Stray Pointers

The YouTube (audio only) version of this episode can be found here: https://youtu.be/oxz77qF6HtQ

Angela Sylvaine makes her fifth appearance on our 50th podcast! We discuss her recent writing efforts, we talk about the ideation process behind her stories, and we do our annual exchange of urban legend stories.

Angela's Linktree Site https://linktr.ee/angelasylvaine

Email: [email protected]

RSS Feed: http://feeds.libsyn.com/481983/rss

Stray Pointers can also be found here:

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@JL6502

Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/stray-pointers/id1713097752

Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2dUPfppZtZfBehYy5Qx03k

Amazon Music https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9fa7c117-b43b-4676-aced-99eae7b1ae91/stray-pointers

Player.FM https://player.fm/series/series-3705378

Juan Vazquez and Cameron Cunning rejoin the show to discuss how we fared with the 2025 Advent of Code competition.

Website for the Advent of Code competition: https://adventofcode.com/

Cameron's GitHub Repo: https://github.com/ccunning2/AoC2025/tree/main/aoc-2025

Juan's Github Repo: https://github.com/javazquez/advent-of-code/tree/main/2025/aoc_2025_elixir

Jim's AoC2025 GitHub Repo: https://github.com/jimlawless/aoc2025/

Email: [email protected]

RSS Feed: http://feeds.libsyn.com/481983/rss

Stray Pointers can also be found here:

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@JL6502

Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/stray-pointers/id1713097752

Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2dUPfppZtZfBehYy5Qx03k

Amazon Music https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9fa7c117-b43b-4676-aced-99eae7b1ae91/stray-pointers

Player.FM https://player.fm/series/series-3705378

Tom Zimmer has implemented a variety of Forth compiler systems ranging from 8-bit commercial Forths to more modern implementations. Tom discusses his background with electronics, computing, and Forth.

Tom's websites: https://photobubba.com/ https://tomzimmer.wordpress.com/

The Win32Forth Project Page https://win32forth.sourceforge.net/

The Forth Interest Group (FIG) historical page on Forth. https://www.forth.org/

Email: [email protected]

RSS Feed: http://feeds.libsyn.com/481983/rss

Stray Pointers can also be found here:

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@JL6502

Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/stray-pointers/id1713097752

Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2dUPfppZtZfBehYy5Qx03k

Amazon Music https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9fa7c117-b43b-4676-aced-99eae7b1ae91/stray-pointers

Player.FM https://player.fm/series/series-3705378

Cameron Cunning and Juan Vazquez rejoin the show to discuss our approaches to the forthcoming Advent of Code 2025 coding competition in December.

#rust #elixirlang #dlang #Aoc2025 #AdventOfCode #programming

Website for the Advent of Code competition: https://adventofcode.com/

Cameron's GitHub Repo: https://github.com/ccunning2/

Jim's AoC2025 GitHub Repo: https://github.com/jimlawless/aoc2025/

Email: [email protected]

RSS Feed: http://feeds.libsyn.com/481983/rss

Stray Pointers can also be found here:

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@JL6502

Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/stray-pointers/id1713097752

Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2dUPfppZtZfBehYy5Qx03k

Amazon Music https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9fa7c117-b43b-4676-aced-99eae7b1ae91/stray-pointers

Player.FM https://player.fm/series/series-3705378

Angela Sylvaine returns for her fourth appearance on the show. She and Jim recap the story of her first three novels and her future works including her forthcoming book Cold Snap.

Please visit Angela's linktr.ee page for her book order and social media links:

https://linktr.ee/angelasylvaine

Telecommunications and BBS pioneer Nick Andrew talks about the TRS-80 Model I workalike known as the System-80. With many hardware modifications, Nick wrote and operated his own BBS on the System-80 in the 1980's. As time went on, Nick continued as a telecom pioneer.

#z80 #trs80 #fidonet #bbsing

https://github.com/nickandrew

https://www.nick-andrew.net/System80/Gallery/512x384/

http://projects.nick-andrew.net/

https://www.classic-computers.org.nz/system-80/

Leor Zolman, creator of the BDS (Brain Damage Software) C compiler for CP/M ... the first commercial C compiler for microcomputers ... joins the show. We discuss his compiler, tech writing, the genesis of The C Users Journal, his book Illustrated C, his path to teaching, and his journey in dealing with autism and trauma.

Leor's presentation at VCF East (2025) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4vrBd2FVCY

Leor's Website https://www.bdsoft.com

June 25, 2025 ( recorded on February 13th, 2024)

This episode is a reissue of an earlier audio-only episode with added video.

Christine Seeman joins the show to discuss a variety of programming languages including Java, Ruby, and Go. We also discuss her live international speaking events.

Website https://christine-seeman.com/

Mastodon: @[email protected]

NDC London 2020 - 2FA Talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTtZQVSnz2M

.Net Rocks Podcast (taped at NDC London) https://www.dotnetrocks.com/details/1676

One Does Not Simply Add MFA - YOW! 2022 https://youtu.be/adQZ6r3Y858?si=0IA5XIBzU0U8HOgj

May 16, 2025

Mike Taylor, author of the VIC-20 text adventures Magic Mirror and Nosferatu as well as the Commodore 64 game The Causes of Chaos joins the show. We talk about those early adventure games, his evolution as a software developer, Perl, paleontology, and his book about the 11th incarnation of Doctor Who.

Mike's contact information on Mastodon: @[email protected] https://sauropods.win/@mike/

Mike's website: https://www.miketaylor.org.uk/

Mile's text adventure games: https://www.miketaylor.org.uk/tech/advent/mm/

Mike's paleontology blo Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week: https://svpow.com/

Mike's Reinvigorated Programmer blog in which he discusses everything except sauropod vertebrae: https://reprog.wordpress.com/

Rob Sherman joins the show to discuss his early years of BBSing in the 1980's and his current telnet bulletin-board systems running on Atari 8-bit gear.

Rob's telnet BBS's are as follows:

Southernamis.ddns.net:23 This BBS runs in the AWS cloud 24/7 on Atari 130XE, 850 interfaces at a lightning speed of 9600 baud.

Amis86.ddns.net:9000 This BBS is a complete rebuild of MACE 1986 AMIS BBS. Enhanced and highly modified

Nitelite.ddns.net:9000 This BBS is the restoration of the Atari Corporate 8Bit BBS Nitelite ... an amazing part of Atari History.

Here's the terminal, SyncTerm, used in the show: https://syncterm.bbsdev.net/