Ramsey Nasser

تعي نقعد بالفي / مش لحدا هالفي

web: http://nas.sr
cooperative: https://emma.coop
code: https://git.sr.ht/~nasser
pronouns: he/him/هو

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2026-04-26 15:17:25 UTC

https://www.axios.com/2026/04/26/ai-cost-human-workers
so this will seem absurd if you are bought into the propaganda that the purpose of these technologies is to "cut costs" but makes perfect sense if you understand that the real pitch is that you don't have to deal with workers who have lives, might unionize, are not guaranteed to be obedient and docile.
it makes sense from the perspective of redirecting the current capital to labor flow of resources towards one that is capital to capital. paying the same amount of money, maybe even more, that goes to your friends at davos and aspen rather than filthy working programmers might be worth it.

2026-04-17 16:09:42 UTC

very good reference I got as feedback on my decentralized document system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tools_for_Conviviality relevant to people on this server and likely familiar to many but new to me!

2026-03-31 10:36:57 UTC

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I feel what happens more often is *specific sociopathic actors* take advantage of the collective resource and attempt to claim it for themselves, often destroying it in the process.
common land in england was not overused and depleted, it was enclosed, deliberately, by powerful actors, and taken away from commoners.
anarchic projects like the Paris Commune, Kronstadt, Catalonia, Rojava, Chiapas don't collapse under their own weight because they are not sustainable, they are destroyed from the outside, deliberately, by violent people for whom the success of an egalitarian society is an existential threat.
foss and the open web are not straining under the weight of individual over consumption, they're being attacked, deliberately, by malicious actors seeking gains and power.

2026-03-31 10:36:38 UTC

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the "tragedy of the commons" is a debunked economic idea that you can't have free access to a shared resource because "everyone is a self maximizing rational actor" and will overuse the shared resource to their own benefit and the detriment of others. this is simplistic and refuted by history.

2026-03-31 10:36:09 UTC

I'm thinking about the axios exploit, ai slop pr deluge, agents ddosing servers and apis, foss and the open web under attack from multiple angles...

2026-03-26 22:44:51 UTC

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take it from me, an Arab from Arabia: when white men talk about bringing you "democracy" they're probably trying to kill you

2026-03-26 22:34:49 UTC

so just to be totally clear AI is "democratizing" programming by taking something that used to free to do and making it so you pay a subscription fee to an American corporation to do it while being barred from ever actually understanding how it works, am I getting that right?

2026-03-20 11:16:12 UTC

graphite looks very cool but it also does not have any svg attribute editing capabilities, which is what i need 💔

2026-03-17 15:15:00 UTC

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this stuff is so fundamentally not why I got into computer graphics. writing a byte into a framebuffer and having it show up on screen is fucking magic. putting some data into a buffer on a GPU and writing a shader and seeing something cool is fucking magic. waiting on an american corporation's black box to interpret "complex scene semantics" to decide what to display is depressingly empty. it's a man in the middle attack on the creative process and it fucking sucks.

2026-02-21 03:10:24 UTC

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I'm so grateful you two exist

2026-02-19 23:28:40 UTC

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less delicious 😔

2026-02-19 21:20:38 UTC

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like olive oil or

2026-02-18 15:20:24 UTC

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very cool -- worth studying, thank you this is new to me.
from an initial read we are doing different things i would say. they seem to have their own transport layer which requires seed servers and i am piggybacking on existing code forges/git hosts for that purpose, which makes my approach considerably simpler at the cost of depending on existing infrastructure.

2026-02-17 22:16:25 UTC

im working on a decentralized software issues/pull requests thing that lives directly in git and works with all existing git hosts. it will work by running a command in your repo like
git todo web
which will open a local web server that serves a github/gitlab issues-like interface for you to use. you can take out new issues, comments on existing issues, etc.
theres a way to do this that runs in the browser without javascript. i know this is important to a lot of people. this whole thing becomes *a lot easier* to make and make extensible if i can use javascript though. so, a poll:
assuming such a thing is interesting to you in the first place, would you use it if it depended on javascript in the browser?

