http://barksinthewind.com собака лает — ветер носит, а караван идёт Wed, 09 Apr 2025 04:05:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en   Rachael: Do you like our owl? Deckard: It's artificial? Rachael: Of course it is. Deckard: Must be expensive. Rachael: Very. I'm Rachael. http://barksinthewind.com/2025/do-you-like-our-owl/ last in the series of guru narrations by kalman reti on genera use. he rehashes a lot of subjects he previously covered, but the core of video is loading an image and then manipulating it through indirect arrays [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4-YnLpLgtk[/youtube] [code] (si:login-to-sys-host) (setq fs::*remember-passwords* t) (defun kr-prompt (stream ignore) (prog1 (if *use-date-prompt* (format ... http://barksinthewind.com/2024/symbolics-lisp-machine-demo-jan-2013-by-kalman-reti-notes/ this is another guru narration by kalman repi of lisp machine use, this time the goal is produce a cute hack to autoscroll a sheet of music [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfgjL7EUHZ8[/youtube] [code] (si:login-to-sys-host) c-? Set X Keyboard Mapping + gives you previous repl input, but for commands it'll return lisp equivalent of command input (elsewhere reti uses ... http://barksinthewind.com/2024/genera-emulator-demo-of-smooth-scrolling-by-kalman-reti-notes/ Kalman Reti, the last symbolics engineer, did a series of video presentations on using genera. I had those videos laying on my desktop to watch carefully, and extract whatever useful knowledge. There's no system to the notes, it's mostly shortcuts, or snippets of code, of interest only to me. Some ... http://barksinthewind.com/2024/symbolicstalk28june2012-by-kalman-reti-notes/ Random usim debug videos I had on my desktop. They are not of interest to anyone, but they document the debugging and fixing of the mouse issues on System 99, that we worked on with ams. ((мы пахали, я и трактор!!)) Hover on a popup menu would crash the emulator, [video]/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/mouse-crash.mp4[/video] … and ... http://barksinthewind.com/2024/usim-debug/ Some time ago I was experimenting with iPhone's LIDAR/TrueDepth technology, which got me this figurine scan. It's been sitting on my desktop, I figured why not try and figure out how to post it to blog. Here it is in all it's janky glory, figurine.glb ((it's likely the renderer requires some ... http://barksinthewind.com/2024/figurine/ A month ago my key has expired again, so I spent some time exploring subkey behavior in gnupg. This is an experimental procedure for converting a typical primary/sub key pair into a pair of independent keys. I don't have practical experience with all the different implications of the switch, so ... http://barksinthewind.com/2018/splitting-the-primary-and-the-sub-key-in-a-gnupg-keychain/ As has been discussed in the logs, vtools doesn't stand on its own as a V implementation. Instead it's a collection of tools for working with vpatches. V authors can use vtools so as to not rely on often brittle GNU utilities. On my own workbench I've been using a patched ... http://barksinthewind.com/2018/vpy-updated-for-vtools/ I'm going to call this post a vtools pre-release. I'm deferring the proper release write up till Wednesday, but meanwhile the relevant release work has been done, and it's good time to point interested parties to the bits so that further log discussion can happen. I doubt that my ... http://barksinthewind.com/2018/vtools-keccak-regrind/ I just wrapped up busy three weeks worth of a family trip and two back to back conferences. I completely forgot how exhausting conferences are, and how little time they leave for anything else. There's a short backlog of posts, that I'm going to publish once I'm back home, but ... http://barksinthewind.com/2018/vtools-vpatch/