Simon Harris @simondo65.bsky.social · 28/08/2026A 16 bit version needs only 2 bytes for SRC and 3 bytes for DST and X2 while an 8 bit version needs only 1 byte for SRC and 2 bytes each for DST and X2. I haven't particularly optimised this, so there are probably a few bytes that could be shaved off - e.g. using Y instead of one byte of DST. 000
Simon Harris @simondo65.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Written on the BBC micro to make it compact enough to fit onto one screen image with multi-instruction lines. This version takes a 32 bit (4 byte) pure binary number in SRC and returns a 10 digit BCD (5 byte) version of it in DST that can be easily printed... 100
Simon Harris @simondo65.bsky.social · 29/07/2026First Hardle with my new phone. I was expecting it to reset my streak, but no, Apple’s phone transfer procedure copied all the cookies over too, so on we go! Hardle 🟦🟪 #1633 3/8 🟩⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 hardle.herokuapp.com 000
Simon Harris @simondo65.bsky.social · 17/07/2026The matter was settled over 100 years in Parliament. This is Hansard from 1908 "I think it may fairly be stated ... that the Union Jack should be regarded as the National flag, and it undoubtedly may be flown on land by all His Majesty's subjects." api.parliament.uk/historic-han... 100
Simon Harris @simondo65.bsky.social · 13/07/2026I promised myself a new phone to replace my dying 6 year old iPhone when I reached 600 on Hardle. Better not bugger it up tomorrow! 000
Simon Harris @simondo65.bsky.social · 26/05/2026That’s all very well, but every time I fire up the NHS app to see if I can book an appointment I get 020
Simon Harris @simondo65.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Firstly, grossly understating the length of World War II - it should be 313 weeks Secondly, completely neglecting the war in Ukraine (currently at 220 weeks from the full invasion, much longer if you include annexing Crimea) Thirdly WW1 at 220 weeks is missing. Fourthly 6 weeks? Ahem: 10 perhaps? 120
Simon Harris @simondo65.bsky.social · 14/04/2026There is one at Aalborg Station too (at least there was in September 2024 when I was there) 000
Simon Harris @simondo65.bsky.social · 04/04/2026Hardle 🟦🟪 #1517 5/8 ⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜ 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟩⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 hardle.herokuapp.com Hit a bit of a Hardle milestone today! 110
Simon Harris @simondo65.bsky.social · 23/03/2026When you search for Melania on Netflix instead of Amazon 052
Simon Harris @simondo65.bsky.social · 13/03/2026Could there possibly be a worse estate agency? (picture from @theguardian.com). 000
Simon Harris @simondo65.bsky.social · 10/03/2026I use Resize It on my iPhone when I want to reduce the size (number of pixels) of a photo. Resize It looks like this in the App Store 110
Simon Harris @simondo65.bsky.social · 16/02/2026This was supposedly cranberry and apple sparkling water. The till receipt had other ideas about its taste. 0112
Simon Harris @simondo65.bsky.social · 13/02/2026While on holiday in Portugal a few years ago, I looked up at the hotel ceiling lights and thought 'mmmmm... cupcakes!' 020
Simon Harris @simondo65.bsky.social · 11/02/2026Not a duck, but I remember a penguin in a gas mask was one of the symbols of the Gezi Park protests in Istanbul in 2013. 000
Simon Harris @simondo65.bsky.social · 18/01/2026From Wikipedia the manufacturers are: Aerojet Rocketdyne Boeing Northrop Grumman United Launch Alliance (ULA are Boeing Defense, Space and Security, and Lockheed Martin Space) 060
Simon Harris @simondo65.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Errr … has Trump looked at a map recently? Remind me what that big country is that starts about 50 miles west of Alaska. 040
Simon Harris @simondo65.bsky.social · 31/12/2025The main reason for not upgrading my slowly dying iPhone is not losing my perfect Hardle record! 110
Simon Harris @simondo65.bsky.social · 23/12/2025And one of the information displays at the Paris Eurostar terminal 3 weeks ago. 000
Simon Harris @simondo65.bsky.social · 20/11/2025It was a 4 for me… Hardle 🟦🟪 #1382 4/8 🟩⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟨⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 And my Hardle first anniversary! 010
Simon Harris @simondo65.bsky.social · 01/11/2025for a Z80, if you can make HL point to a byte of scratchpad I think you can use RLD. If I understand it right, if you start with your 4 bit number in A, you’d do LD (HL),A RLD LD A,(HL) 110
Simon Harris @simondo65.bsky.social · 01/10/2025Nor in my local shopping centre. No shopping allowed for ICE in England! 011
Simon Harris @simondo65.bsky.social · 14/09/2025This was happening 10 years ago when I was in Vienna. Why can’t we be more like Vienn? 020
Simon Harris @simondo65.bsky.social · 07/09/2025A bit flummoxed by the timing and the London skyline, so didn’t get to see it in its full blood-moon totality, but at least we got to see some of it. 110
Simon Harris @simondo65.bsky.social · 12/08/2025Sign I saw waiting for my hospital appointment this afternoon. I didn’t check the medical credentials of the pigeons. 090
Simon Harris @simondo65.bsky.social · 30/07/2025On the workbench at the moment. A brass kit for a Midland Railway D418 milk van in 4mm scale EM gauge. The kit is from 51L. 010
Simon Harris @simondo65.bsky.social · 20/07/2025… and these are the photos and drawings it was based on. 010
Simon Harris @simondo65.bsky.social · 20/07/2025Thanks - yes, it started out as a sheet of art mounting card. Even the window frames were scratch built from brass sheet and wire! The brickwork was embossed card overlaid onto the structure. This is how it all started! 200
Simon Harris @simondo65.bsky.social · 20/07/2025The wagon on the left is from a Slater’s kit. The one on the right breaks my ‘everything is something I made’ philosophy - it’s a Wrenn wagon I had since I was a child. Allowed for obvious reasons! 030
Simon Harris @simondo65.bsky.social · 20/07/2025Here’s a lockdown project - a mill that used to exist near Blunham, Bedfordshire, built based on Victorian sketches, a couple of blurry photos and some imagination. 230
Simon Harris @simondo65.bsky.social · 04/07/2025Screenshot from today's guardian. Left: Gaza, Right: Kyiv. Basically the same picture yet we only have an arms embargo against Russia. 000
Simon Harris @simondo65.bsky.social · 19/05/2025Mix this with lemonade and you’ve got yourself a glass of Hand shandy. 000
Simon Harris @simondo65.bsky.social · 13/05/2025And some background information from the press release about Sinclair Research. 010
Simon Harris @simondo65.bsky.social · 13/05/2025Three more pages from the press release giving some technical information on the ZX80... 110