Nostr notes by Digital Mark λ ☕️ 8647

Worked on July Zine addition, while only hopped up on Arizona ...

2026-07-10T08:14:06Z

In reply to nevent1q…7cnu
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Worked on July Zine addition, while only hopped up on Arizona teas, and it didn't go well, but I finally got there.

I *hate* hate HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE [SBCL'S ERROR DIALOG] SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE.

Totally useless at finding "(0) is not a NUMBER" yes, where did I use cdr instead of cadr? LINE NUMBER? STACK TRACE? NO SUCH NICETY FROM AM.

Anyway, next one is a neat mini-language parsing/eval thing and hopefully shows some nice Lisp problem solving.
#lisp

"Everywherre you go, you see a snake. Or if you got it bad ...

2026-06-29T05:23:31Z

"Everywherre you go, you see a snake. Or if you got it bad enough, the same snake."
—The Two Snakes

You have grossly & weirdly misread me (and this is not the ...

2026-06-24T04:47:43Z

In reply to nevent1q…vmpg
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You have grossly & weirdly misread me (and this is not the first time. It will be the last.)

To be as clear as I can: Anil largely brings his miseries on himself.

Wil got hounded out because fedi's overzealous defenses swarmed him, an unfortunate side effect.

But keeping Nazis out isn't "disagreement", we shouldn't "hear both sides". It is an essential defense against becoming ex-twitter.

Larry Anderson 🕊️ (npub12aj…rhcm) Rob Fahrni (npub1sec…l7zj)

Anil is also thin-skinned even for a media person, who are not ...

2026-06-23T22:18:55Z

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Anil is also thin-skinned even for a media person, who are not the most robust species to start with. He takes criticism, jokes, or just insufficient fawning as an offense (see his meltdowns over the spike bracelet). So, yeah, don't be that guy here.

Wil Wheaton normally plays well with others, literally wrote the "don't be a dick" thesis, but some people took offense to his friends and chased him out, too.

Oh well. Still beats hanging out at the Nazi bar.

We talk a lot about sportsmanship & The American Game ...

2026-06-09T12:01:53Z

In reply to nevent1q…dv6k
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We talk a lot about sportsmanship & The American Game baseball, but the cruelty in our kids games are kinda more accurate.

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2026-06-09T11:44:39Z

https://afieldguidetodoomsday.tumblr.com/post/818901808314564608

30% more hose flavor!
#genx

Caveman Lisp was hard because you had to chisel it into stone ...

2026-06-01T00:48:06Z

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Caveman Lisp was hard because you had to chisel it into stone monoliths.
#lisp

Maybe Wizards & Warriors in 1983? ...

2026-06-01T00:42:29Z

In reply to nevent1q…eg6h
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Maybe Wizards & Warriors in 1983?
https://www.retroist.com/p/sword-and-sorcery-television-in-1983-wizards-&-warriors

It's like "walking simulator", a derogatory term that ...

2026-05-11T23:54:49Z

In reply to nevent1q…xsdn
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It's like "walking simulator", a derogatory term that got accepted by the community. Starbucks sells a *LOT* of Americanos.

People who do have cast-iron stomachs can treat espresso as "drip but better".

Note espresso machines didn't really catch on in the US until late '80s, early '90s. A friend got his early, & made over half a thermos. Drank it at the pool, went into shock & had to get his stomach pumped.

Cold brew coffee: Very good, much too slow a process for my ...

2026-05-11T23:48:55Z

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Cold brew coffee: Very good, much too slow a process for my junkie ass.

We don't say "long black" that's just a double Americano. I'm not a fan of the Americano type, straight-up espresso without milk bothers my stomach. I either have a strong drip, French press/pour-over, or if I'm out I'll get a latte or cappucino.
#coffee

#coffee #godzilla #kaiju ...

2026-05-07T19:47:29Z

#coffee #godzilla #kaiju

Being ripped off for years by fucking Wells Fargo finally got me ...

2026-05-03T00:33:29Z

Being ripped off for years by fucking Wells Fargo finally got me a prepaid card with just enough balance to buy credit on Nintendo's eshop. Who's been ripping me off for years but eh, at least the games are fun.

Game design is weird. I've decided that electricity is the ...

2026-04-23T18:49:32Z

Game design is weird. I've decided that electricity is the opposite of undead. So if you "bless" someone, you're electrocuting them. Throw batteries at zombies to reunalive them.

