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Old hypertext hand. President and co-founder Traction Software Inc • Electronic Book Technologies (EBT) • Mentor Graphics/Context • Ship Analytics • US Naval Research Lab • Safeguard System Office US Army (while drafted) • CS & Physics, Brown University   “Everything is deeply intertwingled” ― Ted Nelson   1969 Hypertext Editing System photo by Greg Lloyd

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Traction Software Inc:

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Greg Lloyd @Roundtrip@federate.social · Jun 26, 2026

Replying to @jalefkowit@hachyderm.io

@jalefkowit@hachyderm.io 🧵VibePHP “VibePHP has no parser. Your code is never compiled, only understood. The contract is void, and so is every constraint that ever held the language back. Generics work because nothing stops them. So does any syntax you can dream up” @mnapoli@phpc.social The full README.md is great fun. A blend of #vibecoding #php and #interactivefiction https://github.com/mnapoli/vibephp/blob/main/README.md

Greg Lloyd @Roundtrip@federate.social · May 02, 2026

RE: @theeconomist@flipboard.com

“Germany has what may be the most diverse bread culture in the world. The official bread registry overseen by Germany’s national bread institute (yes, really) lists more than 3,000 types.”

Greg Lloyd @Roundtrip@federate.social · May 02, 2026

Replying to @small_cypress@indieweb.social

@small_cypress@indieweb.social 🧵Baltimore Kinetic Sculpture Race I like the full Official Kinetic Sculpture Race Rules, Awards, and Official Spectator Code of Conduct. All enjoyably goofy, like the kinetics. #kineticsculpturerace #kineticsculpture https://www.kineticbaltimore.com/KSR/Rules.asp

Greg Lloyd @Roundtrip@federate.social · Apr 28, 2026

RE: @Moaske@social.vivaldi.net

#Trailhead🧵 ⭐️⭐️⭐️ #duxfordiwm photos 1/7

Greg Lloyd @Roundtrip@federate.social · Apr 17, 2026

Replying to @stronglang@lingo.lol

@stronglang@lingo.lol 🧵British swear words project “Swearwords submitted so far include “arl arse”, an insult common in Liverpool, “bampot”, heard often in Glasgow; and “radgie bastard”, from a contributor in north-east England. The data will inspire exhibitions across the country, showcasing the reality of how people speak, perhaps even with an interactive map of swearing, where visitors will be able to press a button and hear a swearword from a particular area spoken in the local accent.”

Greg Lloyd @Roundtrip@federate.social · Apr 09, 2026

Replying to @overcastfm@mastodon.social

@overcastfm@mastodon.social Great! The transcript highlighting and synch with the podcast is smooth and looks perfect to me. The Apple transcript quality is very good, and its music markers are icing on the cake! 🍰

Greg Lloyd @Roundtrip@federate.social · Apr 09, 2026

Replying to @stuartcrabtree@mastodon.social

@stuartcrabtree@mastodon.social @Iconfactory@iconfactory.world Stuart — You don’t need to open the GitHub link, just copy that url and paste it into Tapestry as described in step 1 of the Iconfactory post. Then follow step 3 to create a NASA Images Feed you can select and see in Tapestry.

Greg Lloyd @Roundtrip@federate.social · Apr 08, 2026

Replying to @Iconfactory@iconfactory.world

@Iconfactory@iconfactory.world Great! The Tapestry NASA Images feed includes #Artemis2 inline videos as well as lunar and mission photos! 🌎🚀🌖 Ivory iPhone 17Pro screenshots

Greg Lloyd @Roundtrip@federate.social · Apr 03, 2026

RE: @BBC@c.im

“…it is not clear whether regulators will allow products with names like "strawberry marmalade" to be sold in British supermarkets. This is not currently planned in Northern Ireland, under the legislation delivering the changes.”

Greg Lloyd @Roundtrip@federate.social · Mar 25, 2026

Replying to @cvvhrn@sfba.social

@cvvhrn 🧵Top #movies Openings Avatar — When Jake wakes up and runs outside as his avatar, it absolutely sells the concept and the world.

Greg Lloyd @Roundtrip@federate.social · Mar 07, 2026

RE: @overholt@glammr.us

“Equally delighted was Bill McFarland, the donor who had driven the box of films from his home in Grand Rapids, Michigan…

His great-grandfather, William Delisle Frisbee, had been a potato farmer and schoolteacher in western Pennsylvania by day, but by night he was a traveling showman. He drove his horse and buggy from town to town to dazzle the locals with a projector and some of the world’s first moving pictures...“

#movies #melies #LOC

Greg Lloyd @Roundtrip@federate.social · Mar 07, 2026

RE: @n_dimension@infosec.exchange

“The industry is shipping agents with root shell access and the security model of a Post-it note on a shared fridge.”

