3 Matching Annotations
- Aug 2022
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www.software.ac.uk www.software.ac.uk
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we can’t know what trivial change to the environment might stop the experiment working, or (worse) make it appear to work but actually have a major change in it
"can't is too strong a word here"
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dercuano.github.io dercuano.github.io
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The idea here is to emulate the hardware platform WordPerfect ran on
That seems like unnecessarily tight coupling. Surely there's a better level of abstraction that's higher than "emulate the hardware platform".
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- Oct 2021
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news.ycombinator.com news.ycombinator.com
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I no longer know how it works. I don't care to maintain it. It needs big changes to handle something like embedding a Jupyter notebook. And it depends on Python 2.6(!).With hundreds of pages, and its own custom URL layout that I don't want to break, I dread migrating
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