Oh, sunny Spring days, my face is full of pollen. I feel like ...

2026-04-20T21:12:03Z

Oh, sunny Spring days, my face is full of pollen. I feel like bukkake girl at Shriner's convention, except it's fucking trees & flowers.

I've got drugs, & wore a mask for a bit, but it's got in my EYES, & now they make a grinding noise when I roll them.

Blegh.

Everyone's homes in cramped rat central New York are WAY too ...

2026-04-20T02:13:22Z

In reply to nevent1q…czl5
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Everyone's homes in cramped rat central New York are WAY too damn nice. Shrink has vast tracts of floorspace.

Anne, Lindsay Crouse, is an *exceptionally* awful actress at this regression scene. It's like the Andy McDowell torture scene in Hudson Hawk, but that was funny. This is just… awkward.

Fog machines! "I am the dreamer, you are the dream!" Weird toys flying around. Yeah, man, David Lynch loves this.

#monsterdon #communion

Nice hypnosis fugue as a bottle ep, repeat everything from 40 ...

2026-04-20T02:05:02Z

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Nice hypnosis fugue as a bottle ep, repeat everything from 40 minutes earlier in the film.

Hallucinating everyone a bus as a bug: TOTALLY NORMAL. I had that all the time.

<Tubi ad: Rock star climbs up stairs & falls, ad for bananas>

G'Kar: KOBOLDS!!! PEOPLE OF THE LOWER DEPTHS! "They have haunted the world forever."

Shrink has a DOZEN abductee patients. But nobody believes, it must be brain damage.

#monsterdon #communion

Is God real? Is God little dark space dwarfs? This week's new ...

2026-04-20T01:55:45Z

In reply to nevent1q…qkah
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Is God real? Is God little dark space dwarfs? This week's new Christian theology!

Hey, the lady shrink is the Doc from Outland, Frances Sternhagen!!! They found a great cast. Script's kind of a mess, between the contact scenes.

Hypnosis! Oh, this is hitting all the crazy stuff. She's claiming it's accepted in court? It sure is not, & was fraud every time it was used.

#monsterdon #communion

Anne's taking the news of her husband's psychotic break ...

2026-04-20T01:50:50Z

In reply to nevent1q…9h7d
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Anne's taking the news of her husband's psychotic break reasonably well. But again has no defense skills, treats it as a joke.

They rode the elevator down, got out, got back in, came back up.

#monsterdon #communion

Anne has really poor survival instincts. She has no fear, no ...

2026-04-20T01:42:55Z

In reply to nevent1q…ctg7
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Anne has really poor survival instincts. She has no fear, no desire to check the cabin, no curiousity about the dreams. Just completely oblivious & mocking.

New Yorkers with guns are weird. It just doesn't make sense if they're not gangsters. This is just my own bias against disarmed populations, tho.

& we see he has very poor fire control skills.

#monsterdon #communion

I love how Tubi just insta-cuts to the ad, so we have a scene in ...

2026-04-20T01:37:31Z

In reply to nevent1q…scv9
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I love how Tubi just insta-cuts to the ad, so we have a scene in the cabin, then
"It's like, everything's an app nowadays" & I'm confused about how he has an app in 1989? ALIENS.

So are the dwarfs in black robes servants to the greys?

He's got an implant! Hard evidence, Scully! We just gotta run his head thru an NFC scanner.

#monsterdon #communion

Anne: "You're frightened of a Halloween mask?" ...

2026-04-20T01:29:22Z

In reply to nevent1q…aqvs
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Anne: "You're frightened of a Halloween mask?"
Walken: "What is there an echo, yes."

Are grown people, ostensibly horror writers, not allowed to be scared? Is she just bitchy because he embarassed her? OH NO SOCIAL FAUX PAS.

Hey, dude, there are drugs that treat depression. It's not always aliens.

♫ dance dance wherever you may be ♫
Is that allowed? Isn't dancing a sin?

#monsterdon #communion

OK, first contact is pretty good but simple. Just dumb lights, ...

2026-04-20T01:18:48Z

In reply to nevent1q…g9sd
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OK, first contact is pretty good but simple. Just dumb lights, & one weird little guy around the doorjam.

… ah, this "Indian hunting song" is kinda racist. I mean, it's Bork Bork Bork.

IT WASN'T A DREAM! IT WASN'T THE MOON! But we like tha moon.

Ruins a weekend trip for some bad dreams. Dramatic much?

