My first computer was a home-built ZX81 (manufactured in my hometown of Dundee) given to me by a capable and nerdy family friend, which was quickly replaced by a ZX Spectrum Plus 2 (it had colour and built-in tape deck) that Christmas - a move which has shaped my life ever since.

I have fond (ish!) memories of typing in hex codes and BASIC from computing magazines to create games and demos, and having the ability to see and edit that code almost certainly give me the start of the career I have now.

RIP Sir Clive.

Was about to write the same thing! I had never heard of a Tesla valve prior to Nuraphone, but it’s a brilliantly simple design that works really well for this case.

I did not know you had these courses in Coursera. Great to know, I’ve signed up!

This is neat. I’d love to be able to code in an iPad.

Related, I found GitPod a while back, it offers a VSCode experience and also manages running services for you.

https://www.gitpod.io/

What keeps you from using Visual Studio Codespaces?

Gitpod has been around for a while longer.

does codespaces work on the ipad now? last time I checked it said the browser wasn't supported.

Looks good. I think it's time to try tarsnap again.

I recall that there was this one GUI tool[1] for OSX but I was never able to get it to work correctly.

[1] https://github.com/casperstorm/Bob

There have been a few attempts at GUIs over the years. I'm hoping that this one will turn out well; I think it's already more functional than any of the others, and it's being actively developed.

I think the problem is that abandoning your project on Sourceforge doesn't have the intended effect.

"SourceForge, the code repository site owned by Slashdot Media, has apparently seized control of the account hosting GIMP for Windows on the service, according to e-mails and discussions amongst members of the GIMP community—locking out GIMP's lead Windows developer. And now anyone downloading the Windows version of the open source image editing tool from SourceForge gets the software wrapped in an installer replete with advertisements."

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/05/source...

Not that I can find. I don't see any indications that they intend to open-source Heron either.

Perhaps. An item gains wabi-sabi through stressors increasing imperfection?

Sound's like Taleb's Anti-fragile to me.

Looks like it's back now.

I suppose someone forgot to renew their domain! Awkward.

Apparently they were DNS Hijacked.

This is a great idea. 3.1 is way more 'breaky' than I'd expect from a point release, but the new features are great. Let's make it an awesome release!

What major issues are you having?

I'm curious as well. While I haven't upgraded any older projects, I started a new project on 3.1.rc4 several weeks ago and (besides deprecation warnings for some testing tools) have had very few problems that grabbing a newer gem couldn't fix.

There are significant changes that I wouldn't normally have expected in a point release.

To your point, the community has rushed to support many of these changes so it's unlikely to be a big deal.