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The Å-Machine

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I like this explanation of what it is:

"In a sense, the Å-machine is to Dialog what Glulx is to Inform 7. "

It reminds me of Alan Perlis' quote:

“Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.”

It's really comical: I paused and had a chuckle when I read this sentence too.

But to everyone else who wonders: this is an interactive fiction component/library. Like classics from infocom (Zork et al), but modern.

I tried briefly playing the author's game, "Tethered" [1] but gave up quickly because after sacrificing Judith I couldn't figure out how to summon any light or move anywhere. Supposedly I'm 'working' this morning... ;)

[1] http://www.linusakesson.net/games/tethered/tethered-aa/play....

Or the classic "monads are just monoids on the category of endofunctors".

Åkesson's work always blows my mind away.

One of my favorites is Paralellogram [0]

[0] https://www.linusakesson.net/scene/parallelogram/index.php

edit: name correction! (indeed that is a cool name!)

Agree - other notable work:

A mind is born (256byte demo) [0]

Bitbuf, portable 8-bit minimalistic live looping machine. [1]

His work on Teenage Engineering PO-2X s [2]

[0] https://linusakesson.net/scene/a-mind-is-born/

[1] https://linusakesson.net/bitbuf/index.php

[2] https://linusakesson.net/music/po-2x/index.php

It's Åkesson, actually. Quite cool to have your initial mostly unused as a one-letter abbreviation/name. Except for ångström (Å), of course.

Å is a good letter in many ways, but not for names. Just my opinion, and I do have around 30 years of personal experience :P

I can see where you're coming from. My native language (Finnish) also uses letters with diareses, mostly ä and ö but also å. But I did make sure my kids' names are easy to spell and pronounce in English. A name like Ääliö would be just asking for trouble, in many senses. ;)

My HN username should be språk but I couldn't register it that way.

Which is usually a thing even on local sites for some reason.

Nothing huge ever happened because of my Å name, but it piles up over the years. Biggest issue was when a very confused man tried to check me in at an airport and had no idea how. Took maybe 20-30 minutes and the solution was "AA". Probably not as much manual typing these days, this was 10+ years ago.

Åh where was that?

Language? :)

Yes. And you, horse fish? :D

I like he casually has a Symbolics keyboard on his desk(easily mistaken as Commadore hardware)

Tell him to get Certbot. nvm, tell him to do a http>https redirect.

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