A cute small wiki engine. I like the markup: it is Gemtext + HTML + Wikilinks.

NESFab is a new programming language for creating NES games. Designed with 8-bit limitations in mind, the language is more ergonomic to use than C, while also producing faster assembly code. It's easy to get started with, and has a useful set of libraries for making your first — or hundredth — NES game.

/kbin is an open source reddit-like content aggregator and microblogging platform for the fediverse.

Create and moderate communities, meet people with similar interests, and develop your passions.

however, after having access to all three for more than two months now, i've really struggled to find situations where having those phones (or some similar hardware with modern internals) was actually useful. i regularly found myself reaching for my smartphone after being tired of typing out a long message on the tiny hardware keys, my thumbs hurting from the amount of force i had to apply to press them. i typed slower (even though i was touch-typing), i had more typos, and the typing experience in general was just worse. not to mention that all of the 3 phones had very different keyboards with different key sizes, different actuation forces, and different layouts. they all sucked.

i think that trying to converge the laptop/desktop and the smartphone into one device is a bad idea. the two have very different use-cases, different ergonomics, and different security models. i think that the best way to go is to have a smartphone and a laptop, and use them both for what they're good at. i also think that more people should learn to write mobile apps, as most of my discussions on this topic have boiled down to "i want a linux phone because i can only write desktop apps", which is kinda sad in my opinion.

Say hello to our new logo and app icon. This is the story behind our new branding, which we designed to reflect the principles Obsidian is built on.

It looks like a primordial arrowhead from literal obsidian. There is also a fun color toy on the page.

Inspired by termits, we might develop a cool energy-effective cooling and heating system. Look at the pictures too.

The purpose of Emupedia is to serve as a nonprofit meta-resource, hub and community for those interested mainly in video game preservation which aims to digitally collect, archive and preserve games and software to make them available online accessible by a user-friendly UI that simulates several retro operating systems for educational purposes.

A lot of games emulated in browser

Convert email newsletters into Atom feeds.

A 1993 Internet Draft describing the first version of HTML.

I visit it from time to time. This is a special wiki. In 2020 — 2021 it was pretty active thanks to my introduction. This wiki is where I learned about Alex and Lion.

All Tk commands. I referenced it when I was making a program in Tk.

Тексты многих песен на официальном сайте одной из моих любимых групп.

2024-06-17: обновил адрес, они сменили домен, оказывается, а всё гадал, куда сайт делся

It took me a bit to figure this out, partly due to the fact of no really good explanation of it. So, I'm going to have a crack at it. Basically, I wanted to understand how keyboard matrices work. Specifically, I wanted to know why keyboard "ghosting" and "masking" happen, and how to prevent them.

All you need to know. That's a relic of the past century!

A static site, that claims to be a wiki. It is old and fun.

This feed fetcher was sending an If-Modified-Since HTTP header, but it had a rather striking value of 'Wed, 01 Jan 1800 00:00:00 GMT'. Naturally this doesn't match any Last-Modified value my feed has ever provided, and it wouldn't help if I used a time based comparison since all syndication feeds in the world have been changed since 1800.

Some people pull feeds way too often. Sometimes they do not get what they want.

The reason you joined the Internet. Forem provides open-source tools to help you host a thriving, focused, and adaptable community.

Forem is an open source platform for building modern, independent, and safe communities.

Initially, I did not want to save this article, but 4 months later I wanted to share it. I guess it only makes sense to save it here, for the next 4 months.

Ярослав проектировал редизайн Бетулы. Сегодня я хотел на него посмотреть ещё раз. Чтобы более не терять, сохраняю здесь.

Очевидно, что я со значительной частью пунктов не согласен. Но тут есть достойные мысли. Вы наверняка увидите или уже увидели некоторые моменты из статьи в обновлениях Бетулы.

We’ve finally got to the point in the software world where no big changes are possible. Every change breaks something, introduces backward incompatibilities and so on. More are more we are going to live in the world where software mutates gradually, advancing is small steps without much plan and intelligent design. Similarly to how organisms are dragged by natural selection, it is going to be propelled in unknown direction without asking us whether we like it or not.

The software industry is reaching the stage where it cannot be revolutionized heavily, it is to evolve like the living ones. It is not necessarily good.

There are more cool words in English, because there are more people in English and more history in English that come up with cool words. Slovak is less wordy in that sense.

Different parts of computers improve over time with different speed. For example, CPU is much faster than RAM, but it wasn't always like that. Because of that, and other cases like that, there are extra abstractions in the computer design.

Цены на продукты в России растут и увеличатся ещё более. А как там в Китае? Сегодня предлагаю сходить в китайский продуктовый магазин и посмотреть на уровень цен.

