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XXIIVV
{ Still researching this shit etc. ~drummyfish }
XXIIVV is a website and personal wiki (similar concept to our wiki) of a Canadian minimalist/esoteric programmer and artist David Mondou-Labbe who calls himself "Devine Lu Linvega" (lol) who is a part of an artist/programmer group living on a ship, called Hundred Rabbits. The site is accessible at http://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/home.html. There are some real good and pretty bad things about it.
Firstly let's see the letdowns: HE LICENSES HIS ART UNDER CC-BY-NC-SA -- retard alert!. No matter how good his art is, he can honestly shove it up his ass. At least his code is MIT. The guy also seems egoistic as fuck, invents weird hipster names and "personal pronouns" for himself, has some ugly body modifications, wears cringe rabbit costumes, he thinks his art is so good he has to "protect" it with fascist licenses and writes in a cringe pompous/cryptic style probably in hopes to appear smart while just making it shithard to make sense of his texts. The only thing he's missing is a fedora. Anyway, that's just a quick sum up of the bad stuff.
There are also nice things though, a few of them being:
- The guy is creating extremely minimalist, small tech from-scratch technology that's worthy of attention. Some of it includes:
- uxn: Simple (~100 LOC of C) virtual machine, similar to a "fantasy console" but intended more for portability.
- Tal: Simple assembly-like programming language for uxn.
- Varvara: A from-scratch computing stack based on uxn.
- lietal: Simple artificial language.
- The wiki writes on pretty interesting topics, many of which overlap with our topics of interest. For example pen and paper computing that includes games.
- Some of the presented opinions and wisdoms are based, e.g. "for writing fast programs use slow computers" etc.