Logging is not panacea.

An endangered language family suggests that early humans used their bodies as a model for reality

Great Andamanese, it turns out, is exceptional among the world's languages in its anthropocentrism. It uses categories derived from the human body to describe abstract concepts such as spatial orientation and relations between objects. To be sure, in English we might say things like “the room faces the bay,” “the chair leg broke” and “she heads the firm.” But in Great Andamanese such descriptions take an extreme form, with morphemes, or meaningful sound segments, that designate different zones of the body getting attached to nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs—indeed, to every part of speech—to make diverse meanings. Because no other known language has a grammar based on the human body or shares cognates—words that are similar in meaning and pronunciation, indicating a genealogical connection—with Great Andamanese, the language constitutes its own family.

The grammar I was piecing together was based primarily on Jero, but a look through Portman's and Man's books convinced me that the southern Great Andamanese languages had similar structures. The lexicon consisted of two classes of words: free and bound. The free words were all nouns that referred to the environment and its denizens, such as ra for “pig.” They could occur alone. The bound words were nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs that always existed with markers indicating a relation to other objects, events or states. The markers (specifically, a-; er-; ong-; ot-or ut-; e-or i-; ara-; and o-) derived from seven zones of the body and were attached to a root word, usually as a prefix, to describe concepts such as “inside,” “outside,” “upper” and “lower.” For example, the morpheme er-, which qualified most anything having to do with an outer body part, could be stuck to -cho to yield ercho, meaning “head.” A pig's head was thus raercho.

The article teaches a strategy for playing the game. It works!

Go Go!

JSON Feed format spec. Perhaps it will power Mycoverse...

Такой вывод сделали на основании изучения языка индейцев племени цимане, которые в джунглях Амазонки ведут образ жизни охотников-собирателей

Ерунда какая-то, но интересно.

Running a personal website is an emotional roller coaster. This fact seems strange to me, because I feel I do a fairly good job of keeping my ego disengaged from the process. I realize that whether people like what I write or hate it has absolutely nothing to do with my worth as a human being. Yet, receiving comments and emails from readers who say they enjoy my website and understand its value feels good.

By the way, dear reader, I would be glad if you told me that you like this site. If you don't like mine, contact owners of those sites that you like.

Lichen is the simplest possible CMS for the web that is friendly enough for non-technical users. It is extremely lightweight.

It uses gemtext, a good choice.

When you are publishing your blog posts, there's almost little to no feedback whatsoever: You don't get the engagement from the audience in the comments, or the nice sweet email. Your audience and "fans" are hidden behind analytics numbers. And then, there's you and your Markdown editor.

Yes indeed, next no to no feedback is a norm. Relatable, except for the Markdown editor.

At this point, link rot is an axiom of the internet. In the face of this, I store a personal offline archive of anything I want to see twice. When I see a cool YouTube video I like, I archive the entire channel right away. Rather than subscribe to it, I update my archive on a cronjob. I scrape content out of RSS feeds and into offline storage and I have dozens of websites archived with wget. I mirror most git repositories I’m interested in. I have DRM free offline copies of all of my music, TV shows, and movies, ill-begotten or not.

A popular (I don't know him) Sci-fi writer tells why WordStar is the best.

A website about selecting and classifying text editors used in programming systems. These are the programming text editors such as Emacs, VI, Multiedit, slick, Slickedit, ISPF, Notepad, VI and VIM that are used by the vast majority of programmers on UNIX, Windows, VAX, and Mainframe systems. The structure of the website allows any vistor to leave their opinions, knowledge, and mark on the website for others to enjoy.

symmetrical image playground

Play solitaire online - a game of strategy and skill.

I've never played this variant of Solitaire before. One would need to know the rules before playing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculation_(card_game)

I had to consult the layout quite often. The interface is not what one might be used to. It is fun though.

It took me 6 attempts to win. I had fun.

If you don't visit this site for 5 years your score will reset.

Command Line Programs for the Blind

Karl Dahlke on blind a11y. Note that Karl is the creator of edbrowse.

Karl Dahlke

This person develops tools for the Fediverse in Go.

Link aggregator inspired by reddit and hacker news using ActivityPub federation.

via https://t.me/dcntr/2122

A Social Feed Reader for the IndieWeb

The Mac version simply didn't run. I installed the Android version. On first run it showed a quick error which I did not understand. I wanted to see how my Betula, which emits h-feed and h-entry microformats, would look like in this app. Turns out, when it talked about IndieWeb, it talked about MicroSub, not microformats2. What a liar!

