Rewriting Pagenode
Today I released Pagenode – a project that I started 14 years ago. Pagenode began its life as a full-fledged Content Management System and now, after countless rewrites, became a simple library. Pagenode’s journey mimics my own as a developer. Its current iteration expresses my desire for simplicity.

In 2004, after dabbling a bit with PHP and finally grasping MySQL I set out to build my own CMS. I previously looked at a lot of different CMSes on the market and found all of them to … ⌘ Read more

Sprite https://web.archive.org/web/20040402163929/http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/projects/sprite/sprite.html

Sprite Reterospective https://web.archive.org/web/20040405225311/http://www.cs.berkeley.edu:80/projects/sprite/retrospective.html

GitHub - OSPreservProject/oskit: oskit code from Fluke OS project at University of Utah https://github.com/OSPreservProject/oskit

One of the reasons I’m so hard on the original macintosh is that the team appropriated fantastic ideas from better projects that they were totally unprepared to do justice to, then delivered warped & broken versions of them.

Project Troy: The Science of Cold War Psychological Warfare - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/12/project-troy-science-cold-war-psychological-warfare/576847/

Fairly reliable indicator of a bad/naive post or project: the title or short description contains the name of the implementation language, but that language is conventional, commonly-used, or ‘general-purpose’.

GAN Paint http://gandissect.res.ibm.com/ganpaint.html?project=churchoutdoor&layer=layer4

Hot take: Cyberpunk only seems ‘prophetic’ because not enough has changed since the 80s to make it seem irrelevant, and this basically means that cyberpunk failed in its critical project by spawning insufficient praxis

Environmental Media Project, Keio University, Japan 1999 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMujvLQdKaE&index=2&list=PLZYUaP_cPHpa9Cad1GxrnvW4Ky3xlPMHg

Scripting the GUI with ‘hey’ | Haiku Project https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/humdinger/2017-11-05_scripting_the_gui_with_hey/

Folklore.org: Desk Ornaments http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Desk_Ornaments.txt&sortOrder=Sort+by+Date&topic=Software+Design

Folklore.org: The Grand Unified Model (2) - The Finder http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=The_Grand_Unified_Model_The_Finder.txt&sortOrder=Sort+by+Date&topic=Software+Design

Folklore.org: The Grand Unified Model (1) - Resources http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=The_Grand_Unified_Model.txt&sortOrder=Sort+by+Date&topic=Software+Design

Folklore.org: Busy Being Born http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Busy_Being_Born.txt&sortOrder=Sort+by+Date&topic=Lisa

Folklore.org: MacPaint Evolution http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=MacPaint_Evolution.txt&sortOrder=Sort+by+Date&topic=Lisa

Folklore.org: Do It http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Do_It.txt&sortOrder=Sort+by+Date&topic=Lisa

Folklore.org: Rosing’s Rascals http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Rosings_Rascals.txt&sortOrder=Sort+by+Date&topic=Lisa

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

The ‘Loss of Confidence Project’ Offers Scientists a Place to Confess https://undark.org/article/loss-of-confidence-project-replication-crisis/

Instant Archetypes: A New Tarot For The New Normal by Superflux —Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2093788053/instant-archetypes-a-new-tarot-for-the-new-normal

The project I’m working on went “live” this morning. Even though most us developers think we shouldn’t have.

GitHub - ojahnn/NaNoLiPo2018: This is the repository for 2018’s collaborative NaNoLiPo project. https://github.com/ojahnn/NaNoLiPo2018

MiniBSD laptop computer | Hackaday.io https://hackaday.io/project/643-minibsd-laptop-computer

Thread by @morganknutson: “Now that Google+ has been shuttered, I should air my dirty laundry on how awful the project and exec team was. I’m still pissed about the ba […]” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1049523067506966529.html

Bad idea of the day: a wikipedia project for creating and improving articles that are uniquely relevant to countries that qualified for internet.org

Fastly supports NixOS
We are happy to announce that we have moved our binary cache to Fastly. Fastly
is a big supporter of open source projects and now NixOS is one of them! Fastly provides us with CDN capability,
which previously was running on AWS CloudFront. Big thanks go to Fastly, in particular Tom Denniston and Elaine
Greenberg, our friends at Infor and Packet.com
and Graham Christensen for making this possible. ⌘ Read more

Censorship Project + A Brief History of Book Burning – Ex Urbe https://www.exurbe.com/censorship-project-a-brief-history-of-book-burning/

Gutenberg:The History and Philosophy of Project Gutenberg by Michael Hart - Gutenberg https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:The_History_and_Philosophy_of_Project_Gutenberg_by_Michael_Hart

Constraint Solver https://www.mattkeeter.com/projects/constraints/

ZigZag: the BZZ project declares victory, 2010 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUN2DUc5hnk

The Coral Project Notes https://frnsys.com/coral/

One thing for sure on this project I’m working on, being able to run multiple CURL requests at once has been a real time saver.

The Ripper: The disturbing Visceral Games project that EA canceled - Polygon https://www.polygon.com/2018/8/24/17770668/jack-the-ripper-visceral-games-electronic-arts-canceled

It’s tough to be motiviated to work on a project that has no real plan.

Pet peeve: the 6+ news outlets that titled their coverage of OXU in 2014 as ‘Software project gets release after 54 years’ as though there wasn’t a release in 1999, another in 2007, one in 2014, and one in 2016 (and this is just the translit & just the stuff you can download now)

Butler, “Monkeying Around with Text” http://projects.chass.utoronto.ca/chwp/CHC2005/Butler/Butler.htm

Proteus Project: NOMLEX https://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/nomlex/

BBC Computer Literacy Project Archive https://computer-literacy-project.pilots.bbcconnectedstudio.co.uk/

GitHub - nickolas360/markov-complete: A hackathon project written with ~bobbybee. Inspired by code written by ~hardmath123 and me. https://github.com/nickolas360/markov-complete

Bad idea of the day: Scroll back through GUI input events & application states like you scroll back through shell history; inject conditionals and loops; use speculative execution of applications to show projected state from these changes.

RAIN Mark II Supercomputer Trainer | Hackaday.io https://hackaday.io/project/85392-rain-mark-ii-supercomputer-trainer

A really interesting composable UI project designed for generative art: https://lobste.rs/s/9ezxcf/hyperlook_nee_hypernews_nee_goodnews#c_rva21l

Hot take: If you believe technological determinism cannot be effectively resisted, then how much the projected trajectory benefits you personally determines where you fall on the scale from Kevin Kelley to the Unabomber

Re: TLS in Gopher https://lists.debian.org/gopher-project/2018/02/msg00038.html

The gopher onion initiative project gopher://bitreich.org/1/onion

I have a new project! Podite >https://github.com/mdom/podite>, a cli podcatcher for users who want to choose which podcast to download :)

If you want to snarf up the Project Stargate documents, now is the time: https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/collection/crest-25-year-program-archive

Maybe the loss of net neutrality will revitalize interest in muni broadband projects, though they will be more expensive given the loss of common carrier status.

Lossy Text Compression | Hackaday.io https://hackaday.io/project/5689-lossy-text-compression