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citizenfishy··on Ask HN: What are you reading?
Ulysses - again .. hopefully I'll make it this time
citizenfishy··on Without the Hot Air
Lings Cars!
citizenfishy··on Alan's Random Insult Generator (1999)
I wrote this many years ago:-

https://apps.repebble.com/rude-time_543459b072a84da55500004c

citizenfishy··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
I managed to publish my second cycling route guide

https://www.adventurebooks.com/collections/our-latest-books-...

It took me three years to write whilst also building a couple of start-up companies

citizenfishy··on What “The Best” Looks Like
I built my first company on engineers I hired from the local college by simply asking them to send me students who had clear talent but weren't engaging well in the academic side. We became a local clearing house where we quickly found out whether they could thrive outside of the academic environment. Two of them became "The Best" you talk about. One in DevOps (earns way more than me now) another found his talent in DevEx.
citizenfishy··on The Zen of Reticulum
Middle out
citizenfishy··on The Z80 Mem­ber­ship Card (2015)
I have very sadly done the same with ZX Spectrums but the quest is never ending due to all of the baltic clones
citizenfishy··on Gemini in Chrome
Gilfoyle will sort that
citizenfishy··on Rescuing two PDP-11s from a former British Telecom underground shelter (2023)
Working in Post Office Research in the 1990's I watched a couple of PDP-11's being hoicked into a skip near our labs. Sadly I lived in a shared house with no room for them....
citizenfishy··on ZX Spectrum graphics magic
After reading that article it is mandatory to play R-Type on the Spectrum and truly appreciate the challenges overcome by Bob Pape.

His book is well worth a read: https://bizzley.42web.io/?i=1

citizenfishy··on Binary Wordle
Isn't this just Mastermind?
citizenfishy··on E-COM: The $40M USPS project to send email on paper
Happy to, find me on LinkedIN - Dave Barter CEO Nautoguide
citizenfishy··on E-COM: The $40M USPS project to send email on paper
I developed so many similar services for the UK Royal Mail in the 1990's

We used Yellow Royal Mail branded envelopes to gain attention.