Periodically throughout computer history there emerges a "pinch point," a single moment where many prior technologies converge, and upon which many subsequent technologies depend. Herman Hollerith's 1890 census tabulator is one well-known instance. Another, somewhat lesser-known, is Ivan Sutherland's "Sketchpad," developed at MIT in the early 1960s, running on the transistor-based TX-2 computer. Nearly all interactive graphics applications today can trace their roots back to this pivotal demonstration. It's considered the first graphical user interface (GUI) at a time when computer graphics of ANY sort were virtually unheard of, let alone the notion that computers could be applied to both artistic and technical purposes.

1. Part 1: an interview with professor Steven Coons.
2. Part 2: demonstrating the 2D capabilities of Sketchpad, including vector scaling and instances.
3. Part 3: demonstrating the 3D capabilities of Sketchpad.

An interview from a couple years ago, with all the original info unfortunately lost when my Vimeo account was banned for the heinous, unforgiveable sin of female-looking nipples. This interviewee actually approached -me- with the desire to do an interview to dispel some of the harmful myths about the cuckolding fetish!

Audrey Goodfriend, lifelong anarchist, born into an anarchist family in the year 1920, passed away in 2013. We interviewed her on January 2 2011. What a gift to have met her!

Jean Pauline, longterm anarchist, Bound Together Bookstore San Francisco, born in 1921, unfortunately passed away in 2016.

We interviewed Jean at her home in Oakland on December 31, 2010.

An obituary can be found here: https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sfgate/obituary.aspx?n=jean-pauline&pid=183421420

Follow the whole journey of crafting a bytecode VM interpreter in Rust here.

Also check out the book we're following, Crafting Interpreters by Robert Nystrom.

🌐 Find more at https://beko.famkos.net/tag/simpit/

Collection of videos for reviving an old ViperPit that I got my hands on. It's very loosely based on an F-16 and I'm considering to rework it for an VF-0 (Macross) inspired home cockpit (SimPit). This is a long running project where I work a lot with old hardware and even some real flight worthy instruments that game with the pit.

This SimPit (simulated cockpit) will not become a replica of a real jet (sorry DCS folks).

Guix already has an opensmtpd service for guix. But you have to use opensmtpd's configuration syntax. I am working on making a service that uses the familiar guixy syntax.