!!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

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