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alexshendi··on A Little Smalltalk (1987)
The version from the book is under the subdirectory lst1/. The later version you mentioned is probably under lst4/. Thought you'd like to know.
alexshendi··on Making a Website Under 1kB
Easy Peasy, Lemon Squeezy:

<html> <head> <title>My Wonderful Website</title> </head> <body> <p>What a wonderful page</p> </body> </html>

Ha! There! 110 bytes. A whopping 914 bytes left for user content.

PS: (I think HN hates code blocks)

alexshendi··on I hope Apple never adopts RCS
Oh, I thought RCS, as in OpenRCS.
alexshendi··on International Institute of Not Doing Much
I'm afraid I can't join.

I'm already a member of the reowned "International Institute of Doing One Thing in the Morning and the Opposite in the Afternoon".

Sorry!

alexshendi··on There Could Be Four Hostile Civilizations in the Milky Way
1. Russia

2. China

3. North Korea

4. Iran

Seems legit. [X]

alexshendi··on Sdf.org Plan9 Boot Camp Summer 2022
I meant an email for asking questions, etc. But nevermind.
alexshendi··on Sdf.org Plan9 Boot Camp Summer 2022
Looks interesting. Do I need to register, if I already have an SDF account? I also couldn't find a contact address.
alexshendi··on The chicken you are eating has increased 364% in size over the last 50 years
I say, if someone eats a chicken for at least 50 years, small wonder that it has increased 364% in size in the meantime.
alexshendi··on Ask HN: I have an old 32-bit laptop. Should I keep it up and running?
I wanted to chime in. A possible use for a 32 bit x86 machine is to install FreeDOS to be able to run old games or applications.

But that's for you to decide.

alexshendi··on Lambda Calculus in 400 Bytes
I am so awestruck, I even quit doomscrolling.
alexshendi··on BCHS: OpenBSD, C, httpd and SQLite web stack
I propose an amendment to Godwin's Law to include "Dunning-Kruger" , "Dunning-Kruger-effect" and "Dunning-Kruger effect".
alexshendi··on Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard
Does this mean that Microsoft now owns Infocom IP?
alexshendi··on Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard
Does that mean that MSFT now owns Infocom IP?
alexshendi··on Building a neural network in pure Lisp using only atoms and lists
All hail (((GPT-5)))!!!
alexshendi··on DOS on Dope (2010)
cmd.exe is a Windows (NT) console application and has nothing whatsoever to do with DOS.

The verdict: Sentenced to using PC-DOS 1.0 for 6 month' straight. No probation.

alexshendi··on Ask HN: What programming language should I teach my child?
I think Logo gets a undeserved reputation as a "kindergarden" programming language, when it's actually a nice Lisp dialect. See Brian Harvey's "Computer Science, Logo Style". Available for free for personal use (as in free beer) at:

1. https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bh/v1-toc2.html

2. https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bh/v2-toc2.html

3. https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bh/v3-toc2.html

(edited for better display of list of links)

alexshendi··on Scientists have created the darkness measure, D score, for how dark you are
Oh, is it just like Spearman's G? Lovely!
alexshendi··on The internet is held together with spit and baling wire
Of course FidoNet is much better.
alexshendi··on The internet is held together with spit and baling wire
Yes, but why did he only realise this on November 26th, 2021 AD?
alexshendi··on Chrome OS overtakes Macs for second place OS market share for the first time
The Linux support is basically Debian Buster/Bullseye aarch64 in a custom container. Basically you can use every Linux program. I used a low end Chromebook (4G RAM, 64G flash, aarch64) to run FEM simulations and Scheme, Common Lisp, and Interlisp programming. Performance wasn't at all bad for a EUR 150 device.
alexshendi··on The 'Duke Nukem' Fan Re-Creating Britain in All Its Glory
Now the question is: How do I get this to run on one of OpenBSD, Alpine Linux or Haiku?
alexshendi··on Racket v8.3
Development experience close to Lisp Machines???

Racket: From the people who brought you the quote: "the toplevel is hopeless".

alexshendi··on SqueakJS – A Squeak VM in JavaScript
I should add that I only tried the 32bit images etc. (Cuis*-32.* files).
alexshendi··on SqueakJS – A Squeak VM in JavaScript
Been there, done that. You need SqueakJS, a browser an the changes, source and image files for Cuis. Startup is a bit slow, but it works. SqueakJS is just another VM.
alexshendi··on We are recreating the entire planet in Minecraft
"We are recreating the entire planet in Minecraft"

Nice move, then we can all move to Minecraft, when we are finished with this planet and have used it up.

alexshendi··on Life Improvements Since the 1990s
Today, 1984 feels like an Utopia.
alexshendi··on Why All Printers Suck, Even the Best Ones (2016)
My LaserJet 4050 that I bought used a couple of years before the turn of the millenium doesn't suck that badly!
alexshendi··on An AI wolf that preferred suicide over eating sheep
Well I can identify with that AI wolf. He recognises his own incompetence and chooses suicide over eternally failing.
alexshendi··on What are the odds we are living in a computer simulation? (2016)
The world certainly feels as if it was hacked together in C++ as a side project by an incompetent demiurge.
alexshendi··on Terrible programming features from the past
You know that you can use free form code layout and '!' comments since f90?
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