Nostr notes by Artyom Boologov

So I have pretty peculiar requirements for a text editor: • ...

2026-10-24T01:16:45Z

So I have pretty peculiar requirements for a text editor:
• Flexible file-local (and beyond) search (this disqualifies #VSCode)
• Powerful regex (this disqualifies all #Plan9 editors) with deep integration into the editor (this disqualifies VSCode; kind of disqualifies #Emacs, because its regex are… unconventional)
• Extensibility, no matter how weird (this disqualifies VSCode)
• Multi-buffer multi-file multi-project nature (this disqualifies VSCode)
• Ability to avoid the mouse (this disqualifies VSCode)

Non-requirements:
• Syntax highlighting
• Realtime / screen / immediate nature
• Modality (more harmful than useful, at least the way it’s implemented in most “modal” (#vi) editors)

So yes, I am again confronted with the idea of making my own text editor that’d “zoom in” into lines and “zoom out” into files, directories, projects, filesystems, machines.

But no, I’m not making one. I already surrendered to the temptation of making my own #Scheme, which now is almost R5RS-compliant. So no, I totally am not using it to write a text editor. No.

that’s super cute, thank you for sharing 🖤

2026-10-20T14:41:26Z

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that’s super cute, thank you for sharing 🖤

wow! Like, the gravure reproduction, or styled? Care to share?

2026-10-20T13:56:28Z

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wow! Like, the gravure reproduction, or styled? Care to share?

> Sitri (also Bitru, Sytry, Sytri) is a Great Prince of Hell, ...

2026-10-20T12:39:47Z

> Sitri (also Bitru, Sytry, Sytri) is a Great Prince of Hell, and reigns over 60 legions of demons. He causes men to love women and vice versa, and can make people bare themselves naked if desired. He is depicted with the face of a leopard and the wings of a griffin, but under the conjurer's request he changes into a very beautiful man.
— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_demons_in_the_Ars_Goetia

5/5 customer service, recommended.

wow, what an aesthetic!

2026-10-11T14:59:59Z

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wow, what an aesthetic!

It seems I have to buy a new phone. The current one stopped ...

2026-09-22T07:47:43Z

It seems I have to buy a new phone. The current one stopped charging, and the only suggestion people at the service center had was swapping the whole motherboard. Which is more expensive than getting a new phone. Bummer.

exactly. That’s why I’m opening a bar instead of _all this_.

2026-09-18T01:35:03Z

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exactly. That’s why I’m opening a bar instead of _all this_.

Picking the best OS and the right set of second brain tools, one ...

2026-09-18T01:31:33Z

Picking the best OS and the right set of second brain tools, one is doomed to come to the only correct choice: abandon computers and get oneself a notebook.

have you seem syntaxes in IETF s-expressions ...

2026-09-15T04:44:19Z

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have you seem syntaxes in IETF s-expressions <https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-rivest-sexp-05.html>;? These are pretty unconventional, but exemplary still.

oh, nice, thank you 🖤

2026-09-13T22:51:43Z

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oh, nice, thank you 🖤

Once the fashware list started, it was a nice little thing. You ...

2026-09-13T22:27:02Z

Once the fashware list started, it was a nice little thing. You could at a glance see the projects and people your subliminal feeling should steer you away from.

But with a recent set of additions, the list seems to become… just a list of big companies? I mean, yeah, the evidence and single point of reference matters, true. But it’s just so overwhelming that a previously clear-cut “don’t do biz w fash” message is no longer that clear-cut. Everyone seems (sic) to be fash these days.

So I’m wondering if it’d be more productive to have a parallel list of “kindware” documenting the projects (MNT, Spritely, Debian etc.) that actually care about people in this barren fash wastelands.

Devine Lu Linvegan (npub1z8r…mrq6) how do you feel about the fashware list these days?

I’m not competent enough to answer that. I still don’t even ...

2026-09-08T20:36:36Z

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I’m not competent enough to answer that. I still don’t even understand continuations beyond “they are a kind of setjmp / longjmp thing 😰”

DougMerritt (log😅 = 💧log😄) (npub1vlc…mzqq)

R7RS Small is super tiny and implementable if you ignore ...

2026-09-08T19:33:54Z

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R7RS Small is super tiny and implementable if you ignore continuations. skint is merely 12K lines of code, most of it auto-generated bytecode for standard library.

