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New comment by _rpf in "Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people"

_rpf — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 06:38:46 +0000

Anyone else catch Rimmer's study timetable?

(Procrastination, Red Dwarf reference)

New comment by _rpf in "Installing OpenBSD on the Pomera DM250 Writerdeck"

_rpf — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 05:25:54 +0000

There is a rich collection of modern Macintosh Plus System 6.x work on jcs site :D

The afterdark screensaver is a real cherry on top.

New comment by _rpf in "The PowerPC Has Still Got It (Llama on G4 Laptop)"

_rpf — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 17:25:22 +0000

Im compelled to humblebrag my Sgi at this point … https://youtu.be/mzI8U7S0FDc?si=D70WbAak7_k7Ebrr

New comment by _rpf in "What is Realtalk’s relationship to AI? (2024)"

_rpf — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 01:07:41 +0000

If you’re looking for an open source project like Realtalk there is https://folk.computer/

New comment by _rpf in "Matt Trout has died"

_rpf — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 09:53:43 +0000

Super sad to see this. I worked with Matt around 2004.

Super smart kid, very nice to work with. I ended up supporting one of the systems he built (in Perl). I used his Cataylst Perl framework for some projects after that because of him.

New comment by _rpf in "Apple’s Darwin OS and XNU Kernel Deep Dive"

_rpf — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 20:17:45 +0000

> Jean-Louis Gassee overplayed his hand

Well, there’s a parallel universe! Beige boxes running BeOS late-90s-cool maybe, but would we still have had the same upending results for mobile phones, industrial design, world integration, streaming media services…

New comment by _rpf in "A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design (2011)"

_rpf — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 18:16:35 +0000

Bret Victors current project is Dynamicland, a real space he’s been building to explore computing within the physical world, with humans at its center. The system he invented is known as Realtalk, and is integrated into the building, where cameras and projectors engage with the humans within it.

https://dynamicland.org/