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Dozens of free source code repositories containing a variety of libraries, Windows desktop applications and some Blazor web applications.
Some of the projects are published as fully documented NuGet packages, some are for nerdy entertainment, and some are for internal use
at Nancy Street, but all the code is published in case it might contain useful samples and techniques.
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Ten years of a generally grumpy blog about the traps and tricks of the modern software industry. Since I'm heading into retirement, most recent
problems have been accumulating in the final post titled Technology Idiocy Log.
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Looking back on my life with computing equipment and books in the 1960s, through the mainframe years of the
1970s and 1980s, into the 1990s and up to the present day in the world of personal computers and the Internet.
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Scans of hundreds of pages of vintage manuals, books and printouts from working with a variety of mainframe
computers in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Scans of hundreds of covers of MSJ (Microsoft Systems Journal) magazine which morphed into msdn magazine in March 2000.
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Hoarder Web API- A public REST style web service over the Hoarder database which lists all the music, literature and collectibles at Nancy Steet. For more information see the Wiki Page and the Blog post Collections Database History.
Hoarder Blazor Client- A simple Blazor application that uses the Hoarder Web API to query the collections database. For more information see the About page in the app and the Blog post Web Assembly Notes.
Hoarder JS Client- A simple single-page application that uses plain JavaScript to run a search query through the Hoader Web API. The app is basically a sanity check that the API is usable from JavaScript clients.
- Unicode Browser
- A Blazor application that browses the Unicode blocks and the characters they contain. For more information see the Unicode 17.0 Charater Code Charts.
- Visitor Book
- A Blazor application that implements a simple Visitor Book for this website. It's working, but I've only had a single visitor in the last 12 years.
- Yotta Random API
- A public REST style web service that generates random numbers using a really stupid technique. For more information see the Yotta Random page.
Other Domains
Due to bookshelf congestion following the Nancy Street Renovations in late 2004, thousands of magazines and books were sitting in boxes in the carport for almost 3 years and it was decided to have a huge purge of all worthless paper. Over a period of several months, the paper was gradually disposed of via the regular Friday morning council garbage collection system. In the purge went stacks of magazines like National Geographic, Time, and Astronomy, as well as many PC magazines and duplicate Scientific American issues. I had lived with some of the Fujitsu (Facom) computer manuals for so long that I took photos of the covers for sentimental reasons. Click the thumbnails below to popup enlargements of the covers of the manuals taken on the days they were dumped.
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Contents generated on machine OWL by Hoarder 8.0.31.0 on Monday, 01 December 2025 16:59 GMT+11:00
In the pictures above are the last remaining 5" and 3" floppy diskettes before being chucked out. Thanks heavens they are now a part of computer history folklore. See the Computers History page for more commentary. The old iMac has been donated to a friend who is a keen collector of Apple technology.