A digital audio workstation (DAW) is an electronic device or application software used for recording, editing and producing audio files. DAWs come in a wide variety of configurations from a single software program on a laptop, to an integrated stand-alone unit, all the way to a highly complex configuration of numerous components controlled by a central computer. Regardless of configuration, modern DAWs have a central interface that allows the user to alter and mix multiple recordings and tracks into a final produced piece.[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_audio_workstation

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Robert Cailliau (French pronunciation: ​[ʁɔbɛʁ kajo], born 26 January 1947) is a Belgian informatics engineer, computer scientist and author who proposed the first (pre-www) hypertext system for CERN in 1987[1] and collaborated with Tim Berners-Lee on the World Wide Web from before it got its name. He designed the historical logo of the WWW, organized the first International World Wide Web Conference at CERN in 1994[2] and helped transfer Web development from CERN to the global Web consortium in 1995.[3] Together with Dr. James Gillies, Cailliau wrote How the Web Was Born, the first book-length account of the origins of the World Wide Web. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Cailliau

Tyler: Gentlemen, welcome to Fight Club. First Rule of Fight Club is you do not talk about Fight Club. Second rule of Fight Club is YOU DO NOT TALK ABOUT FIGHT CLUB! Third rule of Fight Club, someone yells stop, goes limp, taps out, the fight is over. Forth rule only two guys to a fight, fifth rule: one fight at a time, fellas. Sixth rule: no shirts no shoes. Seventh rule: Fights will go on as long as they have to. And the eighth and final rule: If this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight. (more)

QuickDraw is the 2D graphics library and associated Application Programming Interface (API) which is a core part of the classic Mac OS operating system. It was initially written by Bill Atkinson and Andy Hertzfeld.[1] QuickDraw still existed as part of the libraries of Mac OS X, but had been largely superseded by the more modern Quartz graphics system. In Mac OS X v10.4, QuickDraw has been officially deprecated. In Mac OS X v10.5 applications using QuickDraw cannot make use of the added 64-bit support. In Mac OS X v10.8, QuickDraw header support was removed from the operating system. Applications using QuickDraw will still run under OS X 10.8 through macOS 10.13; however, the current versions of Xcode and the macOS SDK do not contain the header files to compile such programs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickDraw

MacPaint is a raster graphics editor developed by Apple Computer and released with the original Apple Macintosh personal computer on January 24, 1984. It was sold separately for US$195 with its word processing counterpart, MacWrite.[1] MacPaint was notable because it could generate graphics that could be used by other applications. Using the mouse, and the clipboard and QuickDraw picture language, pictures could be cut from MacPaint and pasted into MacWrite documents.[2] The original MacPaint was developed by Bill Atkinson, a member of Apple's original Macintosh development team. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacPaint

a secure File Transfer protocol, like a secure version of FTP (more)

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The Staatliches Bauhaus (German: [ˈʃtaːtlɪçəs ˈbaʊˌhaʊs] (About this sound listen)), commonly known as the Bauhaus, was a German art school operational from 1919 to 1933 that combined crafts and the fine arts, and was famous for the approach to design that it publicized and taught.[1] The Bauhaus was founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar... the influence of the 19th century English designer William Morris, who had argued that art should meet the needs of society and that there should be no distinction between form and function.[6] Thus, the Bauhaus style, also known as the International Style, was marked by the absence of ornamentation and by harmony between the function of an object or a building and its design. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bauhaus (more)

Alan Mathison Turing, OBE, FRS ( /ˈtjʊərɪŋ/ tewr-ing; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954), was a British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist. He was highly influential in the development of computer science, giving a formalisation of the concepts of "algorithm" and "computation" with the Turing machine, which can be considered a model of a general purpose computer.[1][2][3] Turing is widely considered to be the father of computer science and artificial intelligence... During the Second World War, Turing worked for the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) at Bletchley Park, Britain's codebreaking centre that produced Ultra intelligence. For a time he led Hut 8, the section that was responsible for German naval cryptanalysis. Here, he devised a number of techniques for speeding the breaking of German ciphers, including improvements to the pre-war Polish bombe method, an electromechanical machine that could find settings for the Enigma machine. Turing played a crucial role in cracking intercepted coded messages that enabled the Allies to defeat the Axis powers in many crucial engagements, including the Battle of the Atlantic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing (more)

