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fosston paradise (2023-01-31 20:31:00)
(boring, skip this if you are not into the fediverse)
I decided to deactivate my mastodon account. The fediverse experience felt immediately great and the command line client I used (toot) extremely slick, but I feel I am not the kind of person for “fast” social networks.
- What I mean by “fast” is that:
I start following interesting folks;
they post and/or retoot several times a day (sometimes dozens of times);
I fire up my client in the evening. How many of those toots are memes (which I may skip), how many — say — stuff they released and want some feedback on (which I am eager to try), how many life updated (which I want to take note of)?
It felt a bit of a chore mixed with a Fear of Missing Out Syndrome; blogs are still easier to approach and digest for me. Maybe I am approaching this in the wrong way? Comments welcome.
This does not mean the experience was not worth it: conversations felt great, I had a way to ask questions and interact with very interesting people, retooting is a great way to get exposed to new material. I will follow you via my RSS client (magic of interoperability) and maybe open a new account in the future.
Welcome to the Interstice Art Of The Year List 2022!
Small Penises and Fast Cars: Evidence for a Psychological Link.
The Vault of Minos, a challenging procgen platformer.
tradizione italiana (2023-01-01 08:36:00)
[I translated a good game. If you know English, Italian or Japanese, find it here]
Mi sono cimentato in una traduzione di un gioco breve e molto bello, Lover’s Loop.
Tradurre non è mai facile: ho cercato concretezza, precisione e un po’ di lessico ovattato proprio delle fiabe. Scaricatelo qui!
two more excellent games: The Witch’s Lullaby (Adventure Game) ◇ Plasmorphosis (Interactive Fiction).
misc: Pesi e misure ◇ Curb Couches.
art (2022-12-15 08:00:01)
art: Giorgio Morandi Etchings ◇ Metropolis.
A Writer’s Word Processor, in which a professional author describes a program he holds dear, Wordstar. The middle part of the article is particularly interesting, it illustrates various metaphors of writing before the invention of the PC:
Let me speak generally for a moment. I’ve concluded that there are two basic metaphors for pre-computer writing. One is the long-hand manuscript page. The other is the typewritten page. Most word processors have decided to emulate the second — and, at first glance, that would seem to be the logical one to adopt. But, as a creative writer, I am convinced that the long-hand page is the better metaphor.
It made me think how little time we spend on User Interfaces (for games, graphical applications, command-line ones, etc.) and the metaphors end-users are familiar with.
A very clever Interactive Fiction with an ASCII map, Trouble in Sector 471.
The Rise and Fall of Peer Review.
riddles (2022-12-03 07:35:00)
- I received this virtual riddle from friend Carina. Can you solve it? (page one ◇ page two)
- “I have always wanted to learn Bridge”: On Culture-Games.
- Brands Town, a Mastodon instance dedicated solely to corporate brand promotion.
- grafton9, un archivio di pubblicazioni autoprodotte italiane.
quora (2022-10-29 20:21:00)
<n-p> Imagine you got stuck with your head in a fruit mixer
<n-p> and want advice from likeminded people
industrial society and its future (2022-09-21 08:21:00)
New ways of contacting me (IM).
hiking (2022-07-22 08:42:00)
nodejs (2022-05-28 08:18:00)
<Glider_IRC> It's a nodejs mentality, not understand what you do, not
understanding what the machine do, not understanding what your
code do, and not understanding what the code parts you
put together like lego do.
<Glider_IRC> In others words and shorter, understanding nothing.
I almost broke (again) my laptop; I am not amused by my misery without a computer.
In a WWW that all looks the same, it is always exciting to find pages that are styled differently.
Recorder ranges, clefs, and other useful information is full plain-text, yet so cosy and easily browseable; I wonder if I could convert this site to plain-text.
User Sentimental eXperience is a bit of a blast from the past, where navigation and discovery were paramount.
⏪,⏩: Dichiarazione d’amore di altri tempi ◊ The future of road transportation.
art // a statue in Yekaterinburg ◊ Tiempo convertido en espacio:
Photography is time converted into space. In fact, every virtual art is, movies included. We have the impression that Scarlett is having a coffee, but she will never get to it because time has disappeared, and with it life and reality. Such is the demiurgy and powerlessness of art.
games (2022-04-16 06:22:00)
Not one, but two games I have enjoyed during Easter:
Rest: The kinds of portraits I prefer ◊ Whatsapp suicide.
linux users (2022-04-04 07:14:00)
BTW, I use lentil quite often, I like it! And your code base is really nice!
Always take a moment to thank devs/maintainers, it might make their day (for sure it made mine).
Links:
prismatic break (2022-03-01 07:10:00)
War: Waiting (What Silence is Made of).
Outside it’s totally quiet. No people, no cars, no ambulances honking. It’s not a quietude of expectation, not a feeling of ominous foreboding. But people turned inward, to wait and see what the next day will bring, and then the day after.
