Post #1884127

2026-04-25 22:10 UTC

Learn how to program an 8-bit computer. It’s the biggest f*ck you to AI bros and their slop; you will learn more about computers than you ever will from gluing frameworks together, and lastly it will come with no responsibility whatsoever. Stop contributing #JavaScript and #Python knowledge to the slop vendors. Microsoft, Google, Apple et al can’t make money off of 6502 or Z80 code. More Commodore 64 games existing is not going to contribute to murder drones shooting kids. #javascript #python #programming #retrocomputing #retrogamimg #c64

Replies (12)

@Kroc@oldbytes.space 2026-04-25 22:41

And if you're currently developing a mobile app, please just f*cking stop and re-evaluate what you're doing with your life.

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@benpocalypse@mastodon.social 2026-04-25 23:59

@Kroc I did all kinds of fun microcontroller programming both personally and professionally for over a decade, and almost none of the tech bros have any clue how to write an atomic function, to setup registers to make an I2C port work, or to configure a phased locked loop. All of this is lost, like tears in the rain.

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@Abdulla@indieweb.social 2026-04-26 06:55

@Kroc does learning QB64 count? :-) after that i'm thinking of learning UXN which is like Forth.

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@jbqueru@floss.social 2026-04-26 14:10

@Kroc Here I am wondering if I should be coding for the Atari 7800 or stay safely with my beloved Atari ST.

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@mewsleah@meow.social 2026-04-26 17:32

@Kroc or 6809 code - no need to suffer for the sake of it!

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@iaruffell@mastodon.scot 2026-04-26 17:48

@Kroc Happy memories indeed, but much more socially useful would be to contribute to the accessibility of your project of choice, if you have spare capacity.

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@thelastpsion@oldbytes.space 2026-04-26 17:54

@Kroc @philpem My doubling-down on Pascal might have something to do with this mindset, too.

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@moses_izumi@fe.disroot.org 2026-04-26 18:22

@Kroc the only retrocomputing-related programming language I know is ZDoom's zscript: whose only commercial usecase is publishing your "total conversion" mod as a stand-alone game. (my HTML skills are basic enough to be considered retro)

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@techokami@woof.tech 2026-04-26 19:07

@Kroc Same with certain 16-bit systems, too. Like the Amiga, or consoles like the Sega Genesis/Megadrive. Been having a lot of fun working on 68K assembly shenanigans for the latter.

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@vivi@arff.archandle.net 2026-04-26 19:27

@Kroc building my own ISA/architecture so that my code is especially useless to everyone except myself :neofox_floof:

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@RuthODay2@chaosfem.tw 2026-04-26 22:33

@Kroc Not a computer person, so no clue on this: I kept my old 486 laptop, running DOS. Does that fit into thwarting the AI bros

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@burnoutqueen@todon.nl 2026-05-14 01:29

@Kroc@oldbytes.space I actually enjoy modern GNU/Linux 🤓 ☝️

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