#monsterdon #communion

"We got us a goddamned mansion!" —Tucker & Dale. ...

2026-04-20T01:12:39Z

In reply to nevent1q…m9f5
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"We got us a goddamned mansion!" —Tucker & Dale.

Walken is literally on drugs at all times. Normal people do not behave like him.

Andreas asks the important question: "Ghosts of the wolves that used to be here?" Yes.

Aliens like to push alarm code buttons, it seems.

I kinda dig the art deco arrows clock. More weird art, please.

#monsterdon #communion

All right, Communion time. I've read the book long ago, ...

2026-04-20T01:02:57Z

All right, Communion time. I've read the book long ago, it's kind of a mess of other abduction stories, who knows if Strieber was serious. Hadn't seen the movie, watching on Tubi.

Christopher "I'm Walken Here!"
ANDREAS KATSULAS! G'KAR HISSELF!
ERIC CLAPTON!

WORDSTAR! He's cooking.

#monsterdon #communion

I have complaints about his lack of useful work this millennium, ...

2026-04-16T08:36:38Z

In reply to nevent1q…tkc5
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I have complaints about his lack of useful work this millennium, but Chris Crawford's "De Re Atari" was an *amazing* work in the '80s. It advocates a "tunnel thru rock" design theory, where there is no choice but moving forward to success. A good program isn't "maybe you can just wander around & fiddle with things", instead all the standard tasks are addressed & solved consistently.

Consider ed, the standard text editor. It has two configuration ...

2026-04-16T08:32:04Z

In reply to nevent1q…ka5t
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Consider ed, the standard text editor. It has two configuration options, p to set prompt (pure vanity), H to toggle "helpful" error messages (in the implausible case you don't know what you did wrong). It's as close to perfect as any interactive program has ever been.

emacs doesn't know what it is, it's a bad editor wrapped in an interpreter that doesn't support standard OS features. It fails the secretaries & the programmers who would be better served with ed & CL.

Yes in general. In particular I'm mad at irssi.

2026-04-16T08:08:31Z

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Yes in general. In particular I'm mad at irssi.

An ideal program has no settings. It does the one task it's ...

2026-04-16T06:12:04Z

An ideal program has no settings. It does the one task it's supposed to do, nothing more or less.

Every setting is a compromise, you SHOULD be composing several programs to get a result, instead you're jamming them together in one box.

A config file is an admission of defeat.

A *LANGUAGE* means you have failed utterly as a programmer.

"A [program] has integrity, just as a man and just as seldom! It must be true to its own idea, have its own form, and serve its own purpose!"
—Howard Roark

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2026-04-04T23:25:58Z

#coffee

Surprisingly good article in TIME about BASIC: ...

2026-03-29T09:13:58Z

Surprisingly good article in TIME about BASIC:
https://time.com/69316/basic/
#basic #retrocomputing

Look at these NERDS!

But it's simply not true. Linux kernel's accepting slop ...

2026-03-24T18:32:36Z

In reply to nevent1q…7dqy
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But it's simply not true. Linux kernel's accepting slop & rust. Wayland is still & likely forever to be worse than X11 (at the job to be done: building & running applications, sometimes remotely). Systemd is slop & spyware now. Even aside from Linux's traditional incompetences, it's worse than a year ago.

Like, maybe BSD is getting better, tho I have Complaints but much less so. Or Haiku. Slow to the point of stasis.

Also the "holy" Anglican Church which only exists so a ...

2026-03-23T16:01:53Z

In reply to nevent1q…8fmk
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Also the "holy" Anglican Church which only exists so a "king" could get a divorce.

Great word for pneumatic tube & machine systems, which are ...

2026-03-11T23:31:19Z

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Great word for pneumatic tube & machine systems, which are all over in old SF (and Futurama).

A lot of pulp crime & SF stories also used it for pulchritudinous, which could be a lot worse if they'd been more direct? I wouldn't use it for that this century, but I try to only judge things by the time they were written.

I really like how EVERY SINGLE DAY brings fresh new Hells for me ...

2026-03-07T21:45:19Z

I really like how EVERY SINGLE DAY brings fresh new Hells for me to deal with. None of that stale torment nexus, this is the primo new stuff, fresh from the slop factory. Fresh from Project 2025. From Russia with, uh, "love".

Well fucking shit motherfuckers. Vim & Neovim are both ...

2026-03-07T21:10:14Z

Well fucking shit motherfuckers. Vim & Neovim are both contaminated with LLM slop.

