Moderan reads like if dril was a battle-cyborg & tried to write his autobiography but kept on getting distracted by how COOL it is to PLASTIC-WRAP THE EARTH.

Read some excepts from a book I randomly found yesterday. While the writing was a little dry, I thought it could be an interesting read. However when I looked on Amazon, found out the book was 80 USD. I’m sorry but it was not that interesting.

@nblade@nblade.sdf.org If everybody is happy with the format, sure! Writing a new spec is on my todo list for a long time. Maybe that’s a good reason to do it.

Shirky: A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy http://www.shirky.com/writings/herecomeseverybody/group_enemy.html

@nblade@nblade.sdf.org Most programmers are just users that are writing/maintaining programs. Most can’t even handle the underlying OS, let alone a Network or a Server.

Escaping the Default Future When Writing Science Fiction | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2018/08/16/escaping-the-default-future-when-writing-science-fiction/

Bad idea of the day: ‘twitch writes a novel’: the previous ~15 words are shown & the top ~20 next words based on a markov model of some corpus are voted on over a 2 minute period (going to the first item, if no votes are cast) until 50k words are written.

The 10:1 rule of writing and programming https://www.ybrikman.com/writing/2018/08/12/the-10-to-1-rule-of-writing-and-programming/

Double Faults | Writing an OS in Rust https://os.phil-opp.com/double-fault-exceptions/

Thread by @enkiv2@www.lord-enki.net: “An article I’m considering writing: the (explicit) political use of ghost stories. The idea of the ‘confederate soldier ghost’ was explicitl […]” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1021352318028087297.html

Bad idea of the day: a reality tv show where Stephen King and Joe Hill move into a cramped apartment together while both trying to write new novels, confusingly titled King of the Hill

My old HyperCard stack (Phil Gyford’s website) https://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2017/08/16/hypercard-tea/

Letting neural networks be weird • A neural net tries writing Burma-Shave jingles http://aiweirdness.com/post/176056635992/a-neural-net-tries-writing-burma-shave-jingles

The roots of writing lie in hopes and dreams, not in accounting | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/the-roots-of-writing-lie-in-hopes-and-dreams-not-in-accounting

Creating & Writing to Temp Files ⌘ Read more…

Writing in Collaboration with the System | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2014/10/29/writing-in-collaboration-with-the-system/

Hot take: if you can’t write a feature-complete proof of concept implementation of it in 100 lines, then there will never be a stable implementation, but if you can, then even 10k line implementations can be made stable.

More Hints for Writing Unix Tools | Mario Campos https://www.mariocampos.io/blog/more-unix-tools-hints/

Have you tried reading the manual? Have you tried writing the manual?

Writing long, overly complex, & logically flawed apologia of bad mainstream ideas in order to recast them as revolutionary is a growth industry. (See the ‘intellectual dark web’, whose major unifying trait is boringly normie positions.) Why not reach for a surreal or absurd take?

Hints for writing Unix tools https://monkey.org/~marius/unix-tools-hints.html

If it was developed in the 70s & you understand it, you can write a crappy version of it in an afternoon. If it wasn’t developed in the 70s, you have never heard of it.

I’ve been shitposting about writing composable GUI systems with proper hypertext & network transparency in postscript but actually that existed at Sun & seems to have been pretty cool: https://medium.com/@donhopkins/hyperlook-nee-hypernews-nee-goodnews-99f411e58ce4

How to Write Personalities for the AI Around Us https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/05/02/how-to-write-personalities-for-the-ai-around-us/

Bad idea of the day: a letter-writing campaign to members of CS program accreditation boards (at their home addresses) requesting algorithmic bias & data ownership be a part of mandatory ethics classes in the curriculum.

Observations on Modern Computing (The Last 10 Years Were a Misstep) – ~ajroach42.com – I’m Andrew. I write about the past and future of tech, music, media, culture, art, and activism. This… http://ajroach42.com/observations-on-modern-computing-the-last-10-years-were-a-misstep/

Stop Writing Classes - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9pEzgHorH0

The Quest to Teach AI to Write Pop Songs https://gizmodo.com/the-quest-to-teach-ai-to-write-pop-songs-1824157220

Band name of the day: write skew

Pete Corey - Writing Mandelbrot Fractals with Hooks and Forks http://www.petecorey.com/blog/2018/04/16/writing-mandelbrot-factals-with-hooks-and-forks/

If nothing else, Peterson is really good at making people write at length about him, even when they’re not sure if he’s actually saying anything: http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/04/03/highlights-from-the-comments-on-twelve-rules/

I love Wait But Why, and so it’s a real shame that Tim Urban has transformed into Elon Musk’s personal PR guy for the past few years, rather than writing on a wider array of topics.

GitHub - robey/font-problems: command-line tool for reading and writing console bitmap fonts https://github.com/robey/font-problems

Writing a Simple IPFS Crawler · Gokberk Yaltirakli https://gkbrk.com/2018/03/writing-a-simple-ipfs-crawler/

Anton’s Research Ramblings - 2018_03_08_how_i_write_code http://antongerdelan.net/blog/formatted/2018_03_08_how_i_write_code.html

Ted’s ComParadigm in OneLiners http://xanadu.com.au/ted/TN/WRITINGS/TCOMPARADIGM/tedCompOneLiners.html

Understanding word vectors: A tutorial for "Reading and Writing El… https://gist.github.com/aparrish/2f562e3737544cf29aaf1af30362f469

GitHub - tuhdo/os01: Bootstrap yourself to write an OS from scratch. A book for self-learner. https://github.com/tuhdo/os01

The Good Room – Frank Chimero https://frankchimero.com/writing/the-good-room/

Writing parsers like it is 2017 | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/08/15/writing-parsers-like-it-is-2017/

Document Your Art: How to Archive – ~ajroach42.com – I’m Andrew. I write about the… http://ajroach42.com/document-your-art-how-to-archive/

DIY Media – ~ajroach42.com – I’m Andrew. I write about the past and future of tech, music, media, cultur… http://ajroach42.com/diy-media/

A Modern Office with Vintage hardware – ~ajroach42.com – I’m Andrew. I write … http://ajroach42.com/a-modern-office-with-vintage-hardware/

SOME PEOPLE HAVE POINTED OUT THAT WRITING APPS IN POSTSCRIPT IS SANE-ISH. THIS IS TRUE. IT’S HARD TO COME UP WITH COMPARABLE SITUATIONS THAT ARE MORE ABSURD, BECAUSE WE COLLECTIVELY DID THE ABSOLUTE WORST THING AND THEN CONVINCED OURSELVES IT WAS OK.

Web application design is like a generation of people looked at that text adventure written in postscript and said LETS WRITE ALL FIRST PERSON SHOOTERS IN POSTSCRIPT EMBEDDED IN SELF-MODIFYING LATEX DOCUMENTS FOREVER

If you cannot use it to trivially put a pixel at an X,Y coordinate, YOU SHOULD NOT WRITE A COMPLEX UI IN IT, EXCEPT AS A JOKE.

The Future Will be Technical https://coolguy.website/writing/the-future-will-be-technical/background().html

Emic Automata & Thematic Automata | Storyboard | maetl https://maetl.net/notes/storyboard/generative-writing-with-cellular-automata

Opening Up Digital Fiction Writing Competition http://openingup.wonderboxpublishing.com/

Gopher: Remembering the web that wasn’t – Andrew Writing – I make websites, and write stuff. http://ajroach42.github.io/gopher-remembering-the-web-that-wasn-t/