Alex Schroeder 🐝 @kensanata@octodon.social
#Emacs, #Wiki, #Switzerland, #Biology.
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@kensanata I think (hope?) that the worst days are behind us when it comes to kids not having a good path from play to programing. We went through a period where everything was locked down, windows or console gaming, no real customization in sight. But now, with easy robotics, Raspberry Pis, and competitive programing, it really feels like things have turned a corner. Even MineCraft feels like a step in the right direction, though not as far as a Pi robot
THIS article (same site, different guy) is more what you're looking for:
https://0xadada.pub/2017/02/18/encourging-individual-sovereignty-and-a-healthy-commons/
@kensanata You may also enjoy: https://0xadada.pub/2018/05/01/against-facebook/ The title is a little simplistic; it goes into an impressive amount of depth.
Teenagers these days grow up with a phone instead of MSDOS or a C64 and how will they ever learn to tinker? How can we transition from play to programming, allowing people to create their own games, like in the old days you could play on a MUD or MUSH (I liked MUSHes better!) and from text adventure to community to programming it had everything. And I want the same thing for the web and messaging. People writing bots. People writing CGI scripts or whatever. I want it all! I want it now!
#jura #switzerland (should I tag these pictures #schweiz #suisse #svizzera? Swiss problems…)
I’ve been running again, from Balsthal to Weissenstein.
#jura #switzerland
RT @BeautifulMaps@twitter.com: A map of Europe according to the number of people living abroad @indy100@twitter.com @Jessica_E_Brown@twitter.com map: @JakubMarian@twitter.com https://www.indy100.com/article/map-europe-number-people-living-abroad-emigration-jakub-marian-7556876
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/BeautifulMaps/status/1010806508446191616
@kensanata We have been trained on scarcity so much, even slacking off feels bad...
I miss buying obento at Japanese railway stations. https://www.bentolunch.net/
I was talking to a friend who was thinking about the internet we want to have, decentralized, less silos, a bit like the nineties where it was possible to have static pages, host email, write your own CGI scripts, and it was all step by step easy and possible if that was what you wanted. And we got talking about the kind of things we need to today to get this back. Do you have reading suggestions? Blogs to read? Projects? People to follow?
Why is the the military meddling in every single thing on this planet? I was reading up on instant coffee of all things and saw: "High-vacuum freeze-dried coffee was developed shortly after World War II, as an indirect result of wartime research into other areas." And now I'm afraid that soon enough somebody will tell me that coffee spread all around the globe because of The Great War or some other major human sacrifice.
Do you like flowers or relaxing #pixelart games? Then check out Flower Magic, my (first!) #PICO8 game!
Plant seeds, tend your flowers while they grow, and watch the seasons change over time. You can try to master the crossbreeding mechanic, discover how to grow all four Magic Flowers, or just relax with arranging your flowers.
The game is free with a pay-what-you-want option and is playable in your web browser, or with downloads for Windows, Mac and Linux.
This #bread used to be my favorite and it still is really good.
Going to spend two weeks in Sweden soon and so I’m starting to buy less food and not opening stuff that we can do without. Like... ground coffee! It’s going to be green tea every day until we’re in Sweden. I feel like this is a bad way to start our relationship, Sweden. I’m resenting this already. Bancha Kumamoto for breakfast it is.
The incomparable Andy Steward wrote a new #Emacs extension allowing us to run any #Qt program in Emacs to extend Emacs!? I’m just staring at the screenshots.
https://github.com/manateelazycat/emacs-application-framework
Interesting-looking "pseudo-academic paper" (in the author's own words) on the history of public access Unix systems:
2018 is the year in which I'm getting encrypted emails from more than one person! Whooooohoooo!
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