On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Colossal Cave Adventure https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/10/colossal-cave.html #freeculture #bookclub
On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Superflu https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/03/superflu.html #freeculture #bookclub
On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Redmine, part 2 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/11/26/redmine-2.html #freeculture #bookclub
new version (1.0.4) of introduction to uxn programming e-book: launcher and raw runes | https://compudanzas.net/introduction_to_uxn_programming_book.html
Look, sir, I know Angua. She’s not the useless type. She doesn’t stand there and scream helplessly. She makes other people do that Look, sir, I know Angua. She’s not the useless… - Quotes from Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Books
Read the first 50 pages, if the author hasn’t earned your attention by then, you can stop reading. You’ll never read all the good books anyway, don’t waste your time on the bad ones. Reading fast, reading well, and reading widely (2020) | Hacker News
Hard times create strong men. Strong men create autocratic dynasties. Autocratic dynasties create supernumerary bureaucracies. Supernumerary bureaucracies create eunuch castes. Eunuch castes create drama. Drama creates Heavenly displeasure. Heavenly displeasure creates hard times. Book Review: 1587, a Year of No Significance | Hacker News
RT by @mind_booster: OMG In the Penguin Random House/S&S antitrust trial it was revealed that out of 58,000 trade titles published per year, half of those titles sell fewer than one dozen books. LESS THAN ONE DOZEN.
OMG In the Penguin Random House/S&S antitrust trial it was revealed that out of 58,000 trade titles published per year, half of those titles sell fewer than one dozen books. LESS THAN ONE DOZEN. ⌘ Read more
Before Chromebooks: The 2009 “litl webbook”
A look back at the failed, Linux “Web-book” that paved the way for Chromebooks. ⌘ Read more
**R to @mind_booster: Metaverse? Yeah, that other new thing, haven’t you notice? Nevermind that book in my shelf claiming that Second Life is Linden Lab’s Metaverse, or years of Metaverse references older than Facebook in papers, conferences, etc.: the Metaverse is now.
https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Second+Life%3A+The+Official+Guide-p-9780470096086**
Metaverse? Yeah, that other new thing, haven’t you notice? Nevermind that book in my shelf claiming that Second Life is Linden Lab’s Metaverse, or years of Metavers … ⌘ Read more
Is the Lunduke Journal a Tech Publication or nerdy book/video subscription service? Yes.
Definitely “all of the above”. ⌘ Read more
Linux for Hank - the video book
Watch now (4 min) | The Audio / Video version of the kids book about Linux. ⌘ Read more
Spent the afternoon updating my tilde and now it is time to unwind with some meditation and a book!
“2299: Act 1” – Comedy Sci-Fi with spaceships and stuff
Book released as a PDF for all Lunduke Journal subscribers ⌘ Read more
RT by @mind_booster: This book can be your next (perfect?) TBR: The Story of Classic Crime in 100 (102?) Books by Martin Edwards ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ @medwardsbooks @poisonedpen @BL_Publishing #BookReview #Booktwt https://paulasimoesblog.wordpress.com/2021/07/05/this-book-can-be-your-next-perfect-tbr-the-story-of-classic-crime-in-100-102-books-by-martin-edwards-%e2%ad%90%e2%ad%90%e2%ad%90%e2%ad%90%e2%ad%90-medwardsbooks-poisonedpen-bl_publishing-bo/
This book can be your next (perfect?) TBR: The Story of Classic Crime in 1 … ⌘ Read more
I started adding a list of books that changed my life to my tilde at http://tilde.club/~melyanna/library/
📚 Finished reading Books that Matter: The Analects of Confucius by Robert André LaFleur
Atari ST Book - The 1991 laptop with 10 hour battery life
68000 CPU (like the Mac and Amiga) and 4 MB of RAM. All powered by AA batteries. (Seriously.) ⌘ Read more
📚 Finished reading Books that Matter: The Analects of Confucius by Robert André LaFleur
I read 100 self-help books. Here’s what I learned… ⌘ Read more
Don Knuth really really wants to write a long site and not books. I mean…just take a look at them!
