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Strypey<p>"The doctor and writer Atul Gawande has written about how computerization in the medical profession is leading to record levels of burnout. For instance, doctors would once skip irrelevant fields when filling out paper forms; now the software forces them to fill in those fields, and they have no power to edit those software rules. As Gawande says of one doctor: 'Spending the extra time didn’t anger her. The pointlessness of it did'.”</p><p><a href="https://www.inkandswitch.com/essay/malleable-software/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">inkandswitch.com/essay/malleab</span><span class="invisible">le-software/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/MalleableSoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MalleableSoftware</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://merveilles.town/@i_dabble" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>i_dabble</span></a></span></p>
Dimly Lit Corners<p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Goals2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Goals2025</span></a> </p><p>Moving away from the constant upgrade cycle &amp; moving closer to the ideals of <a href="https://c.im/tags/PermaComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PermaComputing</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/MalleableSoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MalleableSoftware</span></a> </p><p>Design and setup a redundant system of old/used, cheap, low-power devices running ia: <a href="https://c.im/tags/Guix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Guix</span></a>, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a>, <a href="https://c.im/tags/FreeBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeBSD</span></a>, <a href="https://c.im/tags/macOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>macOS</span></a>, <a href="https://c.im/tags/HaikuOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HaikuOS</span></a>, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Plan9Front" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Plan9Front</span></a>, <a href="https://c.im/tags/X11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>X11</span></a>, <a href="https://c.im/tags/P9" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>P9</span></a>, <a href="https://c.im/tags/NFS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NFS</span></a>, all working together </p><p>Become an expert on <a href="https://c.im/tags/MicroControllers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MicroControllers</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ESP32" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ESP32</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/STM32" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>STM32</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/RP2040" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RP2040</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/MIPS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MIPS</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/RiscV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RiscV</span></a> </p><p>DIY sensors which sing like birds to communicate their status</p><p>DIY robots "drones" </p><p>Move as much as possible of my computing needs to the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Terminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Terminal</span></a>, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Emacs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Emacs</span></a>, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Rio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rio</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/CLI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CLI</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/TUI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TUI</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/P9" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>P9</span></a> </p><p>Get an <a href="https://c.im/tags/3DPrinter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>3DPrinter</span></a> and learn to use it</p><p>Design and build my own portable 8dot <a href="https://c.im/tags/braille" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>braille</span></a> terminal &amp; try out if 3x3 or 3x4 dots is also workable.</p><p>Design and build my own low-power computers, their OS, and tools</p><p>Writing more of my own tools <a href="https://c.im/tags/DIY" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DIY</span></a></p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/SmallTalk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SmallTalk</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ObjectPascal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ObjectPascal</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Prolog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Prolog</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Scheme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scheme</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Racket" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Racket</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/CommonLisp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CommonLisp</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Haskell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Haskell</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Rust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rust</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Go" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Go</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ObjectiveC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ObjectiveC</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Swift" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Swift</span></a></p><p>Deploy <a href="https://c.im/tags/LoRa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LoRa</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ReticullumNetwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReticullumNetwork</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/RNodes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RNodes</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/MeshCore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MeshCore</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Meshtastic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Meshtastic</span></a> </p><p>Start an <a href="https://c.im/tags/InternetResiliencyClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InternetResiliencyClub</span></a> </p><p>Add <a href="https://c.im/tags/Tor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tor</span></a>, <a href="https://c.im/tags/I2P" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>I2P</span></a> support by <a href="https://c.im/tags/WebProxy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WebProxy</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/SolarPowered" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SolarPowered</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/SelfHost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SelfHost</span></a> over <a href="https://c.im/tags/I2P" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>I2P</span></a>, <a href="https://c.im/tags/OnionService" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OnionService</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Blog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Blog</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Wiki" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wiki</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Repositories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Repositories</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/GopherHole" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GopherHole</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Darcs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Darcs</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mercurial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mercurial</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/SelfHost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SelfHost</span></a> my