I mean, I can just use ed. Or roll back Vim to an old version and never let it update? Fuck.

I do have a new Mac coming, so I could just commit to BBEdit, tho that's less optimal for code editor. Assuming siegel hasn't done something stupid?

Ha ha I could finally switch to emacs with vile binds and then NOTHING will work.

Fucking fuck darkest fucking timeline.
https://hachyderm.io/@AndrewRadev/116175986749599825
#vim #butlerianJihad

Well, this is why I don't work for anyone, and just fart ...

2026-03-03T23:17:17Z

In reply to nevent1q…wcvu
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Well, this is why I don't work for anyone, and just fart around. Nobody can demand my KPI or burndown charts or whatever now. So when I need code a second time, I put it in a library.

For a while, the write-less-code people were winning, we had "4GL" and nice scripting languages over rigorous libraries.

That's called a library. Like this place that burned, ...

2026-03-03T19:27:23Z

In reply to nevent1q…j7zt
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That's called a library. Like this place that burned, Alexandria?

You debug the code that does stuff, and give it a name, and then it's easy to call from other code. LIBRARIES ARE MAGIC!
#software #programming #library #itsInABook #ButlerianJihad

Alas, Dan Simmons, called away to the time war. Hyperion cantos, ...

2026-02-27T20:26:51Z

Alas, Dan Simmons, called away to the time war. Hyperion cantos, Summer of Night, Song of Kali (it's a horror story, not a travelogue), The Terror (I haven't seen the series, but I can guess it's 10% as cruel as the book), read them all. I bounced on Ilium, but that was probably just me at that time, I know some like it a lot.

https://arstechnica.com/culture/2026/02/hyperion-author-dan-simmons-dies-from-stroke-at-77/
#scienceFiction #horror #bookstodon

Substitute your native language for "English" there (this ...

2026-02-22T08:47:09Z

In reply to nevent1q…xs6x
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Substitute your native language for "English" there (this being a post in English, I tend to assume either native or hard-won skill in that language), tho my least bad non-English language training started in grade school & was on Sesame Street before that.

And yeah, lifelong practice at any language is valid. I just don't think outsourcing that to a person or machine is particularly good for you.

> One knock-on of this is that now we have these odd artifacts ...

2026-02-22T07:27:25Z

> One knock-on of this is that now we have these odd artifacts that are called models which are demonic soul shards that broke off from when the wealthy stole everything in the world. If you get one of these demonic soul shards, your personal computer can run a spell checker using it.
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https://screwlisp.small-web.org/fundamental/demonic-soul-shards-and-winogradian-knowledge-crystal-software-artifacts/

The alternative, which I practice, was passing grade school English so I can spell & grammar good. Obvs not the done thing anymore.

Back when these were good times: ...

2026-02-20T00:46:12Z

Back when these were good times:
https://opendirectories.tumblr.com/post/809001595572486145

Job email, for a company I would rather burn down than work for: ...

2026-02-18T09:41:15Z

Job email, for a company I would rather burn down than work for:
> Note: Hacker Rank test report is mandatory. <

What.

> The future is human plus AI.
We’ve entered a new era of software development where human and AI build together. This changes the skills you need as a developer, and the way companies engage, hire, and upskill technical talent. In short, this changes everything.
<

WTF!

It literally tells you what to type?

#butlerianJihad

https://foone.github.io/xkcd2501-generator/ #scheme ...

2026-02-18T09:14:28Z

https://foone.github.io/xkcd2501-generator/
#scheme

It all depends on how much you want to implement. Emacs is a ...

2026-02-15T05:21:20Z

In reply to nevent1q…2u60
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It all depends on how much you want to implement.

Emacs is a *gigantic* tower of stuff added for specific environments, many of which are now extinct, over 40-some years. You can think a lot smaller (Unix & Scheme philosophy) and get somewhere faster.

If you want the giant tower, yeah, you're committing to a lot.

Hitler aspired to higher class, jealous of the aristocracy, and ...

2026-02-02T16:19:47Z

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Hitler aspired to higher class, jealous of the aristocracy, and hired qualified people to make art. Hugo Boss, Albert Speer, and Leni Riefenstahl were *excellent* at their craft, just moral voids.

But Trump's a slumlord who maybe aspires to 3rd-world dictator shit, like Saddam Hussein, so gilt and awards and idiots wearing MAGA hats are all he can even imagine. No class.