I tried to authorize to https://merveilles.town, after all it supports Mastodon too! It failed to authorize me.

Overall, I couldn't do anything at all with the app. Sharing it nevertheless.

z-run -- scripting library lightweight Go-based tool

Still using it. Super wonderful.

kawipiko -- blazingly fast static HTTP server -- focused on low latency and high concurrency, by leveraging Go, fasthttp and the CDB embedded database

The person who led the development of Rust the programming language points out some differences in his vision of Rust and the one we ended up with. If they were to stay, Rust would have been a boring language! It is good for a language to be boring, actually.

Numen is Free Software voice control that gives people with strain or limited
use of their hands full control of their Linux machine. The philosophy is
to keep it simple with phrases that work universally.

A 16-step sequencer for the Game Boy Advance (GBA)

Sun Thinking is a group exhibition that brings together artists, writers, and researchers to explore the qualities and logics of solar power and solar powered computing networks. It presents a collection of network-based artworks, games, texts, and interviews and is the first exhibition project to be hosted on the Solar Protocol network.

Permacomputing is a nascent concept and a community of practice centred around design principles that embrace limits and constraints as a positive thing in computational culture, and on creativity with scarce computational resources.

using rss to generate permissionless social activity feeds for source code repositories

TL;DR: Closed registrations solve problems.

Command-line tool for calculating the number of days between given dates: days until, days since, days from

Learn about the history and purpose of quipus, the system of knotted strings that recorded data in the ancient Andean world.

Universal command-line clipboard with automatic copy and paste detection. Eg, cb|sort|cb.

I always loved the visual aesthetic of dithering but never knew how it’s done. So I did some research. This article may contain traces of nostalgia and none of Lena.

C82 is dedicated to the works of Nicholas Rougeux, including data art, visualization, and design.

TL;DR: Lemmy is bad: it does not delete messages and the author is bad too.

Postmill is a link aggregator that you can install on your own server: it is a
ready-to-use solution to bootstrap your community, including all the features
that you've come to expect.

Guillaume Lion visited Low-tech Magazine in Barcelona and turned his experience into a comic for the Belgian magazine Médor.

That's what they call BD?

Альфина ругается на Игру престолов, описывает самую главную разницу в сеттинге с Песней льда и пламени.

Here I monitor if my websites are online with https://upptime.js.org.

Devine Lu Linvega's collection of various documents they collected. A personal archive.

Go bindings to the Lemmy API, automatically generated directly from Lemmy's source code using the generator in cmd/gen.

An ActivityPub proposoal for pinging

An extension that brings XWiki to the Fediverse

Alex Schroeder makes a review of Daniel Stenberg making a review of Gemini.

See /296.

Daniel Stenberg makes a Gemini review.

I do not particularly know much about this website, but I really like how they have name Fisher and put a fish as their TLD.

How to save links? Write hooks! Lion told me that and I accepted that. It really inspired Betula.

My experiment with a Mini Cubes-inspired spatial information manager.

Lion Kimbro did the prototype. It still inspired me.

Mahjong solitaire game for uxn

История читательницы, которая ездила практиковать язык африкаанс

A self-hosted bookmark + archive manager to store your useful links.

LinkAce is a free and open source bookmark archive for long-term storage and organization of your favorite links.

I both pity and admire beginner web coders of today. Unlike me, they've not been able to accumulate gradual knowledge of HTTP, HTML, REST, JavaScript, the DOM, CSS, AJAX, JSON, asynchronous execution and event driven object oriented programming over a period of decades. They haven't walked the long path from CGI scripts to modern server side tomfoolery via PHP, ASP and various MVC frameworks. They're just brutally thrust into a complex world of Gulp, Grunt, TypeScript, React Hooks and MobX-State-Tree and it's assumed they somehow already know about all that other stuff. Computer Science has moved into the frontend in earnest and yet it still seems as if many view "web development" as "making homepages", and that it's something you can learn over a period of weeks, not years.

In retrospect, web development has always been a bit of a struggle against the powers that be.
Some things that were pretty bad for quite a long time have gotten better. But, on the whole, I dare say it's much worse now than when I started. Much like how Commodore 64 programmers could keep a map of the entire computer in their head, a moderately competent developer could churn out an acceptable web site in a matter of weeks, understand every single aspect of it and get paid in the process. If I, a quarter century ago, had possessed the experience and knowledge I do now, the simplicity of those early web pages would've felt surreal. And yet, we apparently provided a service that was of some value to some people. A digital commodity, nothing more, nothing less. Actually useful software.