millfork | Millfork: a middle-level programming language targeting 6502- and Z80-based microcomputers and home consoles
"a middle-level programming language for 8-bit microprocessors" focused on "performance, compactness, simplicity and readability"
Old Organizers Collection
"This is the biggest collection of monochrome electronic organizers, text and graphic PDA's, older brothers of nowadays multimedia handheld devices in the WORLD." an invaluable resource tbh
Chris Covell's Epoch Game Pocket Computer page
"a handheld game system released by large Japanese toy manufacturer Epoch in 1984/85. For its time, it was quite advanced as far as videogames go, sporting a 75x64 pixel B&W dot-matrix display, interchangeable game cartridges, a circular D-pad, and six action/selection buttons." it's a cutie!
The typographic irregular - by Paul Soulellis
"Can the refusal to deliver perfect legibility be an act of care, a worldview, an intentional practice, even? Deviant design—hand-made letterforms, odd spacing, crowded pages, encoded messages, mimicry, unpredictability—exposes labor and reveals the messiness of political life and work in the collective. Some kind of evidence of human life is made real there in the disruption of the perfect read, in the slowed-down act of reading variant bodies of design that makes felt the work of shaping language."
Wikifunctions
"Wikifunctions is a Wikimedia project for everyone to collaboratively create and maintain a library of code functions to support the Wikimedia projects and beyond.... We are currently primarily focused on functions related to Wikidata Lexemes. The Lexicographical data from Wikidata and functions to process it are essential for the goal of an Abstract Wikipedia." lots of interesting implementations of nlproc-related stuff!
Welcome to the Gameboy Emulator Development Guide! | GBEDG
incomplete but has some very thorough documentation
Engine Lines: Killing by Numbers - by atomless - *less
"[B]eyond the parsing of a vast deluge of data and the instant generation of thousands of target predictions, it is the impunity from responsibility garnered from this deceptive temporal displacement of human agency —and the clear consciences this affords— that is perhaps the key value proposition for the current users of the system. Why unnecessarily burden the psyche of a valuable soldier —already grieving their own losses— if blood on hands and atrocities on consciences can be avoided by having the machines automate away the inconvenient trauma of cold-blooded mass-murder (or at least the perceived responsibility for it)?"
So Shines A Good Deed In A Weary World
"... it's hard to credit the conservative movement with ignorance. If they were ignorant they'd sometimes accidentally choose less evil over more evil, but no. No matter where you set them, no matter how many times you spin them around, their moral compasses point with unerring certainty toward maximum atrocity and cruelty, and their gleeful celebration of it suggests that this isn't about hard-nosed pragmatism, but rather a genuine desire for evil things to happen."
umbrella/packages/text-analysis at develop · thi-ng/umbrella
nice little text analysis library for javascript
The rise of Whatever / fuzzy notepad
"If you’re some assclown like Sam Altman, whose graph-go-up depends on convincing you to replace all your employees with ChatGPT, you have to destroy that idea. It is the greatest threat to your business model. You have to destroy the idea that things are worth doing."
live laugh blog | my official list of post-glitch.com hosting options
praise for digital ocean and val.town
Alternative Layout System
"This research rethinks paragraph formatting, inspired by techniques from Hebrew and Arabic manuscripts to challenge conventional layouts" with downloadable scripts for indesign. very cool
building ramps to extend corgispace
i love that v's example of "tools which make expensive things cheaper" is a swiss roll production line. yes please
Threaded code – muforth
"Threaded code is an extraordinarily simple and elegant way to implement language interpreters. Compared to bytecoded interpreters it is quite fast, and compilers for it are essentially trivial... Because it creates a system entirely composed of uniform pieces, extensibility of the system by users is almost unlimited, and building generic tools is dramatically simplified!"
Personal and physical security for founders, operators, and investors - a16z crypto
or you could just. you know. not do anything related to crypto
The Seven Part Pact: the First Actual GM-Full Game - Old Men Running The World
"One of my ongoing theories is games are most magical when they are beyond your fingertips of understanding. When you grasp the machinery, you gain mastery… but the uncertainty of how things will end up is the tension. ... The Seven Part Pact is constructed to be such a complicated machine that it’s always unreal. Everyone is a mystery. They’re playing wizards, and to you – across the table – it may as well be magic."
The role of the University is to resist AI
"Resistance is necessary to preserve the role of higher education in developing a tolerant society. For the alternative, we only have to look at the resonances between right wing narratives and the ambitions of the tech broligarchy, resonances that are antiworker, antidemocratic, committed to epochal transformation, resentful and supremacist." (helpful reading of Illich's "Tools for conviviality")
The Era Of The Business Idiot
"Mark Zuckerberg wants us to have fake friends, Sam Altman wants us to have fake colleagues, and an increasingly loud group of executives salivate at the idea of replacing us with a fake version of us that will make a shittier version of what we make for a customer that said executive doesn’t fucking care about. "
Bad Times for College Graduates - Paul Krugman
"Graduating into a bad labor market can make you miss a step on the job ladder, depressing your earnings for a decade or more. It increases your chances of being in poor health well into middle age. It even reduces your chances of having a successful marriage."
AI copyediting: how Paperpal butchered my paper on AI-generated writing – Jill Walker Rettberg
"The irony here is that the paper that Paperpal butchered is about how generative AI normalises and homogenises our writing. Which is exactly what Paperpal was doing to my writing."