An excellent article about learning management systems: https://www.thenation.com/article/society/canvas-surveillance/

@prologic@twtxt.net @antonio@twtxt.net I have been trying out session. Its got a pretty simple design. not a lot of frills.

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I keep going back ‘n’ forth on whether to experiment with Pleroma on my Pi. :-) A Tildes post on the sad news that Feneas is struggling has rekindled the fire, oddly. I just like knowing, first-hand, what’s involved in running these services; I feel it makes me a better yarn.social advocate. ^⨰^

Sunset I saw a few days ago

https://www.vice.com/en/article/qj8d9q/sex-workers-explain-why-the-safe-tech-act-will-break-the-internet

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org @adi@twtxt.net @prologic@twtxt.net @movq@www.uninformativ.de Awesome man! Welcome to the Go coding for work club!

Distinguishing a program’s return value from its side effects: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/106045532928000526

@jlj@twt.nfld.uk excellent! We could add a translate twt for twts of another language to the UI with this.

@xuu@txt.sour.is Is this of any use? https://libretranslate.com/ – Congrats on the new job!

@prologic@twtxt.net @adi@twtxt.net @jlj@twt.nfld.uk @readfog I too would love to see the “internal” package decrease and clearly defined / modular packages increase.

https://www.state.gov/international-roma-day/

Just over a week left to apply to Summer of Code. Plan 9 is in there, and ~200 other good orgs. Go apply and tell students you know. https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-30/five-ways-to-make-u-s-streets-less-deadly

A World Without Apps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntaudUum06E

see also https://sunshinegardens.org/~xj9/chaotic-software/

Towards A Communal Software Movement https://communalsoftware.codeberg.page/

@prologic@twtxt.net I would to build a Chinese version, have you considered supporting different languages? I translated a README file.

Browser tabs — https://dbohdan.com/browser-tabs

A calm, reasoned take on the Stallman situation (some language warning as the creator doesn’t mind dropping an F-bomb now and then): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLHxY-QsQkQ

Not even a little. So pumped. https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tf20bce89ef96d4b6-M63f81768e4ffdfa4df402ec5/transfer-of-plan-9-to-the-plan-9-foundation

Plan 9 Foundation is making the historical 1st through 4th editions of Plan 9 available under the terms of the MIT license. https://marc.info/?l=9fans&m=161650489113326&w=2

We built a wind powered vehicle designed to go directly downwind - faster than the wind. This is the second run of our first outing. We intended these first attempts only as shakeout runs. But we ended up doing better than our ultimate goal of twice windspeed. As a result, we’ve now set our goal at 3X windspeed. https://vimeo.com/10477373

this is beautiful https://github.com/shinh/sedlisp

the forth memory model https://side-effects.neocities.org/forth/memory-model.html

Playing around with #GLSL #shaders and webcam in #KodeLife

Bookmarking this to read over a few more times. https://dave.cheney.net/practical-go/presentations/qcon-china.html #practical #GO

ok i think i’ve repaired the commit history in hg, seems i was doing some unusual stuff in there https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry2Scd8Aips

We welcome prospective students to submit their own ideas, but we’ve got a page full of suggestions: http://p9f.org/wiki/gsoc-2021-ideas/index.html

Plan 9 is GSoC! 🎉🐇 I’ve missed participating this program. https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Ta35cde1382617430-M32af07f289087f227189b74f/plan-9-in-summer-of-code

9rpi memex is coming along

Live coding #improviz

“Choice, Consequence and Complicity” — https://dbohdan.com/choice-consequence-complicity

@adi@twtxt.net I am not. :-)

@adi@twtxt.net Some linux; how does one tell which?

I wonder what OS http://tilde.club/ is running.

peak aesthetic

Let’s talk about Congress limiting Biden - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivDc53KNAa0

Genetically Modifying Yeast, Then Baking With Them! - Beta Carotene Yeast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHNPnO5UOYQ

sunshinegardens.org/~xj9 is ONLINE, but missing some content. i am in the process of converting my bbweb proxy into a static site generator so i can just rsync the assets rather than host a daemon. https://src.ix.cyb.red/gemweb/

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org (#hut4mnq) I am so sorry for you. I left my Java job for Go. Though through “restructuring” its become a Python job.

“The art of destroying software” — https://dbohdan.com/art-of-destroying-software

Apocalypse Now Redux — https://dbohdan.com/apocalypse-now

Jonathan Blow on game design — https://dbohdan.com/jonathan-blow

Emotion and representation in level design — https://dbohdan.com/emotion-in-level-design

Dangerous Corner — https://dbohdan.com/dangerous-corner

Homestuck — https://dbohdan.com/homestuck

“CODASYL Data-Base Management Systems” — https://dbohdan.com/codasyl

Nonviolent Communication — https://dbohdan.com/nonviolent-communication

“On the Origin of Posers” — https://dbohdan.com/origin-of-posers