Beni Cherniavsky @pyzza

Built https://t.co/SdUE5DttDC. Obsessed with https://t.co/gw1nUh7JTa & Boxer github.com/cben Joined January 2010

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Modos @Boston, MA @Modostech

a month ago

It’s live! 🎉Meet the Modos Developer Kit, an open‑hardware display controller that drives e‑ink at 75 Hz. • mini‑HDMI + USB‑C • C API & SDK • Works on Linux, macOS, Windows crowdsupply.com/modos-tech/mod…

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Beni Cherniavsky @pyzza

8 months ago

When I make dad jokes, I tend to laugh, or at least grin maniacally. Clearly, I need to work on my dad pun delivery.

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Beni Cherniavsky @pyzza

a year ago

TTYs are messy, but the reasons we love them (ability to remote, record, replay,search etc) boil down to escape sequences forming an *effects system* 💡. Now if only someone who specialises in effects systems could improve them🙏

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Beni Cherniavsky @pyzza

a year ago

"Something went wrong. And we are reporting a custom error message." — a self-referential falsehood 🧌. I'm pretty certain that's the _default_ value for some "custom 500 error message" config field, intended for the site admin to customize...

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Ken Shirriff @kenshirriff

3 years ago

The Globus INK (1967) is a remarkable piece of Soviet spacecraft equipment. Its rotating globe showed cosmonauts the position of their Soyuz spacecraft. An electromechanical analog computer, it used gears, cams, and differentials to compute the position. Let's look inside 🧵

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Beni Cherniavsky @pyzza

3 years ago

Smart device: n. A device I can re-program. Dumb device: n. A device, no matter how full of "features", that I can't program.

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Ben Orenstein @r00k

3 years ago

We've gained so much by using open source software while building @tuple. As a small token of our appreciation, we're sending 3 OSS devs (and their +1s) on vacation! Please help us find the most deserving folks by nominating/voting. tuple.app/sends-you-on-v…

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ADHDinos @ADHDinos

3 years ago

Motivation

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LaRonda Robinson @JamaicanVision

3 years ago

I was seven years old. It’s not ancient history, it’s current reality.

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Kristin Livdahl @klivdahl

4 years ago

OMFG My 10 year old just asked Alexa on our Echo for a challenge and this is what she said.

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Beni Cherniavsky @pyzza

3 years ago

did Excel give more people direct experience of the 4 software freedoms than all of GNU/Linux combined!? Despite being closed-source with a proprietary file format, every spreadsheet recipient (that could open it) got to see the formulas, modify, and Save as...->send.