This is Kevin Chase’s little corner of the internet, sometimes known as ksquiggle, due to my illegible signature.
I’m formerly an engineer working at Microsoft (retired in 2023), but I spent my academic career working in physics, studying fragmentation distributions (among other things, my thesis has the gory details). Back in 1996, I applied some of that knowledge to a little Java applet that produced percolation lattices. No one does that anymore (Java applets, that is) so I’ve reproduced it in JavaScript.
In the 1980s, I learned to program on an Atari 800, and like some I never lost my love of that old machine. To revisit those days, here’s a growing collection of programming resources for the Atari 8-bit computers. My goal here is to make as much source code from that era easily readable in modern HTML browsers so that more people can learn about how software then was constructed. Enjoy!