2026-02-02 11:59:36 UTC

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you two need to meet omg

2026-01-29 23:36:08 UTC

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I had a student once design a programming language in ogham 🙏

2026-01-29 14:33:12 UTC

sketching ideas for the decentralized notion/docs thing i want to prototype this year. its been on my mind for a while and ive posted about it a bunch, but the data structures are starting to really come together -- i think i see a way through it.
https://assets.merveilles.town/media_attachments/files/115/978/864/283/859/924/original/bf1f051ea46c11c8.png

2026-01-18 00:28:10 UTC

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this is the classic lisp argument of course 😞 smalltalk had operators but didn't fuck with precedence lol everything was left associative and you used parentheses if you wanted something else 💪

2026-01-18 00:07:26 UTC

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this is actually a pretty good encapsulation of the difference between "simple" and "easy" in the Rich Hickey definitions of those words. 1-based indexing is easy in the sense that it is familiar to the kind of counting we do in everyday life but it is less simple due to the edge cases it creates and the contingencies you need to work around them...

2026-01-17 23:49:22 UTC

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humans count starting at 1 because conceiving of nothing is difficult for our limited minds. that's not a reason to build your programming language semantics around it. and lua is designed to interface with c! its all 0-based because of course it is.

2026-01-17 23:47:47 UTC

getting murdered over here by lua's 1-based indexing wtf do you mean to correctly index into a table with modulo i need to do table[((n - 1) % #table) + 1] ??? self inflicted wounds

2025-12-09 16:40:15 UTC

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"Experiments matter. Not all seeds are going to sprout, but you have to try." <3

2025-12-03 16:37:45 UTC

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oh very interesting! yeah i am excited to dig into this. i think its a rich area for sure.

2025-12-03 16:35:29 UTC

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theyre not stacks theyre records, though in the paper they doooo behave a lot like stacks 🤔

2025-12-03 16:21:47 UTC

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interested in playing with a low level representation where functions can just take one argument -- like the lambda calculus -- but that argument might be a polymorphic record, which feels very expressive and maps nicely onto higher level "sugar" like multiple positional arguments, default arguments, optional argument, keyword arguments etc

2025-12-03 15:27:09 UTC

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goul stands for "game oriented unusual lisp" as a joke on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Oriented_Assembly_Lisp. also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghoul -- a ghoul are monstrous jinn. it's a good joke I think.

2025-12-03 15:25:35 UTC

could be an opportunity to explore some of the ideas around jn in a context where I am pushed towards prototyping and finishing something. could make a bastardized version of jn called goul that plays with records and overloading. I'm also interested in coroutines and state machines but that's less experimental to me, I think I know how to make those work at this point. could also make it into goul if there was time.

2025-12-02 18:23:34 UTC

https://langjamgamejam.com/
are you fucking kidding me

2025-11-27 14:23:42 UTC

the practice of writing software is actively under attack. this pull request is insane.
https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/14369

2025-11-18 13:10:17 UTC

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I'll grant that computers today do things that are categorically more complex than anything previous generations attempted. I'll grant that so much of Chuck Moore's work was predicated on character sets, that would only encode Latin characters, and modern computing needing to deal with Unicode, non-latin text rendering, non-western dates and calendars, different kinds of networking etc etc yes I'll grant that that's all more complex. I don't find the increased complexity of computers depressing, I find the abandonment of the project of soundness depressing.
I thoroughly believe that we can do complex things in a sound way. computers randomly breaking is not a given. it just takes time and dedication and focus, things that that above all else I blame our economic system for being unable to provide.

2025-11-18 13:06:57 UTC

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and beyond just the triumph of capital over any alternative, it really breaks my heart that computers are just objectively worse today than they were in the time of Chuck Moore. I try and not be an old man yelling at the cloud about this but we've given up on stability, soundness, maintainability. these are non-goals of modern computing, sacrificed at the altar of shareholder value.
it is wild that an official update of the operating system could break otherwise working code in a way that is impossible to determine even what is happening, let alone what to do to fix it. but this is what we've come to expect. computers break all the time, software breaks all the time, stuff crashes, you restart, whatever. and this isn't even factoring in the incoming wave of vibe-coded systems which make no attempt at correctness.
this isn't what computing was, there were attempts -- serious attempts! -- at developing theory and practice to build systems that were stable and correct in the face of usage and updates. we put half a century into that. and now we live in a kind of collective surrender. it's really depressing. as someone who has dedicated a life to computing, it's really fucking depressing.

