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Dendrobatus AzureusI should freshen up on my golang language skills<a href="https://go.dev/doc/tutorial/getting-started" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://go.dev/doc/tutorial/getting-started</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/code" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#code</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/golang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#golang</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#programming</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/ModernComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ModernComputing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/portable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#portable</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Markdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Markdown</a>

N-gated Hacker News🚀 Behold, the pinnacle of modern computing: a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CPU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CPU</a> that ditches the boring program counter for a Linear Feedback Shift Register! 🤖 Why settle for stability when you can have chaos? Meanwhile, GitHub's AI is writing more sensible code while this contraption redefines "creative." 😂 <a href="https://github.com/howerj/lfsr-vhdl" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://github.com/howerj/lfsr-vhdl</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/moderncomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#moderncomputing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/chaos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chaos</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/innovation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#innovation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GitHubAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GitHubAI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/creativecode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#creativecode</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HackerNews</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ngated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ngated</a>

☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻“Rachel Halton still doesn’t know who made the decision, in October 2022, to summarily decommission the $160,000 <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/JacquardLoom" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#JacquardLoom</a> that had been a cornerstone of <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/RMIT" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#RMIT</a>’s renowned <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/weaving" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#weaving</a> and <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/textile" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#textile</a> <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/design" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#design</a> courses for 20 years.Nearly 3 metres high and weighing more than half a tonne, the loom was an intricate machine of polished wood, steel, compressed air and <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/mechatronics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#mechatronics</a>: simultaneously a grand monument to the golden age of the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/TextileIndustry" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#TextileIndustry</a> and a modern <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/tool" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#tool</a> for weaving strands of <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/yarn" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#yarn</a> into intricate <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/fabrics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#fabrics</a>. Halton knew she couldn’t let it end up in landfill.”“The loom was the only one of its kind in the southern hemisphere, and one of only a handful in the world, bought for the university’s <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Brunswick" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Brunswick</a> campus in the early 2000s, soon after Halton started teaching there. It “elevated what you could do as an artist”, she says. Students enrolled just to have access to it. International artists visited especially to weave on it. It became integral to Halton’s creative practice.”“Watt has “a very special affinity” with the loom. It isn’t just the time she spent working on it at RMIT, or that it sat in her home for months after it was rescued. She’s also been using her coding skills – self-taught – to update its electronics. It’s as though technology is lapping back on itself, given that <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Jacquard" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Jacquard</a> <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/PunchCards" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#PunchCards</a> inspired the basis of <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/ModernComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#ModernComputing</a>.”This is why Australia can’t compute.<a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/RachelHalton" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#RachelHalton</a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Tech</a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/programmIng" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#programmIng</a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/BuildingStuff" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#BuildingStuff</a> <<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/may/25/a-new-room-for-a-doomed-loom-and-the-battle-to-save-australias-slowly-dying-crafts" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/may/25/a-new-room-for-a-doomed-loom-and-the-battle-to-save-australias-slowly-dying-crafts</a>>

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