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_rpf··on Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people
Anyone else catch Rimmer's study timetable?

(Procrastination, Red Dwarf reference)

_rpf··on Installing OpenBSD on the Pomera DM250 Writerdeck
There is a rich collection of modern Macintosh Plus System 6.x work on jcs site :D

The afterdark screensaver is a real cherry on top.

_rpf··on The PowerPC Has Still Got It (Llama on G4 Laptop)
Im compelled to humblebrag my Sgi at this point … https://youtu.be/mzI8U7S0FDc?si=D70WbAak7_k7Ebrr
_rpf··on What is Realtalk’s relationship to AI? (2024)
If you’re looking for an open source project like Realtalk there is https://folk.computer/
_rpf··on Matt Trout has died
Super sad to see this. I worked with Matt around 2004.

Super smart kid, very nice to work with. I ended up supporting one of the systems he built (in Perl). I used his Cataylst Perl framework for some projects after that because of him.

_rpf··on Apple’s Darwin OS and XNU Kernel Deep Dive
> Jean-Louis Gassee overplayed his hand

Well, there’s a parallel universe! Beige boxes running BeOS late-90s-cool maybe, but would we still have had the same upending results for mobile phones, industrial design, world integration, streaming media services…

_rpf··on A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design (2011)
Bret Victors current project is Dynamicland, a real space he’s been building to explore computing within the physical world, with humans at its center. The system he invented is known as Realtalk, and is integrated into the building, where cameras and projectors engage with the humans within it.

https://dynamicland.org/