I save whatever here. for purposes of alphabetical ordering, many tags are in thing-topic order instead of topic-thing order. for ex. instead of "hosting software", the tag would be "software hosting", which should be read "software of the hosting variety"
sticker stealing
what I was linked prev from
God, how I would have loved this book in seventh grade! It’s almost as good as having a nuclear device.
good essay. I realize now I think I internalized this book's morality some when I was younger. not for the best probably
Because why not?
I'll have to try this. I've been thinking about how strong the infrastructure to extract value from "makers" is. this is such a low-tech solution to a problem, when I had been thinking about vinyl cutters and expensive printing and a whole bunch of other Ways To Give Someone Else My Money.
clearly I am not immune to the jedi mind trick on which the corporatization of Everything thrives.
th&ks marginalia search
sigh.
should look at this more whenever i have some form of tiny machine i can run dos on
a fucking
windows home server ad
The text generator popularized by (I think?) the tumblr horse plinko meme.
A somewhat hopeful continuation to BLIT. Fun and probably partial inspiration for a Black Mirror episode.
A remarkably grounded form of the same core idea as SCP memetics, and among the earliest forms of the concept in scifi.
on having a brain injury
How much could one concussion cost, Michael, $3000?
A detailed point-of-view of the experience of a brain injury, both on a subjective level and in navigating the medical system.
The article I subscribed to WIRED for.
"It wouldn't take millions of dollars. I estimate something like a three- to six-man, monthlong effort." I instinctively factored this prediction in my head, because I recognized the code in which the Xanadu programmers speak of the future: six months.
My thoughts (posted elsewhere):
i am of course fundamentally opposed to a lot of the core of xanadu because I am very anti-copyright and anti-capitalism. also we have a damn good citation system on the web and bullshit citation chains still manage to spread. i think the idea that people en masse would comply with a system that tries to enforce perfect citation is hopelessly naive. like any Great Libertarian Project, the idea doesn't seem to be aware of its own weight or ramifications, but instead simply standing before itself in somnambulant awe
Found browsing the XXIIVV Webring.
Saving for the quote, cause it sums it up pretty well:
Tcl, a fascinating late-80s programming language that I would describe as weird in a Lua way, weird in a LISP way, and weird in its own way all at once.
electron-based flash clone, seems neat
Among the things that produced my general attitude to my own creative output on the web.
A classic.
Fandom drama is delicious.
Cell phone web server! And where I discovered this software
An interactive GIF decoder with debug output from the LZW decoder. The most useful resource for debugging GIF implementations I know of besides the spec itself and hexdump(1).
The most thoroughly disturbing thing I have ever read. I love it so much.
seems like a good way to start.