"An approach to computing and sustainability inspired from permaculture" by Devine Lu Linvega on HackerTube: recommended by 4 Hacker News commenters across 3 separate months, 2023–2024.
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Devine Lu Linvega of Hundred Rabbits talks about low-power, offline computing, esoteric languages and the Uxn virtual machine, informed by years of sailing the Pacific. The talk frames computing sustainability through a permaculture lens.
Praised as a standout, non-standard Strange Loop talk explaining the reasoning behind Uxn and resilient computing.
“Devine had a great talk about the "why" of Uxn at Strange Loop last year”
4 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.
Devine had a great talk about the "why" of Uxn at Strange Loop last year: ▶ this video And there was another talk that used it as an example: [link] Both were great. I'm a big fan of 100R's work. Another language of theirs worth checking out is Orca: [link]
in “Tal is the programming language for the Uxn virtual machine (2021)” · View on HN
A bunch of great talks at Strange Loop this year! Two off the top of my head: • "An approach to computing and sustainability inspired from permaculture" by Devine Lu Linvega: ▶ this video • "The Economics of Programming Languages" by Evan Czaplicki (Strange Loop 2023): [link] I've also been loving TodePond's cellular automata videos. Their SPLASH talk was mind-blowing, but it doesn't look like it's out yet. • TodePond playlist: [link]
in “Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk from the past year?” · View on HN
Similar cross of art, low power/resilient tech, and sailing I saw at strange loop last year. Non-standard tech talk for sure, but fit right in at that conference: ▶ this video
in “Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the failability of modern tech” · View on HN
My favourite quote from Devine: "If you stand on the shoulder of giants, it's really hard to steer". ▶ this video @ after around the 6:00 mark.
in “Making a Font” · View on HN