What I find interesting about this article by Adele Goldberg on why use Smalltalk, published in 1995, is the mention of the language being fun.
Smalltalk denotes fun and success.
https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/226239.226260
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2d ago
@edavies My only brief experience with Ada was in the early 90s with a compiler for MS-DOS.
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Paolo Amoroso
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2d ago
@felix Yeah, it's a bit thin on other work.
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Paolo Amoroso
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2d ago
@psychotimmy You could have rewritten the CAD system in Lisp like Autodesk... oh, never mind 😀
Thanks for sharing your experience.
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Paolo Amoroso
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2d ago
@monospace You have a point 😀 I tagged it that way mostly for the historical context of the essay.
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2d ago
@mdhughes In the essay it's remarkable the absence of Modula-2, the early work on which predated or was contemporary of Ada's.
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Paolo Amoroso
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2d ago
An essay on why the Ada programming language was ahead of its time and why its influence is largely unacknowledged.
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Paolo Amoroso
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3d ago
C J Silverio @ceejbot@toot.cat on how to write a software design document.
A design document is not the deliverable you care about. The deliverable you care about is shared understanding of a problem and alignment on a solution.
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Paolo Amoroso
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4d ago
Scott Burson shared his new book "Modern Common Lisp with FSet", an introduction to functional collections for Lisp programmers and designers of other languages and libraries.
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Paolo Amoroso
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4d ago
@4X6GP Did you use TECO with teletypes or also CRT terminals?
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Paolo Amoroso
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5d ago
A brief history and introduction to the TECO text editor on TOPS-10.
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Paolo Amoroso
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6d ago
IBM was fully capable of developing its own BASIC implementation and did just that for some of its early microcomputers, but turned to Microsoft for the PC. This post explains why.
https://nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com/p/why-ibm-turned-to-microsoft-for-basic
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Paolo Amoroso
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6d ago
@technicalotter Tech companies hate when people can directly access online resources with no intermediaries.
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Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space
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6d ago
@technicalotter I never left RSS too, neither as a reader nor blogger.
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Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space
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Apr 12, 2026
Matduggan shut down email subscription to their blog and left the RSS feed active. This is how it went.
The people who use RSS really use RSS. They're not trend-chasers.
https://matduggan.com/you-can-absolutely-have-an-rss-dependent-website-in-2026
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Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space
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Apr 09, 2026
@cosmos4u It would be interesting to take a look at the context, i.e. the photos of that feature before and after this one.
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Paolo Amoroso
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Apr 09, 2026
@cosmos4u Could it be earthshine?
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Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space
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Apr 09, 2026
@thibaultmol Great to hear, thanks.
@Satiah
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Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space
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@amoroso@oldbytes.space
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Apr 09, 2026
@thibaultmol Does it support WebM?
@Satiah
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Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space
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Apr 09, 2026
@Satiah Thanks for the heads up.
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Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space
Astronomy, space, retrocomputing, Lisp, Linux, coding. No stock photos, SEO, marketing, clickbait, ads, or calls to action. I Just enjoy sharing my geeky interests. # Lisp # Interlisp # CommonLisp
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@amoroso@oldbytes.space
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Apr 09, 2026
I installed Shutter for Linux to annotate screenshots, i.e. to add shapes or text. But the tool also provides some advanced screen capture options that may come in handy.
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Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space
Astronomy, space, retrocomputing, Lisp, Linux, coding. No stock photos, SEO, marketing, clickbait, ads, or calls to action. I Just enjoy sharing my geeky interests. # Lisp # Interlisp # CommonLisp
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Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space
Astronomy, space, retrocomputing, Lisp, Linux, coding. No stock photos, SEO, marketing, clickbait, ads, or calls to action. I Just enjoy sharing my geeky interests. # Lisp # Interlisp # CommonLisp
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@amoroso@oldbytes.space
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Apr 08, 2026
If you help a friend find a job don't just do an online search for opportunities the friend could google themselves, actively spread the voice among your friends and connections who may have or know of job openings. This is the unique strength of a support network.
