Ramsey Nasser

found the dispossessed quote i had been thinking of for years:

There were no rules of parliamentary procedure at meetings in PDC. Interruptions were sometimes more frequent than statements. The process, compared to a well-managed executive conference, was a slab of raw beef compared to a wiring diagram. Raw beef, however, functions better than a wiring diagram would, in its place — inside a living animal.

way to go Hungary 🙏🇭🇺

so just to be totally clear AI is "democratizing" programming by taking something that used to free to do and making it so you pay a subscription fee to an American corporation to do it while being barred from ever actually understanding how it works, am I getting that right?

whats interesting about petname systems like https://www.inkandswitch.com/backchannel/ is that they mesh extremely well with the arguments i made in 2019 that in order to have a programming experience that did not privilege one written culture over another you had to abandon the notion of "human-readable names" at the level of APIs and libraries. i used the terms "display names" and "canonical names" but the ideas are quite similar. makes me feel like the underlying problems are related.

my 2019 work:
* http://ojs.decolonising.digital/index.php/decolonising_digital/article/view/PersonalComputer
* https://www.deconstructconf.com/2019/ramsey-nasser-a-personal-computer-for-children-of-all-cultures

i finally have a workable path to livecoding dabke music!

the breakthrough came when i found that sofeh studio was released as a vst at some point. that meant i could load it into renoise (via yabridge linux -> windows vst bridge) and livecode it using 8fl and fennel.

here is a **very rough** badly mixed jam, popping up the VST occasionally. but it totally works!

im working on a decentralized software issues/pull requests thing that lives directly in git and works with all existing git hosts. it will work by running a command in your repo like

git todo web

which will open a local web server that serves a github/gitlab issues-like interface for you to use. you can take out new issues, comments on existing issues, etc.

theres a way to do this that runs in the browser without javascript. i know this is important to a lot of people. this whole thing becomes *a lot easier* to make and make extensible if i can use javascript though. so, a poll:

assuming such a thing is interesting to you in the first place, would you use it if it depended on javascript in the browser?

playing games with @LaineNooney@mastodon.social tonight 🙏

https://m.twitch.tv/sierra_offline

~7pm depending on whether or not I can outrun this storm

streaming video games with @LaineNooney@mastodon.social tonight! catch us around 7pm!

https://twitch.tv/sierra_offline