Open Roberta Lab – Online-Programmierumgebung für Roboter mit der grafischen Programmiersprache NEPO®
Author: Paolo Redaelli
Angelo Branduardi – Ballo in Fa# Minore (La Morte) (HQ) – YouTube
Sei ospite d’onore del ballo che per te suoniamo,
posa la falce e balla tondo a tondo
Giro di una danza e poi un’altro ancora
E tu del tempo non sei più signora!
Ma quale 1977, Branduardi qua era proiettato nel 3020.
E sebbene il maestro si ispiri alle tradizioni mediovali del ballo macabro con lamorto nel ritornello traspare chiaramente la visione cristiana del superamento della morte. Cosa che se ci pensate un attimo è modernissimo. Anzi, eterno, medioevale e sempre attuale.
JavaScript Interviews: What’s the Difference Between a Variable That’s null, undefined, or undeclared?
Flood Map: Elevation Map, Sea Level Rise Map
Flood Map shows the map of the area which could get flooded if the water level rises to a particular elevation. It may help flood risk assessment or flood management. Sea level rise map. Bathymetric map, ocean depth.
Source: Flood Map: Elevation Map, Sea Level Rise Map via https://www.earthlymission.com/amazing-animation-shows-earths-oceans-slowly-draining-away/
A Hypothetical Map of a Terraformed Mars – Earthly Mission
If Mars was a living planet.
Source: A Hypothetical Map of a Terraformed Mars – Earthly Mission
About – ZX SPECTRUM NEXT
Someone reincarnated the Commodore 65 as Mega65. Could the fans of its arch-enemy ZX Spectrum stay idle? Of course not! So here it is, the ZX SPECTRUM NEXT
Muses Radio Player – The HTML5 MP3/OGG/AAC Live Stream Player!
Open Textbook Library
e-ink book readers
As a society, we need an open source device for reading. Books are among the most important documents of our culture, yet the most popular and widespread devices we have for reading — the Kobo, the Nook, the Kindle and even the iPad — are closed devices, operating as small moving parts in a set of giant closed platforms whose owners’ interests are not always aligned with readers’.
From “The Open Book Project” on GitHub
Joeycastillo‘s aims are more than good. It is a step in the right direction. Sadly, the e-ink screen currently available for such “built-it-yourself” hardware is not comparable with those of Kobo, Nook or Kindle. It’s way too small, and its resolution are too coarse.
I would rather prefer a “free-as-in-freedom” ROM for my Kobo. Luckily it seems that there are several custom firmware for Kobo, according to DuckDuckGo. You can even turn your Kobo into a Debian Linux Tablet. Here’s some random links about it:
- https://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2018/03/17/list-of-hacks-mods-and-add-ons-for-kobo-ereaders/ https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=295612 https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Kobo_Touch_Hacking
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14079721
- https://gitter.im/koreader/koreader https://github.com/koreader/koreader
- https://github.com/koreader/koreader/wiki/Installation-on-Kobo-devices https://github.com/ccoffing/OcherBook https://github.com/ccoffing/OcherBook/wiki/Installation
- https://it.kobobooks.com/products/kobo-clara-hd
The one I liked more is okreader. Its README says:
Free/libre software stack for Kobo ebook readers. No proprietary software (except WiFi and EPD controller firmware), no spyware and no DRM. Based on koreader and Debian.
I now have an official excuse to get me another Kobo: I can’t mess up those of my daughter, she will need it this summer!
Wasm links
Some assorted links about Web Assembly:
- https://webassembly.org/
- https://docs.assemblyscript.org/
- https://webassembly.studio/
- https://github.com/AssemblyScript/assemblyscript
- https://medium.com/@rossbulat/webassembly-modules-an-introduction-5554b8982402
- Someone started a GCC backend https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2017-03/msg00044.html but it seems all stopped 3 years ago https://github.com/pipcet/asmjs
- https://emscripten.org/
- https://github.com/mbasso/awesome-wasm#compilers