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A small window to how we used to spread deep computer topics in the 90s. No substacks or X posts. Very cool.
No boring themes either. There was more than the corporate bland aesthetic.
They all converged to looking the same though.

An unreadable fantasy font logo at the top, multiple concentric frames, dot lines, l33t speech etc.

And I absolutely remember people complaining about slop in such intros even in the 90s, they just didn’t use that term.

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Things were less load-bearing back then.
It would be great if you hacked your website to be better usable on a smaller mobile device! I need to zoom in to read, but then I also need to scroll sideways because of fixed layout.

You can do both, achieve a cool retro style and publish in a more modern format that supports multiple output devices.

…Or use a non-modern format and serve it as .txt, which supports all devices. The only downside is you’ll lose colors, but they are not strictly required.
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The mixtape is great. Not sure what genre this would be considered but it's very interesting

https://on.soundcloud.com/f9UeGprlRVB1dGQK5m

I'm sure someone has a more precise idea on what it's called, but I would lean towards minimal DnB.
Feels a bit like a waste that the lovely diskmag interface doesn't seem to have a play button for this mixtape. Hope they add that in future issues.
This reminds me that I have a stack of 2600 magazines in the garage somewhere. I need to revisit them...
Damn, that's a lot of magazines!

Sorry, couldn't resist. Never got those as it was a bit before my time, I started coding in 2004'ish in EU and wasn't aware of 2600 until much later. Not sure if they ever moved digital?

Ha! It took me a few more ms than it should have. Yes it seems they have digitised at least in part: https://www.2600.com/
``` How can people write big systems in general?

We do, but as you say, they're often debugged into existence rather than cleanly designed into existence. ```

really missed an opportunity to make this available via SSH shell or renderable in lynx.
Is the zero instead of capital O in the title intentional?
Decades before leetcode, we already had leetspeak! This is that.
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So does alibaba for their platform anti abuse/fingerprinting shit
When I zoom in, the right half of the page becomes invisible.