jcreed

oh hey Vanyel! I may not have been as heavily involved in Agora per se, but I was a member for a time (as "Pascal") and absolutely feel the same way about internet Nomic in the 90s being a cherished formative experience for me, both in terms of igniting a love for playing with formal systems --- and also I think it was the reason I learned Perl. And about Spivak pronouns, and strange daylight-saving timezone exceptions in the united states. (Kelly being in Indiana --- come to think of it, was it em who you inherited the perl scripts from?)

I think I ended up experimenting with other more minimal-initial-ruleset systems later on, Micronomic/Macronomic? Good times in any case. Thanks a ton for your archival work, and thanks to everyone involved for making a kid's life more interesting in those heady early-internet days.

http://bertilow.com/pmeg/ is a great post-Duolingo thing to read through if you like reading dense reference grammars (as I do :)

There's lots of easy fiction literature; gerda malaperis, la eta princo, etc.

Nowadays there's a good amount of vlog content to watch. Evildea has tons, (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYs_6gTE3O8 has a bunch of fairly ordinary casual conversation between people in it) and I also like https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZLuNvGx99zmlEQL0oR_uvg

It does indeed look interesting when animated; not sure if this is which parameter you had in mind to vary, but: https://jsfiddle.net/dvv0wd82/

I use https://github.com/andymcd/cmd-key-happy which swaps option and command, and which lets you whitelist keys (iirc Cmd-N is among the defaults) to be exempt from that swapping.