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Homegrown Closures for Uxn

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Built on top of Owl Lisp[1]. TIL about this dialect, and it looks interesting! Instead of native threads, it has continuation-based threads[2], and it seems the whole VM architecture is based on that.

[1]: https://haltp.org/posts/owl.html

[2]: https://haltp.org/posts/owl.html#heading26

If you've never heard of Uxn I highly recommend reading this: https://100r.co/site/weathering_software_winter.html

Always wondered why I don't go on living like the folks at 100r.co. Not necessarily in a boat across the ocean, but at least writing software for fun and learning as days pass. What a contrast if we talk about writing software so that the c-level executives can get richer and richer while you have to work for decades to pay a middle size house (if not an apartment). Not to mention the on-call rotation that eats your free time, the countless stupid tech interviews you need to pass and the amount of self control one has to have in every useless daily standup.

> writing software for fun and learning as days pass

These kinds of projects always remind me that it's still possible for software itself to be fun and have a soul of sorts, similar in spirit to the wonderful why's (poignant) Guide to Ruby.

It's a far cry from what can feel like an environment that, in a lot of cases, seems to devour complexity for complexity's sake and gorge itself on solving ethereal problems that don't really need to exist. End tiny rant.

I think because they have next to no overhead living on a boat is a major reason why they can do so much creative output. When you dont have rent to pay and other major bills, you have more idle time to do fun things you enjoy doing.

Like navigate your boat. And maintain your boat. And repair your boat...

Yep, boat maintenance is an ongoing predicament. It would be nice if you could build it and leave it be but the sea is harsh to all things and maintenance is necessary.

I've heard the Great Lakes are Great for this because of the lack of salt.

Personally, when it came to buying a house it was based on something that I could pay down quick and be happy with until my last days. I call it the cottage but it is really just a very small house. But work hours are staggering reasonable because of it.

If you have low needs and wants, you do not have to strive as hard to get places. I live small so that I do not have to serve the king.

I'm not surprised because of their presence in the community, but I am glad to see Permacomputing mentioned. https://permacomputing.net/

My aspirational heroes! There's so many people underserved by our current level of technology, and for no good reason other than what I imagine is "business sense"? What are we doing with all this tech if it can't reach so many? Did we really advance as a species? I lose so much of current tech if I take a walk in the woods, it's ridiculous.

Even just keeping their views in mind as I'm learning and experimenting, I'm noticing there's so much cloud-dependence without good reason, beyond "convience"? Really glad to have discovered their work early in my career, it's been nothing but quality learning!

I don't want to be bound to the "modern world" and its city centers. I want to see the rest of it too, to stray from the fire of a broadcast tower without being left in the cold. I have a torch, I just need to light it.

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