mastodon 4.7.2+glitchmaintainer of tilde.town, software eng @ Internet Archive, co-author of the github cli, noise musician, trash poet, eupraxsophist, vcr exhibitionist, soft boy. pretty ok but still a person who could be an involved restoration project as time passes
I am yet but a babby in the realm of software preservation but here is my first real contribution: The World of Tarot, some DOS tarot card software made in 1992 in a suburb of Chicago.
I found this at a Vintage Computer Fest Midwest event and now it's up on the archive and runnable in browser!
i found yet another reason to be angry at the python packaging ecosystem. i'm trying to research making poetry with twine and both "poetry" and "twine" are python packaging tools filling up the search results
dear bay area dwellers whose interests lie in matters both cybered and versed:
i'll be teaching a two hour workshop about computer poetry in june in oakland~
you can come if you want. i'll be teaching a history and explication of computers+poetry then running through some interactive, digital means for poetry production and consumption.
details and registration are here: https://luma.com/d5rej2i9
<3
Ye Shall Know Me By This One Weird Trick
the interactive windows 3.1 press kit for THE NET is my goty https://archive.org/details/netz_20200821#
shout out to the online rhyming dictionary that informed me that "vengaboys" rhymes with "noise"
no tapes tonight.
is the opposite of a heroic stanza a craven stanza
huh
I SAID
I'M OXYCISING
every time you run `git pus` by accident a stellar pustule orbiting sirius emits 13,000kl of exudate
sometimes trunkless bugs out when firefox loads it from an unloaded tab and the same line is repeated over and over. in this case it worked out