Just read the breathless hype for tech that would make your ...

2026-01-30T00:23:39Z

In reply to nevent1q…uelj
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Just read the breathless hype for tech that would make your entire desktop ALIVE with the World Wide Web!
https://archive.org/details/eu_Wired-1997-03_OCR/mode/2up

(and it coulda worked. But ad money said no.)

Browsers were supposed to become "Agents", in the Push ...

2026-01-29T22:53:43Z

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Browsers were supposed to become "Agents", in the Push Software/WIRED magazine promoted sense, going out to get info for you.

But then Google paid everyone to kill their RSS, page editing, and other integrations, and they're just dumb pipes to servers run by Google now.

I'm going with C, because I don't think Object.assign ...

2026-01-29T13:51:24Z

In reply to nevent1q…myv8
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I'm going with C, because I don't think Object.assign works there. It might after object creation.

<test>
Yes, that's correct.

class syntax is cute but it's very misleading, only classic function, prototype syntax is "true".

Oh nice all the big tech "leaders" have memo-leaked to ...

2026-01-28T15:37:58Z

Oh nice all the big tech "leaders" have memo-leaked to say "the situation" or "events" are "distressing" or "sad" and need "deescalation", but they love "strong" Presidents with so many trophies:

https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/28/anthropic-and-openai-ceos-condemn-ice-violence-praise-trump/

None of them say the names out loud:

ICE executed Good and Pretti, in cold blood. Everyone involved in their chain of command, to the top, should be tried for murder and hung like Gestapo.

There's a list of dramatic "44 D&D Rules" from a ...

2026-01-27T21:57:25Z

There's a list of dramatic "44 D&D Rules" from a GM who was being harassed by a shitty player.
https://www.rpgpub.com/threads/44-rules-of-d-d.10839/
Read/commented by Bob:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXg5Hc6KFpw

And, like, this guy is a hero, even starting at rule 1.

When I run RoleMaster, I'm generous with time initially, but I expect players to learn. I've timed it, with a competent group a dozen-ish sessions in, a round's actions take 45-60 seconds. IN RM. In baby-mode games like D&D, a round should be <15 seconds.
#ttrpg #dnd #osr

If there's anyone left who can write, future historians are ...

2026-01-24T22:59:01Z

If there's anyone left who can write, future historians are going to write that the 21st Century people* were the dumbest motherfuckers who ever fucked their mothers for want of a hole in the ground. We made Idiocracy look optimistic in just 20 years!

I literally can't think of anyone who fucked up this hard. Aztecs are the closest, worshipping Cortez as a god and letting him destroy their civilization. But some people survived that!

* (yes, your group, too.)
#history

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2026-01-23T23:43:54Z

#coffee

> it was a stroke of genius to give James T Kirk a bitchy flip ...

2026-01-22T21:21:31Z

> it was a stroke of genius to give James T Kirk a bitchy flip phone in the 60's, truly amazing to watch him slam it shut like a pissed off socialite girl in 2000's teen shows
<
https://www.tumblr.com/google-searchhistory-official/806395065471729664
#startrek

Wow, this is an incredible cover to Citizen of the Galaxy. ...

2026-01-21T05:50:01Z

Wow, this is an incredible cover to Citizen of the Galaxy. Compare to the Ace one I almost certainly read:

https://www.tumblr.com/retro-scifi-and-fantasy-art/805638235528314880/cover-artist-darrell-k-sweet-american
#scienceFiction #heinlein #bookstodon

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2026-01-20T00:42:35Z

https://www.tumblr.com/grayrazor/806191037905256448

<avoiding paperwork and lawyer shit until Monday, so I may as ...

2026-01-17T15:36:41Z

<avoiding paperwork and lawyer shit until Monday, so I may as well focus hard on dumb old games and Sumo>

Funniest bout yesterday. Kazunofuji v Dewanojo:

GODDAMN, Dew.
#sumo

Good news, everyone! If you can abduct someone from Mar-a-Lago, ...

2026-01-03T11:46:31Z

Good news, everyone! If you can abduct someone from Mar-a-Lago, you can keep them!

After coffee, I had a "CELCIUS" energy drink. Just 270mg ...

2025-12-29T06:02:19Z

After coffee, I had a "CELCIUS" energy drink. Just 270mg caffeine. Says "*WARNING: DO NOT EXCEED (1) SERVING PER DAY".

