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🦀 rlisp
Rust semantics with LISP syntax. A transparent s-expression frontend that compiles directly to Rust — no runtime, no GC, just (s-expr → .rs → binary). https://github.com/ThatXliner/rust-but-lisp -
#ReleaseThursday Happy to announce that https://thi.ng/units finally has a little CLI wrapper to perform not only simple unit conversions, but also more advanced calculations, using the existing Lisp-like S-expression based DSL and built-in units and constants.
https://docs.thi.ng/umbrella/units/#cli-usage
The CLI also provides a
listcommand to print out the 172 built-in units, their canonical symbol, any aliases and full names. The output can also be filtered via optional regexp pattern. See attached readme screenshots & more advanced linked example:https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/116043223284662742
Hope some of you find this as useful as I do! Any questions, please ask!
#ThingUmbrella #UnitConversion #CLI #Calculator #TypeScript #Lisp #DSL #OpenSource
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#ReleaseThursday Happy to announce that https://thi.ng/units finally has a little CLI wrapper to perform not only simple unit conversions, but also more advanced calculations, using the existing Lisp-like S-expression based DSL and built-in units and constants.
https://docs.thi.ng/umbrella/units/#cli-usage
The CLI also provides a
listcommand to print out the 172 built-in units, their canonical symbol, any aliases and full names. The output can also be filtered via optional regexp pattern. See attached readme screenshots & more advanced linked example:https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/116043223284662742
Hope some of you find this as useful as I do! Any questions, please ask!
#ThingUmbrella #UnitConversion #CLI #Calculator #TypeScript #Lisp #DSL #OpenSource
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#ReleaseThursday Happy to announce that https://thi.ng/units finally has a little CLI wrapper to perform not only simple unit conversions, but also more advanced calculations, using the existing Lisp-like S-expression based DSL and built-in units and constants.
https://docs.thi.ng/umbrella/units/#cli-usage
The CLI also provides a
listcommand to print out the 172 built-in units, their canonical symbol, any aliases and full names. The output can also be filtered via optional regexp pattern. See attached readme screenshots & more advanced linked example:https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/116043223284662742
Hope some of you find this as useful as I do! Any questions, please ask!
#ThingUmbrella #UnitConversion #CLI #Calculator #TypeScript #Lisp #DSL #OpenSource
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#ReleaseThursday Happy to announce that https://thi.ng/units finally has a little CLI wrapper to perform not only simple unit conversions, but also more advanced calculations, using the existing Lisp-like S-expression based DSL and built-in units and constants.
https://docs.thi.ng/umbrella/units/#cli-usage
The CLI also provides a
listcommand to print out the 172 built-in units, their canonical symbol, any aliases and full names. The output can also be filtered via optional regexp pattern. See attached readme screenshots & more advanced linked example:https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/116043223284662742
Hope some of you find this as useful as I do! Any questions, please ask!
#ThingUmbrella #UnitConversion #CLI #Calculator #TypeScript #Lisp #DSL #OpenSource
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#ReleaseThursday Happy to announce that https://thi.ng/units finally has a little CLI wrapper to perform not only simple unit conversions, but also more advanced calculations, using the existing Lisp-like S-expression based DSL and built-in units and constants.
https://docs.thi.ng/umbrella/units/#cli-usage
The CLI also provides a
listcommand to print out the 172 built-in units, their canonical symbol, any aliases and full names. The output can also be filtered via optional regexp pattern. See attached readme screenshots & more advanced linked example:https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/116043223284662742
Hope some of you find this as useful as I do! Any questions, please ask!
#ThingUmbrella #UnitConversion #CLI #Calculator #TypeScript #Lisp #DSL #OpenSource
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The more you read this piece of excellent work the more you realize how much energy we, as the Open Source community, the programma's and the users, shall need to put in another to get a proper Balance Again
Read the section here.
Sources:
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the-slow-death-of-the-power-user/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_User
#Power #User #Walled #Garden #programming #InfoSec #privilege #feature #parameters #control #OpenSource #against #Meta #FB #Alphabet #Enshittification #Google #Elon #Musk #Twitter #Facebook #WTF
#Death #Vigil #Eulogy #Abstraction #API #IDE #programming #DNS #networking #File #System #FileSystem #sadness #bleak #future #lisp
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The more you read this piece of excellent work the more you realize how much energy we, as the Open Source community, the programma's and the users, shall need to put in another to get a proper Balance Again
Read the section here.
