Human folly for 02024-11-15

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• (youtube.com):

  #video #tutorial on Mandarin #Chinese #pronunciation

• (youtube.com):

  #video #tutorial on Mandarin #Chinese #pronunciation in Spanish

• Pub manual (nomodes.com):

  the #documentation for Larry Tesler’s PUB programmable runoff program on TENEX which inspired Scribe and TeX. #retrocomputing #markup #history #toread

• (apps.dtic.mil):

  the #documentation for Brian Reid’s Scribe runoff program #retrocomputing #history #toread

• Get SSH server key fingerprint (unix.stackexchange.com):

  you can ssh-keyscan $host | ssh-keygen -lf - to print out the fingerprint of a known #SSH host. #security

• Forth expr (veltas.co.uk):

  #Veltas’s #Forth checker for expression nesting: decimal create braces here , 64 cells allot : >braces 1 cells braces +! braces @ ! ; : braces> braces @ @ -1 cells braces +! ; : { depth >braces ; : } depth braces> 1+ <> abort" Unbalanced expression" ;

• (bbcelite.com):

  #retrocomputing archaeology of the BBC Micro version of the game "Elite", including fully documented (reverse engineered) source code

• Hackar2 (pe2bz.philpem.me.uk):

  #PDF of the 159-page third volume of #Don-Lancaster’s “Hardware Hacker” columns, from Radio Electronics magazine, who renamed themselves Electronics Now. January 1990 to December 1991.

• Luaml (git.sr.ht):

  #Kartik’s experimental Lua-based #markup language

• Msg00178 (mail-archive.com):

  notes on the naming of “self” in #Bicicleta

• Msg00162 (mail-archive.com):

  notes on #Bicicleta with respect to Perlis’s “Epigrams on Programming”

• Sjasmplus (github.com):

  "sjasmplus" is a #Z80 cross-assembler for #asm #retrocomputing with Lua scripting

• Msg00179 (mail-archive.com):

  a rational-number class in #Bicicleta

• Wart (akkartik.name):

  #Kartik’s "Wart" #Lisp

• Msg00189 (mail-archive.com):

  comparing #Aardappel to #Bicicleta

• (gist.github.com):

  Steve Yegge’s “Notes from the Mystery Machine Bus” about liberal programming languages vs. conservative programming languages

• Msg00191 (mail-archive.com):

  drawbacks of the #Bicicleta language design

• Language (github.com):

  Jonathan Edwards’s latest iteration of #Subtext

• Msg00195 (mail-archive.com):

  list comprehensions in the #Bicicleta language syntax

• Potluck (inkandswitch.com):

  The "Potluck" research prototype of gradual enrichment from docs to apps: “dynamic documents to personal software”

• 2024 07 22 devlog (akkartik.name):

  #Kartik’s API for a pixel-displaying text editor as lines might wrap or scroll: to_loc: (x, y) -> loc; to_coord: loc -> x, y; down: loc, dy -> loc; up: loc, dy -> loc; hor: loc, x -> loc.

• Automatically create file requirements txt (stackoverflow.com):

  use pip freeze > requirements.txt to nail down the specific versions you’re using in your Python virtualenv or whatever

• Whats all this April fools stuff anyhow (electronicdesign.com):

  Bob Pease endorsing #Don-Lancaster’s writings.

• Jq5Va1Y (old.reddit.com):

  #Don-Lancaster’s story of an amazing virtuoso flautist that most people in the audience weren’t equipped to appreciate

• Raw string (learn.microsoft.com):

  #C# supports Python-like triple-quoted strings but with some whitespace-stripping rules which don’t apply to its @"" strings, which are also potentially multiline.