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  The azalea hedge around the back of the house has very few flowers; the unpruned bushes, covered! The most color the back meadow gets all year.

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  GCC has released Release Candidate 1 for GCC 16. The final release objective is for late April or May. GCC COBOL (gcobol) 16 is included in the release with many fixes and improvements. #cobol #gcobol #gcc #cobolworx

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  Shrimp Fest Saturday. Biggest tourist event all year. The clouds rolled in at 10 and it's raining solidly. Maybe putting a dent in our drought.

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  Free COBOL to Linux support. Have they asked you to convert #cobol applications to AWS or Containers? Reach out for help. #cobolworx #gnucobol #gcobol

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  "Brace for Patch Tsunami" -- AI used in the hands of "skilled and knowledgable" people is supposedly going to surface a vast pool or latent bugs (technical debt .. be very afraid). Reports here and elsewhere ndicate that like most AI claims, it's mostly slop. Apparently AI is not being used by "skilled and knowledgable individuals" willing to actually verify that AI found anything real or is just wrong. #technicaldebt #bugs #defects #...

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  Symas will be at Carolina Codes! in August. A second talk on COBOL #cobol #cobolworx and a talk on #openldap. This is a nice regional conference in lovely Greenville, SC.

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  Just subscribed to the "Based Book Sale" ... it's a one week deal and it's already Thursday. https://basedbooksale.substack.com/?r=8ges9&utm_campaign=subscribe-page-share-screen&utm_medium=web

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  Still a long way out for Carolina Codes! in mid-August. Their team is hard at work on the usual boring prep. It's a GREAT small polyglot get together! #carolinacodes #cobolworx #cobol #gcobol #openldap https://blog.carolina.codes/

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  Now thst the @carolinacodes toot is up ... GCC 16 is out there in Source. We have packages on our Gitlab instance but because of a DDOS attack, mostly out of Singapore IP addresses. We got some settings in place and it looks like we can reopen it next week. https://gitlab.cobolworx.com. Repos will have to be made public as well. Then tip of the sphere is https://gitlab.cobolworx.com/COBOLworx/gcc-cobol/-/packages/6

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  In the spirit of @hyc@mastocon.social: Bob has taken on the hardest optimization yet: ADD 1 TO A. A can be so many things, seemingly irrelevant details. And National Languages and Wide Character ... We've made progress on performance, the tip of the spear should be much faster than gcobol-15 or gcobol-16. gcobol-16 is the Release for which COBOLworx fprovides commercial Technical Support.

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  Many tell a story of the rise of feminism and the two-worker family as one of men getting tired of being the sole-provider. My experience is the opposite. Dad very much wanted to be sole provider but Mom refused the offer In the 1950s! On Feminist Grounds. Feminism is 100 years old. Pushed by Progressive idealogs to break the traditional family into Industrial Elements: Worker Parents and Industrialized Child-care. See Huxley's warnings everyone ignoed. https://dailysceptic.org/2026/0...

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  Where I'm at in general:

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  New t-shirts and stickers for #carolinacodes coming by my birthday! More dinosaurs and COBOL

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  Version 1.0 logo ... for #carolinacodes

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  gcobol-17 performane work: "ADD 1 TO A." challenge. Why? Many possible data formats for A (encoding, sign, decimal positions, alphameric formatted, ...). FREE Support Services for First Customer! Low rates for first Professional Services (consulting) engagement! Just sayin' #cobolworx #cobol #gcc #gcobol