A new ecosystem similar to World Wide Web, featuring gurt: protocol, custom browser (from scratch), HTML + CSS + Lua sites, DNS, search engine, server management tool, and more. - outpoot/gurted

Delegating behavior to objects rather than invoking utility methods leads to cleaner, more extensible, and properly encapsulated object-oriented design.

Shift Happens tells the story of keyboards like no book ever before, covering 150 years from the early typewriters to the pixellated keyboards in our pockets.

От 19 века до начала 80-х. Как человечество придумывало сенсорные экраны и рукописный ввод

Programs and writings.

OLLOS is an experiment that organizes everything in my personal computing environment on one unified timeline.

Datagubbe giving good advice in a bullet list. My favorite items are:

• Disable notfications. I'd recommend to at least turn their sound off.

• Use smaller software, use less applications.

• Avoid social media. I'm building one haha.

• Delete unused accounts.

• Thank FOSS maintainers. That includes me.

• Disable blinking cursor.

My least favorite is his recommendation to use laptops less. I myself should use it more, so I don't use the phone. And I don't have a desktop or a place for it.

If there is one principle that should be added to the UNIX philosophy, it is:

"Finish your project."

Let me list my finished projects.

• Uh...

I can't even say Mycorrhiza is finished despite it being in maintenance mode!

French wild pansies are producing smaller flowers and less nectar than 20 to 30 years ago in ‘startling’ act of evolution, study shows

A friendly programming language from the future.

The big idea behind Unison is that its functions are hashed and content-addressed.

Stacksmith - A tool for making apps for non-programmers.

A Hypercard successor.

See:

• https://mastodon.cloud/@stacksmith

LuLu is the free, open-source firewall that aims to block unknown outgoing connections, protecting your privacy and your Mac!

Very true! Some time ago I came to a similar conclusion, and since then try to not joke like that.

A collection of bad practices. Some of them I like!

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

Paleolithic cuisine was anything but lean and green, according to a recent study on the diets of our Pleistocene ancestors.

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?