Omar Rizwan
@rsnous
"i am determined to move beyond this way of interacting with systems"
⭐️ I'm releasing Screenotate 2.0, my Mac/Windows screenshot+OCR+context app: screenotate.com When you take a screenshot, it recognizes text inside + the originating URL, then saves it as a self-contained HTML file for later search
“The computer was not made in the image of the person. The computer was made in the image of the formal manipulations of abstract symbols. And the last 30 years of cognitive science can be seen as attempts to remake the person in the image of the computer.” — Edwin Hutchins, 1995
/var is where the variables in your program are stored. similar but different from /let and /const
(and this is lots and lots of tacit knowledge about weird details of Unix and specific libraries and linkers and build systems; it's not about programming from scratch and writing functions / if statements / for loops)
A lot of being "good with computers" is having enough experience to work around bugs.
stash-oriented programming instead of commit-oriented programming. StashHub
"instead of thinking of software as a mechanism to automate existing processes, it was better understood as a language for defining systems or materials with a combinatorial set of affordances"
functions should be able to throw nonfatal warnings just like a compiler does
is `completionFence` a redundant name that I'm choosing because of my unfamiliarity/discomfort with fences? is any fence a completion fence by definition
The laboratory experiment and the thought experiment have something in common: they both propose to exclude everything irrelevant to the thing being studied, to lay bare the heart of the matter
core dumps work better on copper because that's their native medium
when you're trying to scp a 6GB core dump over local Wi-Fi and it runs at 700 KB/s, so you plug in a direct Ethernet cable between the computer and your laptop, and _that_ scp runs at 100 MB/s
malleable software
academics gone wild: bootleg course reading appears to be a scan of a printout of screenshots from every page of the text in the Books app sent and opened as gmail image attachments.
academics gone wild: bootleg course reading appears to be a scan of a printout of screenshots from every page of the text in the Books app sent and opened as gmail image attachments.
I wonder if I can push a 6502 with *good* software to outperform modern software & hardware. Most apps probably can. The hard part would be number crunching like playing a video or a voice call. But if we can use separate hardware acceleration...
in interest of theming preservation and running software on old, low resolution devices, someone should fork both Xfce 4.12 and GTK2 the way Trinity Desktop has forked KDE3 and QT3
in the mood to read a blog post about niche computer topic that i don't understand but can tell it's very clever based on tone, word choice etc.