Sources:
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the-slow-death-of-the-power-user/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_User
#Power #User #Walled #Garden #programming #InfoSec #privilege #feature #parameters #control #OpenSource #against #Meta #FB #Alphabet #Enshittification #Google #Elon #Musk #Twitter #Facebook #WTF
#Death #Vigil #Eulogy #Abstraction #API #IDE #programming #DNS #networking #File #System #FileSystem #sadness #bleak #future #lisp
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The more you read this piece of excellent work the more you realize how much energy we, as the Open Source community, the programma's and the users, shall need to put in another to get a proper Balance Again
Read the section here.
Sources:
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the-slow-death-of-the-power-user/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_User
#Power #User #Walled #Garden #programming #InfoSec #privilege #feature #parameters #control #OpenSource #against #Meta #FB #Alphabet #Enshittification #Google #Elon #Musk #Twitter #Facebook #WTF
#Death #Vigil #Eulogy #Abstraction #API #IDE #programming #DNS #networking #File #System #FileSystem #sadness #bleak #future #lisp
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The more you read this piece of excellent work the more you realize how much energy we, as the Open Source community, the programma's and the users, shall need to put in another to get a proper Balance Again
Read the section here.
Sources:
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the-slow-death-of-the-power-user/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_User
#Power #User #Walled #Garden #programming #InfoSec #privilege #feature #parameters #control #OpenSource #against #Meta #FB #Alphabet #Enshittification #Google #Elon #Musk #Twitter #Facebook #WTF
#Death #Vigil #Eulogy #Abstraction #API #IDE #programming #DNS #networking #File #System #FileSystem #sadness #bleak #future #lisp
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The more you read this piece of excellent work the more you realize how much energy we, as the Open Source community, the programma's and the users, shall need to put in another to get a proper Balance Again
Read the section here.
Sources:
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the-slow-death-of-the-power-user/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_User
#Power #User #Walled #Garden #programming #InfoSec #privilege #feature #parameters #control #OpenSource #against #Meta #FB #Alphabet #Enshittification #Google #Elon #Musk #Twitter #Facebook #WTF
#Death #Vigil #Eulogy #Abstraction #API #IDE #programming #DNS #networking #File #System #FileSystem #sadness #bleak #future #lisp
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Ryan Burnside is enhancing his turtle graphics library written in Interlisp. In this screencast he demonstrates some new interactive drawing features.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYcsghgRsx8
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@screwlisp @jackdaniel also available on yt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4pM9cjpeLc #clim #commonlisp #ecl #els #gui #mcclim #lisp
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@screwlisp @jackdaniel also available on yt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4pM9cjpeLc #clim #commonlisp #ecl #els #gui #mcclim #lisp
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@screwlisp @jackdaniel also available on yt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4pM9cjpeLc #clim #commonlisp #ecl #els #gui #mcclim #lisp
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@screwlisp @jackdaniel also available on yt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4pM9cjpeLc #clim #commonlisp #ecl #els #gui #mcclim #lisp
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@screwlisp @jackdaniel also available on yt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4pM9cjpeLc #clim #commonlisp #ecl #els #gui #mcclim #lisp
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Battling my muscle memory in Magit: https://blog.davep.org/2026/05/13/stopping-an-accidental-push.html
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damn, awesome post on writing faster lisp. definitely applicable to lisp in general.
https://dthompson.us/posts/optimizing-guile-scheme.html
@dthompson Any new tricks since writing this post?
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I tried implemented lambdas and closures for my language, it seemed alot complicated. As with the lisp fantasy I have, will probably try building a minimal parser with lambdas and closures supported.
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If you are interested in my talks about #McCLIM and #ECL at #elsconf this year and couldn't attend, they are available in the second day's recording of the conference:
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elsconf is a nifty concept. i wonder what would it take to get a similar thing going in the united states? #Lisp
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The #elsconf has ended. It was a lot of fun, and a lot of interesting talks. Thank you everyone :)
The recording is available at
https://www.twitch.tv/elsconf -
ELS (European Lisp Symposium) talks day 1 have been uploaded by someone:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpHdy7ydcZKf17kvGFPafbfxyA1cXWDAu
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The Spring Lisp Game Jam is coming up quick! It starts on Friday! Grab a pile of parentheses and warm up your REPL!
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This article by @masinter Larry Masinter and Bill VanMelle, published in December of 1981, reported on the state of Common Lisp from the angle of the Interlisp community. It's interesting as it covers the early stage of standardization, when the specification and design work was under way but no implementations were available yet.
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The agonizing slow death of the power user
This is a fascinating article to read. The facts are nailed to the wall in clear and easy to comprehend jargon, even for the non-grey beards
Some quotes
Ask a twenty-two-year-old to connect to a remote server via SSH. Ask them to explain what DNS is at a conceptual level. Ask them to tell you the difference between their router’s public IP and the local IP of their laptop. Ask them to open a terminal and list the contents of a directory. These are not advanced topics. Twenty years ago these were things you learned in the first week of any serious engagement with computers. Today they’re exotic knowledge that even a lot of working software developers don’t have, because you can go a long way in modern development without ever leaving the managed abstractions your platform provides.
And that’s the real damage. It’s not just end users who don’t know this stuff. It’s developers. People who write software for a living who’ve never had to think about what happens between their API call and the response. Who’ve never had to debug something at the network layer. Who’ve never had to read a full stack trace and understand every frame of it. Because the frameworks handle all of that, and the frameworks are good enough, and figuring out how things actually work is optional.
iOS set the template. Apple shipped a device in 2007 that was, by any reasonable technical measure, a computer. It had a CPU, RAM, persistent storage, a network stack, and a real operating system descended from BSD Unix. By every cultural and legal measure, however, Apple treated it as something else entirely: an appliance that you licensed rather than owned, that ran software only Apple approved, that couldn’t be meaningfully modified, and that communicated only through channels Apple controlled. No filesystem access. No inter-app communication beyond what Apple chose to expose. No background processes without explicit, limited, grudging permission. No ability to install software from any source other than the App Store — which Apple created, controls, taxes at thirty percent, and can pull your app from at any time for any reason with no meaningful appeals process.
Some facts
Power User
A power user is a user of computers, software and other electronic devices who uses advanced features of computer hardware,[1][2][3] operating systems,[4] programs, or websites[5] which are not used by the average user. A power user might not have extensive technical knowledge of the systems they use[6] but is rather characterized by competence or desire to make the most intensive use of computer programs or systems.
Term use
The term came into use in the 1980s, as advocates for computing developed special skills for working with or customizing existing hardware and software. Power users knew the best ways to perform common tasks and find advanced information before the arrival of the commercial Internet. On PC platforms, power users read magazines like Byte or PC Magazine, and knew enough about operating systems to create and edit batch files, write short programs in BASIC, and adjust system settings. They tended to customize or "supercharge" existing systems, rather than create new software.[7]
Notes
This is systematically done by the factories of technology. I am baffled that a 41 year old litterate person, with secondary school and partial tertiary school, cant tell the difference between an email account, a FB account, a local machine account, a table, notebook and Android phone, from the basic technological perspective. This happened a couple of hours ago, which makes this article very relevant to me.
This person was born two generations ago!
WTF happened to reading manuals!?
I read all manuals I get with hardware I buy, go online to fetch and read, PRINT IF I HAVE TO!
Power Users are a sub-species of homosapiens which is in the greybeard stage.
Eventually we will drop our current corpus and move on to other energy levels of existence
Power users will become extinct in the next generation or two
A bleak future for those left
Z
sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_User
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the-slow-death-of-the-power-user/
#Power #User #Death #Vigil #Eulogy #Abstraction #API #IDE #programming #DNS #networking #File #System #FileSystem #sadness #bleak #future #lisp
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The agonizing slow death of the power user
This is a fascinating article to read. The facts are nailed to the wall in clear and easy to comprehend jargon, even for the non-grey beards
Some quotes
Ask a twenty-two-year-old to connect to a remote server via SSH. Ask them to explain what DNS is at a conceptual level. Ask them to tell you the difference between their router’s public IP and the local IP of their laptop. Ask them to open a terminal and list the contents of a directory. These are not advanced topics. Twenty years ago these were things you learned in the first week of any serious engagement with computers. Today they’re exotic knowledge that even a lot of working software developers don’t have, because you can go a long way in modern development without ever leaving the managed abstractions your platform provides.
