Rob @robdaemon@mastodon.sdf.org

I’m mostly liking OpenBSD but /usr/local not being in the clang search path is kind of a pain in the arse.

I also wish I had VSCode.

I replaced the hard drive in my T440p today, and since I need to reinstall an OS anyhow, I went with OpenBSD 6.9.

This week, the product I work on was broken by a rate limit on Docker Hub, then a bug(?) in Terraform, and today by limits in AWS.

Luckily I could fix the Terraform caused outage quickly, but the Docker Hub one and this AWS one, I can’t.

The one big thing with everything going “cloud” is that you lose control of your business - limitations and outages somewhere else that you have no control over can hurt you. Badly.

I’ve been trying to play with BGI in Borland C for DOS. It’s been a while. I never wrote C in the DOS days, just Pascal and I never learned graphics. Didn’t have anyone to help me with the math. Now I understand the math.

I tried using DJGPP and the g++ compiler on a 486DX/33. Yeah. No. So. Sloooooooow.

Sticking to Borland C++ 3 on that machine. Don’t need modern C++ that badly.

Just because it’s a little easier, I’ve taken to setting up my DOS image on my ThinkPad instead with PCem.

I loved DESQview/X.