Re my indexes: yeah, keep it coming! I’ll do crazy webdev in between serving shots at the bar 🤣

CL Hyperspec is actually an inspiration for both r7rs.aartaka.me and scheme-index.aartaka.me! Scheme deserves something close to CL’s hypertext docs!

of course not, r7rs.aartaka.me is mere 600KB. And it covers a ...

2026-09-08T19:21:08Z

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of course not, r7rs.aartaka.me is mere 600KB. And it covers a much smaller domain—R7RS Small. While scheme-index.aartaka.me is, in the largest case, R7RS Large + all SRFIs.

I’ve significantly optimized (aggressively deduplicated) the ...

2026-09-08T18:56:59Z

I’ve significantly optimized (aggressively deduplicated) the contents of https://scheme-index.aartaka.me. Now the largest file there (r7rs_all) only weights 2.5MB instead of some 3.7 megs.

Now, y’all might be like “wtf Artyom, 2.5 megs for a single #HTML document, how is that small to you?!” But I have to remind y’all: scheme-index is _all_ of #Scheme standard libraries and all (documented) #SRFI s—on one webpage. If you’d’ve tried to fit just the C++ standard on a single HTML page, it’d take a gigabyte or something. So go use https://scheme-index.aartaka.me and enjoy entirely JS-less docs for a small neat thing Scheme is.

#webdev #theWorkshop

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2026-09-07T13:33:36Z

Brb, making an #HTML #CSS only website for our bar.

wait, is “right” here from the perspective of the viewer or ...

2026-09-07T09:39:28Z

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wait, is “right” here from the perspective of the viewer or from the perspective of the person on the profile picture???

honestly, I thought that you'd consider my initial comment a ...

2026-08-27T02:20:58Z

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honestly, I thought that you'd consider my initial comment a drive-by complaint, but you picked it up and made it the coolest feature ever 🖤

holy hell, I want that!

2026-08-27T02:05:54Z

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holy hell, I want that!

something like ls .html or echo .html Basically any command ...

2026-08-27T01:26:09Z

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something like

ls *.html

or

echo *.html

Basically any command that returns / lists its args, because shell expands the start before running the command. But ls should be the safest for file manager uses.

a kind of sloppier regex built into shells - *.html for all HTML ...

2026-08-27T01:21:10Z

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a kind of sloppier regex built into shells

- *.html for all HTML files,
- x.[cho] for all C source, header, and object (.c, .h, .o) files for x
- a.{txt,html} for a.html and a.txt

I use these all the time in my CLI workflows, but miss them in graphical file managers and Emacs.

any way delete by shell globs? I realize this is beyond what most ...

2026-08-27T01:15:12Z

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any way delete by shell globs? I realize this is beyond what most graphical file managers do, but just as an idea?

oh. That’s bad 😰 I’ll postpone the purchase until the ...

2026-07-28T15:21:53Z

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oh. That’s bad 😰 I’ll postpone the purchase until the things are clearer then! Thanks for the warning!

it is expensive, true. But I want to believe that a Linux phone ...

2026-07-27T12:31:37Z

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it is expensive, true. But I want to believe that a Linux phone from a European manufacturer would last more than my current phone (old-ish iPhone; one year in, already laggy as hell.)

Tired of all mobile OSes shit, want a #Jolla phone. Suffering, ...

2026-07-26T20:51:18Z

Tired of all mobile OSes shit, want a #Jolla phone. Suffering, because Jolla don’t ship to Armenia 😭

EDIT: Anyone in Europe willing to be a drop-off point and send me the thing if it arrives at your address?

Yay, #Codeberg Pages docs updated with git-pages troubleshooting ...

2026-07-25T19:21:23Z

Yay, #Codeberg Pages docs updated with git-pages troubleshooting tutorial! If you find something broken in your Codeberg Pages setup, now you know how to fix it 🖤

https://docs.codeberg.org/codeberg-pages/troubleshooting/

You have no more legitimate excuses for not using Codeberg Pages now 😏

what’s the Virginia Woolf book? I’m about to re-read To the ...

2026-07-22T18:13:09Z

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what’s the Virginia Woolf book? I’m about to re-read To the Lighthouse, so looking for new recommendations.

huh, I didn’t know of superseding clause, didn’t yet get to ...

2026-07-20T03:45:57Z

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huh, I didn’t know of superseding clause, didn’t yet get to New Testament!

I’m reading Bible as a source of many cultural references and story structures. As literature / fiction, and not as history or religious scripture.

ahah, yeah, origami computing is fun. Wait a second, I can do ...

