Category: Tech
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A study in geodesics
Copyright E.W. Parris 2026
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Enshittification, Episode 1
This evening I was looking for a link to a simple web developers’ resource, a listing of all the native html elements. I know a listing like this exists, though I haven’t had to look for one in a few years. So, I entered the following search term into Google: “full listing of native html…
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Starting things
My post last week of the video about HyperCard has got me thinking about a coding project. I’d like to see a web of personal sites develop that interact in a very HyperCard-like fashion. When I was working for one of the leaders in online education, I began experimenting with simple components that could be…
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The Root of the Internet
My first programming language was BASIC on a Commodore 64. The next was Hypertalk on a Mac. Hypercard was the beginning of a two decade career making multimedia (the term for audio-visual interactive experiences from 1990-2005ish). This video does a fine job of capturing the concepts behind Hypercard and the types of hippies that spawned…
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Wheee! Strip Mining the moon!
For thousands of years young lovers looked up and found romance beneath the full moon. Now they’ll have to make do with the sarred, skid-marked face of the man in the moon staring back. enshittification on a planetray scale. Whee.
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Machine Learning
I started drawing when I was 3. Writing started later, but my earliest surviving stories were from age 6. Photography started in sophomore year in high school when my father and I built a darkroom in our basement, and my mother bought me a cheap Russian SLR. Code didn’t enter the scene until I was…