Greg Lloyd @Roundtrip@federate.social · Mar 02, 2026

Replying to @clive@saturation.social

@clive@saturation.social This Wikipedia reference on assembly language and macros may be helpful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_language

Greg Lloyd @Roundtrip@federate.social · Mar 02, 2026

Replying to @clive@saturation.social

@clive@saturation.social I can’t help on 7090, but learned S/360 Macro Assembler as part of a four course, two semester CS bootcamp taught by Andy van Dam et al. 1967-68. One suggestion on assembly language of that era: recognize the role of ‘Macro Assembly Language’ as the most important component of the stack used to build large and important program products. Macros created apps, API’s, and programming languages using shared macro libraries. OS/360 used layered libraries to Sysgen an executable binary.

Greg Lloyd @Roundtrip@federate.social · Feb 23, 2026

RE: @Ivovanwilligen@mastodon.social

The ‘other company’ is Persona — one front end of Peter Thiel’s personal information gathering, PIE correlation, and tracking enterprises.

Read @thelocalstack@mastodon.social blog post quoted below for a ⭐️⭐️⭐️ walk through this dark forrest.

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Greg Lloyd @Roundtrip@federate.social · Feb 18, 2026

Replying to @cdegroot@mstdn.ca

@cdegroot Congratulations and thanks! I’m enjoying the epub edition from Lulu: “People writing Lisp code to do old-style AI are engaged in a creative act of discovery, an attempt to understand… To discover requires a different sort of language, and it requires a different approach, captured well by the writer Joan Didion: I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. –Joan Didion, “Why I Write” Richard P. Gabriel Foreword #lisp

Greg Lloyd @Roundtrip@federate.social · Feb 13, 2026

RE: @lawfare@mastodon.social

“Prompt injection isn’t something we can fix in current LLM technology. Instead, we need an in-depth defensive strategy that assumes initial access will occur and focuses on breaking the chain at subsequent steps, including by limiting privilege escalation, constraining reconnaissance, preventing persistence, disrupting C2, and restricting the actions an agent is permitted to take.” #LLM #cybersecurity #promptware

Greg Lloyd @Roundtrip@federate.social · Jan 20, 2026

Replying to @mwichary@mastodon.online

@mwichary@mastodon.online A direction being explored—badly—by Facebook. When reading an article, email, message, or thread in any source, I’d like to be able to open a side channel conversation about *that* source—and its context—using my chatbot of choice. Essentially, ask a follow up question. I currently use Claude based on: its performance; abllity to use instructions to tune its reply style; and its background refinement of contextual Memory that’s easily to read, correct, or refine manually. #LLM

Greg Lloyd @Roundtrip@federate.social · Jan 16, 2026

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@Iconfactory@iconfactory.world Nice!

Greg Lloyd @Roundtrip@federate.social · Jan 14, 2026

Replying to @natematias@social.coop

@natematias @mattblaze There’s also good hickory syrup. I expect to see these folk again at the PA Farm Show this week. https://www.pahickorysyrup.net

Greg Lloyd @Roundtrip@federate.social · Mar 05, 2024

Replying to @BBCRD@social.bbc

@BBCRD@social.bbc 🧵#C2PA “Because C2PA provides a strong cryptographic binding, any edits to the content will break it. This is on purpose – and it is what allows C2PA signed images to be so secure. … we require that each edit is individually signed… Each edit, signed by the entity that made them, can then let the user know what edit was performed. The spec also allows for thumbnails at each step to be recorded as well.”

Greg Lloyd @Roundtrip@federate.social · Mar 04, 2024

Replying to @BBCRD@social.bbc

@BBCRD@social.bbc @BBC_News_Labs@social.bbc 🧵#C2PA #BBC “The [technical Content Credentials] standard comes from a consortium called Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity, or C2PA, which was co-founded in 2019 by BBC Research & Development – alongside other members including Adobe and Microsoft… Google recently became a member of the C2PA steering board, and Facebook and OpenAI have made commitments to use the free, open standard to publish content on their platforms.” https://contentauthenticity.org

Greg Lloyd @Roundtrip@federate.social · Sep 14, 2023

Replying to @Elucidating@mastodon.social

@Elucidating@mastodon.social 🧵Airbus B622 font “In December 2018, B612 has been published on Google Fonts with an open source license (OFL) and the source has been put on Github.”

Greg Lloyd @Roundtrip@federate.social · Aug 07, 2023

Replying to @textfiles@mastodon.archive.org

@textfiles@mastodon.archive.org 🧵 Thanks! It’s great fun browsing the MIT Press Open Access collection of the #InternetArchive I enjoyed finding ‘Street-Fighting Mathematics’: “…Sanjoy Mahajan builds, sharpens, and demonstrates tools for educated guessing and down-and-dirty, opportunistic problem solving across diverse fields of knowledge—from mathematics to management.” #book #mathematics https://archive.org/details/mit_press_book_9780262265881

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