2026-07-20T01:44:33Z

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ahah, yeah, origami computing is fun.

Wait a second, I can do origami!

Finished #Bible #Exodus today. Not recommended—most of the book ...

2026-07-20T01:43:42Z

Finished #Bible #Exodus today. Not recommended—most of the book is just a description of certain religious artifacts, super boring.

But what struck me in Exodus is the stark obvious nature of god as chaotic. At some moments, they are humane and compassionate, and at some moments they are like “thou shalt die, thou too, do not know, do not care!” So inconsistent yet dangerous. Keep no promises either. Meeeeh.

Bored of #analog / paper, want to do something interactive on my ...

2026-07-20T01:28:39Z

Bored of #analog / paper, want to do something interactive on my laptop. Need to persevere and do something equally interactive on paper 🤔

I modified it slightly! ...

2026-07-15T21:23:48Z

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I modified it slightly!

must love Grendel. Must obey. Must praise GGGGGG

2026-07-14T20:43:45Z

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must love Grendel. Must obey. Must praise GGGGGG

“sorry” as the best code provenance tracker.

2026-07-13T17:43:12Z

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“sorry” as the best code provenance tracker.

i can’t even read

2026-07-11T18:06:31Z

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i can’t even read

Fuck, I seem to have lost all the code for my #Eliza ...

2026-07-09T00:38:05Z

Fuck, I seem to have lost all the code for my #Eliza implementation in #Scheme when I moved OSes.

I guess I am strongly framed by my experience with other wikis, ...

2026-07-08T18:19:38Z

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I guess I am strongly framed by my experience with other wikis, which all seem quite detached and “objective.” Wikipedia and c2wiki are certainly influences there. So yes, I am strawmanning here, as I say myself, but it’s not that far from the “truth“ of what I’ve seen.

Re timelines: I actually don’t like timestamped media. Sure, my website index page lists publication time for posts, but that’s just an affordance for the reader to understand the historical context of writing. I perceive my blog more like a graph of loosely connected sensual images and ideas. Sometimes wiki-like bits of knowledge, but mostly just a hodgepodge of everything together.

There are lots of people around me—including on ...

2026-07-08T05:13:57Z

There are lots of people around me—including on Merveilles—that maintain their own #wiki. I considered starting one too! However, there’s an existential problem with me and wikis. Expanding on my incompatibility with wikis in my new #blogpost, “Wiki, #Wittgenstein, and Wits:”

https://aartaka.me/wiki.html

I want my type-checking SRFI to be merged into Guile alreeeeeady ...

2026-07-05T22:06:52Z

I want my type-checking SRFI to be merged into Guile alreeeeeady 😭 Please—Guile is the only implementation that I use and care about that didn’t yet merge that 😭😭😭

ahah, yeah, it’s irritating indeed! I didn’t notice it ...

2026-07-03T15:03:42Z

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ahah, yeah, it’s irritating indeed! I didn’t notice it before, but you put the curse of knowledge on me!

just in case: are you aware of Neolatino ...

2026-07-03T00:56:09Z

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just in case: are you aware of Neolatino (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolatino_Romance)? It seems to be an Interlingua-style language, but with many modern Romance language things added seamlessly. Any critique?

Sorry for spamming the timeline y’all, but I just want to share ...

2026-07-02T23:34:20Z

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Sorry for spamming the timeline y’all, but I just want to share how awesome MX Linux is: it detected my encrypted disk, detected my home directory, and updated the broken system preserving all of my data, to the point of LibreWolf restoring all the tabs and extensions on reinstall!

Having a user-friendly distro is nice for a change.

Chat, I just made a typo and removed /usr/lib. It’s Linux ...

2026-07-02T22:27:51Z

Chat, I just made a typo and removed /usr/lib. It’s Linux re-installation time I guess!

wow, yes! The dates are sick too, ahah!

2026-06-18T00:08:37Z

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wow, yes! The dates are sick too, ahah!

I’ve been learning and using stenographic / shorthand writing ...

2026-06-17T23:54:25Z

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I’ve been learning and using stenographic / shorthand writing for more than a month now. And every time, every text, presents me with a challenge of how to lay out these abstract symbols so that they:

• express the sound / letters of the word
• look compact enough on paper
• do not introduce ambiguity in an already ambiguous and overloaded system

This is a challenge, much like some programming or math problems. So, even though I haven’t read the paper, I can testament to the effect!

Having begun using paper for thoughts, writing, and information ...

