Chris Rabl 2021-02-22 00:33:07 Not sure if anyone has come across http://www.fudco.com/chip/lessons.html before, but I found it quite fascinating! It was one of the first large-scale, commercial, multi-user online environments (a concept that seems to be growing in popularity these days...). The original authors have a website called http://habitatchronicles.com that gives some great insights into the development of the technology, and the many personal stories that happened along the way. The thing that struck me the most was how rich and wide-ranging this chronicle is: I wish more projects had an ever-evolving historical narrative to go with them! Does anyone know of any (perhaps more contemporary) versions of this kind of chronicle? "Dealers of Lightning" (XEROX Parc), "Dreaming in Code" (OSAF), and others come to mind.
nicolas decoster 2021-02-22 15:59:16 Here is an interesting article by Silvio Lorusso about the "User Condition". Lots of interesting FoC classical references (Kay, Victor, Illich...). It might interest some people here too.
One excerpt I like: "Late French philosopher BERNARD STIEGLER focused on the notion of proletarianization: according to him, a proletarian is not just robbed of the form and the products of their labor, but especially of their know-how."
https://theusercondition.computer/
Christopher Galtenberg 2021-02-22 17:49:25 Ivan Reese 2021-02-25 01:32:28 [February 4th, 2021 6:29 PM] ivanreese: On Feb 24th at 7pm EST, there'll be a live art performance by Emma Rae Bruml Norton reflecting on the work of Doug Engelbart, titled The Dada of All Demos. I watched Emma's <https://doodybrains.github.io/the-mouse-holds-us/|last performance> (which was, in my impression, about the mouse as an output device, so to speak) and found it fascinating, so I'm really looking forward to this one.
For an early taste, take a look at Emma's site for the event: https://complicatingthecomputermouse.net
Here's an excerpt of the description:
> Channeling Engelbart’s energy, The Dada of All Demos will take <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY|The Mother of All Demos> as its departure. Participants will engage in a collective scrolling performance lecture performed by Emma Rae Bruml Norton. The performance will seek to re-orient us to something which already exists in the world, something which we always already have a relationship to: the computer mouse.
The event is free, and you can register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-dada-of-all-demos-tickets-137830164733
Feb 24th, 7pm EST!
Xavier 2021-02-25 09:38:37 Quick question: I'm thinking of joining Mastodon. Anyone here knows an instance relating to FoC, with a mix of techy and artsy vibes? I'm thinking of something like Merveilles, for example
Ray Imber 2021-02-27 06:00:38 I came across this mind blowing piece of software engineering today:
https://justine.lol/ape.html
I found this quote to be particularly interesting:
One of the reasons why I love working with a lot of these old unsexy technologies, is that> I want any software work I'm involved in to stand the test of time with minimal toil.> Similar to how the Super Mario Bros ROM has managed to survive all these years without needing a GitHub issue tracker.
I believe the best chance we have of doing that, is by gluing together the binary interfaces that've already achieved a decades-long consensus, and ignoring the APIs.> (emphasis mine)
I can't help but see some overlap with some of the work that Kartik Agaram has done (especially his work on removing reliance on an Operating System).
Christopher Galtenberg 2021-02-28 01:24:42 🐦 Emil Stenström: Redbean looks amazing! It’s a multi platform binary that you can add stuff to as if it was a zip file. It is a zip file. But it’s also a crazy fast web server that can serve millions of requests against the contents of the zip file. Crazy cool engineering! https://justine.lol/redbean/index.html
Andrew Carr 2021-02-27 15:24:49 🐦 Talia Ringer: The year is 2030. You're a software engineer at a company, writing tests for your program.
Andrew F 2021-02-28 03:50:02 This speaker's concept of symmetry as applied to language design is a powerful one, and will probably stay near the top of my mental toolbox. Ze also uses this to drive some interesting ideas about how to build nested sublanguages of increasing power (something I'm especially interested in) by progressively breaking said symmetries. Apparently there's some influence from E as well. https://youtu.be/jm5qWioS9S0
