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  • WillAdams1 hour ago
    Funny, you&#x27;d think the idea of a graphical version of BASIC would have come to mind when he bought MacBasic for $1:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.folklore.org&#x2F;MacBasic.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.folklore.org&#x2F;MacBasic.html</a><p>For my part, I&#x27;ve decided that my next project will probably be done in PureBasic&#x2F;SpiderBasic, and that if I then feel the need for pure opensource goodness I&#x27;ll port it Gambas.<p>That said, if one wants HyperCard on the Mac (or Windows) there&#x27;s still LiveCode (though it gave up on opensource).
  • nubinetwork1 hour ago
    &gt; AdGuard DNS blocked access to stonetools.ghost.io because it’s in our database of phishing and malicious domains
    • ChristopherDrum1 hour ago
      Author here. Let me first note that the site is 100% free, and requires no account to read anything. I only use the built-in Ghost blogging subscription for those who want it delivered to their email, but it is absolutely not necessary. That&#x27;s the full and total extent of anything email related with the site. I have many readers who subscribe to the RSS feed, which is free and open and requires no email whatsoever.<p>I have been trying to get this unblocked for some time now. I&#x27;ve tried reporting it as a false positive, and so did the Ghost admins, through the Google safebrowsing report mechanism. I saw my blog listed on phishtank.net, but that site isn&#x27;t accepting new accounts and I have to have an account to report a false positive.<p>Ghost admins recommended I use a custom subdomain, and it may come to that. Sorry for the inconvenience, this is very frustrating.
      • don-bright45 minutes ago
        i just took that pesky &#x27;s&#x27; out of https and it let me click thru.
        • ChristopherDrum37 minutes ago
          Thank you, that&#x27;s great to know! (I also found the method for reporting false positives to AdGuard, and hopefully that will get cleared up on their end one day.)
    • nacs1 hour ago
      UBlock Origin is also giving me the warning on that domain.
  • delichon1 hour ago
    I&#x27;m so old ... I got a coding job in 1991. The boss asked if I had any experience in Visual Basic. I said no, but it just came out last week. It&#x27;s hard to describe what a huge leap for mankind that was compared to QuickBasic.
    • vunderba1 hour ago
      It really was an incredible tool especially for RAD. One of my first &quot;professional&quot; gigs was in highschool porting an old CAD program written for VB-DOS over to VB 3.0. Sure as hell beat the landscaping work I did over the previous summer.
      • nashadelic1 hour ago
        Wow “RAD” is such a throw back. Everything is now RAD with AI, we need to bring back the term.
  • don-bright46 minutes ago
    It&#x27;s not dead. It&#x27;s included with every copy of Desktop Excel and probably will be for 20 years. Press Alt-F11 and away you go (enable Developer tab first i guess?). Forms, SQL connectors, collections, alot of other stuff even XML parsing is in there somewhere if you dig around enough.<p>I mean it&#x27;s like. not being developed anymore and not added to, and its a pain to have it deal with modern stuff like https but. yeah. its only mostly dead.
  • functionmouse2 days ago
    &gt; If I dig deep into my own heart, really self-reflect, I find I simply don&#x27;t possess whatever people like Bill Gates and Elon Musk do.<p>Apartheid child slaves?
    • ChristopherDrum2 days ago
      Something like that, yeah.
    • pryce54 minutes ago
      An affable personal relationship with Jeffery Epstein?
      • ChristopherDrum37 minutes ago
        <i>Also</i> like that, yes. (I did include an Epstein-related link in the post)