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• Post #1939299

  Oh to be in Stuttgart: “It is 2026. We have tried all the key combinations and helped to build the world in which we are hardly needed anymore. Computer users have generated enough data, uploaded enough videos, photos, texts, and documents for AI slop to thrive and for the Dead Internet to zombie around forever. The world we once saw as a place where we can be ourselves … has squeezed and evaporated our dreams, producing a [repurposeable] concentrate.” https://pad.profolia.org/s/Without_Us

• Post #1939298

  "Tenfold" by @spiralganglion et al. for @inkandswitch.com's 10th anniversary is beautiful and lots of fun to play with! https://www.inkandswitch.com/

• Post #1939297

  "Cash is Back Baby!", by @davi, points out how a long-time trend in Germany is ticking up and becoming codified in Australia: > The 2026 laws mandated acceptance at groceries and petrol stations, and banned surcharges on cards and digital. Policy followed a strong and growing cash preference. https://www.flyingpenguin.com/cash-is-back-baby/

• Post #1939295

  As @captaincalliope identifies, naming harms w/o the power differentials that caused them makes manifestos easy to co-opt: “Terms like ‘private,’ ‘dedicated,’ and ‘prosocial’ can be deployed to legitimize enclosure, concentration of control, and unaccountable personalization by organizations whose underlying structures remain extractive. A manifesto that wants to reshape computing must speak directly to the power arrangements that define computing today.” https://spacecadets.love/author/captain...

• Post #1939293

  On aerial phenomenon from the year 1561. With a surprise twist at the end: https://flashbak.com/celestial-phenomenon-over-nuremberg-april-14th-1561-463809/

• Post #1939292

  Microsoft will enforce software IP until the bitter end. Here's their recent archival release of Tim Paterson's DOS: "[it] targets Seattle Computer Products' ASM assembler, so you will need a copy. It can be obtained from any release of 86-DOS or MS-DOS by Seattle Computer Products." Hyperlinking to this could be dangerous. Just look at the (c) notice: > Seattle Computer Products 8086 Assembler Version 2.24 > Copyright 1979,80,81 by Seat...

• Post #1939291

  TIL that Steven Frank, co-founder of @panic, announced the @playdate on Gopher. That's a sweet move. gopher://stevenf.com/0/2022-04-18-first-playdates-shipping.txt

• Post #1939279

  If you're curious about what I'm working on right #now, I've updated my now page with the latest: https://schmud.de/pages/now.html Book nerds, map nerds, music nerds are all invited.

• Post #1417856

  I'm often humbled by how little I know about the problems I'm trying to solve. But "Fixing Without Understanding" by @jessitron has the unintentional consequence of reminding me of how infrequency I use Gerry Sussman's "programming by poking" approach. Being able to inspect the dryer's internals before you attempt to fix it makes a tremendous difference. https://jessitron.com/2025/05/18/fixing-without-understanding/

• Post #1077680

  ANSI artwork sales - one stop in the long-running effort to make a living off of digital art. "Around the same time, Lora Ruffner decided to see if she could turn her artistic talent into a business." ~ https://breakintochat.com/blog/2026/03/16/business-of-bbsing/ via @Kirkman

• Post #297627

  Computer Class by @scr and @emenel looks like a lot of fun! Folks who ramble about Canada should check it out! https://computerclass.ca/