jjg @jjg@social.coop
One-man Skunkworks
Venture Communist
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(the hacker formerly known as @jjg)
I have this idea for a “farmer’s market”-style arcade where all games all “locally grown”; written by people in the surrounding community.
To ensure diversity of games, arcade “farmers” hold classes teaching skills needed to make games (design, programming, music, etc.).
Imagine the kind of unique titles that would be created under these conditions, and imagine how many new voices and perspectives could be heard that are currently underrepresented in the existing commercial gaming industry.
@jjg @vertigo
The graphs I showed you months ago are part of the user interface thing I've talked about.
Ideally, when graphs are revealed to the user as an integral part of the user interface that has a direct connection to the graph data structures that always lie beneath, that should allow for more people to put their ideas in practice tying conceptual linked ideas to persistence and search indices transparently.
Hopefully without coding, or with very minimal coding intervening.
@jjg """Now imagine applying this to a piece of software with the ability to model more abstract systems. For example, if you’re designing a computer you might start with four boxes representing the CPU, RAM, ROM and I/O, . . .. Drilling-down with an alternate command might take you into the source code for the ROM routines, etc."""
This does seem very obvious in retrospect, and FPGA tools have this to a very crippled, almost useless degree.
@jjg I remember a French graphical programming software that did that with subprocesses, but it was mostly designed for the robots it was emulating so it was quite small.
What you would need to make this real is, based on an existing flowchart thing, you have to make editable boxes (like how many connectors you want on it) then handle the recursive diagrams. Assuming you already have a flowchart tool this isn't rocket science
OK Ministry, let's plow-through this together!
Happy Pride Month to all of you, especially if you can't wave your flag or haven't found it yet.
Apologies if I'm intermittent/unresponsive, having some masto problems today.
I wonder how hard it would be to write something like what I describe in this post (even if it's just the flowcharting part at first)?
https://jjg.2soc.net/2018/06/28/a-universal-hierarchical-designer/
I had myself all hyped-up to do my employment today and then I read a bunch of policy and process-related slack message.
gumption depleted
I need to remember to keep some headphones/earbuds by the bed.
I need a perspective on my employment that makes me less despondent about doing the work.
That or I need to find a way to make a living working on something I’m excited about.
There goes your data: "A little-known Florida company may have exposed the personal data of nearly every American adult" https://infiniteprivacy.com/2018/06/exactis-data-breach-may-have-leaked-personal-data-of-almost-every-american-adult/
From the Solarpunk Aesthetic tumblr:
Biotechnologist Marin Sawa and her University of London research group have created a proof-of-concept for printing solar cells onto paper using carbon nanotubes and cyanobacteria.
This technology is "[...] capable of generating a sustained electrical current both in the dark (as a ‘solar bio-battery’) and in response to light (as a ‘bio-solar-panel’) with potential applications in low-power devices."
How do I keep getting roped-into debating with privilege-blind closed-minded fools on Facebook?
The TS100 is a soldering iron with an STM32 microcontroller and published firmware making it hackable. This guy added an oscilloscope feature:
https://befinitiv.wordpress.com/2017/09/26/ts100-oscilloscope-hack/
I have an STM32 and installed a #FORTH on it; you see where this is going...