also https://cybre.space/@bootjack
#mefite
I'm no great fan of reddit, but I do love this technicolor mess.
I know I heard the phrase "You can go outside and play after you've done your homework," more than once when I was little.
I didn't care for it then but it's completely baffling now.
If you'll excuse me, it's time to take my unintended consequences for a walk.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_field_entoptic_phenomenon
I had no idea that this was real and not just my imagination.
> People often don't realize how important it was to OSS that it was preceded by decades of easy access to programming tools and resources meant for absolute beginners.
> OSS needs FPGAs, and FPGAs need what programming had back in the 1980s: an on-ramp.
Man this looks really cool. Am excite. https://www.blinklight.io/blog/2017-03-31/
// THIS IS THE FORKED CHILD
"Flying through hyperspace ain't like dusting crops, boy"
"lol no kidding"
http://viewsourcecode.org/snaptoken/kilo/
Me: This looks really fun; wonder if I can build it with musl...
Young Gnu Evangelist: I don't understand why you would put the time into that when you could be learning to use _my_ favorite editor, emacs! It's very modular and...
[try to walk away]
[now he's following me]
[and still talking]