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I think phase 3 of the people's permacomputer project might be done.
After digging deep, there is an absolute treasure trove of BASIC games, utilities, and knowledgeable people out there on the internet.
The permacomputer project's focus on BASIC was correct, I think--there is no limit of software online written in the language. Long programs are at most 400 or 500 lines long.
The next phase could be a return to hardware, or maybe it should more properly be the polishing of a user environment in BASIC?
I owe my career to the movie The Big Lebowski.
When I watched it as a young teenager, I wanted to find other people enjoying it so I did my best to setup a PHP forum hosted at home, there were not many choice early 2000 and I struggled a lot to figure how to make apache work with PHP, how to enable port forwarding on my router, how to make mysql work, how to get a domain name (from services like no-ip or dyndns 
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got told about more text editors written in BASIC
getting kinda deep into this rabbit hole now, lol
some on:
- QB64PE forum
- FreeBASIC forum
- Facebook BASIC Programming Language group (already a member)
- texteditors.org
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@lykso @screwlisp @stunder for me, I definitely do these projects like the human web to entertain myself. But it is good to feed your own spirit. Don't worry if you are blameworthy for choosing yourself like this. I am fascinated by your idea of a human web. I would love to see you code something simple up as a proof of concept!
@screwlisp @stunder @lykso that is pretty much exactly what I mean. it's a process; about walking the walk. "Wax on, wax off". I think the anxiety stems from a kind of imposter syndrome.
@screwlisp @stunder @lykso what is kitten?
Gemini is just an example of a passion project that came to realisation
I am not offering suggestions about what to do
by one person, in several afternoons? maybe even up to a decade of work?
gemini is sort of such a project, there are many others.
i think the permacomputer project was dormant for almost 10 months while life proceeded for me...
don't be so hard on yourself--any solution is good enough to explore!
@screwlisp
Ah, this is getting a lot of attention pretty quickly, at least by my standards. Maybe I should write a post expanding on my thoughts. They will be half-baked and a bit unfocused, I promise, but maybe you will find them interesting.
Edit: All I could write in 10 minutes: http://lyk.so/human-web.html
#bookReview #psychology #neuroscience #automata #engineering #technology #bookstodon
my Book review of Braitenberg’s Vehicles Experiments in Synthetic Psychology
https://screwlisp.small-web.org/complex/book-review-braitenberg-vehicles/
I connect this to #lisp #programming for our upcoming (48 hours from tooting) interview with @ksaj about cluster and swarm-intelligence computing, featuring lisp.
If you have adjacent thoughts or questions you might like Ksaj and I (and the usual crowd) to consider, please do discuss them here.
I've been meaning to do this for a while now but this past week I finally got around to starting the nand2tetris course, this time with my 2 kids
I bought the book a few years ago, but I found out recently that they've added a free course on Coursera that seems to have all the same materials: https://www.coursera.org/learn/build-a-computer/
it steps you thru the process of building up a working computer architecture from the most barebones starting point; if you're interested in learning on a lower level how computers work, I'd highly recommend it--it feels rigorous without being unapproachable
I've got a problem where I want to shore up the "human web," but my brain can't settle on a shape for a solution. I start out thinking "web of trust, but better somehow," then "could this just be a network of TLS-signed blogrolls?" And then "what about secure communication away from crawlers and AI bros? Should there be a private network/walled garden attached to this somehow?"
I probably don't know exactly the problem I'm trying to solve. Seems to be several overlapping ones.
KDE devs in the 2000s choosing a name for every single app they write
@akkartik some transcribed, some not yet. https://git.sr.ht/~vidak/peoples-permacomputer/tree/master/item/basiclang/text-editors