In my professional pursuits this year, I began using the Ignition platform from Inductive Automation, a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system widely used in industrial applications. In learning how to configure and extend Ignition, I was delighted to find that Inductive Automation provides a free Maker Edition, to allow makers and students to…
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Commodore 64 As A Service
Commodore 64 as a Service was a fun way to learn Flask for Python using Connexion to support an “API first” implementation.
Yum Yum Donut
In February, I stumbled upon the BASIC 10Liner Contest, an extreme challenge of creating an entire retro video game in 10 lines of BASIC code. BASIC was the de-facto language of the home computing revolution in the late 1970s through the 1980s. The first Apple, Atari, and Commodore (and other) computers shipped with BASIC as…
Commodore in the Cloud : Part 1
For many years, the cloud was a realm I mostly explored at work during the day. When it came time to climb back down the beanstalk and hang up my plumber overalls and pipe wrench, I was perfectly happy to exist on traditional Linux virtual private servers or physical machines at home like my MacBook…
Simple BBS in a Commodore Emulator
If you roamed the Earth in the time when every household had a personal computer but only a few had ever heard of something called the Internet, then you probably remember using a modem to dial into a Bulletin Board System or BBS. At that time, unless you were among the lucky few with access…