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Imran Nazar ~ عمران نزر
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Front-end #typescript developer, author of RFC 7168 (HTCPCP for teapots); occasional plumber, more than occasional #c64 #retrocomputing enthusiast, terrible at #piano.

Header photo is a verdant scene looking over the landscape near Buxton, England.
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From a few days ago; trying this as a thread. #microfiction

Look, it's not that Morpheus knew he had it wrong. The story about body heat for power was BS, sure, but he honestly believed; it's how the story came to him. It was we who darkened the skies, but it was for a much more stupid reason. 1/11
May 4, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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So how much of a streak did you guys lose when you uninstalled #Duolingo due to their "focus on AI" driving out translators and linguists?

I just worked out that my 1465 days is almost exactly four years.

We'll see how good I am at Mandarin after 4 years of LingoDeer...
May 4, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 20: Isaac Asimov/Robert Silverberg, Nightfall

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Paperback edition of Asimov and Silverberg's Nightfall. Photo credit: pinterest/Randy Marcy
December 30, 2024 at 2:22 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 19: Andy Weir, The Martian

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Paperback edition of Weir's The Martian, depicting an astronaut peering into the distance with a hand above their visor. Photo credit: Victoria Reads
December 29, 2024 at 1:56 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 18: Greg Egan, Permutation City

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Paperback edition of Greg Egan's Permutation City, depicting a wordsearch with permutations of the phrase "Permutation City". Photo credit: goodreads
December 28, 2024 at 1:28 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 17: Bruce Sterling, The Hacker Crackdown

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Paperback edition of Bruce Sterling's Hacker Crackdown, subtitled: Law and disorder on the electronic frontier. Photo credit: Another one that's mine
December 27, 2024 at 1:21 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 16: Isaac Asimov, In the Beginning: Science Faces God in the Book of Genesis

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Hardcover small-format edition of Asimov's In The Beginning, subtitled: Science Faces God in the Book of Genesis. Photo credit: Another one that's mine
December 25, 2024 at 4:41 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 15: Arthur C Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama

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Paperback edition of Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama, depicting a spacecraft approaching a truncated cone of some kind. Photo credit: pinterest/RickWall
December 24, 2024 at 5:13 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 14: Charles Calvert, Teach Yourself Windows 95 Programming in 21 Days

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Cover of the second edition of Sams' Teach Yourself Windows 95 Programming in 21 Days, by Charles Calvert. Two price stickers are visible: reduced from $53.99 to $27, and then to $16.99. Photo credit: Internet Archive
December 23, 2024 at 1:52 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 13: Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

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Paperback edition of pterry's Guards! Guards!, a Discworld novel. Photo credit: readanybook
December 22, 2024 at 1:44 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 12: Carl Sagan, Contact

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Paperback edition of Carl Sagan's Contact, with the "now a major motion picture" blurb. Photo credit: Goodreads
December 20, 2024 at 9:52 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 11: Ed Tittel, HTML 4 For Dummies

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Paperback edition of HTML 4 For Dummies, by Ed Tittel and Stephen Nelson James, with included CD of source code. Photo credit: James O'Neill, freexenon.com
December 19, 2024 at 9:56 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 10: Raymond E Feist, Magician

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Paperback "new revised" edition of Raymond E Feist's Magician. Photo credit: World of Books, Germany
December 18, 2024 at 8:47 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 9: Iain M Banks, Excession

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Paperback edition of Iain M Banks' Excession, on brown paper backing. Photo credit: a now unlisted item on Etsy
December 17, 2024 at 9:07 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 8: JRR Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

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Paperback single-volume edition of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, stood on end to show the phat spine. Photo credit: Stella & Rose's Books, Tintern
December 16, 2024 at 9:27 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 7: Larry Niven, Ringworld

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Paperback edition of Larry Niven's Ringworld, in a plastic dust jacket, on grey carpet. Photo credit: Ok, this one's mine
December 15, 2024 at 9:29 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 6: Isaac Asimov, Foundation

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Paperback edition of Isaac Asimov's Foundation collection of shorts. Photo credit: flickr/ra.az
December 14, 2024 at 9:05 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 5: David Eddings, Domes of Fire

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Paperback edition of David Eddings' Domes of Fire, book one of the Tamuli trilogy. Photo credit: Anthony Bonner, anthonyzuri.blog
December 13, 2024 at 10:08 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 4: Commodore 64 Programmer's Reference Guide

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The C64 Programmer's Reference Guide, with plastic-tooth binding. The fold-out electronic schematic can just be seen poking out the back. Photo credit: RavenWolf's retro-tech shop
December 12, 2024 at 9:01 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 3: JRR Tolkien, The Hobbit

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Art project to create a book cover for JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit. Credit: deviantart/dreams-design
December 11, 2024 at 10:31 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 2: MS-DOS 5 User's Guide and Reference

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Microsoft MS-DOS Operating System version 5.0 User's Guide and Reference in glorious monochrome, on a grey laminate floor. Photo credit: somewhere on eBay
December 10, 2024 at 9:55 PM
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I don't tend to talk politics on main, esp across-the-pond politics, but:

In the wake of the US election I remember talk of thousands of "disaffected" Dem voters voting D up and down the ticket, but R for President.

Seems like a strange pattern. We've had a few weeks, was that ever looked into?
December 10, 2024 at 9:43 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (Cheating a little, as I did this on Mastodon already)

Day 1: A Wrinkle in Time

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Paperback edition of A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle, on a wooden table. Photo credit: pinterest/emilyrenee5
December 9, 2024 at 6:15 PM
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It's that time of year again: the 100-post December Threadapalooza challenge. This time, the #commodore64 and its disk drive: why was it so dang slow? Let's take a look at the history leading up to the C64's release, and the technical detail of the disk drive's operation. 1/100
The Commodore 64 in glorious brown, pictured with original packing box and User's Guide, a Datasette tape deck and a 1541 floppy disk drive. Credit: Harold Dorwin, the Smithsonian
December 2, 2024 at 11:43 AM
imrannazar.com
It's that time of year again: the 100-post December Threadapalooza challenge. This time, the #commodore64 and its disk drive: why was it so dang slow? Let's take a look at the history leading up to the C64's release, and the technical detail of the disk drive's operation. 1/100
The Commodore 64 in glorious brown, pictured with original packing box and User's Guide, a Datasette tape deck and a 1541 floppy disk drive. Credit: Harold Dorwin, the Smithsonian
December 2, 2024 at 11:43 AM