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Who remembers Roller Coaster Tycoon? Released in 1999 it was probably the last big game to be hand coded in assembler. The source has never been released (shame) but the open source faithful recreation - reengineering of it gives clues just how hard that was larstofus.com/2026/03/22/t...

Fortransky is now on @tangled.org Next release Fortransky will have a x86-64 assembly decoder for the Bluesky firehose. See other posts for info on that Cobolsky is our Bluesky client written in GnuCOBOL, we use Bill Atkinson’s Floyd-Steinberg implementation to dither images. Soon on Tangled too

Fortransky with an assembly kicker Your new daily AT Protocol driver

Fortransky the first AT Protocol client decoding the raw firehose in assembly language? 🤔 Not the most practical approach Definitely the most honest one @atprotocol.dev @atproto.com @balticseadivingr.bsky.social

Fortransky and Assemblersky merged x86-64 assembly decoding the @bsky.app firehose CBOR → CAR → DAG-CBOR → post text No runtime. No abstractions Just registers and the protocol Because if Fortran wasn't enough :)

Introduction to non-public Cobolsky at v0.8 now on Patreon. We ship next week www.patreon.com/posts/cobols...

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Bill Atkinson, 1951-2025. MacPaint, QuickDraw, HyperCard. His dithering algorithm, 1984. His portrait, run through his own algorithm in COBOL, posted via Cobolsky + AT Protocol, 2026. The forgotten algorithms are not dead. CC-BY-2.0 Jay Cross @atproto.com @atprotocol.dev

I built a text compression tool that fits 2-7x more text into a single 233-byte Meshtastic packet https://old.reddit.com/r/meshtastic/comments/1s0dcx9/i_built_a_text_compression_tool_that_fits_27x/ #meshtastic

Happy to see new Former Lab Patreon members Welcome!

Next Fortransky integration: Assembler Same idea. x86-64 assembly decoding raw AT Proto firehose frames. CBOR envelope → CAR → DAG-CBOR → post text No runtime No abstractions Just registers and the protocol And Fortransky repo is on Tangled tomorrow Sunday

새로운 오픈소스 블루스카이 클라이언트 등장, 근데 포트란을(!) 사용한...

Thrilled to be working with @bad-example.com, whom you know from the excellent @microcosm.blue tools, on making the atproto network ever more resilient atproto.com/blog/introdu...

Steady as a rock, Cobolsky

Good morning Europe! @kandake.africa woke up and chose awesome. Her myspace-inspired theme for the #AtmosphereConf website has been merged. Not shown in the video is the ✨✨✨custom cursor✨✨✨ Head on over to atmosphereconf.org to click through all the glorious themes!

Have a great weekend everyone!

A FORTRAN client for atproto @formerlab.bsky.social + an interesting mission "We are building Drocket, Bricks & Brick OS - modular computing and a cluster OS. Things that shouldn't exist yet. The internet should be decentralized, community-owned, & resilient. DTTP is our attempt to make that real."

Fortransky v1.1 shipped Here goes nothing We built a terminal-only Bluesky / AT Protocol client written in Fortran, with a Rust native firehose decoder for the relay-raw stream path Yes, that Fortran. @atprotocol.dev @atproto.com @atmosphereconf.org @balticseadivingr.bsky.social

@atmosphereconf.org @atprotocol.dev Do you Formula Translate?

Fortransky going public in a few days, read all about it:

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Another of those Fortransky tests...

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Welcome aboard @toni.bsky.team @bsky.app pivoting to Fortran too?

Where’s Doris Day’s handle at? Fortransky

Posting this from Fortransky. A Bluesky client written in Fortran. Yes, that Fortran.

We’ve got COBOLsky at v0.8 now But there’s an even older language, right? Like “Walk the Line” by Johnny Cash old Project Fortressky is sitting at non-public v1.2 Currently trimming down the decoders. This one’s been a tough ride 😂 Details later

We got this

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Cobolsky test

Test #cobolsky like it's 1959

You need a light Shadow Fleet Tracker, here it is:

#cobolsky live

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Multitaskar lite här #cobolsky

Hey @eex97623.bsky.social you running #Cobolsky too? Running some first tests on @formerlab.bsky.social account. Cobolsky, a real @bsky.app client, frontend is GnuCOBOL Read timeline, compose posts, like, view threads, and check notifications... All from a language designed in 1959

Lovable scaled from $300M to $400M ARR in just 30 days Now do it in Edge AI, and we’re paying attention

A preview of whats in store. I love finding the balance between fun and utility in the apps and experiences that I create. There is far too much to be done over this next week to be bitter or waste energy on toxic people on this site. Hope you'll join in and add some light to this world.

You need a light Shadow Fleet Tracker, here it is:

We teamed up with @balticseadivingr.bsky.social and wrote a soft-core replica of the Saab CK37. A Swedish Saab 37 Viggen fighter aircraft computer from the 60-70s. Next phase it will help a modern drone navigate. Have fun!

Never give up

FYI: AI datacenters may gulp a New York City's worth of water on hot days

Palantir CEO promises that his technology will reduce educated women's economic and political power newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

We’re building a Linux distribution from scratch. Not a reskin. Not Ubuntu with privacy stickers on it. Calm OS is sovereign compute — built for people who mean it. What Tails wishes it were :)

Brick OS builds clean on its own hardware today. Not on a dev machine. Not in a VM. On the thing it was built for. Cross-platform tests pass. The stack holds. Slowly becoming real.

Why did we ever stop putting faces over windows and doors? (This one is over the door of a random old house in Sicily.) gastronomad.net/sicily

In my entire fact-checking career, I’ve never seen such unprecedented use of AI-generated and AI-manipulated imagery & videos in a war. Elon Musk’s X has outrun even Facebook for being a major vector for the spread of AI generated disinformation

For the audiophiles. The setup to end all setups

Former Lab, in collab with @balticseadivingr.bsky.social , introducing the 'UAS Phone Swarm' apps for Android and iOS Turns smartphone into a fully autonomous drone node. Smartphones onboard drones, what could go possibly go wrong? We are far down the development road. Too far? 🤔