(What's so funny 'bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding
Former Silicon Valley code monkey. 46 years with *nix, GUI, etc. Unix 1979, Sun, Ubuntu. Emacs 1977, Java Swing/FX until 2016. Now free of big tech, big oil, etc. Social media: from Usenet to Mastodon with no commercial sites in between.
Imagine if all the techbros stopped designing dark patterns and force-feeding us AI and started designing technology that makes the world a little better. Like this cognitive-assistance clock at the DokkX welfare technology lab in Aarhus. Brain fog, temporary illness, long-term disability, dementia – how useful to have a clock that clearly tells you what day of the week it is and whether it’s morning, afternoon, evening or night.
I made this for my old mom in 2018, using a standard Raspberry Pi 3 kit with a 7" screen, and enclosure. A simple python script runs on startup. I never got around to adding reminders and two-way radio, but I did install ssh and vnc so I could monitor it and make changes remotely. It was very useful for a couple of years until her dementia deteriorated further.
If anyone is willing to host the description and small implementation files in a public source repo, then I would be happy to share.
I had the source for some simple GEM apps back in 1987, and I thought it would be cool to run them on SunOS, so I wrote an API compatible library that I called GEMulator. Then I had some other ideas and forgot about that. I have no idea if it survived. Probably not.
GNU #Emacs boot time is terribly long on Windose even with anti-virus scan disabled and minimal init.el, I remembered Jasspa #MicroEmacs and despite last update was in 2009 it still works well on Windose 11. Still for better Unicode support GNU Emacs is the way to go but the builtin mini games from microemacs is extremely fun, my favorite is mahjongg http://www.jasspa.com
Very nice to hear that #MicroEmacs is still around. I wish that would have happened to my simple #Scame editor that I wrote in 1980 when I couldn't stand the ed/em/ex/vi family of editors.
I had the source for some simple GEM apps back in 1987, and I thought it would be cool to run them on SunOS, so I wrote an API compatible library that I called GEMulator. Then I had some other ideas and forgot about that. I have no idea if it survived. Probably not.
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Leif Samuelsson