Pfft. I could have a second. Once time starts moving again.
#coffee

10 ?"HO HO HO! "; 20 GOTO 10 #xmas ...

2025-12-25T08:06:44Z

10 ?"HO HO HO! ";
20 GOTO 10
#xmas

I don't trust any editor written after 1990, and preferably ...

2025-12-19T22:16:37Z

In reply to nevent1q…472m
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I don't trust any editor written after 1990, and preferably 1970.

I prefer Gryphon, but ydy. ...

2025-12-19T06:05:19Z

I prefer Gryphon, but ydy.

https://evilwizard.tumblr.com/post/803031736615337984

#gryphon #griffin #regexp

Altho, Apple has a very good point that bash should be dead dead ...

2025-12-15T11:40:19Z

In reply to nevent1q…4qqj
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Altho, Apple has a very good point that bash should be dead dead dead, use zsh or a dead badger or literally anything except bash post Shellshock.

dash should work safely on anything from MacOS, BSD, Linux in the last 25 years, but may be difficult to clean out the bash-isms in your scripts, I know I had to start fresh with zsh.

Oh, he admitted to it, and it was popular (well, sorta; ...

2025-12-11T11:32:08Z

In reply to nevent1q…gn3v
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Oh, he admitted to it, and it was popular (well, sorta; translations beyond OG Russian, Czech, & French were hard to get for a while) in socialist circles. Orwell accused Aldous Huxley of also copying bits from him, but Huxley denied it; I *kinda* don't believe him, BNW is very much more a capitalist dystopia than socialist.

All of them have bits from earlier utopian/dystopian books, but Zamyatin put it all together in one machine state.

I much prefer Yevgeny Zamyatin's "We", which Orwell ...

2025-12-11T10:54:15Z

In reply to nevent1q…aq5r
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I much prefer Yevgeny Zamyatin's "We", which Orwell at least openly ripped off. Zamyatin was "allowed" by Stalin to leave instead of going into a gulag for writing it, but it destroyed him.

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/yevgeny-zamyatin/we/gregory-zilboorg

The book is fucking horrific, and D's so cheerful most of the time, right up until that's no longer possible or necessary.

He had glass walls in his apartments. We've put them in our phones & computers!

I go to search my blog for something. The search box isn't ...

2025-12-11T08:57:54Z

I go to search my blog for something. The search box isn't visible!

Go into admin, got updates. Do those. Check page, no search box.

Widgets, add, turns out fucking Jetpack's deteriorating "services" no longer include a working search box.

Finally find a regular Search box and put it back.

Now what the fuck was I going to search for?

Same way you do with cheese, war, or rumors, since they're ...

2025-12-09T02:50:23Z

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Same way you do with cheese, war, or rumors, since they're about the only words that still use the Old English monger (promoter/trafficker) suffix.

[@ramin_hal9001](https://fe.disroot.org/users/ramin_hal9001 ) ...

2025-12-07T14:56:24Z

[@ramin_hal9001](https://fe.disroot.org/users/ramin_hal9001 ) screwlisp (npub1fp0…54p5) Re LOGO, one of the neat things is that it's just LISP (not CL) with default function arity: + 2 3 is (+ 2 3) but you can also do [+ 2 3 4]. And then it has a weird string/list library.

There's a fun but weird Scheme book, Simply Scheme, which rebuilds the LOGO strings/lists in Scheme, then teaches with those.

And I used the same string/list thing in my Aspic mini-language, tho it's a little more traditional LISP (but again, not CL).
#logo #lisp #scheme

See you at the arcade. #arcade #80s #genx ...

2025-12-05T07:53:23Z

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See you at the arcade.
#arcade #80s #genx

Man I could go for an Orange Julius & hot dog right now. ...

2025-12-05T02:34:50Z

Man I could go for an Orange Julius & hot dog right now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUPHuka1HzU
#genx

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2025-12-03T03:20:32Z

#coffee

♫ Red hot mama, velvet charmer Time's come to pay your dues ...

2025-12-02T10:55:44Z

♫ Red hot mama, velvet charmer
Time's come to pay your dues
Now you're messin' with a son of a bitch ♫
https://music.apple.com/us/album/hair-of-the-dog/1440632331?i=1440632332
#music

I need to do more sysadmin shit. Probably do that in a few hours. ...

2025-12-02T02:00:09Z

I need to do more sysadmin shit. Probably do that in a few hours.