2026-06-17T23:22:04Z

Having begun using paper for thoughts, writing, and information management, I started noticing the durability (or the lack thereof) of the things surrounding me. Paper is quite durable and can survive for centuries when preserved right. However, frequent use of a notebook thins and tears the paper. Use of pen rips it. Human hands bring moisture and grease. It’s not immortal.

Same for the external disk I’m currently dumping all my games to: it hangs precariously on its short cable, plugged into my laptop. And I realize: the cable experiences strain, and ports on both sides of it experience wear and displacement. It’s not eternal either, despite being all metal and rubber.

Am I becoming a permacomputerist? Permascriptorist?

Bought an external SSD, downloading all my games from GoG in case ...

2026-06-17T08:19:34Z

Bought an external SSD, downloading all my games from GoG in case they decide to ban me for being woke ✅

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2026-06-06T22:27:23Z

What the holy fuck, GOG is Nazi now?!

oh, that looks really good! I like how it promotes slowness and ...

2026-06-01T23:55:05Z

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oh, that looks really good! I like how it promotes slowness and deliberation!

I myself was planning a versioning system like so: there’s a “release” every month, containing arbitrary number of bug fixes. But only 0/1 feature. Yes, one feature per month, no more! That’d provoke a thorough process of feature vetoing and community moderation, while still allowing progress.

I wanted to use that for my GUI toolkit, knstrktr, but it’s slightly postponed / being redesigned for now.

Finished Calvino’s Invisible Cities today, thanks to ...

2026-06-01T03:27:14Z

Finished Calvino’s Invisible Cities today, thanks to Devine Lu Linvegan (npub1z8r…mrq6) ‘s recommendation. It’s a really inspiring book! The synopsis saying about fifty-something imagined cities undersells the book dramatically. It’s not about cities at all. It’s about states of mind that give birth to cities, both at an individual and social level. Extremely enriching experience.

But, speaking favorite cities, mine were:

• City as seen by a reminiscing old man

• City hanging over the rift, in impermanence

• Cities that don’t have borders—there were several, and I didn’t really get the difference, but the idea of feeling infinitely lost is nice!

Of course, with the associated affects: FOMO, fatalism, displacement.

#theLibrary

I’m right on the AI hype wave here!

2026-05-26T23:56:30Z

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I’m right on the AI hype wave here!

Updating my projects page ...

2026-05-26T23:23:07Z

Updating my projects page <https://aartaka.me/projects.html>; made me recall that I did a mostly compliant #Eliza re-implementation <https://codeberg.org/aartaka/laliza>; in the past. Now I’m tempted by it again, but want to add some more features to it, like nested structures and symbol explosions. This will make it a reasonable #programming system, actually!

#theWorkshop

yeah, making games in CHIP8 was fun with these 8x8 sprites. ...

2026-05-15T20:01:57Z

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yeah, making games in CHIP8 was fun with these 8x8 sprites. Accessibility though…

Folx, what are the easiest ways to create GUIs? I want to steal ...

2026-05-15T19:14:46Z

Folx, what are the easiest ways to create GUIs? I want to steal ideas from there for my own UI toolkit 🙃

I don’t consider WYSIWYG/no-code editors for now, maybe later?

I mean, HTML is one of the big things and is fun to play with, but we have to acknowledge downsides: non-immediateness of the syntax, need for JS for “rich” GUIs, and inability to speak to the system directly from HTML.

#programming #GUI #HTML

they slopified.

2026-05-15T14:45:41Z

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they slopified.

Just a quick #security heads-up: in case you’re avoiding #vim ...

2026-05-15T13:02:36Z

Just a quick #security heads-up: in case you’re avoiding #vim and use #vi on some modern #Linux distro, make sure that vi does not actually point to vim. Arch Linux recently changed vi to be an alias to Vim in traditional mode. I assume it’s the same for other distros.

Stay safe y’all!

I once messed up a document for postcard printing order. Some of ...

2026-05-12T03:46:04Z

In reply to nevent1q…u70v
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I once messed up a document for postcard printing order. Some of the postcard were printed with back on both sides. I personally consider these better than the ones with pictures.

Are aluminum keys a thing? I think that they might be cheap ...

2026-05-06T22:19:45Z

Are aluminum keys a thing? I think that they might be cheap enough for hostels and hotels to use as disposable, but I’m not sure if they are as easy to produce in the aluminum material part, compared to steel?

this reminds me of a Stephen Wolfram’s story about aliens using ...

