I find this hard to believe. I searched the Fossil forums and found no mention of such an attempt (and failure). Unfortunately, I don't have a computer handy to verify or disprove. Is there any evidence for this claim?

I'll be honest, I don't understand your point here?

The purpose of Handmade Hero was to show people that they are capable of making a game themselves and to learn things which have a reputation for being too hard. There was, of course, an emphasis on the hard things being hard because of complexity introduced by things like OOP, C++, etc. But the main purpose always felt like education and enablement. Casey's a great teacher and the videos are very informative.

The Network, on the other hand, was some weird "we want to make stuff by hand", whatever that means. That's fine. But that's not what Casey spent like 7 years doing. He didn't do it "just cuz". Instead, it was to teach and share. That seemed lost on the Network.

As a result, it seemed just like a less toxic Suckless project without the focus on making a new ecosystem. It was just a forum to say, "Hey I made this thing", all the while co-oping the feel-goods from Casey's Handmade Hero.

Peaceful protest is the key. Riots, violence, and fighting are not peaceful and only play into the administration's aims.

When Americans resist and protest peacefully, as they have been in the largest numbers ever in the country's history, it exposes the brutality and baseness of those commiting the heinous acts.

Through such peaceful protest as we see, America will overcome this.

The big question is, what next? How to hold people accountable, fairly, while rebuilding the system and rebuilding trust?

Nonetheless, random access history is cool.

In this instance however, I agree, barf is more accurate.

Regarding how computers work under the hood, i can recommend Nand2Tetris.

https://www.nand2tetris.org/

Yes, it has an info manual and, I agree, info is the superior documentation viewer. However, a good browser is no replacement for bad writing.

The Guile manual is not well written. The organization seems almost random. The text emphasizes minutia while glossing over fundamental details. It off-loads much to RnRSs and SFRIs (whatever those are). Basically, it suffers badly from The Curse of Expertise.

The documentation's shortcomings might be okay except that Guile is, or was, the premier extension language for the whole of the GNU project.

I considered trying to improve the manual, but why would I dedicate time and effort to a language that I don't know and whose community can't follow it's own advice?

Consider the following:

"Make sure your manual is clear to a reader who knows nothing about the topic and reads it straight through. This means covering basic topics at the beginning, and advanced topics only later. This also means defining every specialized term when it is first used." https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/GNU-Manuals.htm...

Most of these points: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/gnu-press/GNU-Press-styleguide...

Maybe at FOSDEM this year, people could do a Hackathon and knock out some basics, like defining acronyms or using terms only after they're defined.

PS: every Python tarball for quite a while has instructions for building the documentation, including in info format

Is it some Viktor Frankl level acceptance or should I buy a copy of the Art of Electronics or what?

Advice welcome.

It just says "decades of neglect". It gives little vignettes of bad experiences and a quote from a French person saying the French would revolt.

Any actual explanation?

I speak specifically of the UI. Obviously the underlying system works. Yet it's totally within reason that the UI has wasted trillions of money and many person years in lost productivity.

Napkin math. It's easy to waste 30 minutes figuring out what the heck is going on after a command didn't work, or explaining what a detached head is to a newbie, or any number of completely avoidable issues were the UI better.

Consider the 26.9 million developers in North America[1]. How does one estimate the average salary across NA? Some in SV make 3x that. Elsewhere, it's conceivable that people make considerably less. Let's just say 100k. That's 100,000÷52÷40=48/hr or 24 per half hour. Anyone with git, I think it's safe to say, has had at least one stupid issue that took 30 minutes because of the UI. That's 26.9×24=645,600,000 monies.

In my experience and what I've seen of anyone who'a used git, 30 minutes is a gross underestimate. And people use git outside of NA. It's easily trillions in waste.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineering_demograph...

Would writing a CHIP-8 emulator be such a project? It seems non-trivial, yet not too big, the kind of thing that if you implemented it once, implementing it again in another language would be much faster (apart from the language learning).

I don't know who first uses the asbestos analogy, but it's 1000% on point.

I think Cory Doctrow says it best,

"AI is the asbestos we're shoveling into the walls of our society — and our descendants will be digging it out for generations."

I believe that's exactly the language to combat AI hype.