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The Elements of Style: Unix as Literature (1998)(theody.net)
26 points by marttt 4y ago|4 comments
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by marttt 4y ago
"Interactive" vs non-interactive browsing is spot on, thanks very much for this. The way you outline these things (also considering the code presented in many of your previous comments) is a pristine example of Unix-y design prin
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by marttt 4y ago
Yes, I also (vaguely) remember an ELinks branch with some kind of command line. I think I even tried to build it, but it felt too experimental for comfortable usage. Still a good effort, though. I started to look into Links and ELinks again
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by marttt 4y ago
> ... I have written and continue to write small programs to do this ... Would you mind sharing some of that code? Some of your recent comments on web browsers, text browsers and javascript [1 + its follow-up] are really interesting. Tha
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by marttt 4y ago
Thanks. What I like about w3m is 1) opening images via an external viewer if I want to , and 2) the UI, where everything is done on a command line at the bottom of the screen, vi-style. No input boxes like in Links. That aside, I remember
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by marttt 4y ago
Interesting post, many thanks. What's your view on w3m, as compared to the others you mention? (Side note: I'm a daily w3m user.)
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by marttt 4y ago
For inspiration, see the Low-tech Magazine's Printed Website: https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/low-tech-magazine-the-printe... Currently three volumes of online articles on paper, and a fourth book with readers' co
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by marttt 4y ago
I think the main "selling point" of edbrowse for sighted people might be its scripting capabilities. You can automate a lot of browsing with it if you take the time. See the user guide: http://edbrowse.org/usersgui
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A Conversation with Arthur Whitney (2009) [pdf](dl.acm.org)
2 points by marttt 4y ago|0 comments
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by marttt 4y ago
+1, thanks for this anecdote. I'm thinking of coding the world's wittiest oldschool text-only adventure game for our son to make him more comfortable with keyboard input and the command line. It'll probably also be good for d
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by marttt 4y ago
Great question and many great suggestions here! If I was the librarian facing your task, I would probably try to collect books that 1) cover different programming language paradigms, and 2) books that teach you how to think differently, usi
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by marttt 4y ago
Rob Pike's acme text editor for the Plan 9 operating system: http://acme.cat-v.org/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP1xVpMPn8M (excellent overview of the editor by Russ Cox) And acme's predecesso
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by marttt 4y ago
Here's a comprehensive PhD thesis on domestic PC production in the Soviet Baltic States 1977-1992, defended in the University of Edinburgh. For the real deal, scroll to page 85, "Historical narratives": https://era
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by marttt 4y ago
Some more context -- Alan Kay discussing whether he has read 20,000 books in his life or not, and he also drifts to things like remembering and knowledge accumulation in general: https://www.quora.com/How-did-Alan-Kay-read-2
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by marttt 4y ago
I think this resonates really well with an old HN comment (one of my all time favorites) by Alan Kay on reading and remembering: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11809285 "The simple heuristic is 'relax'
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by marttt 4y ago
Somewhat related: a repository of FreeDOS-compatible freeware or open source software, no "abandonware": https://clasqm.github.io/freedos-repo/
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by marttt 4y ago
I wonder how often and for what purposes (if at all?) does the Doc actually use DOS these days. These kind of rants [1] are always interesting and oddly inspiring. 1: E.g: https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=freedos-user@l
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by marttt 4y ago
> ... and its maintenance cost is huge ... Would you mind expanding on this a little?
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by marttt 4y ago
I use Tiny Core Linux in framebuffer mode every day. Ali G. Rudi's framebuffer tools were a huge inspiration: https://litcave.rudi.ir/ I've also been curious about fbui (in-kernel windowing system). Not sure how w
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by marttt 4y ago
Or 31 basic structural elements? Identified in Russian folk tales by folklorist Vladimir Propp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Propp#Narrative_struc...
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by marttt 4y ago
Same in Estonia, "hapukurgihooaeg". Literal translation of the German "Sauregurkenzeit".
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A non-fossil alternate history for civilization and computing(viznut.fi)
12 points by marttt 4y ago|4 comments
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by marttt 4y ago
Estonian has 14 cases: http://estonianlanguage.blogspot.com/2010/04/estonian-locati... Here's a whole grammar book in English: https://pangloss.ee/wp-content/uploads/2017/09&#x2
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by marttt 4y ago
See also: Rob Pike's sam editor for Plan 9: http://sam.cat-v.org/ Less commands and a language where "everything is a (huge) string". So its operations are not limited to lines like in ed. A tutorial of the c
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by marttt 4y ago
Same here, kind of. I'm reading this thread in Linux framebuffer mode and w3m, a text-mode browser. You can see images with this setup, but only by hovering a particular image link and launching an external viewer. This has been my mai
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by marttt 4y ago
My grandfather (1931) has 7 grades of education and a lifetime history of building and repairing radios and television sets. He worked for the army and spent some time on submarines, instructing navy officers on how to use radio equipment -
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by marttt 4y ago
I really like phpBB-style forums. They've a really rich heritage, and they load in a second. My typical workflow for finding discussions on almost any topic (in the English-speaking interent) is something like: 1. search HN (either via
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by marttt 4y ago
Are the sessions by any chance stored as plain text files? What's the session format like? I used Non DAW [1] quite a bit to edit radio shows, and I loved its session format: each and every editing step is written in the file as a sing
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by marttt 4y ago
I think more of thoughtful physical intimacy ( not porn ) in relationships would be a massive treatment for the depression epidemic modern world seems to suffer from. A contemporary poet and philosopher from my country considered eroticism
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Branko Milanovic: What if Putin's true goals are different?(branko2f7.substack.com)
3 points by marttt 4y ago|1 comments

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