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> I genuinely do wonder why that has been the trajectory. The simple answer here is still likely the best one: Smalltalk and Lisp Machine systems were expensive and proprietary rig…

Man, I would love an up to date version of Cyberdog!

This comes on the heels of the AHA and other parties in the suit against the government posting the video depositions of some of the DOGE people to youtube [1], which are fascinati…

I didn't mean "like hypercard" so literally in this manner. What I meant was, a computing environment that seems to blend seamlessly into the wider operating system, and that is ab…

I knew I could get Don Hopkins to show up!

Imagine if computing had continued down the path laid by systems like HyperCard

It's the "no stopping it at this point" that always sticks out to me in these discussions. Why is there no stopping it, exactly? At this juncture these systems require massive phys…

These posts claiming that "we will review the output" etc., and that claim software engineers will still need to apply their expertise and wisdom to generated outputs, never seem t…

> treating the economic world as a gross external thing Well, a _specific_ kind of economic world in this case. Is it not a matter of fact that big tech companies largely guide how…

I would be _very_ surprised if any 18Fers were a part of the "national design studio." It is, at the very least, Doge affiliated, and Doge is who killed 18F.

For those of us in civic tech, this is a higher priority. At the federal level especially, there are laws on the books about website accessibility compliance -- even if, at present…

As an elder millennial, I just don't know what to say. That a once in a generation allocation of capital should go towards...whatever this all will be, is certainly tragic given cu…

Thanks for posting, I hadn't even heard of this

Whenever I'm using Guix I enjoy the simplicity of Shepherd [1] [1] https://shepherding.services/manual/html_node/Introduction.h...

The writing system is not syllabic. It uses ideograms, logograms, and yes syllables all together. It's also not one singular "writing system," as the set of symbols varied and chan…

All the glamour seems nice until you're in a country of continental expanse, with territories from the pacific islands to the caribbean, and with equal citizens living in areas wit…

The guides have been archived on the "18F in exile" site for continued reliable public access [0][1] [0] https://guides.18f.org/ [1] https://18f.org

It's not an improvement.

Oof, take a look under the hood. Definitely vibecoded. [0] https://bsky.app/profile/waldo.net/post/3lx6sfupkbk2o

When I was about 12 or 13, I was hanging out in my local Egghead so much playing Rebel Assault on the demo machine that the guy who worked there gave me a free mousepad just to lea…

Sure. Doesn't affect what I said.

These guys are going to spend 6 months and millions of dollars slowly discovering that USWDS exists

I recommend Havelock's Preface to Plato and Walter Ong's Orality and Literacy