Gosh, I love #Libretto’s so much but they’re basically unobtainium at this point and becoming ever more fragile. https://youtu.be/xfMrqJwuMX8
I like trying to find the balance between minimal and usable in old tech. I have a beautiful Dell X200 which just straddles the line of obsolete and modern as even though it’s an 800MHz PIII it can connect to WiFi and run a browser barely new enough to access the web. #RetroComputing
Even though old software has not changed, new software has introduced faster, more efficient workflows at the cost of the speed of the software itself. The knowledge and tools to even produce software that uses a few megabytes of RAM is, in practice, lost. We can produce better tools but we cannot produce them for the computers that would benefit most from them. #RetroComputing
Have you ever tried to compile an old piece of software that first required compiling an old compiler which itself required an old environment that you can't reproduce? #GCC & #LLVM all work within very narrow bands of time, platforms and environments that shift constantly, meaning that the aparant portability of C/C++ is unusable in practice for any non-current OS. #retrocomputing#cpp
That's a coy way of saying I never write songs. Or never wrote them, maybe. But I have this one thing that won't leave me alone, so I'm giving it a stab.
I wrote poems when I was younger. I was decent enough. I had a good teacher in Michael Donaghy.
But this is not that.
It's for a chorus line of tap-dancing grim reapers in sequins and top hats. Skeletal jazz hands. The whole deal.