wilkie @wilkie@mastodon.social

I finally uploaded much of my videos/lectures to a permanent domain with PeerTube. Phew. https://video.wilkie.how/videos/trending

oh no. I seemed to have written an i286 cpu emulator and also an HTML window system capable of rendering bitmap fonts and am intercepting 16-bit windows kernel calls. how did this happen.

another day writing papers for scientific journals. everybody keeps asking me if they can read them. buddy, they won't even let me read them

I wrote a personal essay on federated social web meets the rogue archivists, the nuance and power of forgetting, and building social software around consent and archival resistance. https://wilkie.how/posts/social-archival

It is 2074. Copyright is no longer extended since rich people no longer die. All librarians are unseen outlaws building archives underground. This is their story.

I'm so efficient at life, I feel tremendously guilty all the time without being Catholic. It really frees up my Sunday.

sadly "Diablo meets Clippy: Microsoft Bob Goes to Hell" is releasing only as an xbox exclusive

We can finally get that video game mashup of The Lost Vikings, Octocat, and Clippy we once thought only possible in our dreams https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/18/business/microsoft-activision-bilzzard.html

this just reminded me today of https://mastodon.social/@wilkie/14154901 and how much I want "cat" to be the standard unit of measurement for everything

cat sold separately

why did nobody tell me John Broomhall, the original composer of Transport Tycoon's soundtrack, re-recorded his wonderful Jazz score using live musicians?? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuJy9oCdUns

me looking at code I wrote 12 months ago 🤝 me looking at code I wrote 12 minutes ago

In 2022 I will not write ":wq" in any shared google docs. In 2022 I will not write ":wq" in any shared google docs. In 2022 I wil

*hears the commotion* i don't know why people are so surprised. this happens literally every year. by definition.

The vast majority of people: *noise* *fireworks* woo! happy new year!!

Me, one programmer: *checks UTC time* It has been 2022 for 5 whole holy hours. let me sleep blissfully unaware of time zones. fuck.

most of my friends are in different time zones and it was nice to celebrate... hmm... a half dozen times in one day. although... I STILL personally celebrated at midnight UTC. 100% programmer spite. 😅

vegetarian "chikn" ... hold on ... wait a second ... you want me to pay HOW much for LESS letters?!?

well... considering I'm very much alive and McAfee isn't, this is an easy choice

bought a random box of disks real cheap and found these. they are all clean and working. hehehehe.

I appreciate that this episode of Highlander just drew over the normal Windows 3.1 Program Manager to show this phone book of immortals or whatever it is.