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Astrolokeys and a Vortex Tab 90M
If you found this helpful and are planning on purchasing a Drop keycap set, please use my referral link and we’ll both get $10. I initially built a Drop CTRL keyboard combo with the Halo Clear switches and Astrolokeys Base set for the 15% discount, but after a while I felt myself missing my Cherry…
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Getting a Count of Occurrences of Items in a Ruby Array (and a Caveat for Rails)
I feel like I’m often wanting to count occurrences of items in an array (Rails has its own special case as well), and I’m always trying to do it the “long way.” I finally stumbled upon this answer on StackOverflow that details the version-by-version options: Ruby 2.7+ use .tally directly on the array: Ruby 2.4+…
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8563 Chip: Plotting Characters to the Commodore 128’s 80-column Mode
Source Code for this 8563 Demonstration You can find the below source code at https://github.com/stringsn88keys/unnecessary-computer-things/blob/main/episodes/2021/001/commodore-128/CHASXYCOSINE.BAS and watch here for demonstration of the run time vs. the TRS-80 Model 16 emulator (a computer for which I never realized had a graphics mode when I had access to one). The BASIC and disassembly is also available on…