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nil, to Lisp
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Very excited about this book! Conway’s Game of Life is what got me out of blubberism almost three decades ago as I implemented it in php and started looking into more succinct implementations which brought me to #apl, #lisp and so #forth.

nil, to random
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I believe this makes me owner #2 of the programming language formal definition. My first inclination is to write a lisp for the tcode machine but given the author I feel this has already happened? Chapter 6 is very cool to see the variants of asm for each instruction for z80 8086 and ARMv6.

nil, to Lisp
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I used to own a stack of boxes of vintage Byte magazine issues from 78-82 as I wanted physical copies of the and articles (which at the time were not scanned/available). Anyway I couldn’t help but read almost all of them, mainly for the ads! Also some great articles. Ultimately it was incredibly informative to learn about the hype cycle of tech. So every time I hear about crypto or LLM shit I imagine it (well what ever the aphantasia version of imagining is) in terms of half page glossy over produced vintage byte magazine ads.

nil, to forth
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More (moore) forth! #forth #eforth #subleq

nil, to boardgames
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Just found out you can play kriegspiel on macOS/iOS for free! https://r-s-g.org/kriegspiel/index.php

nil, to random
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Title: Actors
Author: Gul Agha
Year: 1986

nil, (edited ) to random
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For real. Inherited one of these from my grandfather and the other from eBay (when it was good for books)

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nil, to Lisp
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my first lisp program in Morse code is of course nil:

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#lisp #MorseCode

nil, to random
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Feeling nostalgic for #ShiningForce fan games that never got released beyond screenshots on shining force central. I can’t even find the old threads or remember the names but there was one that was 3D with ps1 level graphics that I badly wanted to play.

nil, to random
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I love Nintendo but I find it so annoying that I can’t play switch games without active internet connection. For what? To make sure I’m not playing on my other switch? What are we doing here. I’m with that other person who posted recently - I just want a dedicated Tetris device. But now I am addicted to Tetris99 so it needs really good AI.

nil, to keyboards
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Wow I forgot I had ordered this! Two volumes (plus extras) of Shift Happens including slip case. Having just flipped through this book already makes me unreasonably happy! #keyboards #ComputingHistory #ShiftHappens

Cover of Shift Happens volume 2

nil, to bbs
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I will say it again: mastodon NEEDS door games. I just want to play or with people in my feed. forever.

nil, to random
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Fuck that jacobin article on . Designing Freedom has more to say than anything they’ve ever written! I’m taking it personally because I give a fuck.

https://monoskop.org/images/e/e3/Beer_Stafford_Designing_Freedom.pdf

nil, to random
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A poem I wrote about capitalism and the fruits of subjugation:

DRYWALL RACECAR

nil, to Lisp
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Did all the other #lisp people know about #PSL from #NIST? I only stumbled upon it whilst searching for a process network definition language. Not exactly what I had in mind but pleasantly surprised to see #sexpressions!
https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Legacy/IR/nistir6459.pdf

nil, to random
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Parenthesis. Unbalanced.

nil, to tetris
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Sadly I can’t prove this but last night I got an all-clear at the exact moment I won a round of - I play a lot of that game (and not to brag but I win a lot. I am level 97 not including the levels I lost when replacing switch) and this is first time that has ever happened. Almost like one of those water bottle flip trick shots or something.

nil, to books
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We have reached the point where we are
considering the pros and cons of putting a bookshelf in the bathroom. Too many #books but they are all so good!

nil, to emacs
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I just want to say as an #emacs prisoner (if I had a car it would have a bumper sticker that said “my other editor is a post modern lisp machine”) that the ux is awful. Executing a mortal kombat fatality on my keyboard to save a file is sadism. #LispHeretic

nil, to random
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Title: Hypermedia Systems
Authors: CARSON GROSS, ADAM STEPINSKI, DENİZ AKŞİMŞEK
Review: very well written and good explanation of the what/why/how of #htmx and hypermedia as it was intended. My only qualm was numerous code formatting/layout issues when ever a code block crossed pages eg missing and duplicated lines. Sometimes these lines are referred to by the text which can add to the confusion. I love the cover though and the font choices!

nil, to random
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Just had the disgusting realization that objectivist types view Elon Musk as Galt.

nil, to random
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One of the reasons for the rejection of #cybernetics is that it is as much (if not more so) about what technology CANT and SHOULDNT do as it is about what technology can do. It’s the Jeff Goldblum character in Jurassic Park of the sciences. This disgusting fantasy of limitless growth and the promises of infinite pleasure come the singularity is the soma. Is the opiate. Is the spectacle.

nil, to Boxer
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Hard pills to swallow: YouTube/instagram/TikTok IS the new HyperCard. Brutal pill to swallow actually. Give me #boxer http://worrydream.com/refs/diSessa%20-%20Boxer%20-%20A%20Reconstructible%20Computational%20Medium.pdf !!

nil, to random
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I made a mean toot about #gimp but I deleted it. Even though you are old and clunky I still respect you and the labor that has gone in to building and maintaining you. If it annoys me that much I might have to leave my lisp castle for the trenches.

nil, to random
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Saturdays are for coffee, playing rust, planning and discussing the finer points of with those I (love) with.

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