Notices by erkin (erkin@mastodon.sdf.org)

@mpjgregoire
@ng0
Turns out spaces as thousands separators is pretty popular with standards institutes.

Wiki sez: "[...] officially endorsed by SI/ISO 31-0 standard, as well as by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures and the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), the American Medical Association's widely followed AMA Manual of Style, and the Metrication Board, among others."

I'm looking for a live USB distro for quick development.
ie plug it in a library computer, pull code, edit it, compile and test it, push it, shut down
Any ideas?

I pushed out v0.3.2 of gophwr, my graphical #gopher client in #Racket!
It now supports clickable links, queries, and adjustable colours.

(Binary releases don't require Racket to be installed.)
gopher://gopher.erkin.party/1/gophwr
https://github.com/erkin/gophwr

It's still very unpolished, so patches and bug reports are welcome!

#Infocom text adventures are now open-source https://github.com/historicalsource?tab=repositories

There's already a functional #RISCV chip out for only $8. I'm surprised by how rapidly it's advancing. Here's hoping we'll get a desktop/laptop in only a decade. 🙏

https://hackaday.com/2019/02/14/new-part-day-a-risc-v-cpu-for-eight-dollars/