mastodon 4.7.3Astronomy, space, Linux, retrocomputing, Lisp, coding.
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This 2019 Mastodon feature request suggests supporting post transfer when migrating to a different instance. If you'd like such a feature (I sure do) consider thumbing-up or reacting to the issue.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/12423
Thanks @tokyo_0@mas.to for the reminder.
The rise of the Web prematurely ended an era of active research and creative experimentation with hypertext technologies. In this paper @eastgate@c.im picks up where this era left off, and presents a neoclassical extension to embed web components in a classical hypertext system.
A Novel Architecture for Classical Hypertext
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3648188.3675147
Common Lisp Quick Reference is a nicely designed, comprehensive, and handy Common Lisp cheatsheet. It's available in different PDF versions for printing as a booklet or online browsing, as well as LaTeX source.
I'm having too much fun exploring NoteCards, the hypermedia system of Medley Interlisp. It provides a rich hypertext environment and tools as well as an extensive, easy to use Interlisp API.
This is a good introduction:
Notecards in a Nutshell
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/29933.30859
The @hist_HT@hci.social Historic Hypertext Project: Mind-Blowing Hypertext Systems and Paradigms:
"[...] aims at collecting and running historic hypertext systems. We try to install them in virtual machines and provide information about their functionalities and technologies."
The project coordinator is Prof. Claus Atzenbeck @clausatz@hci.social of Hof University, Germany.
PSW (Process Status Window) is an Interlisp tool for monitoring and managing "processes", which we now call threads. Here is PSW in Medley Online on my Chromebox, with the lower pane showing a function call backtrace of the selected process.