An old series of blog posts with an intriguing premise and a focus on Forth:
"What if all software suddenly disappeared? What's the minimum you'd need to bootstrap a practical system? I decided to start with a one sector (512-byte) seed and find out how far I can get."
Really looking forward to this year's #DecemberAdventure!
Seeing what everybody was able to achieve last year was amazing.
This year's goal for me will be to make progress on a tiny #ActivityPub server, inspired by #permacomputing.
I'm not starting from scratch, I already implemented a few functionalities on and off this year.
https://eli.li/december-adventure
https://git.sr.ht/~louismerlin/december-adventure
went to wordhack in new york last night and appreciated these projects:
- banner depot 2000 (https://www.banner-depot-2000.net/)
- blur markup language (https://bml-lang.org/)
The MS Windows trash icon has had a recycle symbol on it since at least 1995. I am hearing rumours that until very recently your documents were not in fact being recycled.
The LispBox - self-contained Lisp computer with Teensy 4.1 - uLisp
http://forum.ulisp.com/t/the-lispbox-self-contained-lisp-computer-with-teensy-4-1/1390
Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/http://forum.ulisp.com/t/the-lispbox-self-contained-lisp-computer-with-teensy-4-1/1390
Modified version of ulisp-arm (see below) for use with a self-contained uLisp computer based on the Teensy 4.1, a TFT screen with RA8875 controller and an USB keyboard. The REPL works locally and via serial connection simultaneously and prints to the TFT as well.
I think I've wrangled all the adventure logs that I know of so far for this year's #DecemberAdventure -- thanks so much to everyone who's sent me a link!
Honestly, my favorite part of this is keeping up with everyone's logs. 
@yrabbit @permacomputer my rough idea would be to equip a permacomputer with everything you need for its operation--currently the project would require the user to already possess a TV or monitor that could display composite video signals
you're probably right though: it is more likely you'd be able to salvage a TV than repair an in-built, yet broken, epaper screen
I've done some improvements to the album download user interface over at https://mirlo.space/. Try it out, and let me know if you encounter any bugs, or have ideas for further improvements.
Hey @sacha, would you be able to record (or if you like, speak live via jitsi) an announcement for #emacsconf to share on the lispy gopher climate on Wednesday?
been working on the @permacomputer these last few days
i have a lot to report--i think i have stumbled upon a good video output solution for the first actual permacomputer prototype
I'm looking for a job. I can start January 1. I have 30 years of experience doing complex systems programming in many languages, most recently Typescript, Haskell, and Python. I learn quickly. I can do advanced mathematics.
This year I helped a company migrate 15,000 customers from another company into their own systems.
Last year I helped develop a differential privacy database product written in Haskell.
Before that I helped developed a laboratory information management system that tracked up to 30,000 Covid-19 tests per day.
Please check out my CV.
https://plover.com/~mjd/cv/Mark%20Jason%20Dominus%20-%202024b.pdf
The #Fediverse is not just posts from people who can confidently install Linux. It's full of posts on art, politics, cats, photography, activism, history, gaming, humor, cartoons, creativity and community from people who can confidently install Linux.
went to the doctor cause i couldn't close the linux command prompt
he told me it's terminal
I wonder... Could we call 2005 the year computing power reached sufficiency?
Is the only reason *basically* any of us need more computing power down to inefficient software?
I'm sure some of you will want to draw the line earlier, but I made sure to include fully-programmable GPUs (like the XBox 360's) in my cut-off!
This is before smartphones, but only just!
Tiny ask. If you make things and sell them, or just sell things, can you pin a toot with a link to what you sell and a bit about you/what you sell etc? Thank you lovelies. It's nearly Christmas and I like boosting fedi gift ideas.
Edit. And we need more #fedigift #fedigitftshop #fedigifts #fedigiftIdeas tags!