I would like to make a list of the computers I own on here, have pictures and specs of the machine. Would be a fun project to index them.

https://hardware.majix.org/ cool website showing off someone’s old computers

Trying this on a new computer, so far with little success

My USB power brick says to cycle the charge in it every so often, so I had it keep my iPad powered up away from any outlet. Fully drained it and plugged it in to a powered-off computer to recharge. Overnight, it’s only recharged…halfway. Didn’t expect the recharge to be this slow.

Why is programming fun? What delights may its practitioner expect as his reward? First is the sheer joy of making things. As the child delights in his mud pie, so the adult enjoys building things, especially things of his own design. I think this delight must be an image of God’s delight in making things, a delight shown in the distinctness and newness of each leaf and each snowflake. Second is the pleasure of making things that are useful to other people. Deep within, we want others to use our work and to find it helpful. In this respect the programming system is not essentially different from the child’s first clay pencil holder “for Daddy’s office.” Third is the fascination of fashioning complex puzzle-like objects of interlocking moving parts and watching them work in subtle cycles, playing out the consequences of principles built in from the beginning. The programmed computer has all the fascination of the pinball machine or the jukebox mechanism, carried to the ultimate. Fourth is the joy of always learning, which springs from the nonrepeating nature of the task. In one way or another the problem is ever new, and its solver learns something: sometimes practical, sometimes theoretical, and sometimes both. Finally, there is the delight of working in such a tractable medium. The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly re- moved from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures. (As we shall see later, this very tractability has its own problems.) Ask HN: How to rediscover the joy of programming? | Hacker News

Evidence against “Apple wants to position the iPad as a proper computer”: ⌘⌫ does not delete a currently-being-viewed message.

Paper on Mu published at the Convivial Computing Salon: http://akkartik.name/akkartik-convivial-20200315.pdf

Shutting down computers and packing my backpack to take the metro and go home

Shutting down computers and packing my backpack to take the metro and go home

I’m going to call all “apps” programs again as part of my retro-computing experience.

As my hardware is getting older, I feel myself getting more attracted to retro-computing.

seeing if auto-publisher works out on other computer

Maybe it’s just me getting older, but there is something very satisfying about seeing big chunky text on screen. Currently using an Atari font on my computer. Once your eyes get used to it, it’s actually quite lovely.

Migrated to Linux | https://wiki.xxiivv.com/computer

It’s taken a year to get here. I want to take a break, do a Lisp interpreter for fun. Just so I can see a computer boot into a Lisp prompt.

about me: I’m building a hobbyist computer. No C (eventually). Lots of tests. Reward curiosity. https://github.com/akkartik/mu#readme

Oh, right. If my main computer is tethered to my phone’s LTE connection, it’s not going to be accessible from my tablet, will it? Darn.

@mox@tilde.town I can show you my setup for volume, brightness and screenshots when I am back home. I only use the suspend key in gdm3 where it works out of the box. I have a shortcut for calling ‘gdmflexiserver’ when I’m leaving the computer as my wife can’t log in to her account otherwise.

Trees, when given access to computers, are absolutely fearsome opponents in economy-heavy RTS games: Growing resources from what’s available is what they do at the very core of their being

4K TV on Apple computers? Finally.

@adiabetic@www.frogorbits.com I am strongly refusing to use Apple products but for different reasons. But I wouldn’t consider anything except a computer or a console appropriate for gaming. Pads and phones might be for casual games but not for gaming.

Concept of the day: “Radar Chicken”, whereby two computer nerds encourage the other to file a bug report so the other doesn’t have to

Random link from the archives: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-to-open-old-computer-files originally archived Mon Mar 26 11:44:52 EDT 2018

Master of web puppets: abusing web browsers for persistent and stealthy computation | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/04/12/master-of-web-puppets:-abusing-web-browsers-for-persistent-and-stealthy-computation/

Your brain probably is a computer, whatever that means | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/your-brain-probably-is-a-computer-whatever-that-means

pen computing (computing with stylus input) vs pen computing (computing while fenced into a small space)

Hello world: Shining a light onto the culture of computer programmers | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/04/how-the-new-art-form-of-coding-came-to-shape-our-modern-world/

fogus: Notes on Interactive Computing Environments http://blog.fogus.me/2019/04/03/notes-on-interactive-computing-environments/

Introduction to Theoretical Computer Science: index https://introtcs.org/public/index.html

A Comprehensive Introduction to Quantum Computing - code(love) https://code-love.com/2019/02/25/intro-to-quantum-computing/

GitHub - scipr-lab/zexe: Rust library for decentralized private computation https://github.com/scipr-lab/zexe

!!Con West 2019 - M. Lazer-Walker: Computers are fast! But how come they sometimes feel slow? - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu_fzhwRXgM

!!Con West 2019 - Max Kreminski: Making blackout poetry with computers! - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klO7XBFUIj8

I mean, ‘quietly’ is a bit misleading since this has been in the news every few years for more than a decade, but you all might need a reminder: https://qz.com/1002927/computer-printers-have-been-quietly-embedding-tracking-codes-in-documents-for-decades/

Hyperloops for our minds – Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programmers https://www.sicpers.info/2019/03/hyperloops-for-the-mind/

my only interactions with the digital world will be through my raspi, my old fossil of a desktop, and any public use computers i can find around campus

most of my professors prefer that students leave computers in backpacks anyway so it’s not like classes will be harder

How Telegraphs and Teletypes Influenced the Computer https://tedium.co/2019/03/14/teletype-computer-evolution-history/

Are.na / computer furniture https://www.are.na/john-michael-boling/computer-furniture

List of unsolved problems in computer science - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_problems_in_computer_science

Gigaom | Quantum Computing, Capabilities and Limits: An Interview with Scott Aaronson https://gigaom.com/2019/01/17/quantum-computing-capabilities-and-limits-an-interview-with-scott-aaronson/

Reading computer history reminds me that there was a time in the 1950s and 1960s when ‘person does thing with computer’ was a standard slow-news-day template item instead of a business plan

Unusual core features for a dream language for small computing: MUMPS-style disk persistence of otherwise normal variables indicated by sigils, go-style piping between coroutines or greenthreads, message passing & guards like erlang, parsing backtracking like icon, constraint solving like prolog

A Self-Learning, Modern Computer Science Curriculum https://functionalcs.github.io/curriculum/

The Messy Truth About Infiltrating Computer Supply Chains https://theintercept.com/2019/01/24/computer-supply-chain-attacks/

Concurrent objects and SCOOP – Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programmers https://www.sicpers.info/2018/11/concurrent-objects-and-scoop/

Scans of Interrupt, the newsletter of Computer People for Peace, from 1969-1973: https://eli.naeher.name/computer-people-for-peace/

The Hope In Dystopia – MORNING, COMPUTER http://morning.computer/2019/01/the-hope-in-dystopia/

While any vision of society is a spell to bring itself into existence, society, unlike computers, is wicked hard to program and code usually is the easier route

Getting an IBM AS/400 Midrange computer on the internet | jaeblog https://justanotherelectronicsblog.com/?p=503