I have friends in Russia, they are distraught as I am. This war has a culprit: Vladimir Putin. Sadly, the responsibility of the horrible aggression on Ukraine and Ukrainians will likely not fall on his shoulders.
Art: Prismatic break, excellent chiptune ◊ Grounded by the Sky.
Weird City Interloper: A short game, fun, expertly written. It comes with an innovative navigation interface; many games could benefit from it to interactive fiction more accessible.
medusa (2022-02-15 07:44:00)
kappa (2022-02-01 08:07:00)
Kappa, A Gulliveresque novella by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa:
[it] Seduto tra le rocce vicino al torrente, aprii una scatoletta di carne e accesi un focherello con quattro sterpi, e proprio in quei minuti la nebbia si diradò rapidissima: l’avermi indotto a ripercorrere tanta strada mi sembrò una beffa. Sbocconcellavo il mio pane, e ad un tratto guardai l’orologio: l’una e venti. Ma ciò che mi stupì non fu tanto l’ora quanto un volto straordinario riflesso per un istante dal quadrante. Mi voltai, e per la prima volta nella mia vita vidi un ᴋᴀᴘᴘᴀ.
[en] I sat down on a rock by the stream to take a meal. I think I had spent about ten minutes cutting open a tin of corned beef, gathering dead twigs and making a fire. Meanwhile the fog was lifting fast, as if it had brought me all the way down for the sole purpose of making a fool of me. Biting at a piece of bread, I looked at my wrist-watch. It was already twenty minutes past one. But what surprised me more was a strange, weird-looking face reflected for an instant upon the round glass of the watch. I looked back, and for the first time in my life I saw a—^kappa!
art: I made a vase for my daughter. It's made from a discontinued glass light bulb diffuser and cardboard ◊ Nuestra Señora de las angustias, Granada.
Escape from M.O.N.J.A.S is a lovely little adventure for the ZX Spectrum which you can play with an emulator or straight in your browser; availble in Spanish and English.
The game fits in 47K, roughly ⅔ of the above screenshot. Controls: Q A O P to move, M to interact.
Silence is power:
The particular situation I have in view is the hijacking of public discourse (and consequently the political order) by the endless proliferation of manufactured news and fabricated controversy.
fog (2022-01-24 07:35:00)
Unica e insondabile (tutte le nebbie lo sono):
haphazardly (2022-01-16 07:44:00)
how stereograms work ◊ pictorialist photograp ◊ root system drawings ◊ a poem in pencil ◊ daily retrocomputing ◊ harmonium jrpgesque music.
first contact (2021-10-18 21:38:00)
A couple of games to play for Christmas:
Art:
Essay:
moiré no more (2021-10-12 07:44:00)
<FSi> it's almost as if GTK maintainers are paid to keep the most common
use-cases taking at least 1 click more than those on win/macos
Moiré no more
Grab a magnifying lens and examine any photo printed in a newspaper or a book, and you will see a similar complex pattern of dots. But if you find such a printed photo and scan it, you don’t automatically get its pixels back. No, you get new, smaller pixels that replicate the exact nature of halftone dots. And with those confused pixels, you also get one more thing: a warm hug from something called moiré.
music: J. Pachelbel - Ciacona f-moll on a lovely portatif ◊ i want to talk to you about time.
Type: Unstable Vampire, a lovely action game through text in only 4kb.
two lovely retro sites: A Few Tips on Crow Care ◊ THIS AND THAT.
Punctuation in novels:
Inspired by a series of posters, I wondered what did my favorite books look like without words. Can you tell them apart or are they all a-mush? In fact, they can be quite distinct.
green is awesome (2021-09-10 08:31:00)
Green is awesome
Green is a difficult color- stay away from it.
Am I Irrational?
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyse a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
[ita] Bruco
«Smetti di prendermi in giro» ho tagliato corto io. Sta di fatto che – forse proprio a causa del tono vibrante, quasi profetico – ancora adesso le sue parole mi risuonano nelle antenne, come se le avesse appena pronunciate.
society of spectacle (2021-08-26 08:42:00)
An Illustrated Guide to Guy Debord’s ‘The Society of the Spectacle’
Note the words “need” and “representation.” Ask yourself — what compels us to buy the latest tech gadget? Why do we spill our feelings out on Facebook, in posts that are archived on servers deep underground? Which is more important, the expression of the feeling itself, or the knowledge that it will be documented and seen by others? Why do we incessantly take selfies, or record our every moment for posterity? Are we afraid of being a nobody — of being on “the margin of existence?” If you’re concerned with how you appear, then are you really living?
art: [IT/EN] Enzo Mari, corso di disegno per Abitare ◊ Walking ◊ Umi no sachi (via FSi).
Have you ever wanted to painlessly extract code blocks from Markdown documentation? Then check dram.
demonios de barro (2021-08-21 20:51:00)
