By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/07/2026Today's threads (a thread) Inside: CARDiac, syntax coloring, view source and vibe code; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/07/03/r... #Pluralistic 1/ 3264
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/07/2026CARDiac, syntax coloring, view source and vibe code: With great abstraction comes great power comes great responsibility comes great loss of fidelity. bsky.app/profile/did:... 2/By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.netIn the mid-1970s, my dad - then a budding computer scientist, subsequently a math teacher - brought home my first computer: the CARDiac, a Turing-complete, all-cardboard *papercraft* computer that you could write and execute programs on: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CARDboa... 1/ 120
fred-decker.bsky.social @fred-decker.bsky.social · 03/07/2026In the 90s I used to tell intimidated first-time computer buyers that their computer was just a machine for counting from 0 to 1 really, *really* quickly, and that hypothetically it could be replicated with a very large number of light switches and a way to turn them on and off at speed. "So / 2142
crchad.bsky.social @crchad.bsky.social · 03/07/2026For anyone wishing to learn or teach how On and Off becomes a whole computer; I can recommend trying www.nandgame.comnandgame.comNandGame - Build a computer from scratch.An educational puzzle game. Solve a series of tasks where you build increasingly powerful components. Starts with the simplest logical components and ends up with a programmable computer. 0104
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