2025-11-18 13:00:50 UTC

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the indignity of putting these people through the tedium and stupidity of modern computing is also really jarring. these are people that imagined a different kind of computing, a kind of future that never got built, that got sidelined in favor of advertisements in the start menu, applications with in-app purchases, the global network as a mall, capital over computing.
and they've lived long enough to see it play out. Joe Armstrong talked about wrestling with grunt and gulp from the JavaScript ecosystem in one of his last talks. I've had the pleasure of working with Larry Cuba and most of our difficulties have been wrangling python package management on Windows. and now Chuck Moore gets his life work sniped to death by a random Windows update.
modern computers are a mess of accidental complexity and these are people that represented something different, living long enough to watch something worse become mainstream.

2025-11-18 12:56:10 UTC

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I'm having a lot of feelings about this. on one hand I have a *very* soft spot in my heart for these aging wizards who insist on doing things their own way. I very much see myself in them, in that insistence, and they are the kind of person I aspire to age into. watching them get thwarted is like watching an aspirational version of my future self get thwarted and it breaks my heart.

2025-11-18 12:54:45 UTC

on a zoom call Chuck Moore the author of Forth announced that Windows updates have rendered his otherwise working colorForth system inoperable and unfixable. moving to another operating system would amount to a rewrite. as a result he said it's "time to move on" from Forth.
several people on the call thanked him for changing their lives with his language, for giving them a lifetime of joyful work and a powerful simple way of thinking about computing, to which he responded "I can only hope it was worthwhile"

2025-11-16 17:35:09 UTC

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total insanity over there

2025-11-05 16:47:07 UTC

yesterday we elected a mayor who is a muslim, a socialist, an immigrant, and unapologetic about any of it. he ran on socialist ideas and anti-zionism and won. the entire political establishment moved mountains to stop him and failed. they trotted out some of the most disgusting islamophobic trash i've ever seen, and he spoke arabic during his victory speak over them.
i am still an anarchist and i still view electoral politics and leaders with suspicion, but this is a very big deal. i really love this weird town and how it manages to keep surprising.

2025-09-21 16:26:49 UTC

:airhorn: 📢 :airhorn: 📢 :airhorn: 📢 :airhorn: 📢 :airhorn: 📢
FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING
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2025-09-21 16:25:58 UTC

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is that emoji or local to merv??

2025-09-21 16:19:09 UTC

there should be an airhorn emoji

2025-08-25 15:29:21 UTC

inevitable at this point that i will write my own vm that does asynchrony and coroutines exactly like i want 😔

2025-08-05 17:46:03 UTC

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🔥

2025-08-03 21:07:23 UTC

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life changer

2025-08-02 23:16:06 UTC

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☠️☠️☠️ sorry you're in the same boat!! I'm going to try and chroot from a USB and I'll post my progress

2025-08-02 21:43:09 UTC

wow, because of a pretty significant reorganization of some firmware packages that I should have paid more attention to my full system update I did this morning knocked out my Wi-Fi and my ethernet which leaves me a state where I can't really do anything... this is maybe the worst linux snafu I've had in half a decade

2025-07-25 16:09:42 UTC

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🤝

2025-07-25 15:57:24 UTC

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my hottest of takes is that python, through its unique intersection of ubiquity, good PR, and unfixable bad design decisions, has held back computing for thirty years 😔

2025-06-25 03:37:59 UTC

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cannot put into words what this means to me as a socialist *and" a muslim new yorker. I didn't think this was possible. holy shit. this city still has kick and it's worth fighting for. let's fucking go.

2025-06-25 03:18:36 UTC

MAMDANI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2025-06-13 11:13:02 UTC

not to pontificate too much but: the ethos that people should be empowered to solve their own problems together by freely associating into short- or long-lived collaborations is the foundation of free software. it also works. modern computing does not happen without self-directed volunteers working together to make it happen. we have 30+ years of evidence at this point.
the roc package was broken in the AUR. i didn't need anyone's permission to fix it. the original maintainer made me co-maintainer. i merged my changes into the original package. i do not know this person, we'll probably never meet, but we collaborated and Arch Linux is better for it. computing is kept afloat by a million interactions like this.
and like... this is anarchism. if anyone asks or is confused as to what it is, this is it. with 200+ years of theory about how to think about it and manage problems and scale etc but this is The Thing as far as i can tell. people solving problems together without coercion or central coordination.
committed anarchists make the leap of observing the effectiveness and morality of this kind of organizing and ask how to scale it to other aspects of society, to all aspects. and there are answers to those questions. but it feels like a big deal to me that modern computing in large part is made possible by a kind of informal anarchist organizing.
a persistent frustration of mine is free software people struggling to make the bridge between the two, and i blame anti-left american propaganda and a limited western educational systems...

