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"The program should, in some way, expand the concept of what computer paint programs are, as well as what mark making can be."
was talking with people about structured concurrency a few weeks ago, and it does feel like an underrated part of making a responsive / concurrent 'OS' is the ability to *cancel* those concurrent tasks
honestly i think "Vintage Computer Festival" is a good name in how it doesn't attempt the pretense of history that you see in, like, "Computer History Museum", it's very honest that it's about appreciating old "vintage" products and not about history in a rigorous/academic/high-culture sense
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long essay about coroutine philosophy(!) that I just saw https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/quasiblog/coroutines-philosophy/
social media https://searchhistory.site
"heating is really easy, and cooling is really hard, which is a general unfortunate engineering reality of all systems"
sort of a C++ energy here https://front-end.social/@matuzo/114075968615875947 -- where for historical reasons you end up with 200 ways to do anything that are all slightly different from each other
https://www.are.na/omar-rizwan/when-we-understand-that-slide-we-ll-have-won-the-war
(this feels like sort of a cheap shot, though, like when people complain that it's hard to make a formal grammar for Markdown or a formal semantics for C)