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Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space
Astronomy, space, retrocomputing, Lisp, Linux, coding. No stock photos, SEO, marketing, clickbait, ads, or calls to action. I Just enjoy sharing my geeky interests. # Lisp # Interlisp # CommonLisp
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Apr 08, 2026
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Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space
Astronomy, space, retrocomputing, Lisp, Linux, coding. No stock photos, SEO, marketing, clickbait, ads, or calls to action. I Just enjoy sharing my geeky interests. # Lisp # Interlisp # CommonLisp
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Apr 07, 2026
Looks like the VLC media player is running on the tablet of Artemis II astronaut Jeremy Hansen (off frame at left) aboard the Integrity capsule heading back from the Moon after the historic flyby. I captured this frame from NASA's streaming of the briefing with the science team.
Congrats to the @videolan@floss.social folks on having their software run in cislunar space.
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@amoroso@oldbytes.space
Astronomy, space, retrocomputing, Lisp, Linux, coding. No stock photos, SEO, marketing, clickbait, ads, or calls to action. I Just enjoy sharing my geeky interests. # Lisp # Interlisp # CommonLisp
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Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space
Astronomy, space, retrocomputing, Lisp, Linux, coding. No stock photos, SEO, marketing, clickbait, ads, or calls to action. I Just enjoy sharing my geeky interests. # Lisp # Interlisp # CommonLisp
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Apr 07, 2026
If you use Medley Interlisp with a non US keyboard and can't type : and other characters, give this trick a try by running Medley with medley -v which also improves the performance of Medley a little bit.
You need TigerVNC installed.
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Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space
Astronomy, space, retrocomputing, Lisp, Linux, coding. No stock photos, SEO, marketing, clickbait, ads, or calls to action. I Just enjoy sharing my geeky interests. # Lisp # Interlisp # CommonLisp
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Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space
Astronomy, space, retrocomputing, Lisp, Linux, coding. No stock photos, SEO, marketing, clickbait, ads, or calls to action. I Just enjoy sharing my geeky interests. # Lisp # Interlisp # CommonLisp
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@amoroso@oldbytes.space
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Apr 06, 2026
I'm glad @deviledeggpress@mastodon.social Computer Chronicles Revisited is back on Mastodon. S.M. Oliva reviews the titular PBS TV series aired from 1983 to 2002.
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Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space
Astronomy, space, retrocomputing, Lisp, Linux, coding. No stock photos, SEO, marketing, clickbait, ads, or calls to action. I Just enjoy sharing my geeky interests. # Lisp # Interlisp # CommonLisp
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Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space
Astronomy, space, retrocomputing, Lisp, Linux, coding. No stock photos, SEO, marketing, clickbait, ads, or calls to action. I Just enjoy sharing my geeky interests. # Lisp # Interlisp # CommonLisp
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Apr 05, 2026
Just a reminder that I have a federated blog @paolo and I'm also on PeerTube @amoroso@spectra.video
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Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space
Astronomy, space, retrocomputing, Lisp, Linux, coding. No stock photos, SEO, marketing, clickbait, ads, or calls to action. I Just enjoy sharing my geeky interests. # Lisp # Interlisp # CommonLisp
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Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space
Astronomy, space, retrocomputing, Lisp, Linux, coding. No stock photos, SEO, marketing, clickbait, ads, or calls to action. I Just enjoy sharing my geeky interests. # Lisp # Interlisp # CommonLisp
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@amoroso@oldbytes.space
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Mar 28, 2026
Prof. Janet Vertesi @cyberlyra@hachyderm.io announced the Tech Reclaimers, "[...] a not-for-profit community aimed at helping us all reclaim our digital lives and our futures from Big Tech".
This is a digital labor movement, and we might as well build the solidarity so that we can act like one.
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@amoroso@oldbytes.space
Astronomy, space, retrocomputing, Lisp, Linux, coding. No stock photos, SEO, marketing, clickbait, ads, or calls to action. I Just enjoy sharing my geeky interests. # Lisp # Interlisp # CommonLisp
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Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space
Astronomy, space, retrocomputing, Lisp, Linux, coding. No stock photos, SEO, marketing, clickbait, ads, or calls to action. I Just enjoy sharing my geeky interests. # Lisp # Interlisp # CommonLisp
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@amoroso@oldbytes.space
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Mar 27, 2026
@jackdaniel@functional.cafe may be interested in this as it also runs on ECL.
