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Ed is the standard unix text editor. It's also strange. This is a video about ed, why it is the way it is, and an alternative vision of computing in the world that may just be coming back. youtu.be/GoyNMFccbow

July 1945

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@agent_duckman thank you :) i love your username too!

@neoeno hello kay i love your videos so much! they are so relaxing and interesting i hope you are doing well!

working with the reasoning model like youtube.com/watch?v=u-wDxA…

Hello! A little video about Forth. More to come ?? youtube.com/watch?v=YZ4nYq…

@BLUECOW009 ooh nice idea…

@neoeno Love it use voxels instead of asci

deep in the forth mines with hacked together forth, in a hacked together virtual machine, running in a hacked together web-based forth IDE the next video approaches

my view so far - forth is simple and beautiful. and, like all simple and beautiful things, the closer you look, the more you realise that it is in fact a tightly woven web of disturbing complexity but that might just be me

We're hosting an event next Monday on how to make unusually good developer content. Join us at the tldraw office to hear behind-the-scenes talks from: - @mattpocockuk - @neoeno - @TodePond - @steveruizok (if there's time)

@jocerfranquiz thanks! :) so glad you liked it, it was very fun going back through them all

@neoeno Best intro to ed. Also, I love those segments from old documentaries. There is some awe from that age of computing, when every bit was important.

Ed is the standard unix text editor. It's also strange. This is a video about ed, why it is the way it is, and an alternative vision of computing in the world that may just be coming back. youtu.be/GoyNMFccbow

Oh I ALSO made this choose your own adventure story using an online clone of ed that I wrote using ed, in an online environment simulating computing of the time, even down to the sound. That was maybe unnecessary, but did it anyway. toys.0de5.net/ed60/cyo/

@cmdrzoke there are also a great few interview videos with him more recently as part of his Turing award page amturing.acm.org/award_winners/… — some gems there!

@neoeno Didn't know how he looked like. Only read his Compiler and AWK book. On Wikipedia is no picture. A great thank you for this pearl!

can't believe i missed this vintage shot of 80s Alfred Aho for the last video... would have been so perfect!

oh, and the last video! a bit of a grab bag on algorithms for converting regexes directly into DFAs, following up a loose thread on why Thompson's construction is sometimes known as the McNaughton-Yamada-Thompson construction... tldr it probably shouldn't! youtu.be/tAw9-nTCuzI