“Linux Sucks: The Book” publishing has resumed with a new, in-progress PDF
“The rise, and inevitable fall, of the world’s greatest Operating System” ⌘ Read more
i don’t know of any Gentle Introduction to Why Prediction Markets are Awesome, à la Wait But Why, with stick figures and just going slow in on the topic, answering objections along the way. i consider it a collective action failure that no such text exists, and also that i don’t know of any book that does this (other than superforecasting)
new version of our introduction to uxn e-book with the screen auto byte and other updates in varvara devices | https://compudanzas.net/introduction_to_uxn_programming_book.html
New Book: “Lunduke’s History of Computers - Volume 1”
Esoteric, and often forgotten, stories of computer history… in a 200 page volume. ⌘ Read more
New Book of Nerdy Satire: “The Lunduke Journal Quarterly - Volume 2”
Because you can never have too many jokes about Linux. ⌘ Read more
“Linux for Hank” - the children’s book about Linux
One of many perks for subscribers to The Lunduke Journal ⌘ Read more
1970’s BASIC Computer Games compiled for Linux
Remember typing in code from magazines and books? Let’s compile a bunch of those old games for modern Linux. ⌘ Read more
Alright, check this out. I just kinda completed today’s project of converting a jeans into a saw bag. It’s not fully done, the side seams on the flap need some more hand sewing, that’s for sure. No, I don’t have a sewing machine. Yet?
At first I wanted to put in the saw on the short side, but that would have made for more sewing work and increased material consumption. As a Swabian my genes force me to be very thrifty. Slipping in on the long side had the benefit of using the bottom trouser leg without any modification at all. The leg tapers slightly and gets wider and wider the more up you go. At the bottom it’s not as extreme as at the top.
The bag is made of two layers of cloth for extra durability. The double layers help to hide the inner two metal snap fastener counter parts, so the saw blade doesn’t get scratched. Not a big concern, but why not doing it, literally no added efforts were needed. Also I reckon it cuts off the metal on metal clinking sounds.
The only downside I noticed right after I pressed in the receiving ends of the snap fasteners is that the flap overhangs the bag by quite a lot. I fear that’s not really user-friendly. Oh well. Maybe I will fold it shorter and sew it on. Let’s see. The main purpose is to keep the folding saw closed, it only locks in two open positions.
Two buttons would have done the trick, with three I went a bit overkill. In fact the one in the middle is nearly sufficient. Not quite, but very close. But overkill is a bit my motto. The sides making up the bag are sewed together with like five stitch rows. As said in the introduction, the flap on the hand needs some more love.
Oh, and if I had made it in a vertical orientation I would have had the bonus of adding a belt loop and carrying it right along me. In the horizontal layout that’s not possible at all. The jeans cloth is too flimsy, the saw will immediately fall out if I open the middle button. It’s not ridgid enough. Anyways, I call it a success in my books so far. Definitely had some fun.
I didn’t get around to blogging about the fact that Miniflux recently got a new version. With it, if an entry doesn’t have a title, it finally shows a snippet of the content instead of just the URL as the title. A great new feature if you follow a lot of micro blogs. Regarding micro-blogs, I’m also in the process of reading Manton Reece’s book draft. ⌘ Read more
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I would HIGHLY recommend reading up on the keybase architecture. They designed device key system for real time chat that is e2e secure. https://book.keybase.io/security
A property of ec keys is deriving new keys that can be determined to be “on curve.” bitcoin has some BIPs that derive single use keys for every transaction connected to a wallet. And be derived as either public or private chains. https://qvault.io/security/bip-32-watch-only-wallets/
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I would HIGHLY recommend reading up on the keybase architecture. They designed device key system for real time chat that is e2e secure. https://book.keybase.io/security
A property of ec keys is deriving new keys that can be determined to be “on curve.” bitcoin has some BIPs that derive single use keys for every transaction connected to a wallet. And be derived as either public or private chains. https://qvault.io/security/bip-32-watch-only-wallets/
What I learned from every book I read last year. ⌘ Read more
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away… the Coleco Bowlatronic
The 1981 hand-held bowling game traveled to the Star Wars universe in The Book of Boba Fett. ⌘ Read more
updated our introduction to uxn e-books with a new table formatting and some minor corrections | https://compudanzas.net/publications.html
Peter Saint-Andre: Philosophies and Ways of Life
In his book What Is Ancient Philosophy?, Pierre Hadot almost singlehandedly resurrected the ancient conception of philosophy as a way of life. Consider this observation about the philosophical schools of Greece and Rome: “For us moderns, the notion of a philosophical school evokes only the idea of a doctrinal tendency or theoretical position. Things were very different in antiquity. No university obligations oriented the future philosopher toward a specific school; instead, the futur … ⌘ Read more
Whoever named “NFTs” really missed a great opportunity…
Can we all just agree to call them this from now on? The Lunduke Journal subscriber exclusives as of this moment: 7 books, 2 games, LundukeFest pass, + articles and podcast episodes. You can subscribe here on Substack or join The Lunduke Journal Community at ⌘ Read more
Real men don’t comment their code…
Insert manly grunting. The Lunduke Journal subscriber exclusives as of this second: 7 books, 2 games, LundukeFest pass, + articles and podcast episodes. ⌘ Read more
published our ebook: introduction to uxn programming! | https://compudanzas.net/introduction_to_uxn_programming_book.html
** Star Wars, and a year in review **
I tried to write a“ year in review” kinda post, but it got wicked melodramatic pretty fast. This year has been a slog…it really fucking sucked.