@graybeard85@universeodon.com
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Astronomy, space, retrocomputing, Lisp, Linux, coding. No stock photos, SEO, marketing, clickbait, ads, or calls to action. I Just enjoy sharing my geeky interests. # Lisp # Interlisp # CommonLisp
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Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space
Astronomy, space, retrocomputing, Lisp, Linux, coding. No stock photos, SEO, marketing, clickbait, ads, or calls to action. I Just enjoy sharing my geeky interests. # Lisp # Interlisp # CommonLisp
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Mar 25, 2026
@molly0xfff Crypto brand values is a oxymoron.
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@amoroso@oldbytes.space
Astronomy, space, retrocomputing, Lisp, Linux, coding. No stock photos, SEO, marketing, clickbait, ads, or calls to action. I Just enjoy sharing my geeky interests. # Lisp # Interlisp # CommonLisp
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Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space
Astronomy, space, retrocomputing, Lisp, Linux, coding. No stock photos, SEO, marketing, clickbait, ads, or calls to action. I Just enjoy sharing my geeky interests. # Lisp # Interlisp # CommonLisp
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@amoroso@oldbytes.space
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Mar 21, 2026
How Amiga game developers achieved 3D effects with a two-dimensional graphics system.
They accomplished this not by brute force computing power, but by mastering the art of illusion.
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@amoroso@oldbytes.space
Astronomy, space, retrocomputing, Lisp, Linux, coding. No stock photos, SEO, marketing, clickbait, ads, or calls to action. I Just enjoy sharing my geeky interests. # Lisp # Interlisp # CommonLisp
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Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space
Astronomy, space, retrocomputing, Lisp, Linux, coding. No stock photos, SEO, marketing, clickbait, ads, or calls to action. I Just enjoy sharing my geeky interests. # Lisp # Interlisp # CommonLisp
oldbytes.space
@amoroso@oldbytes.space
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Mar 21, 2026
How Amiga game developers achieved 3D effects with a two-dimensional graphics system.
They accomplished this not by brute force computing power, but by mastering the art of illusion.
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Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space
Astronomy, space, retrocomputing, Lisp, Linux, coding. No stock photos, SEO, marketing, clickbait, ads, or calls to action. I Just enjoy sharing my geeky interests. # Lisp # Interlisp # CommonLisp
oldbytes.space
Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space
Astronomy, space, retrocomputing, Lisp, Linux, coding. No stock photos, SEO, marketing, clickbait, ads, or calls to action. I Just enjoy sharing my geeky interests. # Lisp # Interlisp # CommonLisp
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@amoroso@oldbytes.space
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Mar 20, 2026
@quarknova Thanks for resisting.
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@amoroso@oldbytes.space
Astronomy, space, retrocomputing, Lisp, Linux, coding. No stock photos, SEO, marketing, clickbait, ads, or calls to action. I Just enjoy sharing my geeky interests. # Lisp # Interlisp # CommonLisp
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Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space
Astronomy, space, retrocomputing, Lisp, Linux, coding. No stock photos, SEO, marketing, clickbait, ads, or calls to action. I Just enjoy sharing my geeky interests. # Lisp # Interlisp # CommonLisp
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@amoroso@oldbytes.space
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Mar 18, 2026
Enough with moonshots, I want boring software and technologies that address humble but real needs.
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Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space
Astronomy, space, retrocomputing, Lisp, Linux, coding. No stock photos, SEO, marketing, clickbait, ads, or calls to action. I Just enjoy sharing my geeky interests. # Lisp # Interlisp # CommonLisp
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Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space
Astronomy, space, retrocomputing, Lisp, Linux, coding. No stock photos, SEO, marketing, clickbait, ads, or calls to action. I Just enjoy sharing my geeky interests. # Lisp # Interlisp # CommonLisp
oldbytes.space
@amoroso@oldbytes.space
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Mar 17, 2026
Serge Zaitsev @zserge@mastodon.social explains how to develop a minimal VisiCalc clone in C.