The Enigma machine is a cipher device developed and used in the early- to mid-20th century to protect commercial, diplomatic, and military communication. It was employed extensively by Nazi Germany during World War II, in all branches of the German military. The Enigma machine was considered so secure that it was used to encipher the most top-secret messages... While Nazi Germany introduced a series of improvements to the Enigma over the years, and these hampered decryption efforts, they did not prevent Poland from cracking the machine prior to the war, enabling the Allies to exploit Enigma-enciphered messages as a major source of intelligence.[2] Many commentators say the flow of Ultra communications intelligence from the decryption of Enigma, Lorenz, and other ciphers, shortened the war substantially, and might even have altered its outcome. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_machine (more)

book by Neal Stephenson - ISBN:0380788624 ASIN:B000FC11A6 http://www.cryptonomicon.com/ (more)

A Turing machine is a mathematical model of computation that defines an abstract machine[1] that manipulates symbols on a strip of tape according to a table of rules.[2] Despite the model's simplicity, given any computer algorithm, a Turing machine capable of implementing that algorithm's logic can be constructed... The Turing machine was invented in 1936 by Alan Turing,[11][12] who called it an "a-machine" (automatic machine). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_machine

Replacement of Open MicroBlogging standard (more)

Word Press has a new P2 "theme" which provides a sort of group-MicroBlogging interface.

Inventor of SmallTalk, a father of OOP, conceiver of the DynaBook in 1968. Was at Xerox PARC 1970-1980. At Atari 1984-1984. Became an Apple Fellow in 1984. During that time he started Squeak SmallTalk. He later moved to Disney for a few years, which he left in Sept'2001. Worked on Open Croquet at HP 2002-2005. (more)

Interview with Alan Kay on the history (and design) of programming languages, including SmallTalk, SqueakSmallTalk, Java, Lisp, etc. I had the world’s greatest group (Research Lab), and I should have made the world’s two greatest groups. I didn’t realize there are benefits to having real implementers and real users, and there are benefits to starting from scratch every few months. I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher, but it took me a long time to realize that I was interfering with them by trying to improve things. I believe that the only kind of science computing can be is like the science of bridge building. Somebody has to build the bridges and other people have to tear them down and make better theories, and you have to keep on building bridges.

Ted Leung on Croquet Collaboration Ware, based on Squeak Smalltalk. So what did I find depressing? During the QA session, Alan Kay took stock of the state of computing today: "When they set out to build Croquet, they intended to do it in Java, but they felt that they had to abandon it because it lacked (and still does) the meta facilities that they needed. Instead they chose to use Squeak. They had to go back to 1970's technology. Kay regards this as a disaster. All languages, Smalltalk included, are bad for this day and age. We essentially haven't learned anything since 1975 when the last interesting feature was added to Smalltalk... OpenGL is the best thinking about 3D circa 1972 at the University of Utah. At least it doesn't get in the way too much...Lisp is the number one programming language idea of all time. Smalltalk's contribution was to build encapsulation on top of the ideas in Lisp." Much as I love Lisp, it seems to me that the Smalltalk community, led by folks like Kay, are continuing to demonstrate a convincing agenda for forward progress, while the Lisp community is perennially struggling with basic infrastructure issues like which dialect of Lisp/Scheme, which windowing environment, etc. Perhaps this is due to the conception of Smalltalk as a system, in addition to a language.

I always thought the "V" in SmallTalk/V was a roman 5 (without caring too much), but it really stood for Vivarium (an Apple/Alan Kay project). The goal of the Vivarium program is to do for the next generation of personal computers and human interfaces what the Dynabook did for the first - to be, a "forcing function" for the most appropriate new technology. The original idea for the Vivarium, the ecology-in-a-computer concept, came from Ann Marion, now the Vivarium Program Manager, when she was working with Alan at Atari. One of their projects was to try and do intelligent autonomous Warner Bros. cartoon characters, to send Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd into the forest, and have them play out a cartoon as a result of their personalities. Ann, however, sought to infuse life into more realistic creatures engaged in social interaction with each other and with their environment. She chose to model an aquarium, with fish that would chase and eat one other and reproduce. It was an arduous task, and one that we now seek to make as easy as child's play.

Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid-19 1/28: Muddling Through. There’s the situation short term, there’s the new strains, there’s the vaccines. (more)