And that’s the real damage. It’s not just end users who don’t know this stuff. It’s developers. People who write software for a living who’ve never had to think about what happens between their API call and the response. Who’ve never had to debug something at the network layer. Who’ve never had to read a full stack trace and understand every frame of it. Because the frameworks handle all of that, and the frameworks are good enough, and figuring out how things actually work is optional.
iOS set the template. Apple shipped a device in 2007 that was, by any reasonable technical measure, a computer. It had a CPU, RAM, persistent storage, a network stack, and a real operating system descended from BSD Unix. By every cultural and legal measure, however, Apple treated it as something else entirely: an appliance that you licensed rather than owned, that ran software only Apple approved, that couldn’t be meaningfully modified, and that communicated only through channels Apple controlled. No filesystem access. No inter-app communication beyond what Apple chose to expose. No background processes without explicit, limited, grudging permission. No ability to install software from any source other than the App Store — which Apple created, controls, taxes at thirty percent, and can pull your app from at any time for any reason with no meaningful appeals process.
Some facts
Power User
A power user is a user of computers, software and other electronic devices who uses advanced features of computer hardware,[1][2][3] operating systems,[4] programs, or websites[5] which are not used by the average user. A power user might not have extensive technical knowledge of the systems they use[6] but is rather characterized by competence or desire to make the most intensive use of computer programs or systems.
Term use
The term came into use in the 1980s, as advocates for computing developed special skills for working with or customizing existing hardware and software. Power users knew the best ways to perform common tasks and find advanced information before the arrival of the commercial Internet. On PC platforms, power users read magazines like Byte or PC Magazine, and knew enough about operating systems to create and edit batch files, write short programs in BASIC, and adjust system settings. They tended to customize or "supercharge" existing systems, rather than create new software.[7]
Notes
This is systematically done by the factories of technology. I am baffled that a 41 year old litterate person, with secondary school and partial tertiary school, cant tell the difference between an email account, a FB account, a local machine account, a table, notebook and Android phone, from the basic technological perspective. This happened a couple of hours ago, which makes this article very relevant to me.
This person was born two generations ago!
WTF happened to reading manuals!?
I read all manuals I get with hardware I buy, go online to fetch and read, PRINT IF I HAVE TO!
Power Users are a sub-species of homosapiens which is in the greybeard stage.
Eventually we will drop our current corpus and move on to other energy levels of existence
Power users will become extinct in the next generation or two
A bleak future for those left
Z
sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_User
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the-slow-death-of-the-power-user/
#Power #User #Death #Vigil #Eulogy #Abstraction #API #IDE #programming #DNS #networking #File #System #FileSystem #sadness #bleak #future #lisp
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The agonizing slow death of the power user
This is a fascinating article to read. The facts are nailed to the wall in clear and easy to comprehend jargon, even for the non-grey beards
Some quotes
Ask a twenty-two-year-old to connect to a remote server via SSH. Ask them to explain what DNS is at a conceptual level. Ask them to tell you the difference between their router’s public IP and the local IP of their laptop. Ask them to open a terminal and list the contents of a directory. These are not advanced topics. Twenty years ago these were things you learned in the first week of any serious engagement with computers. Today they’re exotic knowledge that even a lot of working software developers don’t have, because you can go a long way in modern development without ever leaving the managed abstractions your platform provides.
And that’s the real damage. It’s not just end users who don’t know this stuff. It’s developers. People who write software for a living who’ve never had to think about what happens between their API call and the response. Who’ve never had to debug something at the network layer. Who’ve never had to read a full stack trace and understand every frame of it. Because the frameworks handle all of that, and the frameworks are good enough, and figuring out how things actually work is optional.
iOS set the template. Apple shipped a device in 2007 that was, by any reasonable technical measure, a computer. It had a CPU, RAM, persistent storage, a network stack, and a real operating system descended from BSD Unix. By every cultural and legal measure, however, Apple treated it as something else entirely: an appliance that you licensed rather than owned, that ran software only Apple approved, that couldn’t be meaningfully modified, and that communicated only through channels Apple controlled. No filesystem access. No inter-app communication beyond what Apple chose to expose. No background processes without explicit, limited, grudging permission. No ability to install software from any source other than the App Store — which Apple created, controls, taxes at thirty percent, and can pull your app from at any time for any reason with no meaningful appeals process.
Some facts
Power User
A power user is a user of computers, software and other electronic devices who uses advanced features of computer hardware,[1][2][3] operating systems,[4] programs, or websites[5] which are not used by the average user. A power user might not have extensive technical knowledge of the systems they use[6] but is rather characterized by competence or desire to make the most intensive use of computer programs or systems.
