What a tremendous loss for our industry. Stewart's genuine curiosity was infectious.

Super cool! I’ve always wanted to make my own lil language and I’ve always been too intimidated to try.

Start with writing a custom cpu emulator -> machine code -> assembler -> compiler

Sounds hard but it's quite easy with stack architecture :) Easier than learning JS for sure

nowadays it is somewhat easier to make your own programming language, than it was 10 to 20 or 30 years ago, because there are a lot of resources such as tutorials and open source projects available on the internet, in both text and video formats, to learn from. there are also many online forums where you can ask questions and get answers and advice.

Oh man, let's be friends! Hit me up if you wanna nerd out about LaserDiscs — m@rkchristian.ca. I have a pretty decent collection (https://markchristian.org/files/laserdiscs.txt — around 200 or so, no specific theme other than "movies I would like to have a copy of").

Have you got a setup going for digitizing these things? I've got a pitch reel on LaserDisc for a 1991 interactive TV startup that I'd love to preserve before it bitrots.

I love your stuff! As a FastMail user I have to read it in my alternative browser lest I destroy my autocomplete, though. :D

Anyhow; thanks for everything you make! I hope your face is feeling better these days.

Hilariously, I had no idea that this was his site. TIL!

To the communication angle, I've worked at two different BigCo's in my career, and both times there was a fallback system of last resort to use when our primary systems were unavailable.

“The wish is granted. Long live Jambi.”

I really wish the opposite of this (QEMU on iOS) existed. The closest I have been able to find is a build of Bochs that doesn't actually work on my iPad. Someday!

It does! https://github.com/utmapp/UTM

Wow, if I ran on iOS 9.3 I could get some use out of my old "iPad with Retina Display" (aka Ipad 3).

Fascinating! Any relation to iSH?

https://ish.app/

Different projects. iSH has the advantage of not requiring sideloading.

(I wrote iSH)

OMG

It’s far from perfect, but it’s fun to tinker in.

what do you use it for? my understanding is x86 on software arm is pretty slow (though some things are probably fine e.g. text/cli utilities)

UTM is actually not too horrible on the newer iPads with more RAM once the JIT warms up.

I really wish Foone had a blog.

He does. It's just a long series of looooooong twitter threads. ;)

I knew this was going to be a foone thread before I saw that it linked to twitter. :)

Thanks for the heads up!