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Ville-Matias Heikkilä
Personal blog · viznut.fi/texts-enprogrammingculture
Ville-Matias Heikkilä writes viznut, a personal blog at viznut.fi about programming and culture. Since 2019, 31 different Hacker News readers have linked it 43 times, most often “Permacomputing”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (18) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link viznut.fi's essays, especially on permacomputing (low-resource, long-lived computing), and his IBNIZ, bytebeat and unscii projects on live coding and retro computing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 18 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Viznut a.k.a. Ville-Matias Heikkilä
Most-linked posts?
- Permacomputing5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2020-06-25
- Permacomputing Update 20215 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2021-08-12
- Unscii5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2022-06-30
- /ibniz/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-11-25
- /en/2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-05-27
- Digital esthetics, environmental change and the subcultures of computer art2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-11-22
- Inverted computer culture: A thought experiment2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-03-03
- The resource leak bug of our civilization (2014)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-03-11
What Hacker News says?
https://cheapskatesguide.org -- Cheapskate's Guide to Computers and Internet. Low-end and frugal computing in the 21st century. Long, opinionated posts on a pink(!) background. http://ranprieur.com/ -- Ran Prieur. Frugality, societal collapse, "dropping out", and beyond. Has been constantly blogging for ages; it's really interesting to see how his views have changed in time. http://joeyh.name/ -- Joey Hess, former l…
Comment linking /en/
on “Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?”Submitted Unscii as a story · 321 points
HN discussionrecently came across thoughts on the contemplative nature of telecommunication in http://viznut.fi/texts-en/permacomputing.html (via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27199225 )
Comment linking /texts-en/permacomputing.html
on “Show HN: Pony – a messenger for mindful correspondence”Submitted Permacomputing as a story · 57 points
HN discussionSince everyone is recommending other resources, here's some C developers whose code I enjoy very much (or just really like the software they created with C): https://github.com/rxi/ https://github.com/floooh/ https://github.com/antirez/ https://github.com/qwx9/ https://github.com/koekeishiya/ https://github.com/martanne/ https://github.com/nothings/ https://github.com/sheredom/ https://git.suckless.org/ http://viznu…
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on “Modern C”Submitted Digital esthetics, environmental change and the subcultures of computer art as a story · 16 points
HN discussionViznut also made a audio / visual live coding tool IBNIZ, used it for a performance once it's fire http://viznut.fi/ibniz/
Comment linking /ibniz/
on “Unscii”Submitted A non-fossil alternate history for civilization and computing as a story · 12 points
HN discussion> ... fairly Finnish thing to do ... +1 for this lovely metaphor. I'm Estonian, but I absolutely love Finns for their peculiar between-the-lines humor, and their tendency to go really deep into fringe stuff. A Finnish guy once demonstrated a retro bicycle he was restoring, stating that it's going to take him two years to finish it. "This needs to be done properly ," he said with a barely noticeable smirk. Re: Finns,…
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on “Show HN: My 486 Server”Submitted Permacomputing Update 2021 as a story · 10 points
HN discussionIn terms of reduction of usage of resources, using an already-existing computer is considered better than manufacturing new hardware. OECD suggests[0] embracing a circular economy to reduce production of waste and consumption of resources. Notably, in the province I reside, 98% of electricity is provided by renewable resources[1]. The electrical grid is already there, and the computer I already have is also already…
Comment linking /texts-en/permacomputing.html
on “Acer Aspire 1 ARM Laptop Has Nearly Complete Upstream Linux Support”Submitted Machine learning is neither good or evil as a story · 7 points
HN discussionI don't know what it is about Finnish culture that results in such a significant number of permacomputing hackers¹ that go to great lengths to preserve old-hardware, but I am grateful for it. ¹ When I say significant I mean "at least two, but one of them is viznut"². That is significant, right? ² http://viznut.fi/en/
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on “ST-DOS”Submitted Permacomputing Update 2021 – Viznut as a story · 5 points
HN discussionAnother fun live coding environment is IBNIZ. http://viznut.fi/texts-en/ibniz.html
Comment linking /texts-en/ibniz.html
on “Fluxus – A 3D game engine for live-coding worlds into existence”Submitted The resource leak bug of our civilization (2014) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionr/solarpunk r/permaculture https://100r.co/site/off_the_grid.html https://solarpunks.net/ https://medium.com/solarpunks/solarpunk-a-reference-guide-8b... http://viznut.fi/texts-en/permacomputing.html http://viznut.fi/texts-en/permacomputing_update_2021.html https://www.sevarg.net/2020/05/23/on-working-from-home-and-j...
Comment linking /texts-en/permacomputing_update_2021.html
on “Ask HN: Where do you find weird and wonderful future tech nowadays?”Submitted Unscii – a bitmapped Unicode font for blocky graphics as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI like the term and idea. Watch out for permacomputing[1]. I found it via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27199225 [1] http://viznut.fi/texts-en/permacomputing.html
Comment linking /texts-en/permacomputing.html
on “In search of organic software”Submitted Machine learning is neither good or evil as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIn similar vein I have played with ibniz. http://viznut.fi/ibniz/
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on “Bytebeat Composer”Submitted (Demoscene) The 16-byte frontier: Extreme results from small programs as a story · 3 points
HN discussionVery old school: ASP[0] was old way to do character animations for unix finger command .plan. Recall HN post using python to do the same (handled animation independent of serial terminal speed). Related HN post "John Carmack's .plan file" [3] hascii mation [1]; Use standard graphics techniques and run through [2] or .plan with unscii[4] "sheltered code" via mindcraft : https://youtu.be/7sNge0Ywz-M ------ ascii anima…
Comment linking /unscii/
on “Ask HN: Memory-safe low level languages?”Submitted Permacomputing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWith the right font (e.g. http://viznut.fi/unscii/ ) and line spacing, braille characters work fine with an even distribution of pixels and no gaps.
Comment linking /unscii/
on “Plotille: Plot in the terminal using Braille dots”Submitted Inverted computer culture: A thought experiment as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHere it is: http://viznut.fi/ibniz/
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on “Digital esthetics, environmental change and the subcultures of computer art”Submitted Permacomputing (2020) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe original article on permacomputing by viznut https://viznut.fi/texts-en/permacomputing.html
Comment linking /texts-en/permacomputing.html
on “Permacomputing Principles”Submitted Some of my GPT-2 experiments as a story · 2 points
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