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derekenos | 2 months ago | on: Thin desires are eating life

Reminds me of what Frithjof Bergmann called our "poverty of desire" in his (excellent) book: New Work New Culture: Work We Want and a Culture that Strengthens Us

derekenos | 2 years ago | on: Alan Kay's talk at UCLA – Feb 2024 [video]

Ha! Thanks for the correction. Comment's no longer editable.

derekenos | 2 years ago | on: Alan Kay's talk at UCLA – Feb 2024 [video]

My favorite:

Is it really "Complex"? Or did we just make it "Complicated"? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubaX1Smg6pY

If you're interested in kids + computers + education, this 1955 Technology in Education House Committee Meeting is a surprisingly great watch, and has Kay alongside Seymour Papert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwsQn1Rs-4A

derekenos | 3 years ago

I was inspired by my Maslow CNC to build this polar plotter: https://derekenos.com/project-weezel

derekenos | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: Strange Attractor on an Etch a Sketch with Raspberry Pi Pico

Here's the source for my relatively recent ESP32-based Etch-a-Sketch build: https://github.com/derekenos/iome/tree/master/appliances/ske...

More pics/vids: https://derekenos.com/project-sketchy

derekenos | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: Resources to encourage teen on becoming computer engineer?

I found working with relatively simple 8-bit microcontroller architectures (e.g. Atmel AVR, Microchip PIC), studying the datasheets and programming them in assembly, to be an effective and gratifying introduction to the basics of CPU architecture.