In case you need a shell script or Ansible playbook to update your own Forgejo instance, I’ve just uploaded mine to Codeberg. The specific reason: There have been a series of updates in quick succession over the past days. I noticed some people expressing frustration about having to redo all their updates all over again. Read more

Back in the late 80s and early 90s, you still had to dive deep into the hardware to get decent software. This meant checking hardware-related register values to get mouse coordinates via interrupt 33h, for example. Or write inline assembler within Turbo Pascal procedures or PowerBASIC functions. Read more

PureBasic v6. came out yesterday. A real good occasion to recompile my projects based on it and make them more visible. Especially in times of heavyweight frameworks, these tools show that functional software can be done differently: single binaries with native performance, extremely small, transparent and easy to maintain. Read more

At the end of October I switched my gaming machine from Win10 to Linux. Not without some 2nd thoughts how the games would perform. This weekend it was finally time to tackle the supposedly toughest one: The Microsoft Flight Simulator. It is likely Microsoft’s flagship product, significantly older than Windows. Read more