Those who fail to understand Unix are doomed to forever keep trying to turn it into Windows NT.

Temma is now an official sponsor of Smarty a simple, modern, and efficient PHP templating engine.

A great fit for HTML/CSS integrators.

Huge thanks to Simon Wisselink for keeping the project alive and evolving

https://smarty-php.github.io/smarty/stable/#_2
https://github.com/smarty-php/smarty

#caturday on a Thursday: sleeping Qubit on the dining room table and Giro d’Italia on the tube in the background. Perfect Ascendion Day activity after trimming good old Openbox on OpenBSD. #simplicity is sometimes hard work to achieve. #toebeans

#Appstinence is the latest millennial / gen-z trend. I like it. #enshittification #simplicity #addiction #doomscrolling

https://www.aol.com/grew-smartphones-now-theyre-opting-080302400.html

Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: Shunmyō Masuno

Explore more at BDG: https://buddhistdoor.net

"Former Uruguayan President Jose Mujica, a onetime Marxist guerilla and flower farmer whose radical brand of democracy, plain-spoken philosophy and simple lifestyle fascinated people around the world, has died. He was 89."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Mujica

Current leaders should take him as an example of good and humble governance.

#democracy #degrowth #ecology #simplicity #sustainability #OnePlanet

https://apnews.com/article/uruguay-pepe-jose-mujica-death-obit-d6074a22d7c0510697b8e684fe173cd3

Years ago, while searching for a nice and simple music player in Libadwaita, I came across Amberol.

Simple and does its job.

I have tried other music players in #Libadwaita, but none of them have really convinced me as much as Amberol (I still respect the devs and their work!)

For many years on Linux, from 2015 to 2023, I used Audacious, but I preferred to find something nicer and more in tune with the #GNOME design.

I have a question now, what music player do you use? (not necessarily in Libadwaita)

"Simply This" teableau for 04/24/25

In a world gone mad, I have to start my day with some grace, however small.

Find beauty in everything, including yourself.

#photography #stones #moss #nature #minamalism #simplicity #mood

The original #LISP had 7 primitives: \(\texttt{cons}\), \(\texttt{car,}\) \(\texttt{cdr}\), \(\texttt{atom}\), \(\texttt{quote}\), \(\texttt{eq}\), and \(\texttt{cond}\). And the original #Smalltalk syntax could fit on a 5×7 card. That meant a novice could learn the syntax in a matter of minutes, and direct all his efforts to learning how properly to wield the power of that Turing-complete language. This was why, in the 1970s and the 1980s, many college freshmen were taught FP in Scheme (a more modern LISP) and many middle school children were taught OO in Smalltalk. These were surely the best "first" #programming languages.

#FORTRAN and #BASIC were simple, too. FORTRAN, the first high-level language, has been in continuous use since the late 1950s by engineers, who are not keyboard warriors. BASIC was invented in the early 1960s for teaching programming to non-STEM students at Dartmouth. It sired a whole generation of self-taught children in the 1980s.

Compare those to C++, Erlang, Python, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Scala, Rust, Kotlin, and pretty much every language in popular use today. Most consider Python and JavaScript to be the simplest of modern languages. Yet, they are massive, complex languages. No 10-year-old could teach himself those, nor should he.

The original versions of those classic languages cannot be used to solve modern problems. But they should still be taught to youngsters as their first language. Throwing in the kids' faces a modern enterprise language confuses them and discourages them. Consequently, many novices never attain that state of flow, when the joy of programming gushes forth.

#Simplicity is a virtue. Self-motivated learning is virtuous.

Perky Sue
Johns Canyon Road, UT

Stumbled across this older photo and found it very pleasing to my eye. I hope you find it so, as well.

#StandingStoneSunday

This is one reason why I ignore mission statements when I make decisions.

#Simplicity

#simplicity #sustainability
Honoring the 50th anniversary of E.F. Schumacher’s book Small is Beautiful in 2023, the Schumacher Center commissioned this updated study guide from British author and Journalist David Boyle.

https://centerforneweconomics.org/envision/library/small-is-beautiful-study-guide-50th/