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The Å-Machine
- kylek 7y agoÅkesson's work always blows my mind away. One of my favorites is Paralellogram [0] [0] https://www.linusakesson.net/scene/parallelogram/index.php https://www.linusakesson.net/scene/parallelogram/index.php edit: name correction! (indeed that is a cool name!)
- dancek 7y agoIt's Åkesson, actually. Quite cool to have your initial mostly unused as a one-letter abbreviation/name. Except for ångström (Å), of course.
- towb 7y agoÅ is a good letter in many ways, but not for names. Just my opinion, and I do have around 30 years of personal experience :P
- spraak 7y agoMy HN username should be språk but I couldn't register it that way.
- towb 7y agoWhich is usually a thing even on local sites for some reason. Nothing huge ever happened because of my Å name, but it piles up over the years. Biggest issue was when a very confused man tried to check me in at an airport and had no idea how. Took maybe 20-30 minutes and the solution was "AA". Probably not as much manual typing these days, this was 10+ years ago.
- spraak 7y agoÅh where was that?
- hestefisk 7y agoLanguage? :)
- spraak 7y agoYes. And you, horse fish? :D
- dancek 7y agoI can see where you're coming from. My native language (Finnish) also uses letters with diareses, mostly ä and ö but also å. But I did make sure my kids' names are easy to spell and pronounce in English. A name like Ääliö would be just asking for trouble, in many senses. ;)
- lokling 7y agoAgree - other notable work: A mind is born (256byte demo) [0] Bitbuf, portable 8-bit minimalistic live looping machine. [1] His work on Teenage Engineering PO-2X s [2] [0] https://linusakesson.net/scene/a-mind-is-born/ https://linusakesson.net/scene/a-mind-is-born/ [1] https://linusakesson.net/bitbuf/index.php https://linusakesson.net/bitbuf/index.php [2] https://linusakesson.net/music/po-2x/index.php https://linusakesson.net/music/po-2x/index.php
- stas2k 7y agoI like he casually has a Symbolics keyboard on his desk(easily mistaken as Commadore hardware)
- Accujack 7y agoI like this explanation of what it is: "In a sense, the Å-machine is to Dialog what Glulx is to Inform 7. " It reminds me of Alan Perlis' quote: “Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.”
- thanatropism 7y agoOr the classic "monads are just monoids on the category of endofunctors".
- wyldfire 7y agoIt's really comical: I paused and had a chuckle when I read this sentence too. But to everyone else who wonders: this is an interactive fiction component/library. Like classics from infocom (Zork et al), but modern. I tried briefly playing the author's game, "Tethered" [1] but gave up quickly because after sacrificing Judith I couldn't figure out how to summon any light or move anywhere. Supposedly I'm 'working' this morning... ;) [1] http://www.linusakesson.net/games/tethered/tethered-aa/play.html http://www.linusakesson.net/games/tethered/tethered-aa/play....
- Apofis 7y agoTell him to get Certbot. nvm, tell him to do a http>https redirect.