100DaysToOffload

Reverse-engineering the interrupt circuitry in the Intel 8086 processor - I’m so happy to have discovered these posts by @kenshirriff@oldbytes.space - I learned about microprocessor engineering and programming using the then-current Z80, and the 8086 as featured in this series represented the excitement of the new. These products represent a time when CPU chips were comprehensible to an undergraduate (at a system block level anyway), and carry a load of nostalgia :-) #100DaysToOffload 21/100 #

I experiment with analysing the potential effects of CoPilot using a McLuhan tetrad #

The Conspiracy Theory Handbook | Center For Climate Change Communication - Not seen this resource previously, HT @harold@mastodon.social CONSPIR: Contradictory, Overriding Suspicion, Nefarious Intent, Something Must Be Wrong, Persecuted Victim, Immune to Evidence, Reinterpreting Randomness #100DaysToOffload 19/100 #

The UK pilot of a shorter work-week with no pay reduction has reported positive results for both companies and workers. #

Upgrading your .NET projects with Visual Studio - I could say it’s entirely typical of life that this appears after a big splurge of updates, but I’m interested in exploring incremental side-by-side for upgrading a legacy API from ASP.NET to ASP.NET Core #100DaysToOffload 17/100 #

Created a Won't Read This List - I like this idea from @ton@m.tzyl.eu that extends beyond the anti-library as another way to manage future attention… #

The Purpose of my Blog – michelleockers.com - Used to enjoy reading Michelle Ockers on social learning, so good to see her feed light up again after a few years of silence! #100DaysToOffload 15/100 #

Power Platform Challenge - Yet another technology challenge, this time around the Microsoft low-code approach to Power Apps. I’ve been meaning to look more at some of their low-code approaches, this might be a good way to start. #100DaysToOffload 13/100 #

See New Project Setup - C# #100DaysToOffload 11/100 #

Reply to ChatGPT marks end of homework at Alleyn’s School - Via Tony Parkin I see that Alleyn's (a fancy private school with a fancy price) has taken the bold, but probably sensible step, of ceasing the use of written essays as homework on the basis that the students can easily use a tool like ChatGPT to turn them in. Instead they require the students to do research in preparation for dialogue and assessment in the classroom. How may years will it take the bodies that ‘oversee’ state education in the UK to allow forward-looking Headteachers to do the same thing? #