marttt

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• Practical Retrofitting for Obsolete Devices [pdf]

  by marttt on 10/27/2025, 4:05 PM with 0 comments

• An Inferno Diary

  by marttt on 7/11/2025, 11:05 AM with 0 comments

• Narva castle facing Russia hangs Putin-Hitler banner on Russia's 'Victory Day'

  by marttt on 5/9/2025, 4:52 PM with 2 comments

• Constrained Design Processes: Steps Towards Convivial Computing (1988) [pdf]

  by marttt on 10/17/2024, 6:07 PM with 0 comments

• How to Make Windows XP Safe (and Fast) (2020)

  by marttt on 9/3/2024, 12:05 PM with 30 comments

• by marttt on 4/15/2024, 7:29 AM with comments

• Unemployment Simulator 2018 [video]

  by marttt on 4/13/2024, 3:40 AM with 1 comments

• Konilo: A personal computing system in Forth

  by marttt on 3/2/2024, 6:25 AM with 68 comments

• Setting Transatlantic Defence Up for Success: A Strategy for Ukraine's Victory [pdf]

  by marttt on 12/29/2023, 12:03 PM with 1 comments

• New York Times intolerant of half the US, former opinion editor says

  by marttt on 12/15/2023, 12:45 PM with 0 comments

• Time to Use the Latest Gmail

  by marttt on 11/17/2023, 7:31 AM with 2 comments

• The Elements of Dynamic Symmetry (1919) [pdf]

  by marttt on 11/6/2023, 9:54 AM with 1 comments

• Machine Code is for Kids (2011)

  by marttt on 10/29/2023, 3:53 AM with 1 comments

• by marttt on 10/24/2023, 3:59 PM with comments

• Running DOS Apps on Windows (2020)

  by marttt on 10/24/2023, 10:14 AM with 1 comments

• Ardour 8.0 Released

  by marttt on 10/9/2023, 6:47 AM with 0 comments

• The Psychology of Analogue: Julie McLarnon, tape-only recording engineer [video]

  by marttt on 9/20/2023, 4:27 PM with 0 comments

• Audio Developer Chats 1: Paul Davis and Justin Frankel (2022)

  by marttt on 9/18/2023, 9:26 AM with 0 comments

• A compilation of Shargrol's posts on meditation at DharmaOverground.org

  by marttt on 9/16/2023, 3:25 PM with 0 comments

• The Cognitive Style of Unix (2011)

  by marttt on 6/29/2023, 2:23 PM with 0 comments

• 2002 paper on Audacity: A Fast Data Structure for Disk-Based Audio Editing [pdf]

  by marttt on 6/4/2023, 6:41 PM with 0 comments

• Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha: An Unusually Hardcore Dharma Book

  by marttt on 4/19/2023, 6:59 PM with 0 comments

• Bridging the Gap – The Reconciliation of Intelligence and Culture [pdf]

  by marttt on 4/3/2023, 12:52 PM with 0 comments

• Stems as mock data structures in REXX (2021)

  by marttt on 1/31/2023, 9:03 PM with 0 comments

• Intermediate Report of the Preliminary Assessment of MV Estonia [pdf]

  by marttt on 1/23/2023, 4:24 PM with 0 comments

• Ken Isaacs wanted to retool the way we live (2020)

  by marttt on 11/20/2022, 7:28 AM with 0 comments

• Exiting the Vampire Castle (2013)

  by marttt on 11/19/2022, 9:11 PM with 27 comments

• The Marxist, post-capitalist, green manifesto captivating Japan

  by marttt on 10/27/2022, 4:33 AM with 5 comments

• The Unabomber and the origins of anti-tech radicalism (2021)

  by marttt on 10/18/2022, 5:57 AM with 6 comments

• by marttt on 10/17/2022, 3:19 PM with comments

• SPITBOL by/for Classicists: Accessing and Analyzing Classical Texts (1995)