2026-05-05T20:27:04Z

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this reminds me of a Stephen Wolfram’s story about aliens using cellular automata for computation / thinking. I think it might be https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2022/06/alien-intelligence-and-the-concept-of-technology/

I mean, it does help, because the parser still works and ...

2026-04-30T16:53:57Z

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I mean, it does help, because the parser still works and compiles. But the social structure around it is lacking, and no Common Lisp can fix that 😰

Oh nice, latest #CommonLisp cl-html5-parser incarnation ...

2026-04-30T03:17:07Z

Oh nice, latest #CommonLisp cl-html5-parser incarnation <https://github.com/rotatef/cl-html5-parser>; is archived now. Including my contribution bridging it with Plump. Meaning: no #HTML 5 parsers with nice API for y’all 😠

First writing session on paper using GESS #stenography and ...

2026-04-22T11:09:16Z

First writing session on paper using GESS #stenography and single-lined #notebook. Barely readable, but really effortless and immediate. I like it.

I keep looking for productivity techniques from the paper age and cannot find them. There must be some really good writing techniques for paper drafts! Plain wall of text is not really malleable…

#theWorkshop

so basically “remove all x”? But that’s not what happens in ...

2026-04-18T11:27:52Z

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so basically “remove all x”? But that’s not what happens in the program, because X-es are preserved, aren’t they?

Devine Lu Linvegan (npub1z8r…mrq6) clarity flowers (npub1k9w…zewr)

yeah, the Fibonacci exchange / summing part of numerator I get. ...

2026-04-18T05:00:36Z

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yeah, the Fibonacci exchange / summing part of numerator I get. But the meaning of x^x in denominator still eludes me. What’s its role?

doubling that, because I don’t get how x^x works in it. To me, ...

2026-04-18T03:21:01Z

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doubling that, because I don’t get how x^x works in it. To me, x^something is like move/copy operation. So it makes little sense with the same symbol, especially in the denominator. Anything I’m missing? Is my mental model flawed?

I think headers—not just section headers, but also column ...

2026-04-15T03:47:14Z

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I think headers—not just section headers, but also column headers—won’t hurt. I mean, the table *kinda* makes sense without them, but a bit of obviousness would be nice for the brain.

Anyone else’s Codeberg Pages site unavailable? Mine seems to ...

2026-04-11T22:21:14Z

Anyone else’s Codeberg Pages site unavailable? Mine seems to serve placeholder 404 for an hour now…

redundancy is good, so thanks for it! Adding a reference to ...

2026-04-11T20:09:29Z

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redundancy is good, so thanks for it!

Adding a reference to Rejoice in the playground bits would be nice, so that the syntax is not as intimidating.

thanks! I feel so silly right now, not noticing the header in the ...

2026-04-11T19:58:58Z

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thanks!

I feel so silly right now, not noticing the header in the input gates table. So basically the header lists possible values for the input trit, while every row specifies the result (trit) of this gate application to this input trit? I’m really inattentive at times, sorry 😅

which is beautiful.

2026-04-11T19:13:54Z

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which is beautiful.

I am indecisive about this post: ...

2026-04-09T23:03:46Z

I am indecisive about this post: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/12/how-and-why-i-stopped-buying-new-laptops/

On the one hand, it does make sense to buy used high-quality repairable machines instead of new replaceable glued garbage.

But, on the other hand, does it really make sense buying an extremely old laptop AND two more for spare parts because getting these parts is hard? This feels like an unnecessary multiplication of e-waste to me.

My approach is: I’m using my extremely underpowered 2020 Lenovo Thinkpad for the longest possible time and then I get an X220 from 2011, because that’s the last model with a good keyboard that’s still relatively powerful enough to handle my type of computing, and roughly the same specs as the current one, in fact. But it’s a hard sell even to me, because computing is heavyweight in a general case. Might be quite inconvenient with such a laptop, especially in two or three years from now.

Time for a SIMD-powered application stack anyone?

hell yeah!

2026-04-09T17:54:11Z

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hell yeah!

This Low Tech magazine post on marine navigation ...

2026-04-09T17:39:18Z

This Low Tech magazine post on marine navigation <https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2008/01/satellite-navigation-in-the-18th-century/>; perfectly mirrors my worries about tech propaganda and digital-only services. I cannot simply use pen and paper anymore, because I have to have OTP codes, electronic registration, GPS, dedicated service apps, NFC cards, and whatnot. Analogue alternatives to these are being phased out, to the detriment of privacy, resilience, and healthy system redundancy. I don’t like that.

