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• Post #4486142

  Can you recommend Linux tools for extracting the text of scanned, OCRed PDFs? #pdf #linux #tools #AskFedi

• Post #4446266

  RE: https://fosstodon.org/@interlisp/117058797209764802 Interlisp-D running on Xerox workstations also had TeleRaid, a remote debugger that worked over an Ethernet PUP network connection. https://files.interlisp.org/medley/library/TELERAID.TEDIT.pdf #interlisp #lisp #debugger

• Post #4385096

  I didn't know Kermit was so advanced and versatile as I used it little back in the day. The venerable file transfer protocol, which turns 45, is also a great story of old school, non corporate open source. https://changelog.complete.org/archives/44456-celebrating-45-years-of-kermit-with-the-first-new-c-kermit-release-in-15-years-and-working-with-a-decades-old-c-codebase #kermit #protocol #retrocomputing #foss

• Post #4197545

  Xkcd has just posted this on Forth. https://xkcd.com/3277 #forth #xkcd

• Post #4166145

  Back in the day I didn't know much about the Andrew Project at Carnegie Mellon University. This 1996 retrospective, by one of the lead designers, is also a good history and overview of the main components: a network file system, a GUI toolkit, and an email and bulletin board system. https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/272682.272717 #AndrewProject #cmu #retrocomputing

• Post #4115035

  Just a reminder that it helps to thumb-up this issue to request support for Mastodon post migration. It was opened in 2019 and my hope is the @MastodonEngineering@mastodon.social team will notice the feature is highly requested and bump the priority a bit. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/12423 #mastodon #fediverse

• Post #4009396

  AP8L is an APL-inspired language for the PICO-8. https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=152582 Of course there's also a Lisp: https://github.com/Siapran/parens-8 #apl #pico8 #lisp

• Post #3983849

  The TMode Lisp library is interesting for both its features and its design approach. TMode is a library for creating text-mode user interfaces in Common Lisp. [...] By design it is a zero-dependency library, no ncurses, cffi or anything required. https://codeberg.org/fourier/cl-tmode #CommonLisp #lisp #TUI

• Post #3830005

  George reflects on how the RSS ecosystem changed since the end of Google Reader. He also introduces what RSS is, how to use it, and what feed reader options are now available. https://unattributed.cc/the-state-of-rss-feed-readers #rss

• Post #3693236

  The GNU Emacs Architecture: Unlocking the Core is a recent dissertation that introduces the internals of Emacs and how it works, with a focus on the latest concurrently features. The site is often overloaded and inaccessible, so be sure to save the document once you finally open it. https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:2052282/FULLTEXT01.pdf #emacs #EmacsLisp #lisp

• Post #3509259

  I loved the main menus of early PC software. They typically took up most of the screen with a handful of clear, self explanatory options each on its own row. #retrocomputing #userinterface

• Post #3496389

  RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@lproven/116812719876996499 The most interesting thing is a classic software house is still in business after decades and does a project which is essentially a labor of love. #retrocomputing #basic

• Post #3338862

  An introduction to WAITS, a lesser known DEC operating system for the PDP-6 and PDP-10. https://timereshared.com/stanford-waits #dec #os #retrocomputing

• Post #3338861

  This is Medley Interlisp running the Lafite email program. The mailbox window at the bottom left has a single entry, a test message I sent myself shown in the large window to the right. What's neat is Lafite delivered to and retrieved the message from a mail server by exchanging packets over the Xerox XNS local network, here emulated with the server on my Linux box via Dodo Services. See the network logs in the black Prompt Window at the top left. Nick Briggs @nhbriggs is reviving the orig...

