Oh wow, Jason Scott, such a hero for saving...wait for it...🤯 MANUALS! 🚀 Forget digital transformation, let's just ring a bell and collect paper! 🎉 Who needs Netflix when you can binge-read 13,000 thrilling #manuals on the Internet Archive? 📚💤
https://ascii.textfiles.com/ #JasonScott #Heroics #InternetArchive #DigitalTransformation #HackerNews #ngated
ASCII by Jason Scott

Jason Scott's Weblog

ASCII by Jason Scott
ASCII by Jason Scott

Jason Scott's Weblog

ASCII by Jason Scott
"They never did any music because Oscar was Oscar Isaac!" - JASON SCOTT, My Music, Main Accounts: The Story of MySpace #MainAccounts #MySpace #JasonScott

Näin unta, että olin jossain hackathonin tapaisessa tapahtumassa. Käväisin Prismassa. Päivitin palveluita ja sovelluksia. Koodasin.

https://marginaa.li/2026/02/11/11-helmikuuta-2026-textfiles/
11. helmikuuta 2026: textfiles – marginaali

Näin unta, että olin jossain hackathonin tapaisessa tapahtumassa. Käväisin Prismassa. Päivitin palveluita ja sovelluksia. Koodasin.

Preserving code that shaped generations: #Zork I, II, and III go #OpenSource
#Microsoft has released the #sourcecode for Zork I, II, and III under the MIT License through a collaboration with #Xbox and #Activision that involved submitting pull requests to historical source repositories maintained by digital archivist #JasonScott. Each repository now includes the original source code and accompanying documentation.
https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11/20/preserving-code-that-shaped-generations-zork-i-ii-and-iii-go-open-source #ZMachine
Preserving code that shaped generations: Zork I, II, and III go Open Source

Microsoft’s Open Source Programs Office (OSPO), Team Xbox, and Activision are making Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III available under the MIT License.

Microsoft makes Zork I, II, and III open source under MIT License

Microsoft’s Open Source Programs Office worked with Jason Scott to do it.

Ars Technica
"Now we have 143 typewriters!" - JASON SCOTT, The Keeper, Nice Try! #NiceTry #NationalTypewriterDay #JasonScott

Kylki haittasi nukkumista. Näin unia perhosista. Kävin Prismassa. Silppusin salaatin. Leikkasin parran ja saunoin. Paistoin tomaattimurskaa.

https://marginaa.li/2024/11/08/8-marraskuuta-2024/

8. marraskuuta 2024 – marginaali

Kylki haittasi nukkumista. Näin unia perhosista. Kävin Prismassa. Silppusin salaatin. Leikkasin parran ja saunoin. Paistoin tomaattimurskaa.

It was true in 2009 and it's still true today:

Fuck the cloud.

https://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1717

#Cloud #JasonScott #PutItInTheClown

FUCK THE CLOUD

This will be the last time I go along this area of discussion for a while because it’s just going to get very old very quickly. But I wanted, in one place, a quick manifesto/rant about this p…

ASCII by Jason Scott

#aiIsBullshit #bbsTheDocumentary #cheshireCatalyst #heartworms #jackieAndLaurieShow #jackieKashian #jasonScott #jesusandmarychain #podcast #trueDetective

https://evilgeniuschronicles.org/b/35i

I play a song by The Jesus and Mary Chain; I talk a little about seeing The Jesus and Mary Chain in concert; the big dog is getting treated for heartworms; I’m staying in the developer relations slack for now; I am so glad I don’t have to take jobs with AI firms seriously; I never used my real job title; Jason Scott eulogizes Cheshire Catalyst; things go from useful to junk to historically interesting; I am enjoying throwing decaying photo albums away; I am going to collage bullshit photographs; Jackie Kashian lost her patience with button pushers; I am no longer rounding up transactions for charity; I watched True Detective Seasons 3 and 4.

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