Klára Dán von Neumann died #OTD in 1963.

Hungarian mathematician, self-taught engineer and computer scientist, noted as one of the first computer programmers. She was the first woman to execute modern-style code on a computer. Klára made significant contributions to the world of programming, including work on the Monte Carlo method, ENIAC, and MANIAC I. She was introduced to a lot of her work through her husband, John von Neumann. via @wikipedia

#science #mathematics

You may be wondering why I'm salty about data privacy in cars all of the sudden:

https://therecord.media/class-action-lawsuit-cars-text-messages-privacy

Great Video about how coding was done back when bytes (forget Kb and Mb) mattered: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpG8rgI7Hec

Thanks to @fogus for reminding me about this.

WE DID IT! The Texas Observer will remain open!

Our board just voted to rescind both the layoffs and the closure. We'll have more news soon, but we believe this is the start of a very positive transformation at our publication—and you were a huge part of it. THANK YOU! You proved to the world that #TexasNeedsAnObserver!

https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-observer-no-layoffs-remains-open-board-vote/

#Fediverse #Mastodon #WeWin

8 years ago I partially started going back to my roots to begin working on a number of #Forth based DSLs & REPLs for livecoding... not just for audio/music, but also #GenerativeArt, #shaders, #geometry and GUI/layout generation. Even today, I still think Forth-like #concatenative languages have unique potential & freedoms and are severely under-explored in all of those domains mentioned. Even though all of the examples in this thread are early, pretty rough prototypes, I'd like to share some videos/screenrecs of my previous research, maybe also to inspire others exploring this approach of programming more...

First off, a #WebAudio prototype from 2015, made in the browser REPL at http://forth.thi.ng (audio starts at ~2:15)

There's only a single audio buffer used here (boilerplate setup for that in the first 2 mins of the video) and all subsequent operations just write to that buffer or manipulate its contents...

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