"broken windows theory" is the theory that microsoft windows is fucking broken
What about a really nice BASIC interpreter for uxn? Seems to make sense to me--I know one already exists, but what about a nice fully-featured one?
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Back before we had 24/7 always on network connections that could reach anywhere at any time, before you could even get a dial-up internet connection, you would maintain a list of systems that were notionally "next to" yours, as a set of names, bound to phone numbers.
You would set up a cron job, to periodically dial up some other machine, send out anything that needed to go to another system, and download anything it had for you.
A big system would typically store and forward data for any known caller. To get known, you'd talk to the admin of that system, and they'd set it up so you could connect.
Week-long delays to get an email from one system to another were not unknown.
been looking into writing my own BASIC
https://github.com/parasmp/vic20.system-code/blob/master/vic20_rom_disassembly.txt
http://www.ittybittycomputers.com/IttyBitty/TinyBasic/DDJ1/BYOB.html
http://www.ittybittycomputers.com/IttyBitty/TinyBasic/TBuserMan.txt
may choose the arduino AVR as my platform--not sure what language to write it in yet, whether assembly or otherwise...
Intergalactic Wasabi Mix - Live Mix by snowdusk - on aNONradio.net! - 8/17/2025
Tracklist coming soon...
Email addresses are very simple, and you will score highly in this quiz.
New video! I'm building a clone of the 1970s Electro Harmonix Echo Flanger guitar effects pedal from a kit.
YouTube: https://youtu.be/ztvviqKpDng
PeerTube: https://makertube.net/w/gwVNT9nM6npqx44bQ2G7HS
#ElectroHarmonix #EchoFlanger #PolyFlange #PolyChorus #Guitar #GuitarFX #StompBox #MusikDing #LectricFX #DandyHorse #Build #Kit #FXPedal
#Lisp #REPL s are these unique beasts, clean windows into the raw interactivity of the languages and a mold to build it from. They are text-only-ish, though. Which is not always optimal. In my new piece, I look at the state of art in #CommonLisp implementation REPLs and their customizabity, and try to advocate for using them still.
Customizing Lisp REPLs: https://aartaka.me/customize-repl.html
We should go back to UUCP bang paths for email. Yes they are much worse than DNS based lookup, but they have the advantage of being utterly incomprehensible to normies.
just mail to FooBox!barVax!bazServer!mos_8502
Programming language tournament Round 1 Match 3:
Nominations by: @angelthorns , @neauoire , @thedaemon , & me!
I love this mural of Harriet Tubman by artist Michael Rosato
harriettubmanmural.com
#HarrietTubman
In a world full of Zucks, be a Woz https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/on-his-75th-birthday-apple-legend-steve-wozniak-pops-up-in-a-comment-thread-about-his-bad-decision-to-sell-his-stock-in-the-80s-with-a-devastatingly-zen-reply-i-gave-all-my-apple-wealth-away-because-wealth-and-power-are-not-what-i-live-for/
Not yet a release, but I think it's functional enough for a beta of Ammonoid, a file manager in the style of MC for the Apple II. It aims to be simple, and implements VSDrive so disks images presented over serial (David Schmidt's ADTPro, Bobbi Manner's ProDOS-Utils or my own surl-server) are accessible. I'd like to hear your thoughts!
Floppy image available at https://www.colino.net/tmp/ammonoid.po
I am fondly remembering the days I had servers online named "nong", "boofhead", and "fuckchop" and at some point I switched to functional, dull names and I'm wondering why it all went wrong.
I hope you folks like hour-long deep dives about hacking the heck out of a plastic 8mm film digitizer to help rescue home movies. π½οΈ
...'cause that's what's coming soon! ποΈ
