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2025-06-13

21.

The Last Nomads

www.thedial.world/articles/news/issue-28/georgia-adjara-highlands-nomads
19.

Go read Peter Naur's "Programming as Theory Building" and then come back and tell me that LLMs can replace human programmers

ratfactor.com/cards/naur-vs-llms

2025-04-17

13.

the hairshirt doldrums

www.late-review.com/p/the-hairshirt-doldrums

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.

12.

The Curse of Xanadu

www.wired.com/1995/06/xanadu

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

11.

Free Software is an Abject Failure

www.paritybit.ca/blog/free-software-is-an-abject-failure

2025-04-16

10.

A 2025 Survey of Rust GUI Libraries

www.boringcactus.com/2025/04/13/2025-survey-of-rust-gui-libraries.html

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.

8.

the creeping rot of forced nostalgia

wings.nu/nomanifesto.php

Among the things that produced my general attitude to my own creative output on the web.

7.

Nostalgia is Bullshit

wings.nu/nostalgia

A classic.

Fandom drama is delicious.

6.

The Standard Salvaged Computing Platform

gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/0/~solderpunk/phlog/the-standard-salvaged-computing-platform.txt
2.

EVERY DAY FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE

selffuck.help/2020/12/20/every-day-for-the-rest-of-your-life-by-maggie-siebert

The most thoroughly disturbing thing I have ever read. I love it so much.