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Space Catitude 🚀<p>Most of the programming languages I want to use in diagrams have got flashy logo designs to use for icons.</p><p>Some do not, and I must create those.</p><p>In doing so, one wants to convey the right vibe for the language. Have I got it, do you think..?</p><p><a href="https://realsocial.life/tags/Programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Programming</span></a> <a href="https://realsocial.life/tags/Icon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Icon</span></a> <a href="https://realsocial.life/tags/Cobol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cobol</span></a></p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://sueden.social/@tobiaskoengeter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>tobiaskoengeter</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://phpc.social/@Crell" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Crell</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://girldick.gay/@alina" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>alina</span></a></span> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/COBOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>COBOL</span></a> at least has enough merits to justify it's existance in <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/TradFinance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TradFinance</span></a>...</p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://phpc.social/@Crell" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Crell</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://girldick.gay/@alina" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>alina</span></a></span> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/php" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>php</span></a> doesn't do any of that.</p><ul><li>It's worse than <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/COBOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>COBOL</span></a>!</li></ul>
otheorange_tag<p>Last 2 days <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/coding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>coding</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/antibrowser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>antibrowser</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/gui" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gui</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/apps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>apps</span></a> in agnostic shell wrapping for any language (22 so far including <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ada</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/cobol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cobol</span></a> and <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/sed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sed</span></a> (yes sed)) shown scenario 74 apps on a single machine, slower than spreading out the tuples server,client,test driver on 3 different machines. Still effin fast because no <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/browsers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>browsers</span></a>, no windows manager no fekking bloated libraries, nothing but <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/C" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>C</span></a> and <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/sockets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sockets</span></a> no fonts either! don't need em</p>
0x0<p>Here's the customary <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>introduction</span></a>: i'm into <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/C" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>C</span></a> and tolerate C++ on a daily basis at work, i've also used others like java, kotlin, python, PHP, etc and am curious about <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/COBOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>COBOL</span></a>, <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/AdaLanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AdaLanguage</span></a> and <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/erlang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>erlang</span></a>.</p><p>My dislike of jenkins is only surpassed by my hate of githubactions and everything MS-related. AI is not I, only A. I'm interested in <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/selfhosted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>selfhosted</span></a> stuff but atm that's a VPS with some sites, which doesn't really count. For now <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/syncthing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>syncthing</span></a> is quite useful and <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/wireguard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wireguard</span></a> is on the horizon once i reformat/reinstall my current <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/gentoo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gentoo</span></a> (i'll keep the root <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/ZFS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ZFS</span></a> aproach and am on the fence regarding <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/XFCE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>XFCE</span></a> or <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/KDE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KDE</span></a>), would be interesting to have a barebones <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/KVM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KVM</span></a>/#QEMU running all the stuff and i digress.</p><p>kthxbai\0</p>
Magister Navis<p>Jetzt beginnt wieder die Zeit, <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/Helden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Helden</span></a> des <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/Krieges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Krieges</span></a> zu feiern. Wie lange es wohl bis zur nächsten <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/Panzerparade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Panzerparade</span></a> durch <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/Lemgo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lemgo</span></a> dauert? </p><p>Und wann gibt es den <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/Fortran" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fortran</span></a> und <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/Cobol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cobol</span></a> <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/Veteranen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Veteranen</span></a> Tag, ohne die die Menschheit das Jahr 2000 nicht überlebt hätte?<br><a href="https://lemgo.app/feierstunde-im-lemgoer-rathaus-anlaesslich-des-veteranentages/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lemgo.app/feierstunde-im-lemgo</span><span class="invisible">er-rathaus-anlaesslich-des-veteranentages/</span></a></p>