2025-06-11 19:26:08 UTC

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and the hill i will die on re sourcehut is: using email in part because of its ubiquity but expecting people to reconfigure their mail clients first counteracts the ubiquity, and arguably eliminates it.
there is a *universe* between "just email this address with issues" and "just email this address with issues but first go into your email settings and make sure HTML output is disabled. its different in each client, in GMail......"

2025-06-11 19:12:38 UTC

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similar results from gmail -- it sends html + plain text out. i will reach out but this seems like such an obvious omission that its deliberate.

2025-06-11 19:05:48 UTC

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i use fastmail 🤷 didnt have to do anything to make it happen i dont think

2025-06-11 18:59:44 UTC

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yeah totally! but I just checked and my mail client always sends a plain text variant along with the HTML variant. messages like that still get rejected. why not just use the plain text variant if it's there, and complain if it's not?

2025-06-11 18:55:32 UTC

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sourcehut comes *very* close to offering something like this but they remain bizarrely committed to the rejection of the presence of any HTML in any email they receive, even if there is plain text available.
I really don't understand this positionality they take. I can wrap my head around rejecting email that exclusively has HTML content, but rejecting emails that *have plain text variants* in favor of... asking people to reconfigure their email clients as a prerequisite for using sourcehut is just... like I said, bizarre. I feel like I'm missing something.

2025-06-11 18:52:53 UTC

I seriously dislike the email-based git workflow and vastly prefer pull requests between publicly visible git repositories, possibly hosted on different platforms.
the remaining issue (no pun intended) is how to track issues and pull requests. issue tracking on GitHub, GitLab, Gitea etc all require accounts on the server to interact with the repository, which hobbles the distributed nature of git. I've occasionally thought about a kind of ActivityPub based issue tracker which would be a major improvement but still require an account somewhere on the fediverse.
thinking through it this afternoon I'm starting to wonder if an email-based *issue tracker* is maybe the way to go. preserving the distributed nature of git, but using email as a ubiquitous decentralized(ish) messaging platform just for conversation and coordination, not to throw patches around. that could be interesting and could work?

2025-06-01 14:28:47 UTC

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honestly for me it's mostly been links to press covering my work? something really sad and aging about the extinction of media outlets that were once evidence of my relevance...

2025-06-01 03:33:55 UTC

aging is replacing links on your portfolio page with wayback machine links 🧓

2025-05-23 17:23:40 UTC

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re: pedagogy I really worry about equipping new programmers with semantics that are effectively dead ends. what I'm getting to in my rant is that I'm thinking of a coroutine first approach to teaching interactive software which has the benefits of looking exactly like "normal programming" with local variables and function calls and the like but running across time and frames and being able to react to input fluidly. this feels to me like something you can actually iteratively build your skills on, as opposed to something that will run you into a wall and force you to pivot into something fairly different.

2025-05-23 17:21:05 UTC

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I think it's largely historical for sure, but that's not a great excuse to shortchange new programmers...

2025-05-23 16:07:46 UTC

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so students and experienced people are in a kind of draw the rest of the owl situation, almost immediately. so what do they do? a kind of smattering of things, none too good honestly.
"global" variables are an easy way to get state across frames, but without any principled notion of a state machine that kind of code will tend towards a random smattering of boolean flags and numbers that are written to and read from ad hoc at random places in the program. each of these solves an immediate problem contributes to a broader closing of doors down the line and painting you into a corner.
I put "global" in quotes because this also applies to things like public mutable members on unity components and things that are technically not global but *effectively* global, in that the search space when things go wrong with them tends towards the whole program.

