Notices by Tsundoku Psychohazard (enkiv2@eldritch.cafe), page 3

GitHub - lauryndbrown/Cisp: A Common Lisp Interpreter Built in COBOL https://github.com/lauryndbrown/Cisp

The most important operation in QNX is MsgSend, which works like an interprocess... | Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9872640

Monday is Data Privacy Day. Celebrate by legally changing your name to ";drop table users;

Monday is Data Privacy Day. Celebrate by convincing Facebook that you are at least 120 years old & drive a pink car.

Cory Doctorow: Disruption for Thee, But Not for Me – Locus Online http://locusmag.com/2019/01/cory-doctorow-disruption-for-thee-but-not-for-me/

Of Predictive Algorithms and Emojis | A Future Worth Thinking About http://www.afutureworththinkingabout.com/?p=5345

PunkPunk: a genre of speculative fiction that supposes that the future will have the cultural, social, and aesthetic sensibilities of late 1970s New York City youth culture.

Don Knuth - Constraint Based Composition - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_1a6bHGQGo

Building composable abstractions - Eric Normand - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJIUoaIvD20

@z428 @Vamp898 @Wolf480pl

The more tools you know, the easier each tool is to pick up, because there is a vast hidden overlap between all fields that only becomes noticeable when you master multiple. (This is less true of messy languages like C++ where most of the complexity is incidental -- stuff like memorizing accidental inconsistencies introduced by the language design committee forgetting previous features.)

@Shamar @Wolf480pl @jcbrand

But, at small scales, the effect of anything is less important. So, it's not that Small Computing is anti-quality or anti-craft, but that any failure of quality or craft in a Small Computing context is not multiplied by a million identical installations, so those failings are more acceptable.

Live your life as an antagonistic avant-garde performance *at* (not *for*) the powerless audience of the elf on the shelf

me: *says things about small computing*

literally everyone: B-b-but big computing! Scale, performance, market fit, standards!

me: I'm talking about small computing

them: But big computing, so you're wrong

Band name of the day: rich tapestry of disaster

One of the reasons I'm so hard on the original macintosh is that the team appropriated fantastic ideas from better projects that they were totally unprepared to do justice to, then delivered warped & broken versions of them.

'Technology' does not have a teleology. *Particular* technologies have biases -- particular behaviors they are a better fit for. We should be careful of naturalistic fallacies & technological determinism: when those biases don't fit our desires, we should replace the tools.

These folks weren't trying to predict our current future. They were trying to create a future worth living in, & we failed to make that happen.

Englebart could do MOAD in 1968 because that was the available tech. It looks familiar not because it's ahead of its time but because we stopped progressing.

@aparrish
This seems up your alley: http://danskjavlarna.tumblr.com/post/180954731911/danskjavlarna-heres-some-visual-poetry-in-the
Labeled "Here’s some visual poetry in the wild, from The Intellectual Status of Children Who Are Public Charges, 1915."

1) don't confuse 'the internet' with 'the web'; 2) don't confuse 'the web' with 'social media'; 3) don't confuse 'social media' with 'corporate social media'

And Sterling sits so deep in layers of cynical irony that he makes Doug Coupland look like Mister Rogers, basically all the time. So, it's easy to project an end of history narrative onto things he does -- up until he writes something like Pirate Utopia, which pulls the same trick on the post-WWI melting pot of radical ideologies.