Jon ☎️ @jfred@mastodon.sdf.org

The PedalPC is a human-powered computer desk that allows you to exercise and generate electricity while you work.

https://www.pedalpc.com/

back in my day amazon web services were provided by brazilian spiders. none of this cloud mumbo jumbo

We’re pleased to announce #MeshJam2022, a two-day celebration of mesh networking at Iffy Books. We'll have mesh talks and workshops all day on Saturday, August 13 and Saturday, August 20. Hope to see you there!

"How did you give up fossil fuels?"

"Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly."

Apologies to Hemingway

#FossilFuels #Decarbonisation #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Collapse #Hemingway

Guy takes his #parrots out to fly around while riding his bike

good morning, be awake, connect to wired, time to walk some code

@akkartik: excellent piece on convivial tooling, commodity browsers, and the role of abstraction:

<https://cristobal.space/writing/folk>

Good bicycle infrastructure is good for other pedestrians as well.

When I was an undergrad, I had a job on campus as a DECsystem-20 systems programmer. So when my colleague Rich Pattis announced that, in preparation for his impending retirement, he was clearing out his office and giving away, among other things, the PDP-10 front console he had rescued from the trash pile of another university, I jumped at the opportunity. Here it is, atop one of my office bookshelves. Note the 36 keys in the front row: its memory was organized into 36-bit words, not bytes.

Uh I just got DMed by the COO of Tumblr asking about hiring contractors to make us fully #indieweb compliant, and possibly even #fediverse integration. Anyone out there looking for work?

Any sufficiently advanced technology is insufficiently documented

#RightToRepair will become an absolute necessity in the near future. Having all the supply chain completely fucked up and prices all over increasing like never before, people will need to learn how to do stuff themselves instead of pulling a credit card.

Today’s our first day in the new space! We’re open 12–9 PM, with a reception starting at 6. The address is 319 N. 11th St. 3E, Philly.

Here’s the color we painted the floor:

If you're a vendor, and you put my work email on a promotional mailing list just because we've had correspondence or I've given you my card: I hate you.