Omar Rizwan

making an IDE might be harder than making an OS tbh

This computer is the reason you can't download all software for free.

The Franklin Computer Corp was a computer manufacturer founded in the early 1980s. Their flagship product was a clone of the Apple II, one of the most popular personal computers of the day.

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​Greetings from the Northwestern University Transportation Library, where Rachel just showed me the original!

wifi network that your phone automatically connects to that only exists inside a Faraday cage box that you have to put your phone inside, so you can never see or use your phone while it's on the network

Normal game engine era??

Satellite Eyes is a free, open source MacOS app that sets your desktop wallpaper to the satellite view of your current location. I've just released 2.0, which adds an option to shuffle through a selection of interesting-to-look-at places from around the world. satelliteeyes.tomtaylor.co.uk

has anyone played around with Airpods apis (head tracking for spatial audio)?

my hope is to play around with controlling an app without having to look at a screen.. would be an interesting design challenge and would be great when walking around, on the subway, or just a diff experience

They should let me store data on the Velcro patch on the back of my phone

Palmleaf Linear B tablet in purple Play-doh, reading pi-pa MUL 1 ko-wo 1

Purple Play-doh Linear B tablet with red stylus and son's curly red hair in the background

Turns out you can get a really nice bladed stylus with Play-doh, perfect for Linear B!

Harlem in 1970 or a management strategy game from 1999? 🤔

Trying to find a good way to build intuition around distance field fonts: how about comparing it to a map? The land is the filled text, the beach is the outline, the ocean is transparent (optionally a glow/shadow effect). Not sure whether this will make sense to the reader.

Reporting Threshold: Hangs (>500ms) Include Microhangs (>250ms) Include Brief Unresponsiveness (>100 ms) Include All Potential Interaction Delays (>33 ms)

Tag yourself

What if you sealed an ancient evil into a QR code

welcome to my new forum: something nice. we'll pay you $10 to join.

Barnaul

I like all of these but especially the quotes -- very "vivid assertions"

I should have a "Recently:" section on my website

lazily evaluated environment variable

More shared context because ~everything is said out loud, in detail

It’s makes computing more social and shared in the sense we understand what the other person is trying to doing on their otherwise silent and unshared screen.

Doesn’t scale to more than a few people in a space, but nice for a pair

@henryzoo.com

@toph.me

programmable barcode scanner

bsky.app/profile/kath...

Milton tangent complete, I am returning to my work on erased/struck out/obliterated inscriptions.

For many reasons they aren't the easiest things to locate in online catalogues. So if you come across any fun ones (esp. in books published prior to ~1750), here is a public request to think of me.

"Lighter shades of gray will fade more quickly than darker shades, due to the nature of thermal paper, so bi-level printing is preferable if long-term legibility is of concern."

valuesbased.software

filesystem that automatically deletes orphaned files (any file not referred to in a text message, email, document, etc)

What are the heaviest, most solid websites you've seen?