But I also really do need a nicer scripting thing. I don't want to write front-end scripts, like game spells or mob AI, in JS.

I'm considering reviving my old Aspic Lisp-like. Original's Obj-C (mostly C), this'd be JS. It has a nice file of unit tests in itself.

#decemberAdventure

You know what doubles every 6 months? Cancer.

2025-11-21T22:01:07Z

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You know what doubles every 6 months? Cancer.

It's only wrong when it's done to white people. ...

2025-11-17T10:42:38Z

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It's only wrong when it's done to white people.
https://apnews.com/article/poland-germany-world-war-nazis-property-families-04e19cfafb7d336d01fe5d5f26c5687a

Nice d12 table. ...

2025-11-13T11:21:55Z

Nice d12 table.

https://thatsbelievable.com/post/800064586796646400
#ttrpg

As previously noted about plan9: #plan9 ...

2025-11-04T18:50:02Z

As previously noted about plan9:
#plan9

The fate of all old proprietary software: ...

2025-10-30T07:20:28Z

The fate of all old proprietary software:
https://tidbits.com/2025/10/25/nisus-writer-schrodingers-word-processor/

The fate of old open-source software is it gets rewritten by idiot children armed with LLMs to have 1/10 the functionality and 10x the bugs, every 5 years.

So, pick your failure mode.

"Maybe the aliens will be our friends!" <ray gun> ...

2025-10-19T12:38:15Z

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"Maybe the aliens will be our friends!"
<ray gun>

(not that the billionaires who launched that are our friends, either.)

Get you a girl who looks at you like at this Epson hardware: ...

2025-10-18T13:10:19Z

Get you a girl who looks at you like at this Epson hardware:

Also, SEGA "GOOD!" SC-3000, "Ganbatte!" "Become a sprite-function animator." "The Computer becomes sound."

https://archive.org/details/Io19837/page/n155/mode/2up
#sega #retrocomputing

There is piracy when you publish, I knew of Chinese & Russian ...

2025-10-06T21:09:33Z

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There is piracy when you publish, I knew of Chinese & Russian copies of some of my commercial games, dunno if it was just "warez" or getting around Great Firewall.

In dev, you do sometimes get knockoffs but not often. A text adventure is hard to write, easy to steal the text of, but why? There's no money in it, and it's so personal a work. Graphics can be "worth" copying, but that's mostly from big guys like Nintendo, Sony, or SquEnix.
#gamedev

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2025-10-03T13:20:06Z

https://9to5mac.com/2025/10/02/following-doj-pressure-apple-pulls-iceblock-from-the-app-store/

🖕 🍎

Timmy Apple would also have turned in Anne Frank because she was illegally blogging Gestapo locations.

#apple #iceblock

I often have to search similar text in several documents, so ...

2025-09-15T07:09:39Z

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I often have to search similar text in several documents, so it's useful. But when you want per-document search, there's no good solution.

KurtJMac is almost at the Far Lands: ...

2025-09-15T02:27:33Z

KurtJMac is almost at the Far Lands:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ChrWLgaekw

I've been watching Kurt walk mostly west, since early into the run. Was there for the first FLOBathon, still watch it sometimes.

#minecraft #farlands #flob

It's not incomprehensible. They released a packaged, ...

2025-08-30T04:52:59Z

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It's not incomprehensible. They released a packaged, obfuscated binary of a game. Mojang didn't want or intend anyone to mod it.

10+ years later, they made command blocks useful enough that you can pain-in-the-ass write something like a program, but they still don't want you to make mods.

This is one of the main reasons I switched over to Luanti ...

2025-08-30T04:17:23Z

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This is one of the main reasons I switched over to Luanti (Minetest). Everything, *everything*, is scripted. In Lua, but it's just text files in a dir. Hack on anything you want, reload. No compile or IDE.

I want to vent about a thing, but if I do I know my mentions will ...

2025-08-21T09:52:13Z

I want to vent about a thing, but if I do I know my mentions will be full of reply-guy shit and I'll have to block 17.3% of fedi. Even if I make a big Craig Maloney memorial disclaimer, maybe especially then.

Maybe I should find one-a those anonymized toot things.

I dig the title sketch, that is incredible work. MAD Magazine ...

2025-08-18T01:02:45Z

I dig the title sketch, that is incredible work. MAD Magazine style. Prob go back and rewatch that a bit more.
#monsterdon

Right. I don't care if they do. It's no skin off my nose. ...

