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goodvgm, to RPG
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Good VGM 305 - Beyond Oasis - Vessel

https://youtu.be/EPff6iDeBdE

RustyBertrand, to random
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"Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope. We’ll need writers who can remember freedom — poets, visionaries — realists of a larger reality."

--Ursula K. Le Guin

AverageDog, to programming
@AverageDog@mastodon.social avatar

This may very well be the most useless book I have ever written, and I don't even know why I did. I guess it is still better than getting drunk in a bar.
Anyway, it defines the programming language formally in terms of basic functions (zero, successor, identity, mu) and naive set theory. I have no idea why anybody would read such a book. Maybe you can give me some hints? :)
Or, in case you want to prove me wrong: http://t3x.org/t3x/0/formal.html
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SmudgeTheInsultCat, to random
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seano, to nyc
@seano@masto.nyc avatar

heh. I love sassy stickers

tillybridges, to random
@tillybridges@mastodon.social avatar

on march 23 @susanlbridges and i redid our wedding now that i’m finally the real me, and i love her more than anything and it was the best day of my life

and so

WHO’S READY FOR SOME RE-WEDDING PHOTOS???
🧵🧵🧵 1/8

Black and white shot of me kissing Susan’s temple under the wood trellis
Black and white photo of Susan and me looking at each other under a tree
Now we are kissing under the tree, in color!

eslr, to emacs
@eslr@mastodon.social avatar

recently I have been working on a tool to visualize and study long-distance cycle routes. It's based on Clerk (so, ) and it is called rando-planner. The screenshot shows a typical session (in this case, using xwidget-webkit directly inside of ). If you want to see more https://rando-planner.stefanorodighiero.net/

frescosecco, to random
@frescosecco@mastodon.social avatar

Wait, did you say there's a 1200-page book about keyboards?
https://shifthappens.site/

lunastation, to random
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People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel. - Maya Angelou

rml, to random
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Under communism will be the mandatory first programming language for all aspiring programmers.

ramin_hal9001,
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@rml Python and JavaScipt are the languages of the liberal petite-bourgiouse. There can be no freedom until these are overthrown.

smarr, to random
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And now Javier is presenting his work on Live Objects All The Way Down at @programming_conference

Our full paper at https://programming-journal.org/2024/8/5/

And maybe a blog post "soon"...

spencerbeswick, to random
@spencerbeswick@kolektiva.social avatar

Ursula K. Le Guin: "We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings."

presstype, to VintageOSes
@presstype@mastodon.social avatar

I may have a sickness.

loke, to random
@loke@functional.cafe avatar

Hacker News is doing its thing. They were taking about my blog post, and the commentary is exactly what you'd expect.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39608822

Very few people commenting on the actual content of the post itself.

paulrickards, (edited ) to retrocomputing
@paulrickards@mastodon.social avatar

We're Zoning out! We've now got three different sites connected via Apple Internet Router!

paulrickards,
@paulrickards@mastodon.social avatar

Did anyone make a chatroom application in HyperCard?

vga256, (edited ) to random
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alriiiiight! @paulrickards just wrote up this fantastic tutorial on setting up your classic mac to connect to the global Appletalk network (do we have a name for this franken-net yet?)

once you're online, PM me your public IP so you can be added to our network. my Zone is "dialup.cafe" - feel free to add it to your zone list.

Important: dialup.cafe is using Network Range 20-29.

https://biosrhythm.com/?p=2767

inthehands, to random
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This essay from @jenniferplusplus is very good, and very important.

It’s good enough and important enough that I’m just going to QFT the heck out of it here on Mastodon until I annoy you into readying the whole thing.

https://jenniferplusplus.com/losing-the-imitation-game/

This essay isn’t the last word on AI in software — but what it says is the ground level for having any sort of coherent discussion about the topic that isn’t all hype and panic.

1/

inthehands,
@inthehands@hachyderm.io avatar

Here it is: the One Weird Thing that people who aren’t programmers (or are bad programmings) just don’t understand about writing software. This is it. If you miss this, you’ll miss what LLMs can and can’t do for software development.

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selzero, to random
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I enjoyed this era of computing much more.

stevewfolds,
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@selzero US Z80 1979 loaded OS from audio cassette tape.

lolgop, to random
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HUGE WIN FOR STARBUCKS WORKERS

Coffee giant announces it will begin collective bargaining process with unions.

“We wanted Starbucks to actually be the company they always said they were.”
https://prospect.org/labor/2024-02-27-starbucks-stops-opposing-baristas-union-master-contract/

Dig in at https://www.erlywrm.com

profoundlynerdy, to retrocomputing
@profoundlynerdy@bitbang.social avatar

Now this is : someone has ported 40 year old from some uncertain dialect from the to gForth. It originated a Byte Magazine article.

The game is playable on in a terminal at 40 columns. Someone else modernized the game to be 80 column native and make a handful of other quality of life improvements.

https://rickcarlino.com/2021/resurrecting-a-40-year-old-forth-strategy-game.html

mekkaokereke, to random
@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io avatar

Happy !

Day 26: Bama football

Q: OK fine! There's a lot of racism! But we can't do anything about it! You can't change hearts and minds! I've flipped from denial to helplessness! Talking about racism depressed me and makes me feel bad, because we can't do anything about it! So, can you stop talking about it?

A: No, we won't stop talking about it. Yes, we can do something about it. Let's look at one specific example of a reduction in racism, driven by racists themselves! 🙂🙃

mekkaokereke, (edited )
@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io avatar

@paulcox Yes. Because racism is a lie that's much easier to maintain with a little distance. There were at least some Alabama players whose first sustained exposure to a real live Black person was on that team. At least a few of them became less racist as a result of those encounters.

In general, having close Black coworkers does a lot to reduce racism.

Which is part of why there is less anti-Black sentiment among working class white folks, than wealthy white folks.🙂🙃

Seriously. Much less.

YadyO, to random
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Death and I are very old friends...

abmurrow, to emacs
@abmurrow@fosstodon.org avatar

My journey with

Read about how powerful and unique it is

Install it

Finish the tutorial, read the docs, have a nice little time

Feel a little bit of strain in my hand and remember someone on Stack Overflow talking about "Emacs Pinky"

Stay up late reading about Emacs pinky

Gasp in horror at all of the hairbrained rebinds and custom tools that people have used to avoid Repetitive Strain Injury on Emacs

amszmidt,
@amszmidt@mastodon.social avatar

@etenil @hmelman @abmurrow The only correct order is like the one on the
#LispMachine .. Meta-Control-SPACE-Control-Meta- ...

But Caps lock could exist, if it was a small key ... maybe positioned around Num Lock (anyone remember that?).

AverageDog, to Lisp
@AverageDog@mastodon.social avatar

There is now a hardcover edition of LISP from Nothing, because some people asked. See http://t3x.org/lfn/
Nothing new inside, just a hardcover version of the same book about minimal LISP and LISP in the age of mainframe computers.
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LISP from Nothing back cover

tonyg, to random EN
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The discoverability of the web platform is terrible. Compare the experience of using browser devtools (without googling or stackoverflow!) to figure out how to use, say, SVG, with the experience of just browsing through implementors in a Smalltalk system. Everything you need to know is already in the Smalltalk system; roughly nothing you need to know is available through the browser devtools.

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