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Picotron
From the website:
Picotron is a Fantasy Workstation: a self-contained creative environment built for imaginary hardware. Create cute Lua apps that can be run inside Picotron as windowed userland processes, shared as cartridge files, or exported to stand-alone HTML apps.
As someone who missed out on the days of the computers being things you had to program yourself to do useful things, experiments like the Picotron strike a retro-nostalgic chord in my heart: a longing for a technology and time that I never actually got to experience. It helps that the system is beautiful and looks fun to work with. The author also has a couple of similar projects: (Pico-8 and Voxatron)
All of the above are for-pay, think of it as an investment in good, beautiful things you want to see in the world.
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Own Whats Yours
Thoughts about websites, social media, and networked communications in general have been rattling about in my head for a while. No solutions yet, but a few choice quotes from this piece will be remembered:
Is taking control of your content less convenient? Yeah–of course. That’s how we got in this mess to begin with. It can be a downright pain in the ass. But it’s your pain in the ass. And that’s the point.
But maybe we can make it a little less less convenient.
Web 2.0 failed. True online sharing died a long time ago. So start taking. Take your ideas, your words, your work–and go home.
Them be fighting words.
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I really want to go deep into a programming language and ecosystem, but every project I can think of involves a different one. The current contenders are Rust, TypeScript and Racket, which are all sufficiently different from one another that any lessons I learn from one probably won't transfer to the others.
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Caught a stomach bug and now I have a craving for toast with Nutella.
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Today I learned (thanks to Craig Mod) that Braun makes a line of very nice digital alarm clocks. They're not cheap, but not extortionate either.
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I really hate the React-ified Github. Everything is much slower, and large pages are almost unusable in Safari.
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Oh no, I'm getting my semi-regular urge to build my own text-editor-terminal-thingy again.
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I finally sat down and wrote a list of (some of) the projects I want to do. There's probably enough in there to keep me busy for a couple of years, but for now let's just see how much I can get done by the end of the year. And that means I'll probably be writing a lot of TypeScript in the near future. That's not ideal, but TypeScript seems like the most suitable tool at hand for the time being.
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Reeder: A New Approach to Following Feeds
Reeder has been my go-to app for reading RSS feeds for several years, on both macOS and iOS. I especially like it on my iPad Mini. The new Reeder is an ambitious redesign meant to be a one-stop shop for feeds from all sources, including RSS, social media and podcasts. It's an interesting idea, but it's very different from how I consume feeds. In particular, I prefer my RSS reading to be in the form of an inbox, rather than a stream. To be honest, I'm not quite sure who this new version is for.
I'm really glad that the older RSS-version is sticking around as Reeder Classic and I'll be sticking with that for the foreseable future.