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I’m a robotics researcher. My interests include cybersecurity, repeatable & reproducible research, as well as open source robotics and rust programing.

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Pinging @snowe @Ategon !

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Yep, was just watching a video posted on !c/godot that had highlighted Pixelorama:

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For those that don't know, Bogdan produces educational content for Rust, similar to others like:

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Indeed, video mediums can take longer to consume lesson material on mass, compared to written form tutorials and documentation, but some folks will always prefer learning from lecture style recordings. Still great for outreach and exposure for the Rust programming language itself though.

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Yes! think of the parallels between magic tomes vs programming books!

"Quick! We must consult the BookTome to refactortransmutate the Rust from bringing down the prodbridge!"

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Note the cross-posted to link above, that I'll also permalink below as well:

Looks like our instance got another shout-out on Hacker News (news.ycombinator.com)

Check the top comments from this thread "Reddit: Killing a Giant". I've seen our server URL floating around some of the sub comments in Reddit related threads on HN before this week, but this was the first I found linked from the top comment. Comment here if you spot anymore out in the wild. 🏞️...

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Comment by donmcronald - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36367616

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Forgot we also got hugged to death while still scaling up from this post:

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Interesting idea. Even if posting was read only from the rest of the fedaverse perspective, combining that kind of link aggregation for downstream commenting could have merit. Although, it looks like HN already provides an API, so perhaps a community could already be created to mirror the HN feed? I'm just guessing:

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As an aside, congratulations! This thread was cross posted to Hacker News:

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You know how folks inherit tools, workshops, or auto projects from parents and family? Stuff like wood working equipment, sewing machines, or whatever tools of the trade. It's got me wondering, what's it like for children that inherit their parents' codebase, computers, keyboards. Surely with the growth of the tech sector and job market, compared to half a century prior, this could be a growing re-occurrence.

E.g. like the entire premise of this YouTube channel titled "Inheritance Machining": https://youtu.be/hearLttbrLo

For example, my grandfather worked for IBM, and my family recalls growing up surrounded by punch cards around the house. Of course that form of programming only lasted so long, so the next generation was unlikely to reuse the same tools of the trade, but as tech stacks have matured and interfaces standardized, what are the chances are that folk's children will use the same Linux kernel modules, custom mechanical keyboards or desktop chassis that their parents used today?

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What about carrying on a legacy with maintaining a intergenerational codebases? Like from a family owned business, a FOSS project, or hobby video game? Something that span's across tech stacks, historic trends, and familial code authors, like the ship of Theseus crossed with Noah's Ark (built with the help of Noah's entire family over almost 100 years, as the theological mythology goes).

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What about physical or nonphysical items that span across decades of use?

Such as keyboards, i.e. every current revision of the almost 30 year old USB standard has been backwards compatible. Even then, many mechanical keyboard enthusiast covet, refurbish, and modify antique hardware peripherals such as IBM's Model M.

Would it be a stretch to consider these artifacts as family heirlooms in the near future, just as a trapper's musket rifle, a farmer's scythe, a watchmakers lathe: tools that brought food to the table for one's great great grandparents?

Or perhaps URL domains for sites that have either evolved or frozen in time?

I often wonder how I'll handle the domain name registration of sites and blogs belonging to my elders. Will I just archive the data offline and let go of the domains, or upkeep the infrastructure for public posterity? Akin to how hereditary descendants since ancient times would pay homage to ancestors by maintaining a tombstone or a shrine, perpetuating their legacy and living memory.

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But that seems like a small minority - the software world is fickle and the number of projects that last that long is small.

Indeed, although imagine the projects that do: a granddaughter resurrecting your repo and bringing a feature to completion well after your passing, such as porting it to use modern materials/libraries:

Where they have to dig through archived web forms and tutorials to find the manual/documentation that you would have used to put the project initially together. I'm sure there'll be some content creators in the future telling the same stories as the one above, but via a newer medium and with a Computer Science twist.

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Here is another one: https://browse.toast.ooo/
I discovered it here: https://programming.dev/post/36307

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What is the font or name of the typeface?

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Those community icons are also on 🔥! They're doing great at giving the server that extra polish.

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In addition to LoFi that others have recommended, I'd also suggest Chillstep. Chillstep is mellow, rhythmic, but without all the artificial scratchs and pops common in LoFi.

This is a playlist I tried to replicate from memory of the playlists I loved to listen to back before Google bought and closed down Songza, a curated music streaming platform:

BTW, if anyone could provide a better genre classification of this playlist, or similar albums/artists, I'd be grateful! I had to piece this together from sampling song radio suggestions and auditory recall, as I can't recall names, nor bothered to make note of them when auto playing from Songza back in the day.

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It goes by: the Book. It must be capitalized. /s

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If you still need more help, I could help mod c/ros as well.

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