masswerk

Mind that freedom of speech (US) and freedom of opinion (Europe) are different concepts. E.g., while you may harbour a certain opinion in the EU, expressing this in a way generally considered harmful …

The slogan of ape thinking (deliberately adjusted for machine readability): "Not AI, not machine generated slop <em-dash> genuine human intelligence."

> We recruited 8 participants across 8 different countries, deliberately seeking diversity in age, digital savviness, and cultural background. > 5 out of 8 points versus just 3 for "I am hu…

Granted. I guess, unless it's applied very aggressively, assessing the existence of rate limiting may require some sort of automation (and probably some heuristics – how much data points do you a…

Thank you for your work, it's an invaluable resource!

For clarification, here's the actual quote from the article describing the process: > I verified the issue with the minimum access necessary to confirm the scope - and stopped immediately aft…

A few more candidates for the ranking: Peter Samson (of Expensive Planetarium fame, the background star simulation of Spacewar!, and known for his music on the PDP-1, also author of the TMRC Dictionar…

Regarding "The Second Oldest Game Developer", there are also the authors of "Spacewar!": Steve Russell was born in 1937, meaning, he's either 89 or will be 89 this year. Dan E…

I think, while icon + label is good for things like UI buttons, this is not that great for tables. There are a few reasons for this: - icons really work only as a small set (e.g. checkmarks versus cro…

Actually Louis Rossmann finding himself forced to convert his genuine advocacy for repair into textual convenience. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=II2QF9JwtLc …

I'm a confessing user of em-dashes (or en-dashes in fonts that feature overly accentuated em-dashes). It's actually kind of hard to not use them, if you've ever worked with typography a…

Thank you! I can see that this may a bit of an issue. However, this being a simple webpage is what allows to quickly tinker with this and push a quick update, which is also how much of this has kept g…

https://masswerk.at/ The site covers mostly retro- and classic computing. (Strictly no AI generated content.) Here in convenient format: ( :name "Norbert Landsteiner"…

Only, I think, a foot is actually a half a cubit (length from elbow to fingertip). So, sort of a misnomer, rounded to the nearest body part.

Notably, Dave Nutting Associates (Bushnell's former employer, who also distributed Computer Space) had played around with an Intel 4004 in 1974 and then demonstrated (to Bally) a CPU based syste…

May require "(2022)" in the title.

The choice of AppleSoft BASIC for a recreation seems to be somewhat odd and deliberate, and doesn't represent the typical limitations of the time (AppleSoft BASIC does floating point math!): in A…

Curious detail: the button/widget icons of the browser chrome are composed of multi-layered box-shadows (i.e. one box-shadow definition per pixel or line, concatenated to a sting) of a `:before` …

For me on Firefox/macOS it's terribly slow, fails to initialise/resume sound, no keyboard input.

Also, warnings for ambiguous results. For example, when a process implies a conversion according to the contract/convention, but we know that this conversion may be not the expected result and th…

I'd suggest a simple test: remix menu items and icons and test, if this has significant impact on usability. If not, the icons are just arbitrary decoration and ultimately add clutter. Referring …

This may be an even greater challenge: analysing a table layout and recreating it in CSS with absolute positioning.

Hum, table cells provide the max-width and images a min-with, heights are absolute (with table cells spilling over, as with CCS "overflow-y: visible"), aligns and maybe HSPACE and VSPACE att…

Well, historically, styles were first in JS (JS StyleSheets in Netscape 4.0) and were pulled out into CSS. – This is an old man card! ;-)

Well, having a platform agnostic runtime, you could throw arbitrary code at, was potentially a great deal. It was one of the founding concepts for ARPANET, which never took off, since nobody wanted to…

Some seems to be server-side (LiveWire), as well, which was a Netscape product long before Node.js, but I'm not sure if this was already available, then. (When was the Netscape Enterprise server …

It's kind of funny to see how the endorsements were talking about rich multimedia integration, when your output options with JavaScript 1.0 were: writing into a textarea, writing into a form inpu…

"LiveScript" – all the proprietary Netscape technologies were named "Live…", as in LiveWire, LiveBridge, etc.

So, because of certain tech patents, patents and IP are bogus in general? What's the point, then? (Meaning, if we're making generalisation from worst examples a virtue, there will be hardly …

Well, let's say, an alternative history novel, is it just ripping off a history textbook or is there more going on?