Akin to crontab -e.

Edsger Dijkstra on how word processors actually make writing slower.

The irony of the situation is, however, that, as a commercial product, the word processor was so successful because, in actual fact, its usage costs time; as a result, it makes its user even more busy and feeling even better. It is the ideal tool for those that can confuse activity with work.

The experiments have been taken with people that were both experienced writers in longhand and experienced users of word processors. The outcome was, firstly, that the linguistic quality of the mechanically produced letters was not noticeably lower than that of the hand-written ones, and, secondly, that they had taken 50% more time to be written.

For being such a seemingly ordinary vehicle, the wheelbarrow has a surprisingly exciting history.

A pleasure to drive, Low-tech Magazine’s handcart demonstrates the advantages of slow, human-powered transportation.

a vehicle for wandering and roaming, and for connecting to other people.

I want a handcart.

Another page on Screenless Office. Here's Twitter interface:

Website of the creator of Screenless Office. Looks like a book. Stylish!

The most interesting people I know aren't trying to be interesting.

Thank God.

They're saying what they actually think and wearing what they actually like, pursuing hobbies that genuinely fascinate them, regardless of whether those hobbies are cool.

Цифровой сад Агнессы.

via https://www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/goat-towers-youre-welcome

GESS is a Soviet / Russian standard for stenography (fast handwriting.) I want to use it for both Russian and English. And I dare say it works!

Instead of doom-scrolling through my phone in the morning, I built an alternative with a Raspberry Pi, a dot matrix printer, and some PHP.

I read it a couple years ago. Lion describes his notekeeping approach in great detail. What kind of paper to use, what kind of pen to use (the one that has many colours; each colour has an assigned meaning), what binders to use. For a new paper enthusiast, some insight can be found here

Note that this book is old, and the author doesn't follow these techniques anymore (as far as I understood from talking through video calls). Btw Lion's notion of “hooks” (not described in this book) was one of the things that made me do Betula.

WSL9x runs a modern Linux kernel (6.19 at time of writing) cooperatively inside the Windows 9x kernel, enabling users to take advantage of the full suite of capabilities of both operating systems at the same time, including paging, memory protection, and pre-emptive scheduling. Run all your favourite applications side by side - no rebooting required!

Most of us will experience anxiety at some point, sometimes triggered by a stressful moment, other times as a chronic condition. By taking thoughtful, intentional steps, we can ensure our designs at the most reduce stress, and the very least, do not contribute to or amplify it further.

The famous and historic Truchet tiles. Contribute to jeffbarr/TruchetTilings development by creating an account on GitHub.

Hacking around with Truchet tiles to display images.

A critique of the classic layered model.

Author says that this is better:

I'm not convinced.

The Color Theory Behind Industrial Seafoam Green

Pretty pictures! Reminds of Merveilles' seafoam green and of Soviet half-wall-tall colouring. Due to the latter, this colour also bears additional doomer connotations.

I wonder if this colour could work well in computer UIs? Does it work the same on glowing screens?

The best OpenStreetMap editor for POIs and entrances.

2001 era long guide.

Requests Python library on health and fame in open-source.

Это стихотворение, которое я цитировал в школьном выпускном альбоме.

Ploum included the reply command in Offpunk, and that changed the way he approached the network. Awesome.

Осваивают фанцун.

General recommendations on how to sleep. All true in my experience, all not followed in my lifestyle.

Prahou's image gallery generator, compatible with subversive pics. Should I maybe join the network...

Ploum got an eink phone and stopped taking it for walks, and thus got his addiction in check.

Alex Schroeder compares Fediverse and Atmosphere server costs. Fediverse allows for cheap small instances, but big ones are expensive. Atmosphere can only have expensive ones. The level of expensive is similar.

Let’s go over a few demos using the new customizable <select> feature that may be wild, but also give us a great chance to learn new things in CSS.

Instead of using git as a database, what if you used a database as a git?

Painting: Wen Hui Tu ( Gathering of the Literaries ) by Zou Ji (Emperor Hui Zong of Song Dynasty)

1082-1135 A.D. Collection at the National Palace Museum, Taiwan

OpenStreetMap surveyor app

They develop the Sugar DE, a limited and focused DE meant to give children access to computing and knowledge. An honourable project. But what interests me the most is the design decisions. Gotta take a closer look.

via aartaka

Cool tool

Using parametric templates to draw Truchet tiles, then placing them randomly to create generative patterns.

Rob Pike's notes from 1989. Some of these recommendations are still found in modern Go recommendations.

If strcpy is not easily replaced with memcpy then the code is
fundamentally wrong. Either it’s not using strcpy correctly or it’s
doing something dumb and should be rewritten. Highlighting such problems
is part of what makes memcpy such an effective replacement.

In this paper, we first present an analysis and comparison of

the energy efficiency of 27 well-known software languages
from the popular software repository The Computer Lan-
guage Benchmarks Game. We are able to show which were the
most energy efficient software languages, execution types,
and paradigms across 10 different benchmark problems.

C wins in every regard. Other compiled languages perform very well too.

Was setting up something with scp, but then remembered about rsync's existence and found this little tutorial.

Modern-style text editor in terminal

Yet another critique on PIM and the art of collecting links. I'll keep a link to it here and make an archive.

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I know, I know. I should have started with the introduction. But doesn’t it introduce itself rather well? You can see for yourself that it’s ultimately concise, expressive and utterly alien to all the mainstream computer languages.

Collect data and analyse

Hugeping's IDEC echo and personal site.

IDEC server software by hugeping.

A thoughtful comparison of Christopher Alexander's ideas (the architect) with software engineering.

I have “A Pattern Language” in paper in my home library, with Flancian annotations! I guess I'll get to it after I finish Fowler's Patterns book.

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exampling my com

exampling my com

all alike.......

all alike.......

all alike.......