• Post #3338860

  The headline may seem controversial or clickbaity but the post makes some good points on the psychological and social benefits of office work. https://mrmarket.lol/remote-work-is-bad-for-you #RemoteWork

• Post #2501960

  The origins of the Scroll Lock key of PC keyboards. https://unsung.aresluna.org/lock-scroll-with-a-vengeance #keyboard #retrocomputing

• Post #2493805

  The complete, text friendly archive of Dr. Dobb's Journal from 1988 to 2009: article text, illustrations, source code, special issues, and more. The illustrations are fax-quality scans but better than nothing. https://jacobfilipp.com/DrDobbs #magazine #retrocomputing #computing

• Post #2427856

  Lee Tusman wrote a vi clone, in BASIC. https://leetusman.com/nosebook/yvi #vi #editor #basic

• Post #2336359

  The retrocomputing website Typewritten Software is a "Retrotechnology Research Laboratory" with lots of interesting material. http://www.typewritten.org Be sure to take a look at the screenshot gallery: http://www.typewritten.org/Media #retrocomputing

• Post #2012141

  A reminder of the search engine operators, filters, and tips for searching the web. https://joshblais.com/blog/using-search-engines-properly #SearchEngine #web

• Post #1990906

  Learn Lisp like it's 1972. A very early introductory booklet on Lisp that covers a variety of topics, including compilation and garbage collection, and has examples that compare Lisp with Fortran. https://archive.org/details/programmersintro0000maur_t1l8 #lisp #books #retrocomputing

• Post #1939290

  The book A Programmer's Guide to COMMON LISP by Deborah Tatar (Digital Press, 1987), along with the errata, is now online with permission from the author. https://archive.org/details/a-programmers-guide-to-common-lisp My review of the book: https://journal.paoloamoroso.com/reading-a-programmers-guide-to-common-lisp #CommonLisp #lisp #books #retrocomputing

• Post #1825032

  Why Joe prefers a Lisp dialect over Haskell as his default programming language. Scheme (and Lisp in general) might lack Haskell’s innovations and purity, favoring a minimalistic flexibility instead, but it mixes practicality with functional beauty in a way that makes it a functional language for human beings. https://jointhefreeworld.org/blog/articles/lisps/why-i-still-reach-for-scheme-instead-of-haskell/index.html #lisp #scheme #haskell

• Post #1744325

  Matthias Ott on human curation. We are drowning in content. What becomes valuable is someone you trust, saying: This is worth your time. Here’s why. That’s curation. And it’s not new. https://newsletter.ownyourweb.site/archive/own-your-web-issue-18-curators #curation #curator

• Post #1744324

  I didn't know the history of X.400, an email transfer protocol with an impenetrable specification that could have delivered advanced features much earlier. https://buttondown.com/blog/x400-vs-smtp-email #email #internet #retrocomputing

• Post #1744321

  The history of lab notebooks in science, from the Renaissance humanist practices of copying excerpts from texts to digital systems. https://www.asimov.press/p/lab-notebooks #science #ScienceHistory

• Post #1718683

  What are your favorite fediverse accounts of organizations, institutions, and projects who interact with people, not just broadcast? By interacting I mean replying to comments and questions, starring posts, or boosting interesting posts from other accounts. #fediverse #mastodon #AskFedi

• Post #1516405

  Bubbles by @viermalbe, a part of the IndieWeb ecosystem, is a new blog aggregator and discovery platform you can think of as a sort of Hacker News for blogs integrated with the Fediverse. It's great to see a lot of activity around the blogging space. Community voting applied to thousands of personal, independent blogs, with identity and discussion routed through the Fediverse. https://bubbles.town https://bubbles.town/about #blogging #blogs #fediverse

• Post #1388231

  What I find interesting about this article by Adele Goldberg on why use Smalltalk, published in 1995, is the mention of the language being fun. Smalltalk denotes fun and success. https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/226239.226260 https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/226239.226260 #smalltalk #retrocomputing

• Post #1291828

  IBM was fully capable of developing its own BASIC implementation and did just that for some of its early microcomputers, but turned to Microsoft for the PC. This post explains why. https://nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com/p/why-ibm-turned-to-microsoft-for-basic #basic #ibmpc #microsoft #retrocomputing