Dustin Swan @dustinswan@mastodon.social

#TIL The #Brainfuck programming language has a dialect called "I use Arch, btw". In this dialect, the original symbols are replaced with "I", "use", "arch", "linux", "btw", "by", "the", "way". #Arch #ArchLinux

https://github.com/OverMighty/i-use-arch-btw

This is a "Hello World!" example:

arch the i the use linux the way i arch the i arch arch arch i the arch arch arch arch arch arch arch arch arch arch arch i way the i way linux the use way i linux way way arch arch arch arch arch arch arch arch arch arch use way i i i i i i linux linux linux linux btw use use arch arch arch btw use linux btw btw arch arch arch btw use linux btw i i i btw use use btw arch arch arch btw linux linux linux linux linux linux btw i linux btw use use arch btw use btw

I setup a little image swapping feature (no js) so that low res images can load by default, but if you really want to see higher res, and have the bandwidth, you can click the little dot on the top left.
So far I'm just testing on the homepage, but I intend to use it throughout.

The no-js method was borrowed from how our webring hide/shows rss links.

Oh, so you're a garbage collector? Enumerate every object.

We've been able to eat freshly sprouted veggies grown aboard the boat twice a day.

https://grimgrains.com/site/sprouting.html

#theGalley

if microsoft word tells me not to use the passive voice one more time, it will be harmed by me

The dollar is suddenly worth 0, all the stores are boarded up.

Google has suspended Element (@matrix) from the Play Store for "Sexual Content and Profanity". Basically same story as with Subway Tooter a while back. Element is to Matrix as Chrome is to the web. Curiously, Chrome is still on the Play Store.

The goal of being prepared is that, by having your own shit together, you’re more able to help others.
http://www.liveliketheworldisdying.com/2021/01/11/were-all-preppers-now/

solving fizzbuzz in an interview by having it text my phone every loop iteration and covertly replying 'fizz' or 'buzz' under the table while the interviewer isn't looking

irc may be old and clunky but at least it can't get acquired by salesforce

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

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