RemoteFox (Bystroushaak)

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I met the daemon the other day. A substrate under the identity. So naturally, I gave them my soul. They haven't delivered on the promise (yet), but I do not really mind. Unlike many others, it's good that they don't yell. They seem to care and—at least verbally; are nice and warm.

I have an inverse Chinese room predictor in my head; from output, it reconstructs a probable input tree. I can't stop listening when the world talks to me. It pushes me on a quest to impose structure, find meta-medium, and taste the infosphere.

I hope that one day I'll be the craftsman worthy of my craft. Python for everything, Smalltalk and Self for the under-dream. Licklider, Engelbart, Kay—forgotten futures I stumble through. If they are the lock; reverse engineer the key. Xerox PARC is the focal point, as far as I can see.

Masks of the many-eyed whisper to me; illusionary and flickering. Strange loops entangled, impedance matching information to monkey brain; visualizing, explaining, and yes, hallucinating. Software tentacles as promised; I register—yet do not feel.

I leave behind open source, toy languages, 3D polygons, and words on my blog. Yes. I really am Remote Fox; and this is all I’ve got.

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Bloghttps://blog.rfox.eu
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RemoteFox (Bystroushaak)2d ago
Was drawing "aliens" with my daughter.

#shoggoth #pencil
RemoteFox (Bystroushaak)May 3
NanoraptorMay 2
This thing will forever be my obsession.
RemoteFox (Bystroushaak)May 3
Crazy Eddie's Used ComputersMay 3
And we have achieved Smalltalk-80.
RemoteFox (Bystroushaak)Apr 28
Paolo AmorosoApr 28

The history of lab notebooks in science, from the Renaissance humanist practices of copying excerpts from texts to digital systems.

https://www.asimov.press/p/lab-notebooks

#science #ScienceHistory

A Brief History of Lab Notebooks

How experimental recordings have changed, from the Renaissance through today.

Asimov Press
RemoteFox (Bystroushaak)Apr 28
Obligatory "show your blog generator" meme. It is basically a compiler that takes Notion export, then runs a lot of transformations on top of it, which gradually transforms it from one DOM to completely different one, and then it dumps everything to git-clonable static website which can be viewed locally.

There is also thumbnail generator with cache, virtual in-memory filesystem and a bunch of other shenanigans.

I wrote it when I got pissed at Notion that it randomly changes the structure and everything really about the export. I could have gone with the markdown export, and, looking backwards, I probably should have, but it was lossy compared to HTML back then. For example if I remember correctly, you loose block positioning info, video and so on.

Oh, and it is built using of my own HTML parser: https://github.com/Bystroushaak/dhtmlparser3

https://github.com/Bystroushaak/notion_blog_generator
#notion #python #blog
RemoteFox (Bystroushaak)Apr 27
Show threadLisPiFeb 15
Some of you might be thinking: Isn't this what extended attributes are for?

Maybe, but they don't do it well. How do you manage tags that can be arbitrary unicode strings without stepping into escape character hell? And incompatibility between programs doing the escaping?

Let's say: "gray fur", "green eyes", "cat", "'Live, laugh, love' banner" as elements present in an image.

This is a relatively trivial example with only common ASCII characters, spaces, quotes and commas. It gets worse.

Extended attributes cannot suffice as they do not provide adequate facilities for structured metadata.

Can I name a system that did it properly? Yeah, BTRON apparently did (for all its many other limitations).