Retrocode

Background

The focus of Retrocode UK is intended to be looking at anything related to 80s & early 90s gaming (and some contemporary work), programming and some hardware projects or other related items.

There will be entries around topics such as:

Programming languages: c++, bash, assembler and perhaps some C64 BASIC
Programming paradigms and practices (OOP, SOLID, clean coding, TDD, DDD)
The Linux console, configuration and scripting
Retro games, consoles and electronics projects

Motivation

There have been a few previous incarnations of my blog, which either have lacked focus, or have become burdonesome to manage.

This website is written using plain text files in the form of markdown, and focused on a relatively narrow subject base. The workflow is also simple: write some markdown, and use a few scripts to add images and push to the GitHub repository to deploy and add to the live website.

Values

Where possible I use and promote the values of free software or open source. With those principles in mind, this website will not contain any tracking scripts, cookies, advertising. Javascript should be minimal, optional, and used only for formatting and minor UX improvements.

Attributions

Website:

Hugo - Open source site development framework
Victor Hugo - Boilerplate code for Hugo
Netlify - Continuous Development
Angel’s Ladder Theme - Base used for the current theme
Highlight JS - Code syntax lighlighting

git - git versioning software

Development:

Manjaro - Arch-based linux distribution with simpler installation
Arch - Bloat-free linux distribution
Vim - Versatile text editor
zsh - Extended bash
i3wm - Highly configurable tiling window manager
suckless terminal - KISS terminal
qutebrowser - Vim inspired browser
neomutt - Email client
irssi - IRC client
Standard Notes - Encrypted note-taking