Doldrusidus is an open-ended, obscure simulation realized as a multiplayer game taking place in a small universe. At its core, the engine is a simulation of entities possessing a number of different components that represent their properties. One such property is the ability to emulate machine code assembled for the uxn fantasy architecture.

• https://desertslug.itch.io/doldrusidus

Varaboy is a Game Boy emulator written in uxntal for the Varvara system.

Transform ⇪CapsLock into a powerful modifier ✱ Hyper that miraculously increases your work productivity!

Bitters is an open-source text editor. It's heavily inspired by the Canon Cat computer: it builds on the Cat's novel ideas, and adds some of it's own to the mix!

Classless CSS themes

Интервью с одной из моих любимых групп.

COLTA.RU отправила «Кассиопее», состоящей из театрального звукорежиссера Александра Либерзона (музыка), актера Ильи Самохвалова-Черепко (голос и тексты) и снайпера стрелковой дивизии Сергея Соколова (гитара), вопросы письмом по электронной почте, а в ответ получила фотографии нескольких бумажных листков.

Мы всегда хотели работать в поп-формате, но наш поп-формат не совпадал с общепринятым, и клевали на него (почему-то) люди с различными отклонениями и изъянами во вкусе.

• https://indieweb.org/XRay

XRay is an open source API that returns structured data for a URL by parsing microformats and following other indieweb algorithms, and is part of the p3k suite of applications.

This might be of interest:

• https://xray.p3k.app/parse?url=https%3A%2F%2Flinks.bouncepaw.com&pretty=true

API description:

• https://github.com/aaronpk/XRay#api

SQL is not so good!

1 isn't much of a prime, nor of a number.

First found in an article with Perl code.

Not exactly sure what that is, but looks cool, like a newspaper.

An arpeggio keyboard. Reminds me of Octodon.

Implementation of Unicode for Uxn

CLI from Merveilles introduced me to it. I have also seen it before somewhere.

45M is a uxn-inspired virtual console with a 16x16 display and 256 bytes of memory.

There's also a manual:

• https://45m.m15o.net/manual.html

A description of a fantasy device.

The rock phone accepts various types of input: speech, morse code tap/hold, written characters, bluetooth keyboard, bluetooth headsets. The rock phone produces various types of output: speech, morse code beeps, bluetooth serial console, console avilable by wifi, remote screen available via wifi. The rock phone has a bone conduction speaker inside so you can place the rock phone on your temple or behind your ear to privately hear rock phone speech output/sounds, phone calls, music, or any other sound the rock phone might make.

The Screenless Office is a system for working with media and networks without using a pixel-based display. It is an artistic operating system. The office presents a radically alternative form of everyday human interaction with media. It is constructed using free/libre/open hard- and software components, especially for print, databases, web-scraping and tangible interaction. Currently, it exists as a working prototype with software "bureaus" which allow a user to read and navigate news, web sites and social media entirely with the use of various printers for output and a barcode scanner for input. While our existing software allows for interesting new ways of consuming media, we are currently working to expand the system to make it capable of publishing content and thereby, enabling a provocative possibility for active participation in contemporary social life.

They haven't really got anything to show, and the project seems to be abandoned. And using so much paper, I don't know, seems not so good. But cool concept! I want to learn more, but how?

To prove that this was indeed the mechanism responsible for the durability of the Roman concrete, the team produced samples of hot-mixed concrete that incorporated both ancient and modern formulations, deliberately cracked them, and then ran water through the cracks. Sure enough: Within two weeks the cracks had completely healed and the water could no longer flow. An identical chunk of concrete made without quicklime never healed, and the water just kept flowing through the sample.

I knew Roman concrete was cool, but not that cool!

scim is a bash script to simplify scanning from the command line.

hugeping рассказывает про Plan 9. Интересно!

A good overview of 4 memory management approaches. TL;DR: There is no panacea.

"A good test case for whether a license is free (for issues like this) is whether a disconnected group of people on a desert island could distribute the software among themselves. In the vim case, they cannot. (For example, if the vim maintainer flies over the island and drops down a message saying "you must hereby send me your changes", how are the people down below to comply?) The fact that the vim maintainer can send the request does not say anything about whether the people receiving it could reply."

The venerable Dialog utility (based on ncurses, and maintained by the same person for the past couple of decades) is one option: a small program that can handle a variety of common interactions like choosing a file to open, or entering dates, while looking good and being easy enough to use.

The utility is as at https://invisible-island.net/dialog/dialog.html.

Probably an allusion to Human Interface Guidelines by Apple.

I just rediscovered a question I wrote on Stack Exchange. I can’t remember much about the context, but the idea is to have an ordinary “web server” application accessed through http, but simply sending plain-text backwards and forwards to a command-line based client.

A notebook is a human's best friend. It's the only friend who will always stay neutral to your argument, whether it is controversial or not. It's the only friend who will capture all of your wild and rational thoughts and feelings and give nothing back. It's the only friend that will tell you the most amazing or depressing stories, in which your younger self are the main character. It's the only friend that will store all of your thoughts years after your death and tell your stories to those who read it.

Summarizing Edward Tufte's essay "The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint".

One of my most favorite technical blogs out there. The author has an excellent taste in everything. I've been following him for years.

Ещё по-русски есть: https://antonz.ru

Many cool colors

Cool system, though I do not understand it fully. I especially like the Gestku the author posts on the Fediverse.