From c4ebc6c8ffe47d7ffa605d1d30d4ea17b2ca3f24 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Timothy Aldrich Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2023 10:44:31 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 1/3] WIP on about page --- content/about/index.md | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/content/about/index.md b/content/about/index.md index 5b8c0f5..e8800ce 100644 --- a/content/about/index.md +++ b/content/about/index.md @@ -3,3 +3,8 @@ title: "About" date: 2023-03-10T16:56:12-05:00 draft: false --- + + +In a time when all my friends had Commador 64s and Apple IIs, I had an +[IBM PC 8088](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer). At the time, I thought I was "missing out" +because there weren't a lot of games for the IBM. From 957bcf3348b184b8f92d1c94e69f59831da21d8b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Timothy Aldrich Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2024 18:46:08 -0500 Subject: [PATCH 2/3] wip: some bits about the old BASIC programs --- content/about/index.md | 12 ++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/about/index.md b/content/about/index.md index e8800ce..defb90e 100644 --- a/content/about/index.md +++ b/content/about/index.md @@ -5,6 +5,14 @@ draft: false --- -In a time when all my friends had Commador 64s and Apple IIs, I had an +In the early 80's, I was a young teen-ager. It was a time when some of my +friends had Commodore 64s and Apple IIs, and I had an [IBM PC 8088](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer). At the time, I thought I was "missing out" -because there weren't a lot of games for the IBM. +because there weren't a lot of games for the IBM. But then I was thumbing +through an issue of [PC +Mag](https://archive.org/search?query=subject%3A%22PC+Mag%22) and it had a +listing for a program in BASIC. I can't remember what the program did now, but +I remember thinking I had found a secret tunnel into the inside of the computer. +Since then I have always loved programming. Well to be honest, after a few +years of loving it, I left it behind because I thought I wanted to be a rock +star or a baseball player... Until my mid-twenties. From a680f72e4cd014c346d1622413ee390e79e40a32 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Timothy Aldrich Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2024 18:47:39 -0500 Subject: [PATCH 3/3] style: clean up the README to use frontmatter --- README.md | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 47f43c4..a99151b 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,2 +1,5 @@ -# aldrichtr.github.io -Github pages repository +--- +title: aldrichtr.github.io +--- + +Source for my blog using [hugo](https://gohugo.io) and [github pages](https://pages.github.com)