  by marttt on 8/16/2022, 12:26 PM with 0 comments

• by marttt on 8/16/2022, 10:02 AM with comments

• The Decommoditization of Protocols (1998)

  by marttt on 8/14/2022, 3:26 PM with 11 comments

• Dillo web browser domain is for sale

  by marttt on 8/13/2022, 9:06 AM with 28 comments

• Plop Boot Managers

  by marttt on 8/7/2022, 6:47 AM with 9 comments

• Idiotbox: YouTube interface for simpler (text-based) browsers

  by marttt on 8/3/2022, 3:05 PM with 0 comments

• by marttt on 8/3/2022, 7:14 AM with comments

• C Styles: a collection of interesting C style guides

  by marttt on 8/1/2022, 7:25 AM with 1 comments

• Execline – an interpreter-less scripting language

  by marttt on 7/28/2022, 5:42 PM with 4 comments

• The Elements of Style: Unix as Literature (1998)

  by marttt on 7/26/2022, 6:35 AM with 4 comments

• A Conversation with Arthur Whitney (2009) [pdf]

  by marttt on 7/20/2022, 4:33 PM with 0 comments

• A non-fossil alternate history for civilization and computing

  by marttt on 7/14/2022, 4:31 AM with 4 comments

• Branko Milanovic: What if Putin's true goals are different?

  by marttt on 6/8/2022, 3:18 PM with 1 comments

• A PDF zine readable in any plain text editor, and it's also an MP3 [pdf]

  by marttt on 5/14/2022, 4:10 AM with 24 comments

• by marttt on 5/14/2022, 3:48 AM with comments

• How to program a text adventure in C (2012)

  by marttt on 5/8/2022, 5:06 PM with 0 comments

• Transgressing the Boundaries: Prof Phys Sokal's postmodernist sham paper (1996)

  by marttt on 5/5/2022, 4:23 PM with 1 comments

• The Future of Open Source: On Imperialism and Idealism

  by marttt on 4/25/2022, 2:59 PM with 36 comments

• Proposal for a GNU Unicode Font (1998)

  by marttt on 4/20/2022, 6:05 PM with 0 comments

• ANSi Web Browser concept (2012)

  by marttt on 4/18/2022, 5:26 AM with 25 comments

• by marttt on 4/13/2022, 1:14 PM with comments

• W3M Rocks

  by marttt on 4/10/2022, 9:14 AM with 92 comments

• by marttt on 4/4/2022, 9:47 AM with comments

• Appropedia, the Sustainability Wiki

  by marttt on 3/25/2022, 7:27 AM with 2 comments

• Vladimir Sorokin: Putin sits atop a crumbling pyramid of power

  by marttt on 3/8/2022, 6:44 AM with 0 comments

• BBC World Service on 5875 kHz shortwave: Russia-Ukraine war broadcast

  by marttt on 3/4/2022, 2:00 PM with 1 comments

• A repository of FreeDOS-compatible freeware and OSS software

  by marttt on 2/22/2022, 7:54 AM with 1 comments

• For Whom The Whistle Blows: On polarization online and elsewhere

  by marttt on 2/21/2022, 7:42 AM with 0 comments

• Ancient Unix Guide

  by marttt on 2/7/2022, 7:47 PM with 0 comments

• Programming Language Design as Art

  by marttt on 1/27/2022, 8:38 PM with 0 comments

• Hellaphone: Replacing the Java in Android with Inferno OS (2015)

  by marttt on 1/27/2022, 10:14 AM with 0 comments

• Interactive Fiction Theory Reader (2011) [pdf]

  by marttt on 1/23/2022, 2:20 PM with 0 comments

• Linux on a 486SX

  by marttt on 1/22/2022, 1:38 PM with 147 comments

• Varlam Shalamov: What I Saw and Learned in the Kolyma Camps

  by marttt on 1/15/2022, 1:42 PM with 1 comments

• Steven Strogatz: Too Much Coupling (2013)

