We published our 🏵️ June newsletter! Lots of new demos, friends, and capabilities added in June. See them all on our website: folk.computer/newsletters/...
i wish everything looked like 1980s computer magazines
I just got around to watching this. I love it so much. Looks amazing for game jams. Good job Lilith and congratulations to @inkandswitch.com for yet another smash hit.
Martin Kleppmann@martin.kleppmann.com · 2mo agoBackstitch (backstitch.dev) brings Automerge-based collaboration and version control to the Godot game engine. It's is vastly more usable than Git, and a lovely showcase of what Automerge can do. Great talk from Lilith Duncan introducing the project: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAJ_...
Anyone looking to use @folkcomputer.bsky.social for education in the fall or spring? Looking to partner with organizations on R&D (paid) and education outreach (pro bono via our non-profit!) :-)
I'm very skeptical that we have a way to measure "good schools" but people in my demographic always talk about it as an objective thing e.g. when house shopping.
Saleh never misses. This video in particular helped me solidify some of my thoughts around why we use paper so much in folk.computer. It will help me present it as a list of important interactions paper affords, instead of people walking away thinking "cool, paper computer."
Saleh@mskayyali.com · 2mo agoNew Video on Interface Studies What Every Productivity App Trades Away youtu.be/OuEKdD_1F8s?... As we chase the latest productivity systems, this video takes a step back to examine the fundamental trade-offs built into every productivity app.
There's no use leading a dead horse to water. You can't make him drink.
I hope to raise my kids such that, by the time they are 30 years old, they know better than to film themselves committing crimes and put it on YouTube.
New on Constraint Systems: Sphere Paint Multi-player painting without edge sphere-paint.constraint.systems A sphere is interesting because all points are continuous on all sides. You can respond, extend, or connect in any direction.
The good taxpayers of New York have given me a pair of Meta glasses because I am low vision disabled, and I seem to have used them more than a lot of people on here, so let me say a little about my experiences:
Katie Martin@katie0martin.ft.com · 3mo agoBAN THE PERVERT GLASSES
Fuel prices should be even higher, but only if that extra money goes to corrective spending. Right now it's going to big oil's shareholders. Potential corrective spending: - mass transit - active transportation - parks
Fun fact: "property damage" isn't mentioned anywhere in the Nonviolence Wikipedia article. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviol...
I just got caught up on the past couple days. What a lovely way to experience an epistolary novel!
depths of wikipedia@depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 3mo agofyi it started this week!
Frappe Snowland collage `Wish $this is snowing` is very hand wavy here. Maybe I'll post the code later.
90s: child puts cartridge in Gameboy and starts playing in seconds 2020s: parent has spent hours trying to get ipad accounts logged in and there is no end in sight
I just spent two weeks without a computer. This is 100% correct.
ari velazquez 🌯@arivelazquez.com · 4mo agoit's quite simple. phone is fake computer
"He has a mind of metal and wheels; and he does not care for living things, except as far as they serve him for the moment."
If Star Wars (a new hope) were released this year, lasers would've been first built in 2009.
Daniel Pipkin 🦥@danielpipk.in · 8mo agoLasers were first built in 1960. That's 15 years after the atomic bomb dropped. I always pictured them being an earlier 20th century invention. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser?w...
I wonder if the same people who look up to billionaires "because of all the value they've created" also think that car thieves are talented manufacturers.
My six year old was still awake at 1am feeling sad that nobody knows how to interpret quipu and nobody can teach him how to make them. Honestly, same.
"War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives." - Gen. Smedley Butler, a guy who knew war
A 2023 German psychiatric study found that playing Super Mario Odyssey significantly improved depressive symptoms in clinically depressed individuals compared to regular psychotherapeutic treatment, reducing depression by 43%.
Ramadan Mubarak and remember it's okay if you accidentally fall sometimes. youtu.be/aDdOchBejcc
Guy slips and accidentally eats Shawarma
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Only if that ancient evil brings the same energy as this demon when you scan it.
Omar Rizwan@omar.website · 6mo agoWhat if you sealed an ancient evil into a QR code