Joshua D. Boyd

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📣 Excited to continue our partnership this year with Platinum sponsor WebstaurantStore! 📣

A longtime CPOSC supporter, they’ll be bringing talks from team members Alex Mayer and Jonathan Bowe at this year’s event.

If you are interested in a role working with e-commerce at scale, check out their open opportunities: https://www.webstaurantstore.com/careers/

🚀 We invite you to join us at this year’s CPOSC 2026 conference on Saturday, March 28. https://cposc.org/

#CPOSC2026 #OpenSource #TechLancaster

@screwlisp Since your website appears to be a custom creation by you, would you please consider adding an RSS feed feature to it?

💡 Talk Inspirations for #CPOSC2026: Round 3!

Here are this week’s talk ideas:
🗄️ World Backup Day: How do you design a backup system that actually saves the day?

🍏 PowerBook to Present: It’s been 30+ years since the first Apple PowerBook.

🗃️ Modern Data & Databases: Show us what “modern data in practice” really means.

🤖 AI Coding Assistants: Where to start, how to succeed and pitfalls to avoid

📝 Submit your talk today: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd88Ju5EnHdHtXgd0F3bZ_0MkhqletBgcl__tRtEYrDCXtfLA/viewform

CPOSC 2026 Call for Papers

A conference is nothing without its speakers, so we are calling for YOU to help level up the experience on Saturday, March 28, 2026. Please respond to each question with completeness and submit a new form for each talk idea. If multiple talks are being submitted, please indicate which one is your favorite. NEW this year in response to speaker feedback: Speakers will be reviewed and accepted in two (2) rounds. You can expect a response early December, or in the latter half of January. Not receiving an acceptance in December does NOT mean you won't receive one later. After the first round of review, we will reach out with any feedback or suggestions on your talk, including similarity to other submitted topics, places where clarity could be provided to better position your submission, etc.

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📣 Exciting News Alert! 📣

We’re revealing the theme for CPOSC 2026 TONIGHT (10/23) at TechLancaster during the lightning talks! ⚡🎤⚡ Click the link for meetup details!

Join us for an evening of inspiration, community, and a sneak peek at what’s to come on March 28, 2026. Whether you're a long-time attendee or considering giving your first talk, this announcement is for you!

Let’s make this #CPOSC2026 the best one yet!

#CPOSC #TechLancaster #CommunityDriven #OpenSource

https://www.meetup.com/tech-lancaster-meetups/events/305678912/?eventOrigin=group_upcoming_events

Tech Lancaster Meetup (14 Lightning Talks in the big room!), Thu, Oct 23, 2025, 6:30 PM | Meetup

We will be downstairs in the big room "Town Hall" - when you walk in the main entrance just go left. You can't miss it. Pizza is provided free. Beer/wine/soda/etc at the b

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Thanks to @SDF I'm checking out Interlisp-10 under the TOPS-20 operating system (aka TWENEX) running on DECSYSTEM-20 hardware. Lots of fun.

https://twenex.org

Tutorials on Interlisp-10 and its structure editor:

https://wiki.twenex.org/tutorials:interlisp

https://papa.sdf.org/cave/twenex/interlisp-editor.html

#interlisp #lisp #retrocomputing

SDF Public Access TWENEX

An Open Source sustainability story in two slides. (for a coming talk of mine)

Slide 1: car brands using #curl
Slide 2: car brands sponsoring or paying for #curl support

Oh no, the venerable FX2(LP) USB2.0 controller (fame of cheap logic analyzers and Glasgow) was discontinued earlier this year 😭

I can see this causing quite a headache to some people…

So, I held a seminar at @revisionparty highlighting some insights from my (our!) work in online spaces and beyond, and some of the initiatives we're currently looking at also with @demonights to make the #demoscene more accessible for people, without taking away from the competitive aspects and focus on quality that goes into our productions. Thanks for the tons of kind feedback I've received so far, and also to @WikimediaCH. Getting to work for you has given me tons of food for thought about those concepts and fresh ways of looking at it. ❤️
https://youtu.be/DENCVHr8ngo?si=ArkpaCqoaOTvE8WR
Revision 2025 - Seminar - Well, that Zucked - The Demoscene during (and after?) the Social Media Era

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