“Hello world” in the BCPL language on the Xerox Alto simulator http://www.righto.com/2016/06/hello-world-in-bcpl-language-on-xerox.html

Simulating a Xerox Alto with the ContrAlto simulator: games and Smalltalk http://www.righto.com/2016/10/simulating-xerox-alto-with-contralto.html

The Xerox Alto, Smalltalk, and rewriting a running GUI http://www.righto.com/2017/10/the-xerox-alto-smalltalk-and-rewriting.html

Self and Self: Whys and Wherefores - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ka4KY7TMTU

Self: The Movie; - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ox5P7QyL774

Video Ethnography of “ICARUS ” on the Xerox Alto - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BauuOoB6EIU

If-statements in Smalltalk - Beware of the Train https://pozorvlak.livejournal.com/94558.html

DigiBarn Books: A Decade of Research @ Xerox PARC: Scientific American Article on Xerox Alto, 1977 http://www.digibarn.com/collections/books/xerox-parc-1970-80/alto-article/index.html

DigiBarn Computer Museum: Why Alto? Butler Lampson’s Historic 1972 Memo http://www.digibarn.com/friends/butler-lampson/index.html

How To Be a Systems Thinker | Edge.org https://www.edge.org/conversation/mary_catherine_bateson-how-to-be-a-systems-thinker

We still live in the long shadow cast by the idea of Man-the-Hunter | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/we-still-live-in-the-long-shadow-cast-by-the-idea-of-man-the-hunter

Dataspace 10: An Array Representation | Natepod http://natecull.org/wordpress/2018/08/16/dataspace-10-an-array-representation/

Dataspace 9: A Tower of Nulls, And Awkward Sets | Natepod http://natecull.org/wordpress/2017/07/13/dataspace-9-a-tower-of-nulls-and-awkward-sets/

Dataspace 8: Example: Movie data | Natepod http://natecull.org/wordpress/2017/07/11/dataspace-8-example-movie-data/

Dataspace 7: A Low-Level Encoding | Natepod http://natecull.org/wordpress/2017/07/10/dataspace-7-a-low-level-encoding/

Dataspace 6: Terms as Types | Natepod http://natecull.org/wordpress/2017/07/10/dataspace-6-terms-as-types/

Dataspace 5: Introducing /all | Natepod http://natecull.org/wordpress/2017/07/09/dataspace-5/

Dataspace 4: The Term-inator | Natepod http://natecull.org/wordpress/2017/07/06/dataspace-4/

Dataspace 2: Revenge of the Data Model | Natepod http://natecull.org/wordpress/2017/07/06/dataspace-2/

Dataspace 1: In Search of a Data Model | Natepod http://natecull.org/wordpress/2017/07/05/dataspace-1/

Band name of the day: the cardboard belts

Dataspace 0: Those Memex Dreams Again | Natepod http://natecull.org/wordpress/2017/06/26/dataspace-0/

Jazz Deconstructed: John Coltrane’s “Giant Steps” - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62tIvfP9A2w

The Animated Guide to Paredit http://danmidwood.com/content/2014/11/21/animated-paredit.html

Welcome to SICP Distilled http://www.sicpdistilled.com/

Scheme Macros V: Conditionals | Veit’s Blog https://blog.veitheller.de/Scheme_Macros_V:_Conditionals.html

Abstract Heresies: Not Lisp again…. https://funcall.blogspot.com/2009/03/not-lisp-again.html

A Short History of Chaosnet https://twobithistory.org/2018/09/30/chaosnet.html

Untitled Document: 1. “Introduction” http://www.unlambda.com/lmman/lmman_1.html

Symbolics Lisp Machine Museum https://www.ifis.uni-luebeck.de/~moeller/symbolics-info/index.html

Unlambda.com : Symbolics http://www.unlambda.com/index.php?n=Main.Symbolics

Retrocomputing - MIT CADR Lisp Machines http://www.unlambda.com/lisp/cadr.page

Preindustrial workers worked fewer hours than today’s http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/worktime/hours_workweek.html

Apparently Maggie Mae Fish & Nyx Fears are friends & that makes me happy

Property is theft – intellectual property doubly so

The idea of intellectual property is nonsensical and pernicious | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/the-idea-of-intellectual-property-is-nonsensical-and-pernicious

So, what I normally call ‘command line’ (as opposed to ‘console’) Pike in the Acme paper called ‘typescript’, and I think it might be worth adopting that terminology. The way he defines it would also apply to notebook interfaces.

Bad idea of the day: to combat writer’s block, use automatic writing as a divinatory method to predict what you would have written if you didn’t have writer’s block

Band name of the day: The Assumption of Randolph Carter

Why Doctors Hate Their Computers | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/12/why-doctors-hate-their-computers

Things Nobody Told Me About Being a Software Engineer · Ana Ulin https://anaulin.org/blog/things-nobody-told-me-about-being-a-software-engineer/

Turn Vim Into Excel: Tips for Editing Tabular Data http://alangrow.com/blog/turn-vim-into-excel-tips-for-tabular-data-editing

Prolog Under the Hood: An Honest Look https://www.amzi.com/articles/prolog_under_the_hood.htm

Pey Shkoy Benefits Humans http://constellation.crummy.com/Pey%20Shkoy%20Benefits%20Humans/

Hot take: science fiction movies are extremely rare. Most films that are sold as science fiction are actually action-adventure with fantasy elements that are coded as scientistic.

Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System - The Donella Meadows Project http://donellameadows.org/archives/leverage-points-places-to-intervene-in-a-system/#one

Bad idea of the day: Rather than having a ‘madness’ mechanic, have a ‘stress’ mechanic that causes perceptual distortion (tunnel vision, increased color contrast, blurred vision, louder environmental sounds) & motor distortion (worse aim, movement delays)

Shiba Computer https://shiba.computer/essay/on-weaponised-design/

Theme Tune Shuffle https://www.monkeon.co.uk/themetuneshuffle/

rebooting-the-web-of-trust-spring2018/making-dids-invisible-with-petnames.md at petnames · cwebber/rebooting-the-web-of-trust-spring2018 · GitHub https://github.com/cwebber/rebooting-the-web-of-trust-spring2018/blob/petnames/draft-documents/making-dids-invisible-with-petnames.md