  by marttt on 12/31/2021, 6:38 AM with 0 comments

• Fonts, a Fuzzy Fringefest

  by marttt on 12/28/2021, 7:10 PM with 0 comments

• On moreutils, “general-purpose new Unix tools” and tiny Haskell functions

  by marttt on 12/23/2021, 6:46 PM with 1 comments

• by marttt on 12/18/2021, 5:17 AM with comments

• Experiences with w3m, a console-based web browser (2018)

  by marttt on 12/13/2021, 9:20 AM with 1 comments

• Avoiding Ivy League Preschool Syndrome (2011)

  by marttt on 12/4/2021, 10:50 AM with comments

• The Story of the IBM Model M4 Family

  by marttt on 12/1/2021, 3:52 PM with 0 comments

• Pleasing proportions borrowed from nature (2004) [pdf]

  by marttt on 12/1/2021, 10:37 AM with 0 comments

• Comparison of Operating System Complexity (2020) [pdf]

  by marttt on 11/27/2021, 6:34 PM with 23 comments

• Larry Wall: Wherefore Art, Thou? (1997)

  by marttt on 11/14/2021, 2:28 PM with 0 comments

• Pta – the plain text accounting program (2020)

  by marttt on 11/13/2021, 3:04 PM with 1 comments

• Richard A. Bartle: Players Who Suit MUDs (1996)

  by marttt on 11/9/2021, 5:41 PM with 0 comments

• Learning How to Read by Niklas Luhmann

  by marttt on 9/13/2021, 8:05 AM with 1 comments

• Idle Theory: Life Does the Least (2010)

  by marttt on 8/30/2021, 2:28 PM with 0 comments

• Six Rules for Becoming Human

  by marttt on 7/31/2021, 5:15 PM with 1 comments

• Michael Pollan: This is your mind on plants

  by marttt on 7/3/2021, 10:54 AM with 0 comments

• Repurposing Thin Clients

  by marttt on 6/23/2021, 6:49 AM with 0 comments

• Writing FreeDOS Programs in C (2020)

  by marttt on 6/19/2021, 4:10 AM with 4 comments

• Ask HN: What are some older fanless laptops?

  by marttt on 6/18/2021, 5:36 AM with 1 comments

• MikeOS – simple x86 assembly language operating system

  by marttt on 6/14/2021, 2:23 PM with 1 comments

• The PsychDOS Desktop Environment

  by marttt on 6/12/2021, 5:07 AM with 33 comments

• Semiotics for Beginners (2014)

  by marttt on 5/11/2021, 8:11 PM with 0 comments

• text-mode.org

  by marttt on 5/5/2021, 3:33 AM with 0 comments

• Over the Shoulder 1: Text Preprocessing in Forth (2014)

  by marttt on 4/18/2021, 2:09 PM with 0 comments

• 23 Years of FreeDOS (2017) [pdf]

  by marttt on 4/13/2021, 5:42 PM with 0 comments

• Sven Yrvind: With Four Square Meters of Sail and One Oar (2017) [pdf]

  by marttt on 3/21/2021, 4:52 PM with 0 comments

• by marttt on 3/16/2021, 3:02 PM with comments

• Back to the Linux Framebuffer (2020) [pdf]

  by marttt on 3/11/2021, 10:38 AM with 1 comments

• The sed $HOME

  by marttt on 3/7/2021, 2:39 PM with 0 comments

• Ken Isaacs “How to Build Your Own Living Structures” (1974) [pdf]

  by marttt on 3/5/2021, 6:22 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Works of fiction that have inspired you to solve programming problems?