I'm adding it to my list, where Armenian stenography and ...

2026-04-06T23:51:18Z

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I'm adding it to my list, where Armenian stenography and Interslavic already reside. Any resources besides Latin textbooks you can recommend?

the experiments with making a Turing machine in orca were ...

2026-04-01T16:45:24Z

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the experiments with making a Turing machine in orca were definitely on my mind! And neural networks merge with CAs inti neural CAs, so yeah, it’s there.

Thanks for the reference!

like getting some information out of it. Calculating numbers, ...

2026-04-01T16:10:17Z

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like getting some information out of it. Calculating numbers, getting an image, proving a theorem.

@npub1z8r…mrq6 are you by any chance aware of some work doing ...

2026-04-01T13:07:14Z

Devine Lu Linvegan (npub1z8r…mrq6) are you by any chance aware of some work doing “useful” computation with cellular automatons?

it’s a lot of terminology to take in, thus my brain shutdown. ...

2026-03-29T00:31:16Z

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it’s a lot of terminology to take in, thus my brain shutdown. Having more elaborate steps would probably help!

no I mean how does -6 turn into Increment?

2026-03-29T00:24:29Z

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no I mean how does -6 turn into Increment?

@npub1z8r…mrq6 how do you go from a ternary gate value to its ...

2026-03-29T00:09:50Z

Devine Lu Linvegan (npub1z8r…mrq6) how do you go from a ternary gate value to its function, e.g. -6 to INC in https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/ternary_logic.html?

I’m not sure this is explained anywhere, but it seems quite important to the argument. Is it some kind of ternary gate configuration that’s expressed by a number? Or is it an operation-encoding convention?

thanks for this elaborate comment, I really value it! > I ...

2026-03-24T16:24:44Z

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thanks for this elaborate comment, I really value it!

> I haven't dabbled in the math and shorthand stuff, but did switch to analogue for a while, doing a Zettelkasten-like system of my own, using folded A4 paper, with IDs, thread chaining, indexes, linking, etc. A pencil and a ruler plus the paper were all the tools I used. I used it for journaling, writing, keeping lists of books, writing reviews and notes, task management, indexing my collections of psychical objects, and other assorted uses.

That’s a lot! Much more than I currently maintain even digitally, but I see how that might emerge.

> My verdict is: analogue has definitely been more productive than digital for me. It is slower in every way, so /speed/ is not how it did it. It was more through /focus/, friction making switching away from things more expensive, more accurate estimation and prioritization of tasks, and some kind of psychological effect from the meditative effect of preparing the documents, lining the paper manually, and drawing some flourish and some attempts at calligraphy in the titles; having beauty and care imbued into the work; craftsmanship of sorts.

I see. That ties into the “AI”-generated code discourse too: We don’t need to barf code out fast. We need better code applied in necessary points.

> I tried it even on other people, for example helping my wife with a long-term project by dedicating a paper to record her achievements, writing them down very carefully and slowly, with some ornaments around the paper, etc. It had a very visible effect on her excitement and dedication to get to her goals, and she was always coming back to ask me to write down the next thing she's proud of. I don't think this effect would be achieved by writing a bullet list in a plain text file.

Aesthetics are important indeed! I’m not the visual type of person, so I want to try paper information management because of persistence and intentionality. But beauty is there for sure, human-made and home-grown!

> The negatives of analogue are overblown usually. Most governments ran on paper machines, but too many salesmen wanted to sell us the "Digital Transformation" the past few decades.

Yes! I keep being surprised at Armenian government jumping on hype trains and destroying systems that worked for decades, all to digitalize and restrict the possibilities of these. We lose humanity and redundancy in that.

> Search is not a big issue, because you can have an index, and write keywords in it [...] Hyper-linking does not require a digital tool; you can have IDs and use them as links, and finding the right document can be fast if you have a good ID schema to sort your documents by. Even copy-paste works in analogue if you really want, by... you know, copying with a printer, and then pasting with some glue. Or just link using IDs.

This linking part feels really hard. Especially given that my thoughts are extremely unstructured and domain-permeating. Thus resistant against indexing approaches. But I think that keyword indexing might work there!

> I use simple nylon plastic sleeves as folders, give folders IDs too, and link to them from an index page that explains what things are in that folder.

That reminds me of https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/john-lockes-method-for-common-place-books-1685. I long wanted to make a Commonplace book with such kind of smart indexing, but had no use-case for it. Your analogue adventures fill me with determination to finally use one!

