Dustin Swan @dustinswan@mastodon.social

The future as envisioned in 1967

ALTAP

As Little Technology As Possible

It's kind of funny in retrospect that the programming language whose mantra was "There Should Be Only One Way To Do It" featured two separately maintained, incompatible, versions of itself for 11 years.

% #postscript
/plant-rules <<
/X [/F /LT /PU /PU /X /PO /RT /X /PO /RT /F /PU /RT /F /X /PO /LT /X]
/F [/F /F]
/PU [/PU] /PO [/PO] /LT [/LT] /RT [/RT] >> def
/plant-render <<
/X {}
/F { 4 tg-fd }
/LT { 25 tg-left }
/RT { 25 tg-right }
/PU { tg-push }
/PO { tg-pop }
>> def

plant-rules begin
[/X] 6 lsystem
end

1 inch 1.5 inch moveto
65 tg-left
plant-render begin
{ load exec } forall
end
stroke

A picture of our tattered charts which got submerged in our capsize 1000nm off the Japanese coast.

We charted our position on these daily despite them being nearly ruined.

old but classic

— 2011: I would like to do all my work with a gaming PC.
— 2015: I would like to do all my work with a Mac.
— 2020: I would like to do all my work with a solar-powered Raspberry Pi.

when u dead inside but ur garden gives u reason to stay tethered to the mortal realm and tbh its POPPIN

utopian future in the 1980s: flying cars
utopian future in the 2020s: no cars

Hate driven development

I hate computers so deeply that it drives me to write software in an attempt to fix this godawful fucking mess that we're in

We're currently stocking up for a long passage, here are some of the foods we carry aboard.
#theGalley

- [x] Move in near the sea
- [x] Buy a second-hand skateboard
- [x] Wake up early and skate to the beach

We have had 300'000 downloads of our 60mb electron apps. That's 18'000'000mb .. I'm so fucking sorry it took us this long to get our shit together. 🤦‍♀️

Hey Bonzi Buddy, please tell me the status of my pets.com stock, check if I have any incoming ICQ requests, and see how the 3DFX driver beta I'm downloading from the quakeworld FTP is coming along. Thanks Bonzi Buddy

## Morning Mastodonians!

I'm sad. Just canceled our trip to Spain this weekend. If I'm going to get stuck, I'd rather it be at home. Now if we can just get R home, I'll be happy. It was going to be such a fun trip. Air Portugal was extremely unhelpful, so I think I'll be avoiding them in the future.

Still trying to hire! Things are going crazy for our remote health app! More than just a job, this really has a positive impact on society:

https://www.visionable.com/careers

this laptop (MNT Reform) and this phone (Purism Librem 5) have the same SoC (CPU/GPU/...), i.MX8M. and both run free and open source drivers and software. #FOSDEM2020