Vladimir Savić<p>Nice!❤️</p><p>Online <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/COBOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>COBOL</span></a> compiler IDE <a href="https://www.jdoodle.com/execute-cobol-online" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">jdoodle.com/execute-cobol-onli</span><span class="invisible">ne</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>programming</span></a></p>
Autoerotic Defenestration<p>⬆️ hat grade ihr erstes <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/COBOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>COBOL</span></a>-Programm geschrieben O.O</p>
Elizabeth K. Joseph<p>The hill I'll die on 😂</p><p><a href="https://floss.social/tags/MayThe4thBeWithYou" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MayThe4thBeWithYou</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/COBOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>COBOL</span></a></p>
Christian Lynbech<p>No further comment needed.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/COBOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>COBOL</span></a></p><p>(via coworker who saw it on LinkedIn)</p>
IT News<p>A Gentle Introduction to COBOL - As the Common Business Oriented Language, COBOL has a long and storied history. To... - <a href="https://hackaday.com/2025/04/30/a-gentle-introduction-to-cobol/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hackaday.com/2025/04/30/a-gent</span><span class="invisible">le-introduction-to-cobol/</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/softwaredevelopment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>softwaredevelopment</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/gcc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gcc</span></a>-cobol <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/featured" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>featured</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/interest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>interest</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/gnucobol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gnucobol</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/cobol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cobol</span></a></p>
Brian Beach<p>Marianne Bellotti wrote an excellent book on maintaining legacy systems called Kill It With Fire.</p><p>In this blog post, she talks about why it's hard to migrate the SSA math from COBOL to Java. The two languages do numbers and math differently.</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/cobol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cobol</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/java" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>java</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://medium.com/the-technical-archaeologist/is-cobol-holding-you-hostage-with-math-5498c0eb428b" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">medium.com/the-technical-archa</span><span class="invisible">eologist/is-cobol-holding-you-hostage-with-math-5498c0eb428b</span></a></p>
Brian Beach<p>Good read on the computer systems at the Social Security Administration, and why DOGE is going to fail to modernize them. Written by people who know how to do this kind of work, and who understand the SSA.</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/LegacySystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LegacySystems</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/COBOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>COBOL</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/SSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SSA</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/doge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>doge</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.wethebuilders.org/posts/what-it-really-takes-to-migrate-cobol" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wethebuilders.org/posts/what-i</span><span class="invisible">t-really-takes-to-migrate-cobol</span></a></p>
Autoerotic Defenestration<p>auf jeden Fall werde ich bei unserem nächsten Teamwork-Day einen Slot "<a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/COBOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>COBOL</span></a> für Frontender" anbieten :-D</p>
Autoerotic Defenestration<p>soll ich meine <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/COBOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>COBOL</span></a>-Journey verbloggen?</p>
Autoerotic Defenestration<p>Hab meiner Mutter erzählt, dass ich mit dem Gedanken spiele, aus Jux <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/COBOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>COBOL</span></a> zu lernen.</p><p>Ihr erster Gedanke war, dass ich mir das doch von meinem Arbeitgeber bezahlen lassen könnte 😂 </p><p>(bin Frontend-Entwicklerin)</p>
Ross of OttawaUniformed pondering re Vatican
GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)<p>New programming language Kobold and the d is silent</p><p><a href="https://ohai.social/tags/COBOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>COBOL</span></a></p>
cs<p>The Coding Language Caught in DOGE's Crosshairs </p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://saturation.social/@clive" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>clive</span></a></span> speaks to Brooke Gladstone about <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/COBOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>COBOL</span></a> and manages to touch upon the gendered roles of coding and tag <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/GraceHopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GraceHopper</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/FlowMatic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FlowMatic</span></a> on his way to explaining why “modernizing” old code on this scale cannot be done in a few months, why old code works well, and why <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> won’t necessarily help them do it well. <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/OnTheMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OnTheMedia</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/articles/the-coding-language-caught-in-doges-crosshairs" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/a</span><span class="invisible">rticles/the-coding-language-caught-in-doges-crosshairs</span></a></p>
Compliance matters!<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/@linuxnews" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>linuxnews</span></a></span> Letzte Woche mit einem Kunden gesprochen, arbeitet in einer Krankenkasse. Sind dabei von <a href="https://23.social/tags/Cobol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cobol</span></a> auf <a href="https://23.social/tags/Java" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Java</span></a> "umzustellen". Hat sich die Deutsche Bank schon von OS/2 verabschiedet? Oder: Welcher historische Zeichensatz wird in Überweisungen verwendet?</p><p>Man will es gar nicht alles wissen.<br><a href="https://23.social/tags/alterSack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>alterSack</span></a></p>
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