own <a href="https://c.im/tags/EmailServer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EmailServer</span></a>, which will only accept email from <a href="https://c.im/tags/KnownServers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KnownServers</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/CommunityEmail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CommunityEmail</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/MutualEmailAcceptance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MutualEmailAcceptance</span></a> </p><p>Share files via <a href="https://c.im/tags/BitTorrent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BitTorrent</span></a> over <a href="https://c.im/tags/I2P" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>I2P</span></a> </p><p>DIY <a href="https://c.im/tags/HomeAutomation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HomeAutomation</span></a><br>DIY <a href="https://c.im/tags/GardeningAutomation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GardeningAutomation</span></a><br>DIY <a href="https://c.im/tags/GreenHouse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreenHouse</span></a> </p><p>Get a house cat, train the cat, use voice and gestures</p><p>Start asking money for advice &amp; technology support</p><p>Build/program my own opportunistic and strange cryptocurrency miners <a href="https://c.im/tags/BTC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BTC</span></a>, <a href="https://c.im/tags/XMR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>XMR</span></a>, <a href="https://c.im/tags/ZEC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ZEC</span></a>, etc <a href="https://c.im/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Art</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/MakeMoreArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MakeMoreArt</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/LearnToDraw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LearnToDraw</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Learn3DModeling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Learn3DModeling</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/LearnGenerativeArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LearnGenerativeArt</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/LearnToComposeAmbientMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LearnToComposeAmbientMusic</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/ReCreateJottit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReCreateJottit</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ReCreateInstikiWiki" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReCreateInstikiWiki</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/WriteMore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WriteMore</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/PublishMore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublishMore</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Letters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Letters</span></a>, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Essays" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Essays</span></a>, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Missives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Missives</span></a>, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Reports" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Reports</span></a>, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Treatise" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Treatise</span></a> </p><p>…</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Incomplete" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Incomplete</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ongoing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ongoing</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/NotFinal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NotFinal</span></a></p>
Travis F W<p>My one biggest criticism of Ink and Switch's <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/MalleableSoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MalleableSoftware</span></a> article is they failed to mention — not even to explicitly side step the topic — the <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/UnixPhilosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnixPhilosophy</span></a>.</p><p>The command line is malleable.</p><p>Surely Ink and Switch are focusing on the graphical interfaces most people use, but although the composable tool set of <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/GNU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GNU</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/coreUtils" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>coreUtils</span></a> was designed for necessarily technical users, scripting <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Bash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bash</span></a> is not programming. The line does blur. Bash is somewhere in between. The gradient is the the topic.</p>
Dimly Lit Corners<p>Thoughts on Tools Not Apps<br><a href="https://merveilles.town/@neauoire/114661067873463414" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">merveilles.town/@neauoire/1146</span><span class="invisible">61067873463414</span></a></p><p>“Steve Jobs supposedly claimed that he intended his personal computer to be a bicycle for the mind — But what he really sold us was a train for the mind, which goes only between where rails and stations have been laid down by armies of laborers.”</p><p>The Amiga had no “Desktop” but a “Workbench”,</p><p>Imagine a computer system… without a desktop, but instead a kitchen, a workshop, a garden, and a laboratory </p><p>Not a train bringing you from station to station but a slightly dirty and scratched all terrain bike which has allowed you and your mind to go anywhere and everywhere, even where no one has gone before</p><p>Geoffrey Litt, Josh Horowitz, Peter van Hardenberg, and Todd Matthews. 2025. <a href="https://functional.cafe/tags/MalleableSoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MalleableSoftware</span></a>: Restoring User Agency in a World of Locked-Down Apps. Ink &amp; Switch. <a href="https://functional.cafe/tags/Essay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Essay</span></a> <a href="https://www.inkandswitch.com/essay/malleable-software/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">inkandswitch.com/essay/malleab</span><span class="invisible">le-software/</span></a></p><p>"The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay—a malleable material that users could reshape at will. Instead, we got appliances: built far away, sealed, unchangeable."</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@DLC/114275136014135252" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fosstodon.org/@DLC/11427513601</span><span class="invisible">4135252</span></a></p><p>"Software should have never been an industry."</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@DLC/114378239674029961" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fosstodon.org/@DLC/11437823967</span><span class="invisible">4029961</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@DLC/114320395972716733" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fosstodon.org/@DLC/11432039597</span><span class="invisible">2716733</span></a></p><p>¯\_(ツ)_/¯ <br>I'm still searching for answers</p><p>––</p>
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