⟅ June ⟆

The more I see the infection spread, the more I want to build bigger and stronger walls to contain it.
Fuck LLMs, fuck generative models, and fuck centrist positions.

2025-07-23 03:45:06 UTC

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peanuts of hanoi

2025-07-19 22:59:18 UTC

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Get the hazmat suit, it'll get worse from here..

2025-07-09 23:41:59 UTC

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They look so polite.

2025-07-08 01:34:05 UTC

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"Let's see Paul Allen's can opener.."

2025-07-08 01:28:21 UTC

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Can opener meta getting heavy.

2025-07-03 16:26:47 UTC

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Makes me wonder if someone's built a collaborative mixing deck you can share over the net.

2025-06-11 20:47:36 UTC

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Emergent complexity is a ticking time-bomb and few things already built are immune to it. Message passing was always messy, formats even moreso.

2025-05-27 23:15:19 UTC

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I remember us talking about what Modal would be like in other languages, especially Uxn. We spoke of it as if it was a dream.
A year later you did it.
:tealheart:

2025-05-23 03:19:15 UTC

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Way faster than I expected, too! :tealheart:

2025-05-23 03:18:39 UTC

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The source code for this particular program.
https://gist.casuallyblue.dev/wryl/3e42141d7a4a494e82d78ca3d03853ae

2025-05-22 23:17:20 UTC

Flocks of colors.
#nova #theWorkshop
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2025-05-05 21:23:26 UTC

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I would absolutely love to buy a working Uxn reference and "cookbook". Something I could carry with me between systems.

2025-05-02 01:00:42 UTC

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Weaponized joy against fascists. I'm down with this.

2025-05-02 00:54:16 UTC

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Kazoo and megaphone. Enough said.

2025-04-14 03:17:15 UTC

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It's one of my favorite movies of all time. I'm scheduled for a re-watch. It kept me working on Nova through last spring, and it's the right time of year for it again!

2025-04-13 22:44:14 UTC

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A similar vibe comes from Moneyball. "It's a process, it's a process, it's a process."
https://youtu.be/5AGY0Y1OiF4

2025-04-07 00:40:50 UTC

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Thank you! It was really fun to scribble stuff and have it turn into something I could explore! Thanks for hosting #flickjam! ^^

2025-04-07 00:19:04 UTC

A short hike leads you to a dark cave.
You've never noticed it before.
You've walked this trail hundreds of times.
A look around wouldn't hurt..
https://wryl256.itch.io/a-dark-cave
#flickjam

2025-04-03 23:37:25 UTC

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It was, in fact, not styling bullshit.

2025-04-03 23:25:20 UTC

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It is, but I'm hoping that it's just some styling bullshit..

2025-03-29 03:54:09 UTC

I can't even describe what a terrible day it's been.
I nearly choked to death on coffee, splattering it all over my laptop.
A single droplet managed to get on the laptop's LCD driver circuit, causing it to bug out. The panel now strobes in a seizure inducing pattern, and I can't afford to replace it right now. (It's $159 and I can't pay my rent this month.)
I slipped and fell on some stairs and cracked my elbow and nose. Thankfully my phone is fine, but I wasn't.
I don't have enough spare parts to repair the old Thinkpads I could salvage from my garage. My old corporate issued M1 MacBook Pro is still owned by the corporation that let me off in 2023, so I can't repurpose it.
My partner hasn't used their laptop in several months, so they offered to let me take refuge on it for now. Except it's now randomly kernel panicking after an upgrade and experiencing storage errors. I don't have another drive to swap to, either.
So in the span of a day, I lost use of my machine, a backup machine, nearly drowned just by EXISTING, and just about broke my nose.
I need a hug.

2025-03-29 03:44:55 UTC

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: :neofox_angry:

2025-03-29 03:39:12 UTC

I hate computers.

2025-03-22 18:20:35 UTC

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Joyeux anniversaire!~ :tealheart:
Thank you for being you. I'm really lucky to have met you and to know you. You inspire many and are a really wonderful person.
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2025-03-17 23:41:02 UTC

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Congratz! 💜

2025-01-30 01:27:40 UTC

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"The future is in the past."

2025-01-23 03:28:07 UTC

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HELLO QOOH!

2025-01-20 23:12:32 UTC

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Always a pleasure! And it's thankfully pretty intense in the description of the opcodes. You'll find a lot more detail here.

2025-01-20 23:09:37 UTC

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Whup, my bad, yeah. There's another reference manual that goes over the system architecture.
There should be enough info to at least build a simulator here.
https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_goodyearsteManualJan73_7988698/mode/2up

2025-01-20 23:06:23 UTC

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Have you seen the programming manual?
https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_goodyearstgrammingManualJun72_8485601/page/n43/mode/2up

2025-01-20 23:04:21 UTC

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I wish. The Goodyear MPP may have more resources, as it was denser and more widely available.

2025-01-20 22:59:38 UTC

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Have you seen the STARAN reference manual?

2025-01-20 22:57:35 UTC

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It's what rewriting languages crave!

