Biggles @Biggles@social.cleverlibre.org

@a2_4am @ftrain thank you for the first thing I’ve seen on Mastodon so far that made me sit bolt-upright in bed and yell NO FUCKING WAY loud enough to make my dog look at me with deep concern.

@ftrain "tech so obscure 20 people use it"

*takes deep breath, cracks knuckles* OK, SO...

My friend @Option8 made an Altair-8800 emulator for the Apple II.

I think, perhaps, it's time for our first ever Mastodon Steam game key competition don't you? Can't let the other side have all the fun.

Follow and Boost this to be in to win a copy of (winner picks 2!):

- My Time at Portia
- Sid Meier's Civilization VI
- Hot Wheels Unleashed
- Embr

Winner will be tagged to see what they want. Ends 9PM UTC, 18th December.

If it behooves you, instead of thinking any more about Twitter—hit us with some PDFs, some incomprehensible sociology, a fact about your town, some poetry no one cares about, political theory that will never land, obscure social history, climate links, math things, some tech so obscure 20 people use it. We want your inner noise. Just push the gas on your own ephemeralism and launch us into the future.

I've read many requests to add Mastodon links to GitHub profiles for verification and discovery purposes.

My team is working on allowing you to add a number of social profile links, but given upcoming holiday vacations, it won't ship until the new year. We don't want to rush something out at the potential cost of disrupting what is generally a quiet time for our engineers.

Ordinarily, I wouldn't talk about in progress work on social media, but y'all seem like you can keep a secret.

Me: Drug dealer called again.

Her: It's Walgreens. Just say Walgreens.

Me welcoming the #twittermigration after being here a whole 42 days.

Oh, wow, Tom Lehrer has released all of his songs into the public domain. Apparently also his website will shut down "at some date in the not too distant future" so now's a good time to download directly.

"In short, I no longer retain any rights to any of my songs.
So help yourselves, and don’t send me any money."

https://tomlehrersongs.com/

One of my favorite artifacts of all time: A complete broadcast day, recorded off the radio, from 1939. Just a day in America, every bit of it, from morning to night.

https://archive.org/details/CompleteBroadcastDay

Donald Trump's teases a "major announcement" that's just NFTs

December 15, 2022
https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=donald-trump-teases-a-major-announcement-thats-just-nfts

"The Internet Archive just put 565 Palm Pilot apps in your web browser / Dope Wars, Space Trader, Graffiti, memos, calculators and more: the Internet Archive’s instant Palm Pilot emulator is an app store before the App Store."

go @internetarchive ! go @textfiles !

https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/25/23478396/internet-archive-palm-pilot-emulation-games-apps-dope-wars

Today for #projects, another resulting from spending a week hacking with a group of nerds in a rented Scottish castle in 2009 (https://devfort.com/fort/2/) - Bugle!

https://github.com/devfort/bugle

"Group collaboration tools for hackers in forts" - we had a LAN but no internet, and we needed a replacement for Twitter

It's a neat app! It combines a Twitter-style timeline with shared TODO items, code snippets and at-mentions

If we'd removed the "must be used on a fort" requirement we could have been Slack!

On a subsequent /dev/fort @bfirsh added a Twitter API emulation layer, which allowed us to use our existing Twitter apps (after pointing twitter.com to our own sever on the LAN) https://github.com/devfort/bugle/commit/9eddde00af7a5e83e07385a80752f1a8d136fa55 - Bind configuration instructions here: https://github.com/devfort/bugle/blob/503fd229fbd1006982acfd02746d1037a8537065/INSTALL.md

@bpeebles @anildash it's worked for a few years now! https://simonwillison.net/2019/Apr/23/datasette-glitch/

@neilhimself reading A Christmas Carol might be (haven't listened yet, not sure) the best version of A Christmas Carol to be had.... https://www.nypl.org/blog/2019/12/19/listen-neil-gaiman-reads-christmas-carol

#NeilGaiman #CharlesDickens

@genmon @joby I like the forking idea, we've used it with Grist spreadsheets and it feels powerful https://github.com/gristlabs/grist-core/

Had a tough day on Facebook. I still don’t know what you’re supposed to comment under a photo of a new baby, but I’ve learned it isn’t ‘Yikes’.

Our simple guide to Steam Play Proton has had a few updates and clarifications https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2019/07/a-simple-guide-to-steam-play-valves-technology-for-playing-windows-games-on-linux/ #Proton #SteamPlay #Linux