Rather than reflect on it further, I thought I’d write about something vapid that I’ve been thinking a bit about lately instead: Star Wars.
Despite my best efforts, I’ve always loved Star Wars. As a child I spent hundreds of hours pouring over novels, and comics, and books of sch … ⌘ Read more
2021 is over! Huzzah! Get Lunduke Journal yearly subscription for $15.
7 free eBooks: including a Choose Your Own Adventure, Nerdy Dad Jokes, & a Kids Book ⌘ Read more
Peter Saint-Andre: 2021 Readings
As best I can reconstruct it, here are the books I read in 2021. Not included are scholarly papers, essays, and other short works. I’ve provided links to books that are available online at my monadnock.net website for works in the public domain…. ⌘ Read more
Peter Saint-Andre: Meditations on Bach #9: Musical Monadology
In meditation #7 of this series, I took note of some similarities between the aesthetics of Aristotle and the music of Bach. Another intriguing influence might be the monadology of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716), who directly influenced philosophers and musical theorists in the Bach’s orbit: for instance, Bach’s student Lorenz Mizler (1711-1778) was a follower of the Leibniz scholar Christian Wolff (1679-1754). In chapter 5 of his book Music in the Culture of th … ⌘ Read more
“Road-Sign Hank & The Aliens” available for free to all Lunduke Journal subscribers
Family friendly, Sci-Fi adventure comic book series… with some nerdy jokes mixed in. ⌘ Read more
Ask HN: most interesting, mildly impractical, well-written books on software? [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29306651]] #links
How to support The Lunduke Journal (& where to buy Lunduke’s books)
Multiple ways to support this nerdy publication and become part of the community. ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — if then else, part 4 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/12/04/else4.html #freeculture #bookclub
Peter Saint-Andre: Aristotle Research Report #17: Let the Re-Reading Begin
Just under two years ago, I thought I was done with phase one of my research into Aristotle’s views o human flourishing, having at that point read around 120 distinct works by or related to Aristotle (including all of Plato’s dialogues). Well, I was wrong: since then I’ve read an additional 150 works, almost exclusively in the scholarly literature on Aristotle. Now I have three whole shelves of books about Aristotle in my office…. ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — if then else, part 3 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/11/27/else3.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — if then else, part 2 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/11/20/else2.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — if then else, part 1 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/11/13/else.html #freeculture #bookclub
Linux Sucks - Audio Book - Chapter 1
Listen now (5 min) | After Covid derailed my publishing schedule, things are finally fully back on track! My voice is now totally back to normal and everything! Huzzah! For the paying subscribers to The Lunduke Journal you will now start receiving audio book chapters of “Linux Sucks” regularly (this is Chapter 1, with Chapter 2 to follow). New text chapters will also be posted to the ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Sita Sings the Blues https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/11/06/sita.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Occupy This Novel!, Part 2 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/10/30/occupy2.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Occupy This Novel!, Part 1 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/10/23/occupy1.html #freeculture #bookclub
🙌 Liked: Famicom Party ⌘ Read more
We all strive to be like the others - more exactly, like the others, but better. (Chapter 2) Book Review: The End of Average - LessWrong
As a side effect of my post on boats I’ve now reserved a book about Vasa at the library, in order to clarify and correct the wikipedia article on it 😂
I realized this morning why I’m put off by super hero movies. They are fun, and I’ve always loved comic books, but the super hero movies of the last decade specifically, (I mean, beside being military propaganda) totally omit the potential future of any sort of utopia. They cannot envision their own undoing.
