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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)
a cyoa (2021-08-08 20:31:00)
I have entered Librejam 202108 with a small cyoa.
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Photographs: Corniglio IR and digital, Waterway.
4 pensieri di F.F. sulla comunicazione:
Nei confronti della comunicazione e del discorso di massa occorre aumentare il grado di consapevolezza che ogni comunicazione (e tanto più quanto più è di massa) non è né immediata né spontanea né naturale, ma sempre non naturale, non spontanea, mediata, storicamente determinata.
links for July 26 (2021-07-26 08:36:00)
A pair of list of «rules» (one, two). I liked
13. Don’t debate with analogies.
- Never mistake an aesthetic for an ethic.
VVVVVV is an acclaimed puzzle/platformer released in 2010, and recently made source available.
The story, the cast (Viridian, Vermillion, Vitellary, Verdgris, Violet, Victoria), the action and the relatively short length (≃2 hours) make it a good recommendation.
Compile it yourself or if you prefer buy it on GOG.
Jour 1 a diary of a day spent taking pictures.
links for July 17 (2021-07-17 08:00:01)
Emoji is not a language
What is a language? This is something that is surprisingly controversial. There’s some easy ways to tell when something is a language (one of them being that they have an army), but what about things like emoji? Is emoji a language? In this article I will attempt to argue that emoji is not a language unto itself.
Queer is not a brand
Dino Commando, a surprisingly playable pulp gamebook by kung fu space barbarian.
Yellow and Blue.
Experimenting with AI Dungeon
I decided to go with a mostly realistic scenario - I’ve been in this situation before, but as a human.
You are an anthropomorphic dog standing in the middle of Glasgow Central Station. Your train to Manchester has been cancelled, but nobody seems to know why. You walk up to the customer service desk and ask for a ticket.
links for July 15 (2021-07-15 07:35:00)
24HRS IN PHOTOS
By printing 350.000 images, uploaded in a twenty-four hours period, the feeling of drowning in representations of other peoples’ experiences is visualized.
more pictures: Nature’s Art Museum and the Art of Aging ◊ Novara - cemetery
I’m leaving YouTube
Luckily I’ve already had found an alternative home for my tutorials. It’s called PeerTube. PeerTube is video sharing software but contrary to YouTube, it is open source. In addition it’s also decentralized and federated.
I want to try peertube too.
the weather (or: mass shooting)
Looking back on it now, those two years in a basement in South Boulder were the best that town ever treated me. Martian Acres, with Martin Park for a back yard. The bike path all the way out to Gunbarrel for work, or jamming onto the crowded bus up Broadway. Beers at the Southern Sun, breakfast at the Walnut Cafe to go with the hangovers.
git git (2021-07-05 20:21:00)
<FSi> 1. type "git" in terminal, thinking to finish it later
<FSi> 2. switch to a different tab/screen to check things
<FSi> 3. switch back, type "git add ."
<FSi> 4. end up with "git git add ."
handwriting: Burro e tutori
[P]lease provide me with four or five pounds of good butter. Regarding the price, I refer to you.
art: Pat Perry, Sketchbook
music: Percy Grainger, The Immovable Do played by Artis Wodehouse.
links for June 19 (2021-06-19 08:21:00)
art: The Bridge and Hell ◊ a weird instrument, the cervellato (rankett) Zarlino: Dulcian Rankett.
Just because you have some money, that doesn't mean that you have to spend it, in my opinion threat #1 to every Open Source project.
Text games forever:
Looking back, my games that were the most joy to work on were text-based. Even as they were also my least successful. From text adventures through tabletop RPGs and to dungeon crawlers, whenever I was able to blend writing and games, it made me happy.
[ita/de] Jan Wagner, abendlied, lago di como:
herbst, wenn die kastanien die waffen strecken, autunno, quando gli ippocastani depongono le armi,
morgensterne ringsum versteuter am boden mazze chiodate giacciono sparse sul terreno
liegen in den zweigen die vogelbeeren all’intorno, sui rami le bacche del sorbo selvatico
prahel mit ihrem gift. si gloriano del loro veleno.
links for May 21 (2021-05-16 08:42:00)
photography: salsedine
How to teach things badly
Often the way we teach concepts feels a lot like this: a list of arbitrary rules, with no context or explanation. Badly-commented code can also put us in a similar situation. It’s certainly possible to get across the essential facts this way, but we’re doing ourselves an injustice.
Why should Anyone us Colours? (in technical papers)
poetry: Poem on the Mediterranean (French, Italian, seems not to have been translated to English)
. Au vide regard des vitres, le matin rit
De toutes ses dents qu’il a bleues et brillantes,
Nel vuoto sguardo dei vetri, ride il mattino In the vacuous sight of windows, morning smiles
Con tutti i suoi denti azzurri e scintillanti, with all of her azure and shiny teeth,
links for March 21 (2021-03-20 08:18:00)