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Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space
Astronomy, space, retrocomputing, Lisp, Linux, coding. No stock photos, SEO, marketing, clickbait, ads, or calls to action. I Just enjoy sharing my geeky interests. # Lisp # Interlisp # CommonLisp
oldbytes.space
Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space
Astronomy, space, retrocomputing, Lisp, Linux, coding. No stock photos, SEO, marketing, clickbait, ads, or calls to action. I Just enjoy sharing my geeky interests. # Lisp # Interlisp # CommonLisp
oldbytes.space
@amoroso@oldbytes.space
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Mar 13, 2026
The Computer History Museum remebers Tony Hoare:
https://computerhistory.org/blog/in-memoriam-sir-antony-hoare-1934-2026
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Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space
Astronomy, space, retrocomputing, Lisp, Linux, coding. No stock photos, SEO, marketing, clickbait, ads, or calls to action. I Just enjoy sharing my geeky interests. # Lisp # Interlisp # CommonLisp
oldbytes.space
Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space
Astronomy, space, retrocomputing, Lisp, Linux, coding. No stock photos, SEO, marketing, clickbait, ads, or calls to action. I Just enjoy sharing my geeky interests. # Lisp # Interlisp # CommonLisp
oldbytes.space
@amoroso@oldbytes.space
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Mar 10, 2026
@SteveBellovin Another giant left us.
@aka_pugs
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Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space
Astronomy, space, retrocomputing, Lisp, Linux, coding. No stock photos, SEO, marketing, clickbait, ads, or calls to action. I Just enjoy sharing my geeky interests. # Lisp # Interlisp # CommonLisp
oldbytes.space
Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space
Astronomy, space, retrocomputing, Lisp, Linux, coding. No stock photos, SEO, marketing, clickbait, ads, or calls to action. I Just enjoy sharing my geeky interests. # Lisp # Interlisp # CommonLisp
oldbytes.space
@amoroso@oldbytes.space
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Mar 10, 2026
View on oldbytes.space
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Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space
Astronomy, space, retrocomputing, Lisp, Linux, coding. No stock photos, SEO, marketing, clickbait, ads, or calls to action. I Just enjoy sharing my geeky interests. # Lisp # Interlisp # CommonLisp
oldbytes.space
Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space
Astronomy, space, retrocomputing, Lisp, Linux, coding. No stock photos, SEO, marketing, clickbait, ads, or calls to action. I Just enjoy sharing my geeky interests. # Lisp # Interlisp # CommonLisp
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@amoroso@oldbytes.space
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Mar 01, 2026
Rupert Lane reconstructed the code of Joseph Weizenbaum's Online Programming Language (OPL).
Based on a printout of source code found among Weizenbaum's papers archived by MIT Libraries, I have reconstructed the language so it can live again for the first time in nearly sixty years on a IBM 7094 emulator running CTSS.
https://timereshared.com/reconstructing-joseph-weizenbaums-opl
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Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space
Astronomy, space, retrocomputing, Lisp, Linux, coding. No stock photos, SEO, marketing, clickbait, ads, or calls to action. I Just enjoy sharing my geeky interests. # Lisp # Interlisp # CommonLisp
oldbytes.space
Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space
Astronomy, space, retrocomputing, Lisp, Linux, coding. No stock photos, SEO, marketing, clickbait, ads, or calls to action. I Just enjoy sharing my geeky interests. # Lisp # Interlisp # CommonLisp
oldbytes.space
@amoroso@oldbytes.space
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Feb 19, 2026
@OpinionatedGeek Can you open the ebook with a desktop reader on Linux or other operating systems?
