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Monitor arm tree


Stickered


Libble Rabble, 1983 game where you use two joysticks to draw ropes around enemies. Ropes are stretched across pegs in the environment. Learned about from the Action Button Pac Man review. From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPzVlTgZoCg&t=6974s


Amelia Wattenberger talk featuring semantic zoom From: https://www.ai.engineer/summit/schedule/climbing-the-ladder-of-abstraction


Cyberboard prototype. To be returned to another day.

What did Pokemon do?

Pokemon took the combat formula from traditional turn-based RPGs and turned it inside-out.

In traditional RPGs you have a few characters who learn more and more attacks and spells.

In Pokemon you capture more and more characters (pokemon) who can only have four moves each.

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Space Ginny keyboard with keychord map. From: https://github.com/MangoIV/space_ginny


HTML journal spec


I got my gif workflow going again, so here is the notes workspace thing I've been working on in action.


Alien melon homepage.


Workspaces-as-links-in-a-note experiment is coming along.


I've got proof-of-concept of workspaces in an infinite canvas working, but I'm hesitating a bit about building (again) out all the canvas/block niceties. Maybe just need to wait to be in the right mood for it. Today I did have an idea for a "workspaces as links" within a text document idea that I think I want to pursue in the meantime.


Workspaces.


Going to go ahead an try a canvas based home screen for workspace management.


Figuring out timers on the home screen.


Workspace timer bar is working.


Workspace

Suckless operating system primitives

Edit: There are credible reports that suckless/folks-involved-with-suckless engage with right-wing/neo-facist/nazi views. Views I completely reject. I've never been involved in the community, and tracking down what has happened is difficult from the outside, this seems like a good collection, albeit with link rot. But I've definitely seen a neo-fascist streak (often positioned as trolling) on linux youtube content and want to be clear I do not support any of that, and advise anyone entering into the linux community to stay away from that ideology, there's lots of folks (by far the majority) interested in software customization without those views.

suckless is a set of opinionated Linux software focused on simplicity and targeted towards experienced users. The most interesting part of the project to me is the attempt to break down the most common programs into a set of shareable primitives.

Their main programs and tools:

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I wrote about the Suckless software project as an interesting attempt to identify and rebuild operating system primitives. From: https://writing.grantcuster.com/posts/2023-08-15-suckless-operating-system-primitives/


Working more on workspace bar timers.