Search for the best state management solution for Humble UI

A deconstruction of some of the more interesting bits we found hiding in the WorldWideWeb source code

The very interesting part for me is the CSS predecessor:

Normal <P> 0 Helvetica 12.0   1
	90 90	14.0 3.0  0  0 14	0

HTML-based asset library and background on the WorldWideWeb NeXT browser

The first browser

Perhaps, funny

burn is an extremely simple diary program. You can only add new entries, or list all of them. No edits, no deletions, the history can’t be changed, and the time only moves forward. Make the best use of it.

Epoch, batch size, итерации - параметры для работы с большими объемами данных, когда нет возможности загрузить весь датасет в обработку.

Когда делал работу по мышиному обучению, эта статья чуток помогла после прочтения по диагонали.

From a discussion of how the newest version of the first wiki sucks. The version does suck, by the way.

I am blind. I do rely on accessibility to interact with a computer. Yes, you could accuse me of deliberately avoiding the modern web, but I have my reasons. Primary reason is performance. Even though I feel like you are talking down to me from a pretty high horse, I still don't wish for you to ever experience how sluggish it feels trying to use the "modern web" with a screen reader on something like Windows. Don't even make me start about the hellhole that is Linux GUI accessibility. It was a nice ride once, before GNOME 3 and the elimination of CORBA killed most of the good work done by good people. Fact is, I am too used to a system which reacts promptly when I press a key to be able to switch to a modern browser by default. That would kill all my productivity. Yes, its a trade, but for now, having no JS engine by default is still way better then the alternatives.

Have a nice day, and enjoy your eye-sight.

A proper mirror of WikiWikiWeb.

Про миура-ори и соседнее

Something about configuring your puter with JavaScript.

A thread in the uxn's mailing list. Felix asks about uxn's stability, Devine says it will be stable soon enough, and this:

Don't think of a Varvara as a platform just yet, at best, it's something that can inspire others to explore their own ideas of how a VM can be used to preserve their own projects. There is very little experimentation done in this space and it's sort of in the research phase right now.

Links like this can discourage you from learning uxn. They do not discourage me, though. The Summer streams of 2022 are a proof.

A collection of illustrated notes on the virtual machine uxn.

Cute images like this:

A port of uxn to GB and GBC. Wonderful!

uxn autokalimba

• Thread on Twitter [Nitter link]

Notes on Uxn.

A classic rant on uxn and programming. Uxn is done for.

Uxn says it's about permacomputing and vintage computing, the author of the article says it's not and proves it.

The author insists on a relation to permacomputing. Their page on permacomputing describes frugal computing and salvage computing as principles of permacomputing, defining them as "utilizing computational resources as finite and precious, to be utilised only when necessary, and as effectively as possible", and "utilizing only already available computational resources, to be limited by that which is already produced." The author is part of a collective that wanted to replace all the "bloated" software they used, due to having little energy storage on their sailboat. Using software design techniques to reduce power usage, and to allow continued use of old computers is a good idea, but the uxn machine has quite the opposite effect, due to inefficient implementations and a poorly designed virtual machine, which does not lend itself to writing an efficient implementation easily.

Devine then mentioned it, and a discussion followed.

The online game Spider Solitaire Windows XP is a similar version of a legendary and quite popular Solitaire game that comes free with Microsoft Windows XP operating systems. Many people spent hours playing this game on their old computers. And now it’s available online.

How user interface evolved for the past 40 years ✨

Tabs are bad, and we can do without them as long as we have windows.

A collection of notes.

The Sore Feet Song, that was used in a Mushishi opening, was, in fact, not originally written for Mushishi! The author of the song elaborates on that a little.

Not so good.

I am sorry for linking such a ridiculously made website.

I have been using OpenBSD, a FREE, multi-platform 4.4BSD-based Unix-like operating system, both professionally and privately since about 2004, and today I'm going to share some of my experiences.

There are many alternatives to C strings. Here we explore the design space.

The suckless philosophy is all about keeping things simple, minimal and usable, but some people seem to have misunderstood it completely.

If you are looking for a free name, there is none.

Once a year I visit them.

Björn Wärmedal like them too.

Киллер-фич зига три, на мой взгляд

1. Тотальный контроль работы с памятью, намного более гранулярный, чем в C (аллокатор из коробки не один, их много, они разные, можно делать свои и передавать их другим программам)

2. Минимум имплицитного поведения, то есть всё максимально явно описывается в языке

3. Compile Time metaprogramming, то есть компилятор во время компиляции может исполнять код, при этом само понятие "тип" это просто объект языка, с которым можно поступать так же как с числами, или структурами. Просто гляньте как в Zig сделаны дженерики https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#Generic-Data-Structures

Поймал себя на мысли, что совершенно не хочется куда-либо ссылаться, когда пишу заметки в блог. За 21 год существования этого сайта, померло почти всё

имя им легион

“The original URL for this prediction (www.longbets.org/601) will no longer be available in eleven years.”

It stayed the same.

Also mentioned here: https://gmb.21x2.net/archive/202202/22214308.html

Author's write-up: https://adactio.com/journal/18862

Online communities spawn, grow, and die. Why? How? What can be done?

It just happens. Nothing can be done. Accept.