Notes on Doing Things https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/05/10/notes-on-doing-things/
Band name of the day: steel hour
Band name of the day: rock hard clumps
Band name of the day: center for effective dreaming
Band name of the day: the mutant incident
Matthew Bergman - Computing Machinery and Intelligence [PWL NYC] - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq44fE7b9GU
Human Computer Interaction: Metaphors https://tpetricek.github.io/Teaching/human-computer-interaction/metaphors.html#/7/2
Amoeba WWW Home Page https://www.cs.vu.nl/pub/amoeba/
Distributed Operating System Amoeba - Fireball Software http://fsd-amoeba.sourceforge.net/
GitHub - OSPreservProject/amoeba: amoeba operating system https://github.com/OSPreservProject/amoeba
Amoeba (operating system) - Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amoeba_(operating_system)
Sprite https://web.archive.org/web/20040402163929/http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/projects/sprite/sprite.html
Sprite Reterospective https://web.archive.org/web/20040405225311/http://www.cs.berkeley.edu:80/projects/sprite/retrospective.html
GitHub - OSPreservProject/sprite: The sprite operating system https://github.com/OSPreservProject/sprite/
Index of /pdf/eth/lilith http://bitsavers.org/pdf/eth/lilith/
Band name of the day: putridarium
A Postmodernism FAQ: Part II - How does postmodernism differ from X? - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4hS5NSzPxw
How to Make Your Own Mead - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YwAvLru2ec
Your New Social Credit Score - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WByBm2SwKk8
The Norse Mythology Blog | norsemyth.org: Questioning Loki, Part One | Articles & Interviews on Myth & Religion https://www.norsemyth.org/2013/01/questioning-loki-part-one.html
Band name of the day: a god without a function
Band name of the day: repel bears
Best of 2013: The Man Who Invented Modern Probability - Issue 8: Home - Nautilus http://nautil.us/issue/8/Home/best-of-2013-the-man-who-invented-modern-probability
Is It Time to Redesign Scrabble? http://nautil.us/issue/67/reboot/does-scrabble-need-to-be-fixed
Interview with Alan Kay | Dr Dobb’s http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/interview-with-alan-kay/240003442?pgno=1
Band name of the day: rich tapestry of disaster
The Enduring American Outrage of “Network” | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/17/the-enduring-american-outrage-of-network
GitHub - OSPreservProject/oskit: oskit code from Fluke OS project at University of Utah https://github.com/OSPreservProject/oskit
GXemul - Documentation (0.6.1) http://gavare.se/gxemul/gxemul-stable/doc/guestoses.html#sprite
Sprite (operating system) - Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprite_(operating_system)
About | Yggdrasil https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/about.html
The Dark Truths Behind Our Obsession With Self-Care - Tonic https://tonic.vice.com/en_us/article/zmdwm4/the-young-and-the-uncared-for-v25n4
View of Roundtable: Should library workers learn to code? https://journal.lib.uoguelph.ca/index.php/perj/article/view/4121/4134
Band name of the day: gaffe machine
Demon Underneath: John DeLorean and the invention of the future | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/6776/john-delorean-rise-and-fall-big-money-the-fbi-celebrities-and-cocaine
Rich People Are Getting Away With Not Paying Their Taxes - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/12/rich-people-are-getting-away-not-paying-their-taxes/577798/
GitHub - yarel-di/yarel: Paradigmatic first-order reversible functional programming language https://github.com/yarel-di/yarel
Infomercial Dark Patterns: How the App Store Recreates TV Scams https://tedium.co/2018/12/11/infomercials-history-dark-patterns/
Band name of the day: solar bodies
An ant colony has memories that its individual members don’t have | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/an-ant-colony-has-memories-that-its-individual-members-dont-have
Band name of the day: hooves upon the air
If the user doesn’t have direct control over it, it’s not really personalization – only imposition
At the Very Least We Know the End of the World Will Have a Bright Side https://longreads.com/2018/12/12/solarpunk-review/
‘User empowerment’ is a useful idea that gets abused to glorify user-hostile design. It’s usually used to refer to situations where the user is empowered to do as we (devs or PMs) tell them, or where the empowerment is too abstract to be proven.
Hokusai’s Ghost Stories (ca. 1830) – The Public Domain Review https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/hokusais-ghost-stories-ca-1830/
How the Dreamcast copy protection was defeated http://fabiensanglard.net/dreamcast_hacking/
Thoughts on (and pics of) the original Macintosh User Manual – peterme.com https://www.peterme.com/2007/08/27/thoughts-on-and-pics-of-the-original-macintosh-user-manual/
The Programming Languages Zoo http://plzoo.andrej.com/
Archiving C64 Tapes Correctly | pagetable.com https://www.pagetable.com/?p=1002
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.
