mwenge
Re:Bitchat Is Now on Radicle
on Saturday July 25, 2026 @08:14PM (#49053219)
Flubber is now on Bloopy.
Re:Steve Jobs Next Computer: His Forgotten Exile Years
on Friday May 15, 2026 @01:57PM (#48151736)
Sorry, wut.
"Computers in the 1980s were really difficult to program. He discovered at NeXT Computer that he could build beautiful software using what are called “objects”—items that, essentially, are pre-programmed in a library. This is how apps are made today, and Steve Jobs was doing this in 1988. As a result, the first ever app store appeared on a NeXT computer."
Tempest vs. Tempest: The Making and Remaking of Atari's Iconic Video Game
Mike Little: the British co-founder of WordPress you've probably never heard of
Papyrus 114: Homer's Iliad
Re:Papyrus 114: Homer's Iliad
on Saturday February 07, 2026 @05:13PM (#46928680)
Explore a nearly 2000 year old papyrus containing the last book of Homer's Iliad.
Re:Man shot and killed by federal agents in south Minneapolis this mor...
on Saturday January 24, 2026 @02:13PM (#46746579)
If not now, when?
Re:Determination of the fifth Busy Beaver value
on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @11:58AM (#45277425)
It is indeed proven and the reason they're called Turing machines! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem
Victor's Way
Re:Payment Processor Fun 2025 – Making Your Own Merchant Service Provider
on Saturday August 16, 2025 @11:51AM (#44924500)
Well no, as a consumer you need to feel comfortable that you know how to get your money back if there's a problem with your purchase, as a merchant you need similar protections and a stable cost model, and as a bank you need an income model to cover all the costs and risks associated with processing the transaction. Moving the money is the easy part and is not the main set of problems that the card payment schemes have solved.
Re:We Are No Longer a Serious Country – Paul Krugman
on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @01:55PM (#44183567)
But this isn't 'buy now, pay later'. This is a tax giveaway to the rich, enabled by future borrowing and savage cuts to public services.
Re:What happens after you run Git push?
on Sunday May 25, 2025 @05:36PM (#44091397)
Invariably an error I don't understand, why do you ask?
Re:The Pain That Is GitHub Actions
on Thursday March 20, 2025 @07:02AM (#43421639)
Do you have a public example of this? I'd love to see how to do this with Github Actions.
Re:Advice on Reading Homer in Translation
on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @10:31AM (#41567968)
If you'd like to give the Iliad a go in the original Greek you can try https://iliad.rocks
Web Trees of Gaza
Executable PDF
Re:Executable PDF
on Sunday June 02, 2024 @06:06PM (#40557520)
View a PDF file, or run whatever little executable program it contains. The choice is yours!
Psychedelia syndrome: the pixels and code of Jeff Minter's 'Psychedelia'
Re:The Brotherhood of Morons
on Thursday March 07, 2024 @09:18AM (#39629356)
Sounds like the thermocline of truth: https://brucefwebster.com/2008/04/15/the-wetware-crisis-the-...
Re:I Was a Heretic at the New York Times
on Sunday March 03, 2024 @04:53AM (#39579762)
"Doesn’t all of this talk of ‘voter suppression’ on the left sound similar to charges of ‘voter fraud’ on the right?”
The exact moment you can stop taking him seriously.
Re:Interactive Code Cells
on Monday December 18, 2023 @02:58PM (#38687358)
In the same vein: https://mwenge.github.io/blog/io10.html
Re:Pipeworld: Spreadsheet Dataflow Computing (2021)
on Sunday December 03, 2023 @06:08AM (#38506207)
I made something with a similar inspiration recently: https://mwenge.github.io/blog/io10.html
The idea is that you create data pipelines and operate on each step in the language of your choice.
Re:Tell HN: Revolut suspended my account for no reason
on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @05:40PM (#38105736)
Such heartwarming words of encouragement.
Re:Atari Video Music
on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @09:00AM (#38097611)
Arguably Psychedelia by Jeff Minter [1] has a claim to be the first software music visualiser. The algorithm is pretty straightforward [2] and I recently 'ported' it to Javascript for fun.[3]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychedelia_(light_synthesizer... [2] https://github.com/mwenge/psychedelia [3] https://mwenge.github.io/psychedelia.large/
Re:Jeff Minter's Psychedelia in the Browser
on Friday October 20, 2023 @09:58AM (#37956092)
Based on the original 6502 assembly for the C64.
Jeff Minter's Psychedelia in the Browser
Re:A couple of messages about changes to ianVisits: Copyright trolls
on Saturday September 30, 2023 @07:34AM (#37714461)
Re:A couple of messages about changes to ianVisits: Copyright trolls
on Saturday September 30, 2023 @07:21AM (#37714394)
This particular operation seemed to be in Germany - we're in another European country. She got two notices and ignored both. Nothing has come of them so far. Whatever about tweeting an infringing image, retweeting it seems like a bit of a reach.
Re:A couple of messages about changes to ianVisits: Copyright trolls
on Saturday September 30, 2023 @05:24AM (#37713880)
My wife received one of these threatening notices. In her case she had simply retweeted someone's tweet that contained the offending image. This enforcement activity is definitely the wrong side of abusive.