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idea: computer which has a port bitmap instead of port numbers; programs can color in (bind) specific pixel regions of the port bitmap

nolen same vibes :)

Continuing this chain of thought … what if physical objects were programmable? Folk Computer already allows digital → physical, what if you could use computer vision to enable physical → digital? e.g. - teach the computer to do highlighting to find physical notes? ⌘ + F IRL

“Folk can make your physical objects feel as alive as your digital tools.”

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We published our June 2024 Notes today: folkcomputer.substack.com/p/june-2024-no…

once you experience Folk Computer you’ll never stop thinking about malleable interfaces

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goodnight :)

Some alums building great indie stuff outside typical jobs: 🔎Julia Evans🔍 writing zines nolen designing wacky games Omar Rizwan & cwervo making Folk Computer @heyvrk creating software that ♡'s paper Saul Pwanson making VisiData Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert maintaining OSS Andrew Kelley building Zig

Folk at @RecurseCenter is up and running! Thanks Jessie Grosen for getting this set up

They keep on forking my hands!

Made a precision D6 Folk Computer It's kinda like a knob, but also a die, so you can roll any number between 0 - 6, like 4.31 or 2.76!

clipboards are the future of computation

It turns out that the gadget text rendering is garbled because the Raspberry Pi GPU Vulkan driver (v3dv) does not support dynamic indexing into an array of descriptors, the index just always gets sent to 0 with no warning

We're announcing our first two speakers, as well as opening up a call for presentations. Andres Cuervo cwervo from Folk Computer and Lu Wilson Lu Wilson from tldraw will be joining us for Causal Islands Berlin, Oct 4th & 5th. 1/2

i like how phone vibrate makes different weird sounds depending on what the phone is touching/sitting on, feels like a rare interaction between computer and the physical environment

it's Folk Computer controlling slides

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