Daniel Feichtinger

@auxilit.com

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Personal computers, malleable software, hypermedia, augmenting the human intellect. Building HyperMap, a REST API format for the 21st century. www.allpurposemachines.com — open-source projects www.auxilit.com — personal site Norwich, UK // He/Him

A full page advert. At the top, in blue, the text "Created by Man." Underneath, a pencil drawing of a computer with the label MITS ALTAIR 8800 COMPUTER. It's sitting on a reflective surface in a large room. Behind, a wall of glass shows a valley with a path heading away from the viewer. A cuboid hovers in mid air. Above it, a single cloud. Below, the text: "The Affordable Computer."
A full page advert from the 90s. Top left: a colour photo of a man in a blue shirt and tie leaning back in an office chair with his hands behind his head, smiling at the camera. Behind him, sunlight coming in through a glass-block wall. The text of the ad is all-caps: "IF WE MADE OUR COMPUTERS ANY EASIER TO MANAGE YOU'D BE OUT OF A JOB."
A photo of a desk with a monitor running OS X connected to a Nintendo Wii
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A screenshot of a side scrolling platformer. The player character is wearing a coat and red glasses, standing in a cartoony lab.
‘There was a time when Acorn, creators of generally beloved computers, was called "the British Apple." Apple, you're breaking my heart with all this keyboard stuff, and so I'm telling you this with spite: You can do it. If you apply yourself, you can become the American Acorn.’
A still frame from the ending of A.I. Artificial Intelligence, with an alien-looking translucent robot and a young boy sitting indoors on a child's bed at night. A full moon is visible through a round window behind them.
A poster for "The Raytheon Computer Armchair Shopper" set in an ornate Victorian type with a blue ornamental border.
A screenshot of the text: "I worked on the F3 file format with brilliant people at Tsinghua (Xinyu Zeng, Ruijun Meng, Huanchen Zhang), CMU (Martin Prammer, Jignesh Patel), and Wes McKinney. Our focus is on solving this interoperability problem by providing both native decoders as shared objects (Rust crates) and embedded WASM versions of those decoders in the file. If somebody creates a new encoding and the DBMS does not have a native implementation, it can still read data using the WASM version by passing Arrow buffers. Each decoder targets a single column, allowing a DBMS to use a mix of native and WASM decoders for a single file. AnyBlox takes a different approach, generating a single WASM program to decode the entire file."
Two kittens sit on a yellow sofa, one almost on top of the other. The top one is all black, the bottom back with some brown splotches.
A screenshot of a console output saying "API Error: Model stream ended with empty response text."
A Reddit thread header titled "Best floating/stacking WMs"
The side of an industrial warehouse showing an advert for Acorn Cleaning Services, with a distinctive acorn logo.
A still from the Shining: Wendy looks at the typewriter with dread.
A snippet of a Cline log showing the "thinking" behind an action. After the first few sentences it just says "We need to read a file" a hundred or so times.
A snippet of a Cline output log with a couple of different errors back to back.
A cropped section of text from the Maltese Falcon showing 5 dashes in a row
My 10 picks for the NY Times best films of the 21st Century: Grand Budapest Hotel, Children of Men, Pulse, Memories of Murder, Uncut Gems, Under the Skin, Kill Bill Volume 1, Nope, Hard to Be a God, AI Artificial Intelligence
An empty, white wooden boat on a quiet sea. It’s so foggy it’s hard to tell where the sea ends and the sky begins.
The cover of a computer manual from the 50s. Above a green background is the title "Datatron - Electronic Data Processing Systems". Below that is a black and white photograph of a 50s computer with the name ElectroData on it.
A Google AI Overview answer which reads: "To run the Ubuntu installer from the command line within a live environment, boot into the live environment, open a terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T), and then initiate the installation by double-clicking the "Install Ubuntu" icon on the desktop or by running the installer from the terminal."
A tiny heatsink on top of a much larger SoC package
A silver heatsink next to an Apple USB-C plug. The heatsink is smaller than the plug enclosure.
An iOS notification from Apple Music reading: ‘Welcome to The King's Music Room Join His Majesty King Charles Ill as he shares songs that have "brought me joy".’
A shot with Sophie behind a dimly lit bar, looking at change she's just taken from Alexander Armstrong who's playing Clive Sinclair.
A screenshot of a code editor with the following code: let no_om = None::< Arc< OnionMessenger< Arc<KeysManager>, Arc<KeysManager>, Arc<LoggerAdapter>, EmptyNodeIdLookUp, Arc< DefaultMessageRouter< Arc<NetworkGraph<Arc<LoggerAdapter>>>, Arc<LoggerAdapter>, Arc<MyEntropySource>, >, >, IgnoringMessageHandler, IgnoringMessageHandler, IgnoringMessageHandler, IgnoringMessageHandler, >, >, >;
A small, orange computer mounted to a din rail, with 5 IO expansion modules of similar size mounted to the rail either side of it. The rail is mounted to a wall with graffiti on it. The whole thing slaps.
2 Lego police cars, one white one blue. The blue one is four times the size of the white one.
However it uses a trick about zip files.. you can simply do this: cat python_interpreter app.zip > oil.ovm Then make oil.ovm executable. When it runs, it will run the Python interpreter -- the stuff at the end is ignored. The zip file header lives at the end of the file, so oil.ovm is both a valid ELF file and a valid zip file. And then the Python interpreter has to find ITSELF to open() app.zip!!! This location is set to PYTHONPATH dynamically (i.e. since PYTHONPATH=app.zip is a conventional way of looking inside a .zip file.)
A blurry photo of a Jay-Z concert from quite far back in the crowd
A black and white photo of a monitor showing Navigator with 5 panes open.
A screenshot of a games web site with a news article from 2001: ‘”There's a tendency among the press to attribute the creation of a game to a single person," says Warren Spector, creator of Thief and Deus Ex.’
A screenshot of the right-click file menu in Finder with an "Open" and "Open With" entry.
A screenshot of the New York Times games app.
A screenshot of Apple Music playing Popcorn by popcorn. The album cover is titled Popcorn over a painting of movie popcorn. The popcorn container shows 2 sides with Popcorn written at the top, middle, and bottom.
A photo of the book lying flat on an Ikea shelf
4 results for Ruby’s array docs in random version order
An office sign saying “The best way to predict the future is to invent it” misattributed to Peter Drucker
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