The Embroidered Computer | Irene PoschIrene Posch http://www.ireneposch.net/the-embroidered-computer/

Old English Computer Glossary http://www.u.arizona.edu/~ctb/wordhord.html

josef: “biggest problem with computers is they’re still d…” - Mastodon https://mastodon.social/@jk/593197

So, I’m working on a fediverse client based on https://web.archive.org/web/20190101185657/https://jfm.carcosa.net/blog/computing/usenet/ ; it’s here: https://github.com/enkiv2/misc/blob/master/fern . It is currently read-only, but it has read history.

Handmade Computer · Avant.org http://avant.org/thread/handmade-computer/

Donald Knuth: “The Art of Computer Programming: Satisfiability and Combinatorics” - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4lhrVPDUG0

Notes on Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. https://lethain.com//notes-sicp/

Finite of Sense and Infinite of Thought:
A History of Computation, Logic and Algebra https://pron.github.io/computation-logic-algebra

An interesting alternative to my ‘big vs small computing’ distinction is the wizard vs engineer distinction discussed here: https://www.tedinski.com/2018/03/20/wizarding-vs-engineering.html

How BioWare’s ‘Baldur’s Gate’ Saved the Computer RPG - The Ringer https://www.theringer.com/2018/12/21/18150363/baldurs-gate-bioware-1998-video-games

I’d love to see Trigger do a Geobreeders series. The premise had so much potential: a multi-generational war between chuunibyos with computer sigils and shape-shifting cats made of radio waves who live on the internet.

Matthew Bergman - Computing Machinery and Intelligence [PWL NYC] - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq44fE7b9GU

Human Computer Interaction: Metaphors https://tpetricek.github.io/Teaching/human-computer-interaction/metaphors.html#/7/2

Every time I complain about how computers can be made better (if we work together) I get a bunch of people criticizing me for being insufficiently grateful. Bitch, I’m a programmer. I know how much effort somebody put into this shit, & it’s not enough.

There’s this approach to computing history where we focus on work that looks shallowly similar to current norms, claim that work was ‘prophetic’ or ‘ahead of its time’, & mostly ignore differences & intent except as quirks. Fuck that.

Today, on the 50th anniversary of Englebart’s Mother of All Demos, is a great opportunity to introspect about why personal computers still basically don’t exist & the needs nLS was intended to fulfill still aren’t fulfilled.

Generated Book Gallery – 60212: INTERACTIVITY & COMPUTATION http://cmuems.com/2018/60212f/deliverables/7-due-11-16/generated-book-gallery/

Video Games In East Germany: The Stasi Played Along | ZEIT ONLINE https://www.zeit.de/digital/games/2018-11/computer-games-gdr-stasi-surveillance-gamer-crowd

What If Bacteria Designed Computers? on Vimeo https://vimeo.com/858385

GitHub - aurelg/ipfs-wormhole: Get things from one computer to another, safely. Over IPFS (which not even required to receive those things). https://github.com/aurelg/ipfs-wormhole

Bad idea of the day: furniture modeled on cray equipment, with spaces to put your own computers in

Heads up, apparently there are gonna be export restrictions on neural net, reinforcement learning, computer vision, NLP, & similar research done in the US: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/11/19/2018-25221/review-of-controls-for-certain-emerging-technologies

Alan Kay: How Simply and Understandably Could The “Personal Computing Experience” Be Programmed? on Vimeo https://vimeo.com/10260548

Indistinguishable From Magic: Manufacturing Modern Computer Chips - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGFhc8R_uO4

The Case Against Quantum Computing - IEEE Spectrum https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/the-case-against-quantum-computing

Fallacies of distributed computing - Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacies_of_distributed_computing

“Let us Calculate!”: Leibniz, Llull, and the Computational Imagination – The Public Domain Review https://publicdomainreview.org/2016/11/10/let-us-calculate-leibniz-llull-and-computational-imagination/

Every computer program is also a persuasive essay & a work of interactive performance art, and if you don’t consider it through those lenses when writing it you run the risk of persuading people of something you don’t agree with.

Personal Computer Milestones http://www.blinkenlights.com/pc.shtml

Loper OS » Seven Laws of Sane Personal Computing http://www.loper-os.org/?p=284

Alan Kay Thesis: The Reactive Engine http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/inf/pdfs/kay.htm

Man-Computer Symbiosis https://groups.csail.mit.edu/medg/people/psz/Licklider.html

View of Bring on The Real Computer Revolution http://ojs.stanford.edu/ojs/index.php/intersect/article/view/703/617

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. … http://ajroach42.com/observations-on-modern-computing-the-last-10-years-were-a-misstep/

KolibriOS - The art of small https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/kolibrios.html

Low Fat Computing http://www.ultratechnology.com/lowfat.htm

Chuck Thacker, “Personal Distributed Computing”The Alto and Ethernet Hardware” - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9n2J24Jg2Y

Xerox Alto Source Code | @CHM Blog | Computer History Museum http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/xerox-alto-source-code/

RetroWeb Vintage Computer Museum http://retroweb.maclab.org/?emulator=xerox-star

RetroWeb Vintage Computer Museum http://retroweb.maclab.org/?emulator=salto-alto

GitHub - livingcomputermuseum/ContrAlto: This repository contains the source code for Living Computers: Museum+Labs’s Xerox Alto emulator, ContrAlto. https://github.com/livingcomputermuseum/ContrAlto

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

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

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

Bad idea of the day: a social network where post literally fade because the contrast is computed with the inverse of time. A spinoff where bugs slowly eat away at posts.

How to Teach Computer Ethics through Science Fiction | August 2018 | Communications of the ACM https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/8/229765-how-to-teach-computer-ethics-through-science-fiction/fulltext

In one sense, ‘the computer revolution is over’ because the period of exponential growth behind the tech ended 10 years ago. In another sense, it hasn’t begun: we have sheltered ourselves from the social and intellectual ramifications of computing. Documents are still simulations of paper, & capitalism still exists. So it’s like that period where printing presses existed but everybody used a faux-calligraphic font.

View of Bring on The Real Computer Revolution http://ojs.stanford.edu/ojs/index.php/intersect/article/view/703/617

“Shaping our children’s education in computing” by Simon Peyton Jones - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-xgWLYQc4g

THE MEDIA BUSINESS: Encountering The Digital Age – An occasional look at computers in everday life.; Potboiler Springs From Computer’s Loins - The New Yor… https://www.nytimes.com/1993/07/02/us/media-business-encountering-digital-age-occasional-look-computers-everday-life.html