  by marttt on 2/27/2021, 5:22 PM with 14 comments

• Introduction to Thoughtful Programming and the Forth Philosophy (2002)

  by marttt on 2/25/2021, 4:04 PM with 0 comments

• Creative Productivity: A Predictive Model of Career Landmarks (1997) [pdf]

  by marttt on 2/18/2021, 6:11 PM with 0 comments

• by marttt on 1/29/2021, 9:29 AM with comments

• by marttt on 12/11/2020, 8:08 AM with comments

• Towards an Ecology of Mind

  by marttt on 11/17/2020, 9:22 AM with 0 comments

• Truckloads of Hard Disks (2009)

  by marttt on 11/11/2020, 10:20 AM with 0 comments

• Program Development in Limbo for Inferno OS

  by marttt on 11/9/2020, 2:43 AM with 0 comments

• List of Teletext Services

  by marttt on 11/4/2020, 2:36 AM with 0 comments

• LIL: Little Interpreted Language

  by marttt on 10/31/2020, 6:20 AM with 5 comments

• Tcl for Web Nerds (2011)

  by marttt on 10/28/2020, 9:03 AM with 13 comments

• Strategic thinking and behavior during a pandemic [pdf]

  by marttt on 10/28/2020, 3:48 AM with 0 comments

• by marttt on 10/23/2020, 7:26 AM with comments

• Doctor DOS Betamax's DOS Pages

  by marttt on 10/23/2020, 2:46 AM with 0 comments

• AudioRegent: Exploiting SimpleADL and SoX for Digital Audio Delivery (2010)

  by marttt on 10/12/2020, 8:39 PM with 0 comments

• Lower Grip Strength in Millennials?

  by marttt on 10/8/2020, 2:13 AM with 0 comments

• Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life

  by marttt on 10/7/2020, 2:50 AM with 0 comments

• The Parenting Pyramid [pdf] (1998)

  by marttt on 10/2/2020, 4:16 AM with 0 comments

• Judea Pearl's page for “The Book of Why”

  by marttt on 9/29/2020, 6:46 AM with 0 comments

• The Forth Methodology Applied to Programming (2001)

  by marttt on 9/17/2020, 3:03 AM with 0 comments

• The Recovering Programmer (2010)

  by marttt on 9/15/2020, 2:49 AM with 26 comments

• The Junk Playground: creative destruction as antidote to delinquency (2006) [pdf]

  by marttt on 9/10/2020, 12:07 PM with 0 comments

• “Autoprogettazione” by Enzo Mari (1974)

  by marttt on 6/20/2020, 3:52 PM with 0 comments

• How did people use ed?

  by marttt on 6/14/2020, 6:38 AM with 14 comments

• Pablo Servigne “A future without oil” (English subtitles)

  by marttt on 6/8/2020, 3:24 AM with 0 comments

• Jason Rohrer on “Should I pursue a career in game making?”

  by marttt on 6/5/2020, 4:18 AM with 0 comments

• Thermoelectric Stoves: Ditch the Solar Panels?

  by marttt on 5/26/2020, 6:02 PM with 0 comments

• Caffeine: A vitamin-like nutrient, or adaptogen

  by marttt on 5/24/2020, 6:07 PM with 245 comments

• Christopher Alexander: The Search for Beauty [pdf]

  by marttt on 4/16/2020, 4:01 AM with 0 comments

• No Fly Climate Sci

  by marttt on 4/11/2020, 4:37 PM with 0 comments

• Plan9's Acme as an Interactive Translation Aid Environment (2008) [pdf]

  by marttt on 3/17/2020, 11:42 AM with 0 comments

• Leap Technology (keyboard vs. mouse on a Canon Cat machine, ca 1987)

  by marttt on 1/14/2020, 8:32 AM with 1 comments

• Canon Cat

  by marttt on 1/14/2020, 8:14 AM with 0 comments

• A short doc about Ran Prieur

  by marttt on 12/15/2019, 7:23 PM with 0 comments

• by marttt on 12/15/2019, 7:21 PM with comments

• Idea strength, cringe, and the media environment

  by marttt on 12/3/2019, 6:49 PM with 0 comments

• Orthographic Reform of English (2008)

