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We released a transcription of the Shining Sand talk, in which I wander the halls of a vast library and stumble into the sublevels where I meet John Conway. Disappointed to see "keep politics out of programming" from the Handmade community. Handmade 2024: A shining palace built upon the sand.  @neauoire I feel called out. π "I'm whining about people leaving the library for bigger books ... 128K!" (as I sit here working on a VM with 1024KB. π) Merveilles Meetup & friends, Seattle 2024. Handmade Stream going live in an hour and a half. 
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A couple of folks on the instance(and friends) got together and made a Diablo Tribute tape, there will be actual red cassettes available of it in a bit, but in the meantime, here's a rip of the audio!
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   Preserve yourself some foods π» In this strange computer, rules can be sometimes applied backward, pressing the arrow button will unapply a rule and might help you recover and earlier state. For a brief and fleeting moment, before that website's CSS kicked in, I glimpsed at a perfectly readable website. Completed a zine that teaches the basics of multiset rewriting programming with examples and also includes the source for a tiny Fractran interpreter. Thanks for everyone who sent feedback, I've included the suggestions. I'll have a bunch of those at Handmade Seattle next month, if you'd like one, just come and see me and I'll give you a copy :catclock:  @neauoire I paid my old host for 5 years to mothball my old blog, but it became an "unnecessary" expense I could no longer afford. I've been relying on the #IA to keep it alive. So, naturally, two months after I stop paying a private host to keep my site alive, The IA goes down. π€¦ββοΈ In Canada, today is Orange Shirt Day, it's a day of awareness to recognize the atrocities perpetrated by the country's boarding schools on the children of indigenous communities.  using FileIO orangify(x) = (x == RGB(1,1,1) ? RGB(1,0.5,0) : x) orange = map(orangify, load("teapot-bw.jpg")) For 3 years now, we've had a monthly hand-drawn calendar in the galley that we cover with doodles, at the end of the year, @rek binds the 12 pages together, and it makes it easy to look back at where we were, what we were doing at a previous time. Everyday has some kind of highlight or other- It's one of our favourite habits.  Autumn is just around the corner, and when the leaves begin to fall, it will have been four years since the early sketches of a personal computing system which became #Uxn. I thought it would be interesting to look back and see what has happened since. when you eat animal products, you are directly consuming high blood pressure, stress, & adrenaline. you are eating fear, grief, & rage. you are eating suffering, horror, & murder. you are eating cruelty. |
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