2025-05-23 16:03:05 UTC

somewhat related to the p5.js discourse that's been going around I've been thinking about update loops and how limiting they are when people building interactive software/creative code are almost invariably actually building state machines.
frameworks like processing, p5, openframeworks, even engines like unity basically bottom out on the idea that you are going to write a function that is going to be called once a frame. that's what separates interactive software from event driven software like servers and batch processing software like command line utilities. the thing runs independent of user action, driven by the passage of time itself.
so at the ground level this makes sense, a frame locked update loop is unavoidable. but with nothing else all you can really do with that is build *functions of time*. this is fine for simple animations, the kind of stuff you see in into processing materials, and by reading from input each frame you can do a little more than that, but you still don't really have a story for *state* that outlives the frame.
how do you make different levels? menus? change the gameplay after certain events happen? more importantly, how do you build any of those things in a way that allows you *to continue to iterate* as the project grows and you get new ideas?
these are all state machines, and an update loop alone is not enough to express them. and update loops are all you get in most frameworks.

2025-05-04 21:35:17 UTC

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🐍 🗡️

2025-05-04 21:18:46 UTC

honestly 9/10 of my arch linux system update issues are python packages. totally busted ecosystem.

2025-04-27 12:43:02 UTC

when talking about coops i sometimes get asked "but what if someone takes advantage of the system?" almost like a checkmate...
the simple response is that there are mechanisms to deal with abuse and bad actors. but also: this issue isnt unique to cooperatives. what do we do we do if someone takes advantage *right now* of the system we already have?
we reward it. we call them a "boss" and allocate them more resources than others. we give them a better life, multiple homes, better education for their children. we give them more medical care and make sure they live as long as possible. we put them on the cover of magazines and make movies about their lives. we raise kids to hold them up as heroes and aspire to be like them. we make them into "presidents" and "kings" and give them unlimited power to hurt maim and kill. we fucking reward it.
coops and anti-hierarchical organizing are not oblivious to abuse, theyre designed pretty explicitly to counteract it and work towards true egalitarianism. and what we have now *explicitly celebrates and rewards sociopathy* so anyone genuinely concerned about this should be a fucking anarchist.

2025-04-26 01:06:46 UTC

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hashtag blessed

2025-04-26 01:04:49 UTC

wait firefox supports webmidi!? that changes fucking everything omg

2025-04-13 18:45:31 UTC

this weekend i managed to finish giving the gaza memorial a fediverse presence 🙏
@npub1ayc…mpnj
the bot will post one recording of a martyr's name from the memorial every day. please follow to keep them in your hearts and to keep the ongoing genocide on your mind. boosts welcome.
and as always if you feel moved to contribute your voice, please do at https://contribute.gaza.memorial/

2025-03-18 02:54:14 UTC

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❤️

2025-03-06 02:56:18 UTC

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I think it's an electron fuck up

2025-03-06 01:06:29 UTC

extremely funny how copy paste is broken in vs code and its ruining my life lmfao

2025-03-05 16:14:45 UTC

is there anything like a tracker for videos? like instead of audio samples I'm triggering, playing backwards, mixing etc it's video clips? a video tracker?

2025-02-19 19:43:35 UTC

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yeah im realizing this is a similar brain tickle to what drove me to play with scheme bricks, which is probably what i want.

2025-02-19 19:00:22 UTC

thinking about syntax for live coding performances again. i think it should fundamentally be a lisp, but i have yet to find a lisp editor that i feel fluent and fast in. the various paredits i have used are fine but not for the high stress, high velocity coding that happens on stage, at least for me. if anything the shift+9 combo to open parentheses is quite clumsy.
heres a sketch of a syntax that is basically a lisp with significant newlines whitespace and semicolons for expression grouping, still allowing for parentheses of course. is this just ML?
https://assets.merveilles.town/media_attachments/files/114/032/088/641/086/199/original/3f465b29622926a3.png

2025-01-14 18:51:11 UTC

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i mean im not surprised either but i also kind of am? "they minted an esoteric programming language" is going to be my go to example of "they will stop at nothing to usurp value from the world"

2025-01-14 18:44:09 UTC

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wait capitalism depends on the enclosure of things held in common/held by others huh that sounds bad and like we should not do it as a society

2025-01-14 18:36:52 UTC

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gross wtf

2025-01-10 12:08:29 UTC

corporations are not inevitable. capitalism is not inevitable. anyone telling you that they are has something to gain by reproducing the oppressive systems we live under.
if you want to do things there are ways to do them without serving the wealthy and creating hierarchies between you and your collaborators. it is incumbent on you to explore those alternatives. you have to be as creative in your social and labor organizing as you are in your craft, probably more so.

