Byron Torres @torresjrjr@qoto.org

@cwebber @spritelyinst

👋 Hello Fediverse! 👋

My co-founder at @spritelyinst (he's Executive Director, I'm CTO) now has an account on the fediverse: @frandallfarmer

Randy also:

- Co-invented JSON with Doug Crockford and Chip Morningstar
- Co-founded the world's *first* major massively multiplayer game / virtual world: Lucasfilms Habitat on the Commodore-freaking-64! (Also the place where the technical term "avatar" came from (borrowed from Sanskrit by Chip, I think)) Watch this wild video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVpulhO3jyc
- Co-runs the open source revival of the original Habitat: https://frandallfarmer.github.io/neohabitat-doc/docs/
- Co-founded Electric Communities. Electric Communities Habitat is where the E programming language came from from which much of Spritely is based. Watch this hilarious but mind-bending video from p2p virtual worlds... in 1997!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNiePoNiyvE
- The compression pass to my expansion pass of communication in the Spritely Networked Communities Institute. Any time things have gotten wordy, you can bet it's from me; any time they're terse and concise, you can bet it's from Randy. Usually we try to combine our skills.

Welcome Randy!

Very impressive voice control system for Linux that someone emailed me about the other day:

https://numen.johngebbie.com/index.html

It's modal and maps syllables onto commands in a way which allows for very efficient computer use without having to use a keyboard. It lets you be a power user even if you have accessibility needs, which is a really important and underserved niche in accessibility imo.

In praise of Plan 9

https://drewdevault.com/2022/11/12/In-praise-of-Plan-9.html

A friend at the local hackerspace surprised me a while back with this custom-embroidered harriet #harelang

#introduction Hello! I work on free software. Trying out Mastodon again.

Here are some projects I'm working on at the moment:

https://sr.ht/~sircmpwn/sourcehut
https://sr.ht/~sircmpwn/hare
https://sr.ht/~sircmpwn/helios

I compared the landing pages of Mastodon, Pleroma and Misskey because I was curious how each characterized itself.

joinmastodon.org: "Mastodon isn’t a single website like Twitter or Facebook, it's a network of thousands of servers operated by different organizations and individuals that provide a seamless social media experience."
→ Mastodon is a network

join.misskey.page: "Misskey is a decentralized microblogging platform born on Earth. Since it exists within the Fediverse (a universe where various social media platforms are organized), it is mutually linked with other social media platforms."
→ Misskey is part of a network

pleroma.social: "Free and open communication for everyone. Pleroma is social networking software compatible with other Fediverse software such as Mastodon, Misskey, Pixelfed and many others. "
→ Pleroma is part of a network

Adios, @captainepoch
Thank you for everything.

Join the SDF Plan9 Boot Camp and learn about Plan9 in a fun and friendly environment!

https://9p.sdf.org

#plan9 #9front #community #experimental #unix

We've published A Scheme Primer! https://spritely.institute/static/papers/scheme-primer.html
Blogpost: https://spritely.institute/news/the-spritely-institute-publishes-a-scheme-primer.html

This primer serves as a quick skim tutorial to get started fast, or as a more in-depth read... ending with the finale of a 30 line example of a Scheme interpreter written in Scheme!

#ProTip: https://onelook.com/ is the most useful website you've never heard of.

News!

- Moved repo to codeberg.org/forgefed/forgefed, and development has resumed with new contributors!

- Site is now at forgefed.org!

- Chat is at #forgefed:libera.chat, on IRC/Matrix

- Forum is moving to socialhub.activitypub.rocks

- Gitea federation is WIP

- I've resumed work on Vervis, intending to relaunch it and put federated patches/MRs in the spec

- Simplified 1st spec draft is WIP

- I may step down at some point, project future seems bright now ^_^

--fr33

@ddevault
Introducing the Himitsu keyring & password manager for Unix
June 20, 2022
https://drewdevault.com/2022/06/20/Himitsu.html

A #hare project, influenced by #plan9's factotum.

Introduction to the Himitsu secret key store https://spacepub.space/videos/watch/5f9e5407-64a6-4776-9175-de744f2e7bc4