2025-01-20 01:23:17 UTC

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[GOBLIN WEEK ACTIVATED]
DEPLOY ALL GOBLINS

2025-01-14 19:02:31 UTC

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I'm just glad they were kind enough to explain it! Nicest raid I've ever seen.

2025-01-14 03:53:30 UTC

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Never apologize for being enthusiastic. Succumbing to apathy is worse.

2025-01-12 22:00:46 UTC

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Agreed. We use it casually, but it is incredibly costly.
Here's a fantastic article digging into the DIV instruction on some modern chips.
https://specbranch.com/posts/faster-div8/

2025-01-11 20:35:56 UTC

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Lovely! 💜
I still have the one I was gifted as a kid. At this point it's an heirloom!

2025-01-08 18:46:50 UTC

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Thank you for that! Slipped my mind.

2024-12-25 16:50:39 UTC

Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas to Merveilles and others from near and far! 🎄
May your festivities be as restful or energetic as you like, and may you be surrounded by those that make your lives, and your hearts, full. 💜

2024-12-06 18:12:26 UTC

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`wryl`, reporting for duty.

2024-12-05 07:28:41 UTC

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Good catch! Have a lovely show! Can't wait to hear any recordings if there are any. 💜

2024-12-02 19:40:56 UTC

The transcript for Democratizing Software is now available.
https://wryl.tech/log/2024/democratizing-software.html

2024-11-25 21:24:19 UTC

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Terry Urbit, cousin to John Mastodon.

2024-11-25 18:35:42 UTC

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:misc: :tridot: :horadric: :trisight:

2024-11-24 20:16:20 UTC

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You introduced so many people to the mythos of these works, and I heard nothing but inspiration and glowing passion from those in attendance, virtual or in-person.
The doors are wide open, and the frontier is out there. Bravo!

2024-11-20 17:47:41 UTC

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Nice! I'm at the venue now.

2024-11-06 22:10:00 UTC

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People are hungry for a simpler, yet equally effective, method of computing that those of all ages can understand.

2024-11-06 03:34:02 UTC

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I keep being surprised. Every time I say "that could work", you conjure things like this from the void.
Really amazing, bravo. 💜

2024-10-31 02:42:20 UTC

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Thank you so much for your work on this, both of you. It's so exciting to see this come together in such a short time. To think this didn't exist a week ago.
This is the future.

2024-10-31 02:20:40 UTC

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Haha, as much as I'd like to, I'm gonna save my voice for the two days after!

2024-10-31 02:01:45 UTC

I'm incredibly pleased to announce that I'll be giving my first talk in a long, long while at Handmade Seattle this year, titled Democratizing Software.
We'll be covering the widespread, unanticipated effects of the software crisis, and talk both social and technical solutions to it.
We'll talk about how we, as an industry, have been pulling up the ladder behind us, and how to build new ladders for the curious.
Let's go flatten some mountains. See you there.
https://handmadecities.com/seattle/
⦶
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2024-10-30 19:34:55 UTC

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This is just the beginning of good things. So cool to see this in action. 💜

2024-10-28 06:06:23 UTC

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FRACTRAN hides, quite ingeniously, a tiny register machine underneath its numeric exterior.
If you break down any number into its prime factorization, you can treat the prime numbers as registers, and the exponents attached to each prime as the values in each register. The factorization forms a multiset.
Therefore, instead of using primes for the "names" of these registers, it's possible for us to use human readable names for them, which is where our notations come from.

2024-10-27 17:27:04 UTC

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If you add double the slots, I can build tic-tac-toe.

2024-10-26 22:18:47 UTC

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Absolutely beautiful, thank you for working on this.
Just a taste of things to come. Brings new meaning to "symbolic programming".

2024-09-24 18:11:36 UTC

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It makes sense, though. A program without an initial input won't do anything.
The initial state of the program informs you about the possible control flow, up to a point.

2024-09-24 17:47:05 UTC

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You would need to infer this based on the initial state of the program, so if I handed you...
w x y z potato
I couldn't fuse those rules together, and the first rule would win out.

2024-09-20 23:01:52 UTC

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The boundaries between models of computation are arbitrary, enforced by history.
Breaking them is advisable, even encouraged.

2024-09-18 17:05:50 UTC

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Computational side quests are the spice of life! 😉

2024-09-01 19:57:02 UTC

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Now all you'd need is a multiplication routine written in this style, and a bit of scaffolding, and you have a rudimentary self-interpreter!

2024-09-01 18:32:26 UTC

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Absolutely relatable. I only really "got" the concept about 3 years after I started digging into it!

2024-09-01 08:23:46 UTC

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It's a really subtle case of multi-set rewriting. Because rewrite rules can be formulated over any kind of structure, it's easy to swap other structures in.
FRACTRAN, Petri Nets, some fragments of linear logic, and Nova all share the backing structure of "an unordered bag of things, which can have duplicate items".
It's really neat once you start examining the consequences, because of the things in the bag have some structure, you can pattern-match them.
Then anything is possible.

2024-08-30 16:34:42 UTC

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I regret nothing! 🤣