If I have an image that has clearly been naïvely upscaled, is there a program that can reasonably reliably tell me what the “true” size is?

I present you klebe https://git.sr.ht/~noizhardware/klebe a small library to connect programs, has a common device memory and an audio process, no need for midi, osc, tdp, just throw bytes around!!

funny how a stack-based machine might actually be a welcoming environment for functional reactive programming #frp #coding #raven #666cpu

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My kid just uncovered a bug in a program I wrote by grabbing my laptop and smacking the keyboard a bunch. Biological input fuzzing; a real-life chaos monkey.

translating programs https://side-effects.neocities.org/technology/re-understanding-programming-forth.html

I wrote a ‘banner’-like program for Plan 9 (and p9p) that uses the Unicode box drawing characters: http://txtpunk.com/banner/index.html

SPACE PROGRAM SPACE PROGRAM // time to focus on mathematics, APL, and music

If [you take] a look at how APLers communicate when they have ideas, you see code all the time, all day long. The APL community is the only one I’ve seen that regularly can write complete code and talk about it fluently on a whiteboard between humans without hand waving. Even my beloved Scheme programming language cannot boast this. When working with humans on a programming task, almost no one uses their programming languages that primary communication method between themselves and other humans outside of the presence of a computer. That signals to me that they are not, in fact, natural, expedient tools for communicating ideas to other humans. The best practices utilized in most programming languages are, instead, attempts to ameliorate the situation to make the code as tractable and as manageable as possible, but they do not, primarily, represent a demonstration of the naturalness of those languages to human communication. — aaron hsu

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

i’d say in most cases, having another program in the mix is not the solution unless the problem is inherently technical and other software either misses the point, or solves a different (possibly overlapping) problem. its easy to think that hitting things with keyboards is a universal solution. especially if you have a lot of experience doing that. the common blindness of software people is the human elements that are often handled by other teams which eventually frame problems in technical terms for developers to deal with. then the naive developer goes home thinking they can replace the humans that make their work possible.

thanks to the peculiar tenacity of fixed-width typefaces, most programming languages can still be comfortably written on a 50-year-old typewriter. How’s that for backward compatibility?

Finally creating PHP programs using Composer and Twig templates

I’m going to call all “apps” programs again as part of my retro-computing experience.

I’ve been learning C from the second edition C Programming Language book by Kernighan and Ritchie. Good times.