Kartik Agaram @akkartik@merveilles.town

@akkartik @eris @pallas

"I'll make a sound that's so alone that no one can miss it, that whoever hears it will weep in their souls, and hearths will seem warmer, and being inside will seem better to all who hear it in the distant towns.

I'll make me a sound and an apparatus and they'll call it a Fog Horn and whoever bears it will know the sadness of eternity and the briefness of life."

you might think we're slow, but think again! (1/3)

if we want to ship 25 laptops/wk, it means (simplified) with 2 people working on this 40h/wk each and one 20h/wk to cover all required skills to assemble, flash, test, package, export: each unit can get max 4h of attention so everything has to go smoothly for this to work out.

So I wrote something about my recent contribution on #hex0 #Stage0 #bootstrappable-seeds port to #riscv

I hope you enjoy it.

https://ekaitz.elenq.tech/hex0.html

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I tried walking into the kitchen, but the way was blocked. On the top step down was the fridge door, covering the stairs.

Earlier today my partner convinced me that the blue jellies aren't dangerous, and that I should touch one. We were sitting on the small wooden sea-leveled platform at the tail end - or whatever seafolk call it - watching them slowly drift past right below us. They looked magnificent. Maybe two or three times the size of my hand, almost fully translucent with a bright blue rim at the edges. The center of the body, maybe half the diameter, housed four perfect circles placed edge to edge, again with bright blue rims. I thought I could see gentle sparks inside them, but it could also just be reflections from the sun.

I expected them to be... I don't know - flat? And thin? In a way. But gently poking it felt strangely solid and firm.

Then it continued gently drifting away.

I'm not from this coast. When I did my intentional belly flop (it's just a thing I do) my first thought was not of how cold the water was, but how much it tasted of salt. When I'm not swimming in a lake I on reflex expect the water to be brackish.

I think I can get used to this, though. Tonight I will dream of jellies.

Finished off this step stool. Slanted dovetails were a bit to get my head around and I actually made a mistake of the second set. Oh well - lots learned and works as intended; helping little people get a little bit higher up.

Mostly reclaimed pine, all cut by hand. Just wood and glue and oil and time.

#theWorkshop

Computing within Limits

It seems to me that we aren't hearing about the "Computing within Limits" discourse as much as we should. Even I wasn't aware of this until recently, even though much of their research strongly resonates with my own ideas about the ecology of computing ("permacomputing", "digital degrowth" etc). Sadly, many of their past papers barely scratch the surface of their respective topics. Nevertheless, I've been planning to participate in their next virtual workshop. https://computingwithinlimits.org/ #permacomputing #computingwithinlimits

*LIMITS 2021 -- Workshop on Computing within Limits*
computingwithinlimits.org

https://computingwithinlimits.org/2021/ https://venera.social/display/85a863ed-1360-3218-ef2f-fcd801535428

There is a lot I want to say about people who require Python to compile a C program for a microcontroller(!), but it needs to be said, since I can't print it.

i ran through the rust “getting started” page (https://www.rust-lang.org/learn/get-started). it's a hello-world project that has the rust crab mascot say hello, and consists of 10 lines of code actually written.

it results in pulling in 25 separate dependencies totalling up to 97 megabytes.

for reference the entire cowsay source is 168 lines/4 kilobytes of perl.

@akkartik Hell ye, I've been waiting to see someone use functional purity this way! Another use case I've been considering and hope to explore one day is for caching and handling OOM conditions gracefully. If you know that a result is relatively cheap to compute again, you can just drop it and let other computations finish.

Universal project folder structure https://vimeo.com/557182849

A three-part talk that describes my unified filesystem pattern spanning from a single-file library to an entire app.

https://rosano.hmm.garden/01f71kp52knc5nnv08qr9kzj3m

Like a map of everything on the terrain, or a place to stand where you can see anything.

The Tokyo Government runs an official site where you enter general details on your households and the site gives you a list of all items/food you need to survive one week in case a natural disaster cuts you off from water, gas, electricity and shopping.

https://www.bichiku.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/en/

a filesystem is a kind of network protocol that allows for communicating across time

"What are Occlupanids?" http://www.horg.com/horg/?page_id=2