@pesco @davidgerard @cdegroot
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Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space
Astronomy, space, retrocomputing, Lisp, Linux, coding. No stock photos, SEO, marketing, clickbait, ads, or calls to action. I Just enjoy sharing my geeky interests. # Lisp # Interlisp # CommonLisp
oldbytes.space
Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space
Astronomy, space, retrocomputing, Lisp, Linux, coding. No stock photos, SEO, marketing, clickbait, ads, or calls to action. I Just enjoy sharing my geeky interests. # Lisp # Interlisp # CommonLisp
oldbytes.space
@amoroso@oldbytes.space
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Feb 18, 2026
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Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space
Astronomy, space, retrocomputing, Lisp, Linux, coding. No stock photos, SEO, marketing, clickbait, ads, or calls to action. I Just enjoy sharing my geeky interests. # Lisp # Interlisp # CommonLisp
oldbytes.space
Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space
Astronomy, space, retrocomputing, Lisp, Linux, coding. No stock photos, SEO, marketing, clickbait, ads, or calls to action. I Just enjoy sharing my geeky interests. # Lisp # Interlisp # CommonLisp
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@amoroso@oldbytes.space
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Feb 18, 2026
@pesco I'm wondering about the ebook at Lulu too. According to Wikipedia Lulu phased out DRM long ago:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lulu.com#Digital_Rights_Management_(DRM)
@davidgerard @cdegroot
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Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space
Astronomy, space, retrocomputing, Lisp, Linux, coding. No stock photos, SEO, marketing, clickbait, ads, or calls to action. I Just enjoy sharing my geeky interests. # Lisp # Interlisp # CommonLisp
oldbytes.space
Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space
Astronomy, space, retrocomputing, Lisp, Linux, coding. No stock photos, SEO, marketing, clickbait, ads, or calls to action. I Just enjoy sharing my geeky interests. # Lisp # Interlisp # CommonLisp
oldbytes.space
@amoroso@oldbytes.space
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Feb 18, 2026
@davidgerard Doh, my eyes probably saw it but my brain missed.
@cdegroot
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Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space
Astronomy, space, retrocomputing, Lisp, Linux, coding. No stock photos, SEO, marketing, clickbait, ads, or calls to action. I Just enjoy sharing my geeky interests. # Lisp # Interlisp # CommonLisp
oldbytes.space
Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space
Astronomy, space, retrocomputing, Lisp, Linux, coding. No stock photos, SEO, marketing, clickbait, ads, or calls to action. I Just enjoy sharing my geeky interests. # Lisp # Interlisp # CommonLisp
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@amoroso@oldbytes.space
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Feb 18, 2026
@cdegroot A great angle for telling the history of Lisp.
Is the ebook DRM-free?
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Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space
Astronomy, space, retrocomputing, Lisp, Linux, coding. No stock photos, SEO, marketing, clickbait, ads, or calls to action. I Just enjoy sharing my geeky interests. # Lisp # Interlisp # CommonLisp
oldbytes.space
Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space
Astronomy, space, retrocomputing, Lisp, Linux, coding. No stock photos, SEO, marketing, clickbait, ads, or calls to action. I Just enjoy sharing my geeky interests. # Lisp # Interlisp # CommonLisp
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@amoroso@oldbytes.space
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Feb 18, 2026
A new Lisp book is always something to celebrate and this one doubly so, as Cees de Groot @cdegroot@mstdn.ca didn't hold back code and technical details from the book. More details here:
Landing page of the book
https://berksoft.ca/gol
Why I wrote The Genius of Lisp
https://cdegroot.com/programming/lisp/2026/02/17/why-i-wrote-the-genius-of-lisp.html
Free sample with the Table of Contents (Amazon)
https://read.amazon.com/sample/1069886416?clientId=share
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Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space
Astronomy, space, retrocomputing, Lisp, Linux, coding. No stock photos, SEO, marketing, clickbait, ads, or calls to action. I Just enjoy sharing my geeky interests. # Lisp # Interlisp # CommonLisp
oldbytes.space
Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space
Astronomy, space, retrocomputing, Lisp, Linux, coding. No stock photos, SEO, marketing, clickbait, ads, or calls to action. I Just enjoy sharing my geeky interests. # Lisp # Interlisp # CommonLisp
oldbytes.space
@amoroso@oldbytes.space
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Feb 17, 2026
RE: @pixelunion@mastodon.social
PixelUnion @pixelunion@mastodon.social now provides a 1-click migration tool.
This European Google Photos alternative based on Immich sets the usability standard for alternatives to Big Tech platforms. Many want to migrate but don't know how to move their data. An easy import tool is the single most important thing people look for, a must have for alternative platforms.
With the release of this tool PixelUnion addressed 100% of my feedback and feature suggestions.
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