> For example, it takes me a few minutes to search online maps to make a trip plan to where I wanted to go, but since I'm using analogue instead of digital (I got rid of my phone completely too, by the way) I had to write the directions down on a paper and take it with me, as I couldn't access them on demand whenever I needed them otherwise. Well, not for long, because my brain suddenly started remembering the roads for next time

I have the same effect, just looking at a map once and then trying to not look it up on every crossroad. Helps in exercising memory. So yeah, I get that!

> I was just remembering the phone number off the top of my head. Much faster than searching any digital tool :D

Oh, that sounds extremely hard to achieve, ahah

> After a year or so, I went back to my digital systems to see if the lessons I learned can be helpful there. [...] The results so far, around 3 months in, are not very good.

That’s unfortunate. Being a digital kid, I really like optimizing my workflows. But now that I want to try out the paper life, I might come to the same conclusions 😢

> I recommend the book Paper Machines by Jacques Derrida, which I found very interesting (though I haven't finished the entire book yet).

Oh, will read it. Sounds exactly like my kind of Critical Science reading!

So if I move to #Gregg #shorthand for my writing, #Kaktovik ...

2026-03-23T00:34:24Z

So if I move to #Gregg #shorthand for my writing, #Kaktovik numbers for calculations, start using a Commonplace book and physical #Zettelkasten notes, will I have any chance against digitized workflows’ speed? I actually want to try that life to see how far computerless life can get one.

Spreadsheets on paper anyone? Abstracting numeric operations by remembering the graphics of them (reminds me of the #APL #ACM paper by Iverson?)

#theWorkshop

this is fair. Writing this post made me think that my approach is ...

2026-03-18T11:11:24Z

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this is fair. Writing this post made me think that my approach is structured too, just in a different way!

I realized that I need no notebooks, todos, calendars, nor #wiki. ...

2026-03-18T00:51:20Z

I realized that I need no notebooks, todos, calendars, nor #wiki. Thus my surprise at people making elaborate #Obsidian systems, using smart topic-based indexing, or maintaining a digital garden.

Because my workflows are artifact-based, uni-dimensional, and queued. I either produce an artifact (be it blog post, piece of software, or an art piece) right now. Or I don’t. And if I need to do something, then there’s an (often physical) artifact reminding me of that. It’s not a structured #TODO, it’s an unread instant message awaiting an action. Or a scrap of paper with LAUNDRY in huge letters lying on my table. Or a call someone will make me in the future.

I peddle in evocative images and scraps, not in bullet lists and weekly charts.

Am I misunderstanding life or am I too privileged to not need a calendar?

#TIL (not really, I knew about it for some time) about Kaktovik ...

2026-03-17T19:11:06Z

#TIL (not really, I knew about it for some time) about Kaktovik numerals <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaktovik_numerals>;, and I like their graphicality and ease of arithmetics.

Devine Lu Linvegan (npub1z8r…mrq6) it reminds me of the intersection-based multiplication example on your wiki article about paper computing. Any chance you'd be interested in Kaktovik numerals?

thanks! Your wiki sure is a treasure trove!

2026-03-16T14:59:23Z

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thanks! Your wiki sure is a treasure trove!

@npub1z8r…mrq6 what’s the link on your wiki for simple RISC ...

2026-03-16T10:54:40Z

Devine Lu Linvegan (npub1z8r…mrq6) what’s the link on your wiki for simple RISC paper computer? I only found “paper computing” article, but it’s not there.

“So what if this #Lisp program shelled out to #ed(1) to parse ...

2026-02-26T23:16:19Z

“So what if this #Lisp program shelled out to #ed(1) to parse this string” and other totally-non-ed(1)-head thoughts today.

textuality of the format is why I picked HTML for my slides. ...

2026-02-26T11:26:51Z

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textuality of the format is why I picked HTML for my slides. It’s an important point!

yeah, pretty much https://aartaka.me/scrollbar.html

2026-02-21T17:58:46Z

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yeah, pretty much https://aartaka.me/scrollbar.html

(I remember akater sharing some more of their projects somewhere, ...

2026-02-15T22:31:31Z

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(I remember akater sharing some more of their projects somewhere, but this is the one that came in DuckDuckGo listing first.)

Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🎃 👻 8647 (npub1tw9…za5q) [@ramin_hal9001](https://fe.disroot.org/users/ramin_hal9001 ) [@vidak](https://social.solarpunk.au/users/vidak )

there’s this small project that handles Elisp reading into ...

