Andrés Cuervo

@cwervo.bsky.social

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:-) https://folk.computer/ https://cwervo.com

Two rotating GIFs displayed on octagonal poster board and paper programs pinned down: the top contains two programs, one with a rotating moon GIF; the second program contains a rotating hand, pointer finger extended to point above the
Folk table at SVA with many colorful pieces of paper and a lamp from which a yellow folded bird descends
QR code, navy blue, linking to: https://are.na/andres-cuervo/compute-like-water-27726-11-54am
An iOS app folder called 2nd R, first page: Safari, Chrome, Google Photos, Arc Search, Avast Browser, Browser, Browser, Browser, Firefox Focus
Hand holding up a book with a page reading: 3. Slap an Interface on It! Slimmer TVs! Faster com-puters! And an overlooked epidemic of awful. You can't write a tech book today without giving credit to us. It truly is impressive what we've done as a society-teachers to venture capital-ists—to push important technology forward. Good job, everyone.
Isometric home, nice wood desk
PUNCH Youtube video music album cover of a woman punching down at the camera playing picture-in-picture over my bluesky new post page https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6r7i1LOY-s&t=2540s
Web app marking joint angles, left leg bent to 30°
Pikachu on tiny ereader next to Pikachu sticker on a laptop
A screenshot of an Apple Maps navigation screen. A "Voice Controls" overlay menu is open at the bottom of the screen. Inside the menu, the navigation voice is set to "Unmuted," and the volume level below it is set to "Softer," indicated by a blue checkmark. In the background, the top navigation card shows upcoming directions to turn right in 0.2 miles onto Richardson St.
A collection of digital storage devices on a dark desk, including a packaged Pokémon 8GB Pokéball USB drive, a packaged AGI 64GB microSD kit, two loose microSD adapters, and a silver USB flash drive on a keychain."
Poster for June Folk Computer Ope. house on June 30th :)
From Andy Matuschak on Twitter: "Another way to put this: if Twitter (as it exists today) is the town square, what might it mean to build a public library for that "town"? A coffee house? A dance hall? A university campus?" (April 25, 2022)
combination of a "hover to reveal" layout of vertical and MacOS dock style tab layouts
clicking through browser ideas, horizontal, vertical, diagonal tabs and blob tabs (laid out across the corners of the screen, and a MacOS dock style presentation of tabs)
Live example of Aura browser showing it handling web addresses, DIDs, and Bluesky handles
AT Protocol DIDs The AT Protocol uses Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) as persistent, long-term account identifiers. DID is a W3C standard, with many standardized and proposed DID method implementations. Blessed DID Methods Currently, atproto supports two DID methods: did:web, which is a W3C standard based on HTTPS (and DNS). The identifier section is a hostname. This method is supported in atproto to provide an independent alternative to did:plc. The method is inherently tied to the domain name used, and does not provide a mechanism for migration or recovering from loss of control of the domain name. In the context of atproto, only hostname-level did:web DIDs are supported: path-based DIDs are not supported. The same restrictions on top-level domains that apply to handles (eg, no .arpa) also apply to did:web domains. The special localhost hostname is allowed, but only in testing and development environments. Port numbers (with separating colon hex-encoded) are only allowed for localhost, and only in testing and development. did:plc, which is a novel DID method developed by Bluesky. See the did-method-plc GitHub repository for details. In the future, a small number of additional methods may be supported. It is not the intention to support all or even many DID methods, even with the existence of universal resolver software.
"AT Protocol uses two identifiers: DID and Handle. Handles are DNS names while DIDs are an emerging W3C standard which act as secure & stable IDs. The AT Protocol Identity module provides a way to resolve DIDs and Handles. It also provides a way to cache the results of these resolutions." on the AT Proto documentation website
a little browser prototype that can handle web addresses and Bluesky DIDs and Bluesky @usernames
a rectangle labelled "pics" with various nicely arranged screenshots of editing a local website
A pop up Quiz modal in front a black and white PDF reading: Cuestionario ✨ Why do modern operating systems perform lazy loading instead of eager loading when creating processes? - To enable better process scheduling - To prevent security vulnerabilities - To support larger executable files - To reduce memory usage and improve startup time
Figma with a bunch of pictures of a white cat in white boxes, selected is a sticker called "glowing" with an photo of an illuminated yellowish tinted white cat
"Run Intel® Quartus® Prime software in batch mode, or execute individual Tcl commands interactively in the Intel® Quartus® Prime Tcl shell." highlighted in blue — then entire page reads: 2.1. Tool Command Language Tcl (pronounced “tickle”) stands for Tool Command Language, and is the industry-standard scripting language. Tcl supports control structures, variables, network socket access, and APIs. With Tcl, you can work seamlessly across most development platforms. Synopsys* , Mentor Graphics* , and Intel software products support the Tcl language. By combining Tcl commands and Intel® Quartus® Prime API functions, you can create your own procedures and automate your design flow. Run Intel® Quartus® Prime software in batch mode, or execute individual Tcl commands interactively in the Intel® Quartus® Prime Tcl shell. Intel® Quartus® Prime software supports Tcl/Tk version 8.5, supplied by the Tcl DeveloperXchange.
dozens of stacked internet explorer toolbars — source link: https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/take-one-last-look-at-google-toolbar-which-is-now-dead.1481140/page-4
Cat curling up on top of Andrés’ hand next to an open laptop
Photo of people with large LCD tablets sitting in plush conversation pit, at the front of the room a person is pointing at a large projection of a computer screen on a presentation board. The photo is captioned: “UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING begins to emerge in the form of live boards that replace chalkboards as well as in other devices at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. Computer scientists gather around a live board for discussion. Building boards and integrating them with other tools has helped researchers understand better the eventual shape of ubiquitous comput- ing. In conjunction with active badges, live boards can cus- tomize the information they display.”
Bright orange Collectory startup screen with icons of things
Rhizome World poster (April 18 — May 11 at WSA) "More Than Human" May 4, 2025 12 - 1:30 PM a folk.computer workshop
Users would rather be successful than knowledgeable. Engineers want to know how things work, so the implementation-centric paradigm is very satisfying to them (which is the reason, in addition to ease of construction, why so much of our software follows it). Engineers prefer to see the gears and levers and valves because it helps them understand what is going on inside the machine. That those artifacts needlessly complicate the interface seems a small price to pay. Engineers may want to understand the inner workings, but most users don't have either the time or desire. They'd much rather be successful than be knowl-edgeable, a preference that is often hard for engineers to understand.
A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #17,874, Andrés Cuervo ‪@cwervo.bsky.social‬, joined on Apr 12, 2023"
animation of sprites moving around a table, projection mapped onto pieces of paper
a table with lit up pieces of paper, each outlined with a different color