With help from Steven Ellis, I’ve started switching from GNU Make to SCons. SCons determines dependencies automatically, eliminating the stuff in the Makefile that generated .d files using gcc and sed. It also knows that every target depends on the command line used to generate it, so if you change build flags you [...]

I just read Sir Apropos of Nothing by Peter David, a comedic fantasy. It was quite entertaining. There are a few puns, but not a non-stop stream of them like a Xanth novel. The paperback includes a teaser for the sequel, which I’d have to describe as a bawdy parody of Fellowship [...]

Released Nonpareil 0.44, which adds annunciator support to the HP-41 family, making them much more usable. The scanned image of the HP-41CV has been replaced by a stylized rendering from my older NSIM simulator with graphical improvements by Maciej Bartosiak.