2026-02-15T22:26:08Z

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there’s this small project that handles Elisp reading into Common Lisp. Which is halfway there to bringing stuff to a more neutral environment.

https://framagit.org/akater/cl-el-reader

Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🎃 👻 8647 (npub1tw9…za5q) [@ramin_hal9001](https://fe.disroot.org/users/ramin_hal9001 ) [@vidak](https://social.solarpunk.au/users/vidak )

for me, the other direction is more important and difficult. I ...

2026-02-14T22:05:45Z

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for me, the other direction is more important and difficult.

I read most of the long-form stuff on my phone, but I’m writing things on my laptop. So I need to transfer links and quotes from what I read from my phone to the laptop.

I tend to do this via DMs in messengers, but that’s suboptimal.

I am anxious about adding a “No AI” badge to my site, because ...

2026-02-13T12:22:42Z

I am anxious about adding a “No AI” badge to my site, because I slipped once.

While testing different models, I had Claude generate me an ed(1) meta script to read a file based on the file name on the current line. The script was not perfect, but the approach was much more simple and readable than the monstrosity I had before. So I polished it and used it in my website build script.

Is my website slop-contaminated now?

I’m uneasy about chaining / threading operators, be it ...

2026-02-12T14:12:54Z

I’m uneasy about chaining / threading operators, be it #Haskell’s $, #Wisp colon, #Clojure arrows, or my own #CommonLisp #/ operator from <https://codeberg/aartaka/lin-edi-table>;.

These seem to restrict the code in what it can do. With dirty imperative or functional code, you can insert new forms literally everywhere. But with these operators you have to come up with strategies to compose things properly.

Which is not a problem with Clojure, because at least built-ins are designed with threading in mind. But it’s much harder in brown field langs like CL.

This post was brought to you by refactoring a complex seven-stage threading in Clojure.

So I have a really high rubric for my projects: “does the world ...

2026-02-09T00:12:32Z

So I have a really high rubric for my projects: “does the world need new software?” one.

The more this “#AI” craze drags, the more convinced I am that the world actually doesn’t need more.

True, a person with spare $1K can buy a #Claude subscription and slop up a “product” scratching their own itch. The necessity of scratching either itch aside, I doubt that this product will be innovative and useful, with all its single-purpose undocumented APIs and flat faceless #Tailwind design.

There are projects solving all kinds of issues already. The problem is not creating them. The problem is learning and extending them. That’s often a hard, but nonetheless important part. Because if we invest in good #FOSS projects that are flexible and useful enough, we’d get better foundations to solve problems on. Without the need for slopifying a new project every time there’s some difficulty we encounter.

The world doesn’t need more software. It needs better software.

I still have to wrap my head around @npub1fp0…54p5 ‘s “deep ...

2026-02-02T00:45:57Z

I still have to wrap my head around screwlisp (npub1fp0…54p5) ‘s “deep learning in #Lisp” post <https://screwlisp.small-web.org/fundamental/a-better-deep-learning-algorithm/>;, but I’m already hyped up:

• I we can do deep learning without numbers, only doing symbol/tree transformations

• And if there are systems that specialize on tree transformations and don’t have native numbers

• Then we can use these systems to do deep learning without actually needing any of the “modern” scaffolding for it!

Things that come to mind:

• @june@june@social.nouveau.community ‘s Modal and maybe Nova?

• Devine Lu Linvegan (npub1z8r…mrq6) ‘s experiments with neural nets as embedded notepad connections

• ed(1) as a symbolic playground. C’mon, have you thought I’d go even one post without mentioning ed? Hell no! I’m going to understand this symbolic neural nets thing and start doing deep learning in ed! 🤩

have you considered multiple-hole templates? Emacs Yasnippet has ...

2026-02-01T21:19:52Z

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have you considered multiple-hole templates? Emacs Yasnippet has that, and it’s quite useful for filling C function signatures argument by argument.

thedæmon (Clay Ayers) [he / him] (npub1cp3…39ww)

thank you for making this post. I feel home here, with all these ...

2026-02-01T20:09:30Z

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thank you for making this post. I feel home here, with all these people seeing Markdown for what it is and enjoying the tool-enabled power of HTML.

oh, so all of your setup is a t/ directory with tag-specific ...

2026-02-01T20:08:09Z

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oh, so all of your setup is a t/ directory with tag-specific template files? This is smart!

thedæmon (Clay Ayers) [he / him] (npub1cp3…39ww)