แทกโนมันซี @technomancy@icosahedron.website
keymonger, codemonger, orthography enthusiast
https://atreus.technomancy.us
https://technomancy.us/colophon
Can't remember if I've done #introductions, so:
I code professionally in #Clojure and for fun in #Lua, #Emacs, and #Racket
I care deeply about making computing serve users thru #FreeSoftware but don't have easy answers as to how.
I sell DIY #keyboards and kits: https://atreus.technomancy.us
I'm doing #gamedev: https://technomancy.itch.io/bussard
I grew up in Indonesia & Singapore and lived in Thailand 2 years.
It pains me to use all these #unironichashtags but I guess I need to get over it?
I’m sick to death of people being precious about #GMO produce. Functionally there is no difference between a grape bred to have little or no seed and a grape that has been modified in a lab for the same thing. Y’all are just scared of science.
You wanna talk about #Monsanto charging for “licenses” for their crops, ok. Talk about agribusiness killing the planet, ok. Talk about corporations copyrighting genetic code, ok. These are all valid concerns.
But the science is sound.
rubber bands are #cybre too, pass it on
Got something fancy from @technomancy
is this #cybre? [Y/n]
reposting that with the story that goes with it, my #freebsd media box kept mysteriously rebooting, no amount of debugging or tracing seemed to pick up the spurious restarts. It turns out my 2yo "expert" loved the flashing lights as it started up, and found out how to hard reset it. 3 months of wondering wtf was happening until I filmed this.
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if you think social media can be "won", you need to get off social media
I got my kids to switch over from using PICO-8 to TIC-80; woo. In the end it was the support seeing more columns of code at a time that did it.
With the older one I'm able to mostly just advise and point him at tutorials. With the younger I'm doing most of coding and leaving the maps/graphics to him, but that means I get to use #fennel.
"What do feel you get out of your minor in electrical engineering?"
Me: "A constant sense of wonder at the fact everything is not currently on fire."
over the weekend I watched Kung Fury (which is awesome) and after it was over youtube queued up "Double Dragon" which ... I assumed was the same kind of thing (ironic retro-nostalgia over-the-top loving parody thingy) but I got 20 minutes into it before I realized it was an actual film made in the 90s in earnest
This might be a stretch, but anyone on here as an employee inside Microsoft, Google, and/or Amazon that are working inside to petition them to break their relationship with ICE? DM me as I know someone working on a story about it and would like to connect you #TechWorkers #Organizing
garage sale find: Royal Quiet De Luxe typewriter
old enough that it doesn't have a 1 key. shift is labeled "SHIFT FREEDOM". tab and backspace are on reversed sides. no idea what "MAR REL" does.
needs some repairs before it'd be functional but it looks sharp as hecc
tired: distributed version control systems
wired: GitHubn't
screen is still on the fritz but I moved things over to a wooden enclosure. looks nice but will look even nicer with some lacquer.
weight displayed is in grams (without battery)
> A Case Study in Not Being A Jerk in Open Source
Great article, showing we don't need to be Linus to each other while still giving strong and unambiguous criticism of code during reviews.
https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/blog/2018/a-case-study-in-not-being-a-jerk-in-open-source
I ordered a "cannibalize for parts in the event that my current machine breaks" thinkpad X300 which just arrived.
when I stop using thinkpads from the last decade it won't be because I can't repair them; it will be because all extant batteries for them have gone dead and no one has manufactured new ones.
This writeup of my #LibrePlanet2018 keynote on BoingBoing is more eloquent and concise than the talk. Thanks to Cory for the awesome summary, reflections, and signal boost! https://boingboing.net/2018/06/21/digital-enclosure.html
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