Term use
The term came into use in the 1980s, as advocates for computing developed special skills for working with or customizing existing hardware and software. Power users knew the best ways to perform common tasks and find advanced information before the arrival of the commercial Internet. On PC platforms, power users read magazines like Byte or PC Magazine, and knew enough about operating systems to create and edit batch files, write short programs in BASIC, and adjust system settings. They tended to customize or "supercharge" existing systems, rather than create new software.[7]
Notes
This is systematically done by the factories of technology. I am baffled that a 41 year old litterate person, with secondary school and partial tertiary school, cant tell the difference between an email account, a FB account, a local machine account, a table, notebook and Android phone, from the basic technological perspective. This happened a couple of hours ago, which makes this article very relevant to me.
This person was born two generations ago!
WTF happened to reading manuals!?
I read all manuals I get with hardware I buy, go online to fetch and read, PRINT IF I HAVE TO!
Power Users are a sub-species of homosapiens which is in the greybeard stage.
Eventually we will drop our current corpus and move on to other energy levels of existence
Power users will become extinct in the next generation or two
A bleak future for those left
Z
sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_User
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the-slow-death-of-the-power-user/
#Power #User #Death #Vigil #Eulogy #Abstraction #API #IDE #programming #DNS #networking #File #System #FileSystem #sadness #bleak #future #lisp
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The agonizing slow death of the power user
This is a fascinating article to read. The facts are nailed to the wall in clear and easy to comprehend jargon, even for the non-grey beards
Some quotes
Ask a twenty-two-year-old to connect to a remote server via SSH. Ask them to explain what DNS is at a conceptual level. Ask them to tell you the difference between their router’s public IP and the local IP of their laptop. Ask them to open a terminal and list the contents of a directory. These are not advanced topics. Twenty years ago these were things you learned in the first week of any serious engagement with computers. Today they’re exotic knowledge that even a lot of working software developers don’t have, because you can go a long way in modern development without ever leaving the managed abstractions your platform provides.
And that’s the real damage. It’s not just end users who don’t know this stuff. It’s developers. People who write software for a living who’ve never had to think about what happens between their API call and the response. Who’ve never had to debug something at the network layer. Who’ve never had to read a full stack trace and understand every frame of it. Because the frameworks handle all of that, and the frameworks are good enough, and figuring out how things actually work is optional.
iOS set the template. Apple shipped a device in 2007 that was, by any reasonable technical measure, a computer. It had a CPU, RAM, persistent storage, a network stack, and a real operating system descended from BSD Unix. By every cultural and legal measure, however, Apple treated it as something else entirely: an appliance that you licensed rather than owned, that ran software only Apple approved, that couldn’t be meaningfully modified, and that communicated only through channels Apple controlled. No filesystem access. No inter-app communication beyond what Apple chose to expose. No background processes without explicit, limited, grudging permission. No ability to install software from any source other than the App Store — which Apple created, controls, taxes at thirty percent, and can pull your app from at any time for any reason with no meaningful appeals process.
Some facts
Power User
A power user is a user of computers, software and other electronic devices who uses advanced features of computer hardware,[1][2][3] operating systems,[4] programs, or websites[5] which are not used by the average user. A power user might not have extensive technical knowledge of the systems they use[6] but is rather characterized by competence or desire to make the most intensive use of computer programs or systems.
Term use
The term came into use in the 1980s, as advocates for computing developed special skills for working with or customizing existing hardware and software. Power users knew the best ways to perform common tasks and find advanced information before the arrival of the commercial Internet. On PC platforms, power users read magazines like Byte or PC Magazine, and knew enough about operating systems to create and edit batch files, write short programs in BASIC, and adjust system settings. They tended to customize or "supercharge" existing systems, rather than create new software.[7]
Notes
This is systematically done by the factories of technology. I am baffled that a 41 year old litterate person, with secondary school and partial tertiary school, cant tell the difference between an email account, a FB account, a local machine account, a table, notebook and Android phone, from the basic technological perspective. This happened a couple of hours ago, which makes this article very relevant to me.
This person was born two generations ago!
WTF happened to reading manuals!?
I read all manuals I get with hardware I buy, go online to fetch and read, PRINT IF I HAVE TO!
Power Users are a sub-species of homosapiens which is in the greybeard stage.
