alex

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2026-04-01 02:30:22 UTC

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I've been writing more or less full time for a month now, the distance from code helps me realize how much I was doing things I didnt really enjoy!

2026-04-01 02:24:43 UTC

reading pokemon source code decompilations is really fun. I am enjoying C and assembly. I am doing much less coding lately, and only 'recreationally'

2026-02-28 18:18:45 UTC

permacomputing meetup is tomorrow! https://alexwennerberg.com/permacomputing.html

2026-02-17 16:27:00 UTC

collapse OS gb port
https://assets.merveilles.town/media_attachments/files/116/086/904/697/883/037/original/14aa032386a19563.png

2026-02-12 16:47:19 UTC

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any good forth IRC channels aide from ##forth in libera?

2026-02-05 03:40:38 UTC

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for real, that and string parsing
this library seems pretty nice though, it's basically just storing integers as if they were counted strings

2026-02-05 03:36:58 UTC

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I also have not tested it yet so idk if it works
this has been a blocker for doing advent of code in UF, since all the problems annoyingly seemed to require dealing with numbers larger than 32 bit !
my other thought was to do a 64 bit 'double double' but the stack stuff for that just seemed too weird

2026-02-05 03:35:26 UTC

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https://www.taygeta.com/fsl/library/big.fth :)
https://git.sr.ht/~aw/advent-of-code-2025/tree/main/item/utils
only missing word now is >body
going to try and clean it up and see if I can get it to fit in one file once I strip down some of the comments

2026-02-05 03:27:34 UTC

porting a forth library from 1996 to uf

2026-02-03 02:30:09 UTC

thinking about starting a permacomputing meetup in sf. any ideas for venues

2026-01-24 05:19:12 UTC

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no, but this is fantastic. I really liked 'The Unsettling of America'

2026-01-24 04:56:26 UTC

Chuck Moore's principles for programming:
1. Keep it simple
2. Do not speculate [about future uses for bits of code]
3. Do it yourself

2026-01-24 04:14:50 UTC

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TY!
I gotta figure out how to get forth syntax highlighting working. I think it interprets it as fortran 🤔

2026-01-24 03:56:17 UTC

does anyone have any examples of substantial code written in UF forth? cc @npub1z8r…mrq6 [@snufkin_vc](https://mastodon.social/@snufkin_vc )

2025-11-22 18:17:04 UTC

could someone remind me of the website of the person who used to make software and then got into experimenting with physical tools?

2025-11-12 18:23:04 UTC

I like this image from the lynx home page
https://lynx.invisible-island.net/img/anybrowser4b.png

2025-07-19 16:34:57 UTC

I like tacit programming

2025-06-18 17:12:52 UTC

SUPERFLY looks so fun https://codeberg.org/Bunny351/superfly

2025-05-29 02:28:55 UTC

what are some good forth resources for beginners? (aside starting forth). my friend is getting into it. something UF-based would be cool if it’s out there

2025-03-30 22:10:56 UTC

finished infinite jest

2025-03-12 22:06:08 UTC

thinking about the implications of this part of "worse is better":
"The design must be simple, both in implementation and interface. It is more important for the implementation to be simple than the interface. Simplicity is the most important consideration in a design"

2025-02-22 23:56:54 UTC

660 pages in to “infinite jest”

2025-01-20 03:43:54 UTC

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we make programming languages loosely resemble english language synax. Set X equal to 1. and then much effort is made to convert this into machine language. but the machine already speaks “stack”, why don’t we learn its language?

2025-01-20 03:40:13 UTC

RRDTool does something interesting which I haven’t seen much elsewhere, which is a sort of postfix query language
rra:AVERAGE:0.5:5m:300h
I wonder how generalizable this would be. In psuedo-SQL you could do something like
1 ID = WHERE “users” FROM “username” SELECT

2024-12-14 23:35:44 UTC

The World is Not a Simulation
https://alexwennerberg.com/blog/2024-12-14-simulation.html

2024-11-02 20:58:08 UTC

Really liked August Lamm's pamphlet "You Don't Need a Smartphone." Beautiful risograph print too

2024-10-25 04:12:21 UTC

trying to pursue projects driven not by anger or bitterness against the world but rather joy for an alternative world

2024-10-18 02:36:31 UTC

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great talk!! I had to leave before I had a chance to say hi, but I've been doing hand written rss (technically atom) since @npub1z8r…mrq6 recommended it haha
https://alexw.nyc/atom.xml

2024-10-15 23:21:31 UTC

cotton in german translates literally to 'tree-wool'

2024-10-06 00:58:06 UTC

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guess i’ll have to be the one to write it lol

2024-10-05 22:16:06 UTC

anyone have any examples of substantial open source web applications written in chicken scheme?

2024-09-28 18:17:54 UTC

redesigned https://alexw.nyc/ (made it worse)

2024-09-24 18:12:07 UTC

does anyone have a summary of the work in the concatenative language discord? I'm interested in exploring some forth-derivatives (joy seems interesting?) but unsure where the most interesting places would be to start