2025 Advent of Code Follow-Up
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Juan Vazquez and Cameron Cunning rejoin the show to discuss how we fared with the 2025 Advent of Code competition. Website for the Advent of Code competition: Cameron's GitHub Repo: Juan's Github Repo: Jim's AoC2025 GitHub Repo:
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Forth Systems Creator Tom Zimmer Joins the Show
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Tom Zimmer has implemented a variety of Forth compiler systems ranging from 8-bit commercial Forths to more modern implementations. Tom discusses his background with electronics, computing, and Forth. Tom's websites: The Win32Forth Project Page The Forth Interest Group (FIG) historical page on Forth.
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Advent of Code 2025 Pregame Show
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Cameron Cunning and Juan Vazquez rejoin the show to discuss our approaches to the forthcoming Advent of Code 2025 coding competition in December. #rust #elixirlang #dlang #Aoc2025 #AdventOfCode #programming Website for the Advent of Code competition: Cameron's GitHub Repo: Jim's AoC2025 GitHub Repo:
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Horror Novelist Angela Sylvaine Returns to the Show
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Angela Sylvaine returns for her fourth appearance on the show. She and Jim recap the story of her first three novels and her future works including her forthcoming book Cold Snap. Please visit Angela's linktr.ee page for her book order and social media links:
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Nick Andrew Discusses the System-80 Including His Zeta BBS
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Telecommunications and BBS pioneer Nick Andrew talks about the TRS-80 Model I workalike known as the System-80. With many hardware modifications, Nick wrote and operated his own BBS on the System-80 in the 1980's. As time went on, Nick continued as a telecom pioneer. #z80 #trs80 #fidonet #bbsing
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Leor Zolman, Creator of the First Commercial C Compiler for Microcomputers Joins the Show
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Leor Zolman, creator of the BDS (Brain Damage Software) C compiler for CP/M ... the first commercial C compiler for microcomputers ... joins the show. We discuss his compiler, tech writing, the genesis of The C Users Journal, his book Illustrated C, his path to teaching, and his journey in dealing with autism and trauma. Leor's presentation at VCF East (2025) Leor's Website
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International Tech Speaker Christine Seeman Joins the Show
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June 25, 2025 ( recorded on February 13th, 2024) This episode is a reissue of an earlier audio-only episode with added video. Christine Seeman joins the show to discuss a variety of programming languages including Java, Ruby, and Go. We also discuss her live international speaking events. Website Mastodon: @christine@ruby.social NDC London 2020 - 2FA Talk .Net Rocks Podcast (taped at NDC London) One Does Not Simply Add MFA - YOW! 2022
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Text Adventure Author and Paleontologist Mike Taylor Joins the Show
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May 16, 2025 Mike Taylor, author of the VIC-20 text adventures Magic Mirror and Nosferatu as well as the Commodore 64 game The Causes of Chaos joins the show. We talk about those early adventure games, his evolution as a software developer, Perl, paleontology, and his book about the 11th incarnation of Doctor Who. Mike's contact information on Mastodon: @mike@sauropods.win Mike's website: Mile's text adventure games: Mike's paleontology blo Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week: Mike's Reinvigorated Programmer blog in which he discusses...
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Atari BBSing with Rob Sherman
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Rob Sherman joins the show to discuss his early years of BBSing in the 1980's and his current telnet bulletin-board systems running on Atari 8-bit gear. Rob's telnet BBS's are as follows: Southernamis.ddns.net:23 This BBS runs in the AWS cloud 24/7 on Atari 130XE, 850 interfaces at a lightning speed of 9600 baud. Amis86.ddns.net:9000 This BBS is a complete rebuild of MACE 1986 AMIS BBS. Enhanced and highly modified Nitelite.ddns.net:9000 This BBS is the restoration of the Atari Corporate 8Bit BBS Nitelite ... an amazing part of Atari History. Here's the terminal,...
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Gunnar Gustafson Discusses Audio Synthesizers
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Gunnar Gustafson rejoins the show to discuss audio synthesis in musical gear. He discusses family ties to some very early audio gear and he draws parallels to the evolution of musical synthesizers and the evolution of software development.
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Traci Gorman and Alicia Retzlaff join the show to discuss their own podcast ... The TechnoGals !
The TechnoGals linktr.ee site:
https://linktr.ee/technogals
The TechnoGals Spotify Podcast:
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/technogals
The TechnoGals on LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/technogals/
The TechnoGals YouTube Podcast:
https://www.youtube.com/@TechnoGals