Why did I think this was frinklang.org like the websites occupy the same part of my brain
Frink
A practical calculating tool, unit conversion utility, and programming language designed to make physical calculations simple. It tracks units of measure (feet, meters, kilograms, watts, etc...
frinklang.org
Mark J. Nelson@mm-jj-nn.bsky.social · 3d agofuthark losing its strange status as a pure functional language that didn't support recursion (although it is still not encouraged)
There should be an equivalent of Letterboxd for buildings you’ve visited.
A fun image processing distraction today -- how to clean up the noisy background of a photo of a microfilm of a medieval manuscript? Thread, in which I use Photoshop, but similar tools are available in GIMP and other image processing software.
Dr. Erika Graham-Goering@jeanneologist.bsky.social · 2w agoGot a bit of a range in quality, though much of the same type—the first picture is more or less usable, the second is tough going (especially because a lot of the words are abbreviated, so it's important to see details).
Sorry for vanishing, we arrived at Glas for dinner 😉 As Katrine said they were making statements as masters of their craft; calling them “artists” in the modern sense would have bewildered them as alien to the world they worked in — and in any case “artista” was for grammarian/logician/rhetorician…
“nostalgic design”: the tendency to create something for their idealized childhood www.goodreads.com/review/show/... via @omar.website
feel like I should have a blog or something where I make a post every time I get sent the same link by 3+ different people
always feel a little gross when I have a Makefile target to actually run the program, not just to compile it
something that is particularly interesting is how much interface design relies on white lies -- computers are great examples, the icon and semiotics of "saving" a document has very little to do with what is actually happening. so cognitive abstractions for managing a ship being semi-reliable is fun
effects of HTML: - mood lift, euphoria - increased giggling and laughing - creative, philosophical or deep thinking: ideas flow more easily - boring tasks or entertainment can become more interesting or funny - sensation of insight - intense feelings of wonder
yeah, you can't program your phone from your phone and really be a peer of the Apple/Google software on it, so in some sense it's not a "computer" at all, it's closer to a video game console than a PC
ari velazquez 🌯@arivelazquez.com · 5mo agoit's quite simple. phone is fake computer
why are macs so obsessed with storing DSs anyway. Aren't they on the switch nowdays.
memory's gotten so expensive! still cheaper than forgetting, though
Paying my water bill on the city's blog.
introduction of end-to-end encryption to Facebook Messenger has made my life significantly worse
eee pc / other netbooks were cool category because for the first time they weren't 'laptop', where 'laptop' in the 2000s was a pretty expensive, slightly more portable replacement for a desktop
making an IDE might be harder than making an OS tbh
business goose🪿@goose.art · 5mo agothe templeOS of ides
This computer is the reason you can't download all software for free. The Franklin Computer Corp was a computer manufacturer founded in the early 1980s. Their flagship product was a clone of the Apple II, one of the most popular personal computers of the day. 1/4
Greetings from the Northwestern University Transportation Library, where Rachel just showed me the original!
Rachel Cole@rmartincole.bsky.social · 3y agoAll reports in this thread are from the collections of Northwestern University's Transportation Library. Materials we've digitized can generally be found in HathiTrust. Learn more and search our catalog here: www.library.northwestern.edu/libraries-co...