2025-08-06T12:22:14Z

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Right. I don't care if they do. It's no skin off my nose. I'll keep releasing the real thing, on my ridiculous little Cyberhole, and if people figure that out they can get it for free.

Gmail is, of course, closed source, but… it's built on a ton of GPL software. There's probably not a line in it that's not lawsuit-worthy, but nobody's going to do that. You'd have to break into G, get the source, then find a lawyer, then another when he inexplicably blows up, and another…

If, tomorrow, Microsoft copies TinyBasicWeb, I'd be annoyed ...

2025-08-06T12:14:25Z

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If, tomorrow, Microsoft copies TinyBasicWeb, I'd be annoyed because there's MS next to my stuff, but I still have my code, and so do you, and so does everyone else. It's BSD because it's a *gift*, it's a cool thing I made, not because I will RULE THE WORLD with a Tiny BASIC that can just barely play Hurkle.

I don't see any reason to be so selfish. If I'm releasing ...

2025-08-06T11:19:20Z

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I don't see any reason to be so selfish. If I'm releasing something, I want people to use it, not go "well, now I'm stuck".

This is so obvious it's redundant to even have to say: CORPOS DO NOT CARE about your license. If they want to steal your stuff, they will. They just won't tell you. They'll edit the license. Or use LLM to "vibe code" it into their thing. In the incredibly unlikely case you even know, and sue, they'll crush you before reaching court.

Readline being under GPL doesn't stop some giant predator, it ...

2025-08-06T10:22:44Z

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Readline being under GPL doesn't stop some giant predator, it just annoys the little guy who wants text history without having to rewrite a giant awful curses thing. RMS is the predator here (as in other things).

And it's not new that GPL is useless, the whole v2/v3 thing was because Tivo realized they didn't have to ship their source if you can't compile & run it.

Corpos already steal copyrighted text & code with LLMs, they ...

2025-08-06T09:44:13Z

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Corpos already steal copyrighted text & code with LLMs, they don't care about the license at all.

BSD isn't to protect my code from ever being used by a corpo, which I know can't be stopped. It's to make it convenient for other people to use. I care about the teams of ONE or TWO who want something.

I can't use GPL shit, unless I make everything GPL. Or AGPL. Or v2 or v3. Or LGPL. Can I link to the proprietary library I need? NOPE.
#bsdlicense #bsd #mit #mitlicense #gpl

I would 100% abandon my life to join a band of travelling ...

2025-07-27T22:19:00Z

I would 100% abandon my life to join a band of travelling librarians. Much less scary than clowns.

https://myjetpack.tumblr.com/post/790223753807331328/my-cartoon-this-this-weeks-guardian-books

People who watched Maximum Overdrive, good job surviving the ...

2025-07-21T02:51:40Z

People who watched Maximum Overdrive, good job surviving the first Machine Apocalypse. You won't survive the second, and the soundtrack won't be as awesome.

I really love this film, it's just every obsession of King's in one place, even more than Tommyknockers (which is a much worse book & film). Sober King is probably a lot healthier but he's less fun.

#monsterdon #MaximumOverdrive

Web dev protip: console.log("foo: ", p); displays p in ...

2025-07-17T08:09:17Z

Web dev protip:
console.log("foo: ", p);
displays p in console as a live object. If it updates, every console entry of it updates.

console.log("foo: "+JSON.stringify(p) );
dumps the current state to console so you can figure out what changed over time.

In related news, my little BASIC parser now parses at least a couple tokens correctly (the colon lines are parsed tokens)

#webdev #protip #javascript

♫ And these children that you spit on As they try to change ...

2025-07-08T00:42:06Z

♫ And these children that you spit on
As they try to change their worlds
Are immune to your consultations
They're quite aware of what they're going through ♫
https://music.apple.com/us/song/changes/1039798010
#music

I was not shopping for Flavor Variety Man ...

2025-07-07T12:35:36Z

I was not shopping for
Flavor Variety Man

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2025-07-01T22:49:50Z

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https://loveboatinsanity.tumblr.com/post/787892498070749184/bih-jimmy-swaggart

Try not to live your life so that more people laugh when you die, ...

2025-07-01T21:41:16Z

Try not to live your life so that more people laugh when you die, than not.

0 days since I had to tap the sign: Do not humanize or sympathize ...

2025-07-01T21:28:47Z

0 days since I had to tap the sign:
Do not humanize or sympathize with management.