My 4th Great Grandfather, John Britcliffe (or Britliff) is ours. On the 27th November 1842, John flew into a (drunken?) rage and ended up killing my 4th Great Grandmother, Sarah Rack and, presumably, her unborn child. The court papers describe how he beat her and it makes horrible and harrowing reading. He was convicted of…
Author: Jon
Using vintage tech to write on the go. Primarily the Amstrad NC100 due to it's long battery, and the AlphaSmart Dana (with a few hacks)
These machines are perfect for micro and flash fiction - when the muse comes a knocking they are distraction free, instantly-on writing tools.
I’m going to be rich, rich I tell you!
More an exercise in getting the mechanisms right for creating, loading and appending SEQ files in CBM Basic than the foolproof get rich program I secretly think it is, but you never know…. For some reason SEQ files always give me problems and it’s usually because I forget to use the correct flags, especially ‘a’…
All Around The Wold
I started geocaching in 2005. It was fairly new then and there weren’t that many caches around, but the driving force behind starting it up was to give my then young kids some incentive to come on walks with us. It worked too, they really enjoyed it, and, back then, caches seemed to be way…
Advent of Code 2023 Day 1
Here we go then, the 1st day of 2023’s Advent of Code. Day 1 looked deceptively simple, with part 1 completed in pretty quick time. The only real problem was the large amount of data caused memory overflow issues, so I split it into 4 separate parts for the data statements. I’ll list some code…
Advent of Code Prep – 2023
I like some direction and order in my life, or maybe I need it rather than like it, but either way Advent of Code is something that very much appeals to me as it gives us daily problems to solve and actually gets me coding and thinking. This year, actually my first year, I will be attempting…