Eventually we will drop our current corpus and move on to other energy levels of existence
Power users will become extinct in the next generation or two
A bleak future for those left
Z
sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_User
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the-slow-death-of-the-power-user/
#Power #User #Death #Vigil #Eulogy #Abstraction #API #IDE #programming #DNS #networking #File #System #FileSystem #sadness #bleak #future #lisp
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The agonizing slow death of the power user
This is a fascinating article to read. The facts are nailed to the wall in clear and easy to comprehend jargon, even for the non-grey beards
Some quotes
Ask a twenty-two-year-old to connect to a remote server via SSH. Ask them to explain what DNS is at a conceptual level. Ask them to tell you the difference between their router’s public IP and the local IP of their laptop. Ask them to open a terminal and list the contents of a directory. These are not advanced topics. Twenty years ago these were things you learned in the first week of any serious engagement with computers. Today they’re exotic knowledge that even a lot of working software developers don’t have, because you can go a long way in modern development without ever leaving the managed abstractions your platform provides.
And that’s the real damage. It’s not just end users who don’t know this stuff. It’s developers. People who write software for a living who’ve never had to think about what happens between their API call and the response. Who’ve never had to debug something at the network layer. Who’ve never had to read a full stack trace and understand every frame of it. Because the frameworks handle all of that, and the frameworks are good enough, and figuring out how things actually work is optional.
iOS set the template. Apple shipped a device in 2007 that was, by any reasonable technical measure, a computer. It had a CPU, RAM, persistent storage, a network stack, and a real operating system descended from BSD Unix. By every cultural and legal measure, however, Apple treated it as something else entirely: an appliance that you licensed rather than owned, that ran software only Apple approved, that couldn’t be meaningfully modified, and that communicated only through channels Apple controlled. No filesystem access. No inter-app communication beyond what Apple chose to expose. No background processes without explicit, limited, grudging permission. No ability to install software from any source other than the App Store — which Apple created, controls, taxes at thirty percent, and can pull your app from at any time for any reason with no meaningful appeals process.
Some facts
Power User
A power user is a user of computers, software and other electronic devices who uses advanced features of computer hardware,[1][2][3] operating systems,[4] programs, or websites[5] which are not used by the average user. A power user might not have extensive technical knowledge of the systems they use[6] but is rather characterized by competence or desire to make the most intensive use of computer programs or systems.
Term use
The term came into use in the 1980s, as advocates for computing developed special skills for working with or customizing existing hardware and software. Power users knew the best ways to perform common tasks and find advanced information before the arrival of the commercial Internet. On PC platforms, power users read magazines like Byte or PC Magazine, and knew enough about operating systems to create and edit batch files, write short programs in BASIC, and adjust system settings. They tended to customize or "supercharge" existing systems, rather than create new software.[7]
Notes
This is systematically done by the factories of technology. I am baffled that a 41 year old litterate person, with secondary school and partial tertiary school, cant tell the difference between an email account, a FB account, a local machine account, a table, notebook and Android phone, from the basic technological perspective. This happened a couple of hours ago, which makes this article very relevant to me.
This person was born two generations ago!
WTF happened to reading manuals!?
I read all manuals I get with hardware I buy, go online to fetch and read, PRINT IF I HAVE TO!
Power Users are a sub-species of homosapiens which is in the greybeard stage.
Eventually we will drop our current corpus and move on to other energy levels of existence
Power users will become extinct in the next generation or two
A bleak future for those left
Z
sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_User
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the-slow-death-of-the-power-user/
#Power #User #Death #Vigil #Eulogy #Abstraction #API #IDE #programming #DNS #networking #File #System #FileSystem #sadness #bleak #future #lisp
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Phel v0.36.0 – Lisp on PHP, now with numeric tower and first-class Vars
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The ? command of the Interlisp Exec (REPL) prints a list of available commands with brief explanations of what they do. Most are Interlisp-D commands, some modern Medley additions.
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To kick the tires of ECL I'm running my McCLIM program ILsee, a tool for viewing Interlisp code files I developed with SBCL. This is made possible by Common Lisp, a deadstable language with multiple high-quality implementations.
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#lisp job: Berlin, remote. https://rulemapping.jobs.personio.com/job/2625990?language=en
> You develop and extend Logos, our platform for complex legal and regulatory processes that has been running in production for over 20 years – in Common Lisp (SBCL), with a REPL-centric workflow and modern tooling (ASDF, SLIME/SLY)