2025-01-04 22:55:24 UTC

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if you read the w3c spec closely this is correct/idiomatic behavior

2024-12-18 18:46:30 UTC

fuck it happened i am in a situation where i do actually need to reverse a linked list

2024-11-26 00:58:21 UTC

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i refuse to let fascists colonize the ASCII codepage 🔪

2024-11-25 22:10:43 UTC

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omg wtf

2024-11-20 21:46:41 UTC

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It has turned out that the world just does not suffer significantly from the kind of problem that our research was originally intended to solve.
this is pretty titanic and sums up so much of what is wrong with software and computer science: just because a problem is theoretically interesting and/or rigorous and/or fun to work on *has no bearing whatsoever* on its usefulness in the real world. none. theyre unrelated. sometimes they overlap, cool, but they are not correlated.
you have to do a kind of analysis that engineers are not equipped to do. its a kind of design research that involves understanding your intended audience and their challenges. its deeply human and subjective and i was only exposed to it when working towards my MFA.
something about one of the titans of thought of computer science working for decades only to realize his formal systems -- while intellectually thorough and interesting! -- didnt solve anyone's problems. he just assumed they would. but he never asked. something about that to me feels like The Whole Story.

2024-11-20 21:42:43 UTC

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everyone knows the billion dollar mistake quote but i think this one is more critical
Ten years ago, researchers into formal methods (and I was the most mistaken among them) predicted that the programming world would embrace with gratitude every assistance promised by formalisation to solve the problems of reliability that arise when programs get large and more safety-critical. Programs have now got very large and very critical – well beyond the scale which can be comfortably tackled by formal methods. There have been many problems and failures, but these have nearly always been attributable to inadequate analysis of requirements or inadequate management control. It has turned out that the world just does not suffer significantly from the kind of problem that our research was originally intended to solve.

2024-11-20 21:41:00 UTC

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first guest: tony hoare

2024-11-20 21:32:39 UTC

a podcast that gets into the weeds on programming language theory and implementation: "null and void"

2024-10-21 00:46:04 UTC

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😬 😬 😬 feel better!!

2024-10-13 22:19:59 UTC

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omfg

2024-10-13 22:07:04 UTC

got through the backlog of submissions to https://notarabic.com/ 🙏

2024-09-30 14:29:31 UTC

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🌊 🦀 🤔 🗺️ ⛵ 🦀 🌊
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2024-09-30 14:21:55 UTC

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safe travels!

2024-09-27 17:51:15 UTC

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or maybe this is impossible /undesirable to do at the language level for reasons that aren't obvious to me.

2024-09-27 17:47:34 UTC

is there any language that is reactive by default? the semantics of vue are really great for a lot of different kinds of systems but you have to do everything through javascript syntax/proxies which is a bit tedious. i was wondering if any language supported eg
let a = 2
let b = a * 2
print(b) // 4
a = 8
print(b) // 16
at the language level

2024-09-19 15:20:19 UTC

unprompted reminder that I mostly post technical/aesthetic things here but I am Lebanese and Arab and I've been living under the weight of existential grief and horror as zionism murders my kin and the world applauds. this isn't theoretical, had the bombs fallen a bit differently in 2006 I wouldn't be here nor my body of work. I lose sleep thinking about all of the brilliant artists and programmers we have lost under the rubble of Gaza and Beirut. resist zionism and genocide, free Palestine ✌️

2024-09-09 18:05:46 UTC

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I know that the byte code behind the C# virtual machine is a stack language and they have a system to perform what they call verification of bytecode that does something like this, the only other thing I can think of

2024-09-09 16:36:23 UTC

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compiler enforced stack safety is something ive wondered about a lot and its *very* exciting to see a practical implementation!

2024-08-27 23:40:15 UTC

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it's nice because it's short, transliterates cleanly, punchy like 'wiki' or 'blog' or 'repo'

2024-08-27 23:34:38 UTC

i dont have a name for the decentralized collaborative cooperative crdt data structure wiki docs thing built on anarchist principles i am noodling on. working title is sawa from arabic سوا meaning "together" but i am not sure.

2024-08-27 00:13:52 UTC

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😮

2024-08-26 21:18:01 UTC

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what would you share at OWT if it was a thing?

2024-08-26 20:59:05 UTC

how about a small speaker series called One Weird Trick (OWT) that has people who do cool computer art share one specific trick theyre proud of from a project