alex

I run flounder.online

exploring new realms of computing

http: https://alexwennerberg.com
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2026-07-08 14:18:18 UTC

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ha! also I need to participate in this challenge, I'm finishing up a few essays but will be free to do computer stuff after that :)

2026-07-06 23:05:09 UTC

woman next to me at the library has a thinkpad that is old enough that it has a vga port

2026-06-17 02:20:48 UTC

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no worries! I guess any art galleries / bookstores / bars worth checking out?

2026-06-17 02:09:26 UTC

@npub1z8r…mrq6 do you have any recs for things to check out in montreal? I'll be there in a few weeks

2026-06-15 19:16:58 UTC

Html day is going to be big this year. It would be cool if folks in smaller cities hosted one. Let me know if you have any q’s about hosting https://2026.html.energy/

2026-05-31 00:00:22 UTC

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looks great! I’m going to try to port it

2026-05-30 22:50:28 UTC

Does anyone have any suggestions for photo sharing apps?

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