Funky Si's Blog

Share

Twitter Facebook

Settings

Go back Reload Copy URL Share
  • About
  • Projects
  • Tools & Resources
  • Newsletter
  • Contact
  • Events
  • Search
  1. Home
  2. Month
  3. 2021-12

Rediscovering BASIC: Programming Nostalgia and Lessons Learned

Rediscovering BASIC: Programming Nostalgia and Lessons Learned
December 28, 2021 3 min read tech2021-12BASICHistoryLynx2021

How exciting my Lynx Computer from my childhood has come home, all 96k of it pic.twitter.com/aeN38KBiS8 — Simon Foster (@funkysi1701) December 26, 2021 I can’t remember the syntax for BASIC, luckily I have been able to find the Manual . All the commands are listed inside so lets see what we can do. The Lynx presents...

Read More

A Comparison of All Good Things... and Star Trek Picard

A Comparison of All Good Things... and Star Trek Picard
December 15, 2021 2 min read trek2021-12StarTrekPicard2021

The final episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation features a few scenes set 25 years into the future. That episode aired May 1994. The newest Star Trek TV show Star Trek Picard has just aired its first episode and this is 25 years and 8 months after that episode. This article may contain minor spoilers for the first...

Read More

Lone Developer to Senior Developer, my 2021 story

Lone Developer to Senior Developer, my 2021 story
December 5, 2021 13 min read tech2021-12FestiveTechCalendar2021careerLifeStory2021

Welcome to Day 5 of the Festive Tech Calendar! Usually at this time of year I like to take the opportunity to look back on the last 12 months, highlight some of my achievements and make a few goals for the new year. Like many of you 2021 has been a difficult year, but it has also been a year of change, and I am in a...

Read More
Simon Foster
Simon Foster
18+ years' experience delivering production systems across development, infrastructure, and cloud.
North England
About Me
Contact

Search

Episode Atlas

Track your Star Trek journey

Mark episodes watched, earn ranks, and find what to watch next across every series.

964+ episodes
14 series
Explore Episode Atlas Free to browse · episodeatlas.com

Related Links

Create an Issue on GitHub

Featured Posts

  • Creating a Festive Naughty or Nice Checker Using Semantic Kernel and .NET
  • Learning Kubernetes: A Beginner's Journey
  • Adding Elasticsearch with .Net Aspire
  • Getting started with .Net Aspire
  • Upgrading to .Net 7

Recent Posts

  • Portfolio: Live Azure Workloads, AI Search, and Dev Tools
  • Episode Atlas: Track Your Star Trek Rewatch Journey
  • How I Use AI on Side Projects: ChatGPT, Cursor, and Copilot
  • AI Won't Replace Developers, But It Will Redefine Us
  • Azure Container Registry vs AWS Elastic Container Registry: A Developer's Comparison

Tags

Access AI Android API App Aspire Automation AWS Azure AzureDevOps Baby Backups Blazor Blogging C-Sharp Career Clouds Community Conference Database Development DevOps Docker DotNet Family Git Github Goals Grafana ITAdmin Javascript Learning Microsoft Monitoring Nagios OpenTelemetry Podcast Powershell Programming Raspberry Pi Security Servers Software Development Source Control SourceCode SQL SSL StarTrek Tech Technology Testing Visual Studio Website Windows

Links

  •  Buy Me A Coffee
  •  GitHub Sponsors
  •  Octopus Energy
  •  DevTo
  •  Mastodon
  •  Funky Si: The Next Generation
  •  Podcasts
  •  My Monthly Newsletter
  •  Tools & Resources

Years

  • 2026 (7)
  • 2025 (23)
  • 2024 (11)
  • 2023 (7)
  • 2022 (17)
  • 2021 (8)
  • 2020 (10)
  • 2019 (10)
  • 2018 (20)
  • 2017 (35)
  • 2016 (28)
  • 2015 (70)
  • 2014 (11)
  • 262 Posts so far

Years

2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026
Powered by Hugo 0.162.1 and the Bootstrap theme. Status Page. Terms and Conditions.