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The Golden Age of Basic

spectrum.ieee.org

But in the 1980s, most kids didn’t have access to the Internet, integrated development environments, rich graphics, or even a choice of languages. What we had were 8-bit home computers, a blinking cursor, and Basic.

And it was wonderful. God, it really was.

One of Portland’s oldest and best breakfast restaurants has closed for good

oregonlive.com

“When we first opened (1978), we were like, we’re going to make the best breakfast, because nobody else cares about it,” Hagberg said. “You can go to Elmer’s and all those places, but they don’t really care about it. We wanted to make it good. And so we did.”

Really gonna miss that place. It’s pretty much the only place I reliably went for sit-down breakfast downtown.

My "Investment Mindset"

blog.pragmaticengineer.com

I started to think about my activities as investments instead of a means to an end, and my approach changed. I started to ask myself, “what can I learn from this activity, even if the outcome is not what I expect?”.