Mark Fisher’s “K-Punk” and the Futures That Have Never Arrived | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/mark-fishers-k-punk-and-the-futures-that-have-never-arrived
Band name of the day: parts world
See No Evil “ Real Life https://reallifemag.com/guided-tours-see-no-evil/
Vampire Reviews: Dracula, Pages from a Virgin’s Diary - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP83GS8jBJc
Stack Exchange Simulator https://se-simulator.lw1.at/
Announcing the 2019 No-Budget Film Contest “ John Ohno ” Medium https://medium.com/@/announcing-the-2019-no-budget-film-contest-d7eb339a3ed5
Loper OS » Engelbart’s Violin http://www.loper-os.org/?p=861
Tech’s Masturbatory Historiography | Lobsters https://lobste.rs/s/o6x9b3/tech_s_masturbatory_historiography#c_l1snl2
Every time I complain about how computers can be made better (if we work together) I get a bunch of people criticizing me for being insufficiently grateful. Bitch, I’m a programmer. I know how much effort somebody put into this shit, & it’s not enough.
Tech’s Masturbatory Historiography “ John Ohno ” Medium https://medium.com/@/techs-masturbatory-historiography-6d7ae12abf1f?source=friends_link&sk=c07e60d820ba1909520584c094f37876
It’s the End of News As We Know It (and Facebook Is Feeling Fine) – Mother Jones https://www.motherjones.com/media/2018/12/facebook-propaganda-trump/
The Internet Doesn’t Need Civility, It Needs Ethics - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pa5gxn/the-internet-doesnt-need-civility-it-needs-ethics
William Gibson | Part 1 | Jan. 12, 2012 | Appel Salon - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFewCiRaGiU
William Gibson: The Uncut Interview - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEXIqKRdz9A
Reflections on DOOM’s Development — Rome.ro https://rome.ro/news/2018/12/10/reflections-on-dooms-development
There’s this approach to computing history where we focus on work that looks shallowly similar to current norms, claim that work was ‘prophetic’ or ‘ahead of its time’, & mostly ignore differences & intent except as quirks. Fuck that.
has anybody registered luke-usethe.horse yet?
Band name of the day: mechanized death
Bad idea of the day: a campaign to ensure all life extension therapies are completely covered by medicare, medicaid, & ACA-compatible insurance
Hey, maybe now that microsoft is pushing chrome, things will get bad enough that electron will be dropped & developers will remember that cross-platform GUI toolkits exist that don’t involve spamming HTML
Band name of the day: rural edgelands
Command-Line Options10.Configuration”/>http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/ch10s05.html
Prions, Nearly Indestructible and Universally Lethal, Seed the Eyes of Victims - Scientific American Blog Network https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/artful-amoeba/prions-nearly-indestructible-and-universally-lethal-seed-the-eyes-of-victims/
Cragne Manor, an 84-room horror “exquisite corpse” text adventure that’s a tribute to the classic game Anchorhead / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2018/12/09/massively-multi-developer.html
The best argument against the idea that AI will replace programmers wholesale is the relative unpopularity of prolog. As an industry, we don’t take advantage of fantastic automation tech from the 70s, and instead write Java.
Teleconferencing is like being on IRC, if everybody was a noob, two people typing at the same time made both of their posts into gibberish, and half the channel has a cat on their keyboard the entire time.
We all know about social constructs vs reality, but there are levels of spookiness (and no upper bound). We can define them as how far a lie can go before the truth gets its boots on. Spookiness level one – money – already goes basically perpetually.
Telekon has a piano cover of Down in the Park & it makes me laugh ever goddamn time I hear it. It’s like having a muzak cover of Bulls On Parade.
Band name of the day: synners in the grasp of an angry gnon
2019 Open Call | Now Play This http://nowplaythis.net/2019-open-call/
Rhizomes 31 * Ali Sperling * H.P. Lovecraft’s Weird Body http://www.rhizomes.net/issue31/sperling.html
Unflattening Hobbes https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/10/18/unflattening-hobbes/
The Economic Perspective On Moral Standards | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/11/16/the-economic-perspective-on-moral-standards/
Is Science Slowing Down? | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/11/26/is-science-slowing-down-2/
Gary Lachman “The Lost Knowledge of the Imagination” - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLlLCVO3H28
JIRA is an antipattern – TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/09/jira-is-an-antipattern/
Today, on the 50th anniversary of Englebart’s Mother of All Demos, is a great opportunity to introspect about why personal computers still basically don’t exist & the needs nLS was intended to fulfill still aren’t fulfilled.
Hedonic Audit https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/07/13/hedonic-audit/
Would we be worse off if we chose presidents by lottery? We’d probably be better off. If there was nothing someone could do to increase their odds of being president, it wouldn’t attract the mercenery & power-hungry.
Band name of the day: unforseen movements
Grand Old Paranoia | The New Republic https://newrepublic.com/article/152195/grand-old-paranoia-republican-conspiracy-theories-warp-washington
Bruce Sterling Mirrorshades - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGFMxGDUWpM
Band name of the day: the movement
YouTube: Art or Reality? | Philosophy Tube - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVav1ri65Ws
FLATLINE: How The Amiga Languished - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB_UZsJUbwQ
Introduction to Deleuze: Difference and Repetition - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUQTYlCTfek
William Gibson in conversation | SCI-FI-LONDON - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye78SZ4g_jo
The Black Cauldron - Disney’s Halloween Masterpiece - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rzWdJ4vB8s