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Early June work: Setting up the bug tracker
2026-06-05
This week I copied the bugtracker and its companion tool called "buggy" from the Dillo browser. I forked both to use as a bug tracker on https://pushbx.org/ecm/bug/
If you want a job done (an idiom)
If you want a job done find the busiest person you know and give them an extra job. This is because the reason they are busy is that lot's of people want them to do things because they are good at doing things and that's why they are busy.
Joe Armstrong in the article "2014-06-25 Minimal Viable Programs"
Mid to late May work
2026-05-31
Two hard problems
There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors.
That page collects some more variations on this idiom.
Early mid May work
2026-05-17
This week I worked some on debugging DR-DOS v9. The relevant updates to the debugger and loader are listed in yesterday's blog post dedicated to that. Except for Sunday's update to the manual to list nreserve.eld more completely.
The only other changes concern the list and WarpLink.