WITTY_INTRODUCTION.EXE
Ah, dang. I wanted to use it.
Let's be honest. The guy with the Apple II looks way happier than Tony Stark.
HOW DID THIS PICTURE GET IN HERE?
It's funny because it's making fun of JavaScript.
lol. "Intellisence."
The German Sovereign Tech Agency paid half a million dollars to create
"Rust libraries and tools" for Arch package management. One question: WHY?!
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From Red Hat to The Linux Foundation, the majority of the Open Source world is moving towards Al assisted programming. And now Linus Torvalds is "vibe coding".
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Ads are filling the entirety of the Web -- websites, podcasts, YouTube videos, etc. -- at an increasing rate. Prices for those ad placements are plummeting. Consumers are desperate to use ad-blockers to make the web palatable. Google (and others) are desperate to break and block ad-blockers. All of which results in... more ads and lower pay for creators.
It's a fascinatingly annoying cycle. And there's only one viable way out of it.
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Those in power with openSUSE make it clear they will not allow me anywhere near anything related to the openSUSE project. Ever. For any reason.
Well, that settles that, then! Guess I won't be contributing to openSUSE! 🤣
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On the Fly AI (field report)
I do monthly Snowflake retainer work for a client — weekly meeting cadence, steady progress, normal stuff.
This week they brought in a Python dev who was having trouble connecting to an API for a data source. I’m Python-capable, but it’s not my main lane.
Good news: this client is very supportive of using AI.
So I shared my screen and used Warp.dev (started life as a new-fangled terminal, and is now basically a Claude Code competitor living in your shell).
In about 30 minutes, we worked through the connection issue, got the code running, and committed everything to git for the Python dev to take it from there.
Key learnings
1) I currently prefer command-line AI agent tools over the IDE assistants.
Not 100% sure why yet. But CLI agents feel more direct. I’m not coding, I’m directing the coding. I do use an IDE to view the created code.
2) Feed the AI the docs.
In this case the API docs required login, so the agent couldn’t just fetch a URL and magically know ...
#C64 Yours truly got published in this months Compute!'s Gazette! Volume 2, Issue 1.
https://www.computesgazette.com/
I wrote a BASIC program, WORDY, that plays 5-letter Wordle. You can find the article and program starting on page 67.
The word list has been shortened to fit in the magazine, but the full program can be found here:
https://github.com/nullman/c64-basic?tab=readme-ov-file#wordy
Holy moly.
This afternoon I sat down to update the 3rd Lunduke Journal Lifetime Subscriber wall — adding in all of you who sent in requests over the last week or so.
And, boy howdy, were there a lot of you! So many, in fact, that the 3rd Lifetime Wall only has room for around 6 or 7 more names (depending on the name lengths)! That’s crazy!
If you want to make it onto “The Lunduke Journal Lifetime Subscriber” Wall number 3… send me an email (bryan at lunduke.com) with the way you would like your name to be displayed.
Or, if you’re not already a Lifetime Subscriber, remedy that for $89. (Which, you know, is a pretty gosh darned good value.) … Then send me that email requesting to be added to the wall.
Once Wall 3 is full, we’ll start in on Wall number 4 (that’s nuts). At the current rate, I expect Wall 4 to debut this week.
And, as always, thank you for your support. Whatever kind of subscription you have, it is deeply appreciated. Monthly, Yearly, or Lifetime. All are amazing. You make The Lunduke Journal possible.
You rule.
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I’ve got the flu (or something else yucky) and need to take the day off tomorrow.
But I don’t really have a normal “boss” to email. Heck, all of you are sort of like my collective boss.
So I’m emailing you:
Boss, *cough cough* Lunduke is out sick tomorrow.
Which means no new shows on Wednesday. Hoping to rest up and be back with new shows on Thursday.
If you’ve missed any shows over the last few weeks, now’s a good chance to catch up.
And feel free to grab one of those fancy-shmancy $89 Lifetime Subscriptions while you’re at it. That won’t make my flu go away any faster… but it definitely won’t hurt.
Unrelated note: Buying stock in Nyquil might not be a bad idea. I think I’m about to increase their profits.
-Lunduke
A few super-quick Lunduke Journal housekeeping updates:
The Lunduke Journal’s email server has had a few hiccups — if you had sent an email to “bryan at lunduke.com” in the last couple days, and have not received an expected response, send the email again.
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The popular $89 Lifetime Subscription deal is back through the end of January. Standard Monthly & Yearly subscriptions are also discounted (50% off). Grab ‘em while they’re hot!
That is all. Back to your regularly scheduled nerdiness.
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