social.solarpunk.au

social.solarpunk.au

vidak | @vidak@social.solarpunk.au

# LOCATION

The unceded, stolen land of the Whadjuk people of the Noongar nation. Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land!!

# QUOTATIONS

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. ~winnie-the-pooh

https://basiclang.solarpunk.au/

i made a forum about the BASIC programming language

re: Eye contact

@contrapunctus ๐Ÿ™

Eye contact

Got my FSF shit in the mail

Join up, nerds

sensitive media
Vidak holding his membership letter.

https://spectra.video/w/42mNUHTs2yvrkERrsx5yRZ

experimenting with different ways of having people interact with the project

here is a quick 10 minute hacking session of a Tiny BASIC game called @oats

Basic computer skills for seniors (2000)

https://otcs.minuspoint.com/

Which now applies to all of us.

I've just posted the results for this year's #fennel survey!

https://fennel-lang.org/survey/2025

thanks to everyone who shared their thoughts

https://spectra.video/w/42mNUHTs2yvrkERrsx5yRZ

gone live for a bit while hacking

added the random generation of the oats!
a screenshot of me 'playing' OATS.BAS.

got player movement working!
a debugging session of OATS.BAS in the Tiny BASIC interpreter.

I just finished uploading a few dozen Xerox PARC "Blue and White" technical reports to fill in the ones that were missing in
http://bitsavers.org/pdf/xerox/parc/techReports

The more I think about it

The PDP-8 probably was peak performance

a screenshot of copy-pasted code from emacs into the TIny BASIC interpreter

okay we're back lol

a screenshot of OATS.BAS in development

just got back from the demo

by boorloo standards a pretty big one

@akkartik depends what you mean by gaming and gamer!

PermaComputing _Wild Wiki Workshop_ with @wellgedachtpublishing
September 14th, from 2pm to 6pm

A PermaPublishing session exploring the pipeline from collaborative wiki content to physical publications using low-tech approaches. Well Gedacht Publishing will share their wiki-2-print workflow that they used to create their latest zine publication. Starting with markdown files, we'll walk through the entire process of script-based conversion with pandoc until you have a print-ready PDF.

A grey drawing taped to a white background

saw a GE advert from the late 60s that referred to their timesharing BASIC as "conversational FORTRAN"

10/10. poetry. chef's kiss.

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