The stories are predicated on the super heros always needing something to be super against, despite having fantastical abilities to help usher in some sort of uto … ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Lightbringer, Part 2 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/10/16/lightbringer2.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Lightbringer, Part 1 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/10/09/lightbringer.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Affair, Part 4 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/10/02/affair4.html #freeculture #bookclub
“Linux Sucks: The Book” - Chapter 2
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On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Affair, Part 3 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/09/25/affair3.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Affair, Part 2 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/09/18/affair2.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Affair, Part 1 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/09/11/affair1.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Typhoon, Part 4 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/08/28/typhoon4.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Typhoon, Part 3 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/08/21/typhoon3.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Typhoon, Part 2 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/08/14/typhoon2.html Generations in a Nutshell https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/08/15/generations.html #rant #politics
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Typhoon, Part 1 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/08/07/typhoon1.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Eroticature https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/07/31/eroticature.html #freeculture #bookclub
Important: LindyPress undergoing some updates
Although I haven’t announced in a video on the YouTube channel yet, I’m glad that there’s been a lot of interest in LindyPress.net. I haven’t done a video on it just because there are some details in the site coding we’re still figuring out, but books are already printing, shipping and arriving at some of your houses.
Just a couple technical notes:
- I switched the Stripe backend of the site over the week … ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Headshot, part 2 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/07/24/headshot.html #freeculture #bookclub
The classical book reprinting site is live! LindyPress.net
For a while, I’ve hinted that I’ve been contributing to a project to reprint out-of-print classical and medieval texts that are of hidden value, sometimes even in their original languages. I’ve worked on this project for a while and now it’s live and you can browse the first five books available.
See the site at https://lindypress.net. All works have been reformatted in XeLaTeX so that … ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Headshot, part 1 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/07/17/headshot.html #freeculture #bookclub
I’m doing this thing again where I am collecting more articles and books to read than actual doing any reading.
L’équipe Book Village - Book Village ⌘ Read more…
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — La Chute d’Une Plume https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/07/10/plume.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Solitudes and Silence, ch 10-14 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/07/03/solitudes3.html #freeculture #bookclub
The Weaving The Web Book by Tim Berners-Lee should be a required read for anyone building on the Web.
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Solitudes and Silence, ch 5-9 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/06/26/solitudes2.html #freeculture #bookclub
Decided to keep the smart-phone out of our bedroom and keep a note book instead. Already feeling lighter and fresher.
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Solitudes and Silence, ch 1-4 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/06/19/solitudes1.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Boris Munchausen https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/06/12/boris.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — The House https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/06/05/house.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Wilber & Co. https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/05/29/wilber.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Ficly https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/05/22/ficly.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — FSF Propaganda Videos https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/05/15/fsf.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Moses und Aron, ch 10-13 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/05/08/moses4.html #freeculture #bookclub
The Problems with Utilitarianism
I originally wrote this essay in 2014 or 2015 in a Chinese buffet in Athens, Georgia. I’ve changed some of it and am re-adding it here. I talk about the issues with Utilitarianism and a bad book by Sam Harris.
At a dumb intuitive level, the “ethical” idea of Utilitarianism in principle gets pretty close to what most people reflexively want from social-political affairs: the greatest good for the greatest number of people—who … ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Moses und Aron, ch 7-9 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/05/01/moses3.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Moses und Aron, ch 4-6 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/04/24/moses2.html #freeculture #bookclub
Wanna Learn LaTeX?
I have a full video tutorial series on learning LaTeX, broken into small sensible parts, here.
What is LaTeX?Basically, it’s how big boys write and format documents.Every public brief, scientific article, book, cryptocurrency … ⌘ Read more
Why It’s Bad to Have High GDP
To put it in other words…The common way of looking at Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is that it’s a metric of economic success: more GDP is more wealth.Wealth is good. “Poverty” (meaning low per capita GDP) is bad.Nowadays, pretty much everyone talks about “economics” like this as if this truism was scribbled on the back walls of the cosmos.
This is just looking at one side of the ledger in a kind of global double-entry accounting book.A logically equivale … ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Moses und Aron, ch 1-3 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/04/17/moses1.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — The Fellowship of Heroes https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/04/10/fellowship.html #freeculture #bookclub
Livestream on PeerTube ONLY at 10AM New York time
As the title says, I’ll be livestreaming today on PeerTube only at this link.
I’ll talk about finishing my book reptinting project that you’re going to want to know about and perhaps “recent events” (several weeks late)
for example, on Richard Stallman.
I’ll read donations I get if you want to talk about other things.
If you haven’t already, subscribe to my PeerTube’s RSS feed to get up … ⌘ Read more