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joshua stein
@jcs.org
Hello, cyberpals. I make @pushover.net and old Macintosh stuff and sometimes OpenBSD stuff for you and me.

Oak Park, Illinois
World Wide Web: jcs.org
Pinned
man i am not good with these computers
When the stupid snow is too wet and heavy to use your snow blower so you have to shovel it by hand and now you're sweating in a parka and the legs of your jeans are wet and your back hurts and you smell like a wet dog and it's still snowing so you know you're going to have to do it all over again
November 29, 2025 at 11:01 PM
merveilles.town/@neauoire/11...

github.com/ocaml/ocaml/...

"I did not write a single line of code but carefully shepherded AI over the course of several days"

"Beats me. AI decided to do so and I didn't question it."

Why are people like this?
Devine Lu Linvega (@[email protected])
I dropped off discord after taking psychic damage from someone flooding the channel with questions and feeding the answers to chatgpt, so they could triangulate to something like a uxntal compiler. I...
merveilles.town
November 27, 2025 at 6:07 PM
what if instead of www over http, internet sites were git repositories and every day your browser fetched updates to each one and navigated them offline and as a bonus you had archives of your favorite internet sites that you could search with grep

it could be called ggg: the Global Git Gossamer™
November 26, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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November 24, 2025 at 2:06 AM
"Microsoft’s Open Source Programs Office (OSPO), Team Xbox, and Activision are making Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III available under the MIT License"

opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11...
Preserving code that shaped generations: Zork I, II, and III go Open Source
Microsoft’s Open Source Programs Office (OSPO), Team Xbox, and Activision are making Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III available under the MIT License.
opensource.microsoft.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Reposted by joshua stein
Who coulda seen that coming.... 🙄
November 20, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Loose wires sink ships

www.ntsb.gov/news/press-r...
Loose Wire on Containership Dali Leads to Blackouts and Contact with Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge
www.ntsb.gov
November 20, 2025 at 2:18 PM
The kerning on that Tr pair is really bothering me
November 20, 2025 at 1:22 AM
November 20, 2025 at 1:06 AM
"We're (now) moving from OpenBSD to FreeBSD for firewalls"

utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/b...
utcc.utoronto.ca
November 19, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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It's official! #PicoIDE, the open source IDE/ATAPI drive emulator I've been working on for the better part of this year, will be launching at Crowd Supply! Go there to sign up for updates and to be notified when the campaign is live: www.crowdsupply.com/polpotronics...
PicoIDE
An open source IDE/ATAPI drive emulator for vintage computers
www.crowdsupply.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Reposted by joshua stein
New feature is up:
The Cameras Tracking You Are A Security Nightmare
youtu.be/uB0gr7Fh6lY
The Cameras Tracking You Are A Security Nightmare
YouTube video by Benn Jordan
youtu.be
November 16, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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I was reminded I made a thing on my Machintosh Plus and had tried to say thank you to @jcs.org and realised I didn’t think I ever got that message to you.

Anyway, thank you @jcs.org. Keep up the good work.

youtu.be/38WJ7ZgrRQg?...
Macintosh Plus ChatGPT development.
YouTube video by Rob Fielding
youtu.be
November 12, 2025 at 6:01 PM
according to my wife
November 11, 2025 at 4:02 PM
the overhead announcement at the grocery store just advertised a URL that ended in "dot html"

i'm now imagining their webmaster uploading a static html file to their ftp site with WS_FTP
November 9, 2025 at 7:46 PM
do i tell them
November 8, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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New video up! Just finished the massive project of restoring/rebuilding @lgr-yt.bsky.social’s destroyed Chaplet Halikan LA-30A. This was a big one 😅. Enjoy!

youtu.be/BilLgXkR_Kw
Restoration or Resurrection? Re-creating a rare 80's laptop from the ground up
YouTube video by polymatt
youtu.be
November 8, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Reposted by joshua stein
You told me you got a raspberry pie and I show up and it's little fucking computer?
November 1, 2025 at 7:28 PM
remember freshmeat\.net?

web.archive.org/web/20040610...
November 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Macintosh Plus Mini
November 4, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Reposted by joshua stein
Progman is a very cool Windows 3.1 style window manager by @jcs.org
github.com/jcs/progman

Simple, familiar, no bloat and lightweight
GitHub - jcs/progman: progman.exe^H^H^H^H
progman.exe^H^H^H^H. Contribute to jcs/progman development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
October 31, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Is there a more anachronistic yet somehow still plausible sentence in 2025 than "please fax a copy of the check"
October 25, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Reposted by joshua stein
Made a cool rug
October 23, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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October 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM