’s a small, but very well done geology and paleontology museum. There’s interesting things for most family members, even well-informed 4-year-olds could have fun and learn things.

It’s often said that DEC operating systems influenced the design of the CP/M microcomputer OS. Let’s examine that assertion by looking at how a process was laid out in memory.

Something upwards of 40% of all Internet websites use WordPress blogging software. WordPress is written in the PHP programming language. Because PHP has a lot of quirks, and because just about any wanker can come along and crap out a solution to any given problem, WordPress installations have traditionally had security flaws. That makes WordPress installations subject to a lot of shady activity.