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Sunday, 7 December 2025
quote [ Eich himself wrote in 2006 that “ECMAScript,” the official name for the language standard, “was always an unwanted trade name that sounds like a skin disease.” ]
No new facts for people in the know, but a nice recollection of 90s style programming and trademarks lingering in our machines. Also: the 10 days were a demo prototype, as the article states itself.
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Wednesday, 3 December 2025
quote [ While there are a lot of caveats and limitations there, the fact that you could set up a speaker in your yard and conceivably store any amount of data in song birds is crazy. ]
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Monday, 1 December 2025
quote [ Busy little devs elves have been hard at work these past couple of months crafting you some holiday cheer. Please enjoy a new game, toy, or demo each day. ]
This is great and links to recent years if you can't wait. First game is a cat climbing a christmas tree high enough before it topples and burns down the house. Which is fine, obvs.
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Sunday, 30 November 2025
quote [ Lowtech counters exclusivity. Lowtech is street level technology. ]
For R1Xhard – there are probably older lowtech/permacomputing manifestos, but this one from 1999 is still elegantly valid.
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Monday, 24 November 2025
quote [ a chill, community-based alternative to the consumer chaos of retail's busiest weekend.
[…] Come to Firestorm's patio where there will be cute tents and also ✨ free ✨ hot apple cider! ] Even if you're not in [squints] Carolina events like these are a great way to spend Buy-Nothing Day not-shopping.
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Sunday, 23 November 2025
A friend of mine works for this outlet which was iniated by the regime protests of 2004/2005 as a news source in Ukrainian language which was then not widely spoken. It has editions in English and French and is run by Ukrainian editors in various countries. For people living abroad and people looking for current country news through the eyes of it's people, it's a pretty good source, I guess.
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Saturday, 22 November 2025
quote [ a bug caused by a door in a game you may have heard of called "Half Life 2". ]
More doors in games. In a very specific game. With a very specific bug.
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Thursday, 20 November 2025
quote [ Photographies numérisées du fonds C'était Paris en 1970 ]
Well, there's Paris and then there's Paris of course. Nice map, which is only the entrypoint for more old photographs, neatly categorized by quadrants, very much like an analog version of streetview.
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Saturday, 8 November 2025
quote [ The documents further note that users who click on scam ads are likely to see more of them because of Meta’s ad-personalization system, which tries to deliver ads based on a user’s interests. ]
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