  by marttt on 10/14/2019, 3:51 PM with 1 comments

• by marttt on 7/28/2019, 5:24 PM with comments

• by marttt on 5/8/2019, 6:18 PM with comments

• DIY Octahedral Standup Desk Inspired by Buckminstetr Fuller (2015)

  by marttt on 5/7/2019, 10:15 AM with 0 comments

• by marttt on 5/6/2019, 1:22 PM with comments

• Low-Tech Magazine: The Printed Website

  by marttt on 3/31/2019, 6:15 PM with 0 comments

• Why the Office Needs a Typewriter Revolution

  by marttt on 3/8/2019, 10:29 AM with 0 comments

• Anthony Deden 2.5-hour interview: on scarcity, endurance and value investing

  by marttt on 2/18/2019, 12:34 PM with 1 comments

• Preserve the Heritage; Ski with Wood

  by marttt on 2/11/2019, 6:51 PM with 3 comments

• De-Google-ify Internet

  by marttt on 2/6/2019, 9:09 AM with 0 comments

• The Retire Early Home Page (1996)

  by marttt on 2/3/2019, 9:47 AM with 0 comments

• How Circular Is the Circular Economy?

  by marttt on 11/21/2018, 9:39 AM with 0 comments

• Writing Small and Fast Software (2001) [pdf]

  by marttt on 7/30/2018, 3:37 AM with 0 comments

• Manual for Civilization: 3500 essential books to rebuild civilization

  by marttt on 4/25/2018, 6:25 PM with 2 comments

• Mixer4 – an audio mixer and processor controlled through simple text files

  by marttt on 3/12/2018, 8:12 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Entry-level freelance work in (computational) linguistics?

  by marttt on 2/13/2018, 11:57 AM with 0 comments

• Inferno OS for Android, ported as a regular app

  by marttt on 2/8/2018, 6:55 AM with 0 comments

• SPED – A text-based non-destructive sound file editor (2007) [pdf]

  by marttt on 2/5/2018, 8:55 PM with 0 comments

• by marttt on 1/30/2018, 1:15 PM with comments

• Introduction to OS Abstractions Using Plan 9 from Bell Labs (2007) [pdf]

  by marttt on 1/28/2018, 8:14 PM with 67 comments

• Rc Shell: Frequently Asked Questions (1994)

  by marttt on 1/25/2018, 9:41 AM with 0 comments

• The Screenless Office

  by marttt on 12/19/2017, 1:35 PM with 138 comments

• Exposing personal projects and content via Gopher in 2017

  by marttt on 11/10/2017, 8:00 PM with 0 comments

• 8th – A secure, cross-platform, concatenative programming language

  by marttt on 11/10/2017, 7:43 PM with 59 comments

• Vip – Vi-Style Editor in PicoLisp

  by marttt on 1/3/2017, 5:14 PM with 0 comments

• MA – a single-window clone of Plan9's Acme editor in Tcl/TK

  by marttt on 12/11/2016, 10:33 AM with 1 comments

• The New World of Writing: Pulp Speed

  by marttt on 12/9/2016, 8:57 PM with 2 comments

• Lincos: Dutch mathematician's language for ET life forms (1960)

  by marttt on 12/8/2016, 6:30 PM with 0 comments

• Typesetting Markup Language (TML) – A Superset of Groff (2016)

  by marttt on 12/7/2016, 8:25 AM with 1 comments

• Huiboard: Five/ten key chorded typing system (Common Lisp, Arduino)

  by marttt on 12/1/2016, 10:06 PM with 0 comments

• Coding for Pre-Schoolers: A ‘Turtle Logo’ in Forth

  by marttt on 12/1/2016, 8:35 AM with 0 comments

• Cosy: Document Your Life in Forth APL

  by marttt on 10/10/2016, 8:10 AM with 0 comments

• Lion Kimbro on revisiting computerized notekeeping (2009)

  by marttt on 9/29/2016, 11:38 AM with 1 comments