It is with sadness that I report the passing of Thomas Kurtz. You see, he taught me (and thousands of others) BASIC when I worked at Dartmouth College in the 1970s. It is with sadness that we the passing of Thomas E. Kurtz, on November 12th. He was co-inventor of the BASIC programming language back in …
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Use ‘Bridgy Fed’ to Connect Mastodon and Bluesky
The Great Twitter Exodus of 2022 is still happening. It’s just a little…fractured. A lot of X power users migrated to Bluesky early on, which paved the way for a flood of folks to join that service in 2024. Meanwhile, a lot of technically inclined individuals are still hanging out on Mastodon (at least, that’s where I hang out). …
A Clearinghouse of Genealogy Information
WARNING: This article contains personal opinions. One thing that constantly puzzles me is why do genealogists keep re-inventing the same wheels? In fact, we have the tools today to reduce this duplication of effort immediately and perhaps to even drive it to zero within a few years. If we do that, the result will be peer-reviewed, …