TaterTomorrow

    A joke turned into a reality. What person from circa 1200 AD would think that their modern method of rapidly adding and subtracting numbers could ever be replicated on a machine that effectively does that tens of thousands of times per second? No one. But this is a thing that exists now. The program even includes a little counter at the bottom of the screen to track how many beads are on the right side, one step up from our ancestors.     This joke program took me roughly two-and-a-half hours to create, debug, and optimize. It was time well spent, because I have already gotten four people to download it on the Cemetech forums, 55 karma on Reddit, and the Hugz award from Everyday Code (thank you)! I used TokenIDE and WabbitEmu to write the program and execute the code, respectively. I took the screenshot inside the emulator.      I will keep all of you guys posted on my future program ideas and releases. Had this been a larger project that consumed multiple days or weeks of my lif

      Hello, world! Welcome to my blog! I wish I had more to say, but is there really? Yes. Yes there is.      On this sacred day of the twenty-fifth day of the first month of the year 2021 AD, I hereby decree that the Internet user under the alias "TaterTomorrow" shall maintain a log detailing of his exploits here and far! Through ailment and aggrandizement, pain and jubilation, destitution and prosperity, hopefully I succeed in making this a place on the Internet for my ideas and your support. This site will serve as a gateway to my inner thoughts, programming knowledge, and writing skills.     Too pompous for you? Try this on for size:     Hi my peeps. Today is the day I start making a blog, which will serve as a canvas to express my ideas. Follow me on my journey to understanding the world and all its ins and outs, and hopefully we will all have fun together! Because come on, making games and random programs on a graphing calculator is pretty fun (at least if you ignor