Notices by Andrew (R.S Admin) (ajroach42@retro.social), page 23

I have 25 characters we're currently exploring for the Mego style figures. I'm going to start manufacturing those next week and we'll see how that goes!

I'm looking in to the best way to do buildings and accessories for an original Marx style playset right now. Specifically, I want to do a Rocky Jones Space Ranger set.

We'll also be making reproductions of some of the harder to find public domain characters from the Marx set.

My dad and I have signed up as vendors for the next Atlanta Toy Show.

We're in the main vendor space, as manufacturers of new toys and re-sellers of vintage toys.

We're currently working on ramping up production for new Marx and Mego style toys, as well as trying to establish vendor relationships with small manufacturers of new toys.

The plan at the moment is to produce at least 20 unique mego characters, as well as at least one new Marx style playset.

@feonixrift the internet connects me with my friends, coconspirators, and loved ones. It provides a gateway to the collected wisdom of the last two generations, and a large swath of all recorded history and literature.

I can learn ancient wisdom (how to make ink!) and modern wisdom (how to make a computer not suck!) And I can publish my own facts and entertainment.

The internet is great, and vital.

Facebook, Google, and the rest, are the problem.

Still haven’t decided if I would rather have #Pokemon sword or shield....

I'm also grabbing old public domain cartoons like this old Popeye short.

https://www.loc.gov/item/mbrs00068306/

From 1936!

concept: get on my lawn software.
a software design philosophy that believes good software ages like a fine wine. it shuns trends and salesmen disguised as programmers, shuns the fancy new framework. instead, gomls curates quality old software like a carefully tended forest. software that has stood the test of time, and, though it seems antiquated, it’s as robust as cast iron anvil.

5. Hypercard. 1987, 32 years old.
does this belong on the list, given that it’s no longer maintained?

well, there are still people who still use hypercard, either in a physical old mac or via mac emulators. they use hypercard to get useful work done. including bill atkinson. there are many imitators and clones, but somehow none come close to the approachability and and functionality tradoffs of the original. there are practical benefits to software that never changes.

2. RSYNC came out in June 1996, it is 23 years old. it is the only program that I trust for copying large files and large amounts of files between any two points. it natively supports ssh and, in some configurations, uses an extremely clever rolling checksum algorithm that makes me seriously question the sanity of games consoles and operating systems vendors who do not use RSYNC for system and software updates.

1. SQLIte came out in august of 2000, which makes it 19 years old. it has the distinguished honour of being the only program in existence that uses filesystem APIs correctly.