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finding specific code of interest Wednesday, July 14 2021
The sun came out today and it was even a bit hot for a time, though I never needed to do more than run the fan in the laboratory. Gretchen and Neville were at the bookstore in Woodstock and Ramona was on the laboratory ottoman, occasionally moaning at me for attention. I've been more productive lately now that I've come up to speed more on the sprawling web app I inherited from the Ukranians, especially when it comes to the C# code powering its services and data migration. I still struggle with the Angular frontend code, where even the easiest tasks are hampered by layers and layers of indirection and bulk logic doing things to dozens of fields simultaneously. Even so, I'm getting better had figuring out how to address issues such as undesired data formatting. There are almost no comments in the code and it's not always clear from the names of things what they do, and I've found it harder to find specific code of interest in TypeScript source code than it was to find code of interest in compiled 680X0 code back when I used to use ResEdit (with a disassembler plugin) to crack classic Macintosh software back in the early 1990s.
On the subject of 680X0 code, recently I've been working to get an old G4 iMac up and running for use when running classic Mac software of the sort I used to crack and collect. Back in the early 1990s, I made a whole hobby out of visiting various college campuses and then downloading whatever software I could find on the reachable campus computer network (in those days, a lot of it would typically be reachable, including plenty of individual workstations running interesting software). Much of the stuff I collected was compressed using CompactPro, though I haven't yet been able to get that to run on my G4 Mac Mini.
This evening when I went on my scooter to get more chanterelles, I remembered to bring a bag. Interestingly, though, a whole patch I'd remembered a little distance up the Chamomile Headwaters Trail had vanished. It's possible a bear ate them all or (much less likely) there is some other human who knows about that spot.
Later this evening, I did a bunch of pruning of the lower branches of the small white pines east of the house. This opened up new places to walk and also made for more lines of sight, though I mostly tried to keep vegetation in place to block a view of our downhill neighbors.
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