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Sun May 14 06:00:01 EDT 2023 ======================================== Slept from one to eight. Cooler. Partly cloudy until late afternoon, then becoming cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s. Northeast winds 5 to 15 mph. Finished reading How to Sell a Haunted House. OK. Sent Mom flowers and some snacks from Whole Foods. (She didn't want to do in-person, mess with Covid tests, etc.) https://100r.co/site/uxn.html > The Uxn ecosystem is a little personal computing stack, created to host tools and games, programmable in its own unique assembly language. > It was designed with an implementation-first mindset with a focus on creating portable graphical applications, the distribution of Uxn projects is akin to sharing game roms for any classic console emulator. https://www.theverge.com/22935074/hundred-rabbits-uxn-roms-preservation > In 2017, on a 10-meter-long sailboat off the coast of French Polynesia, Canadian artists Devine Lu Linvega and Rekka Bellum — also known as the two-person studio / collective Hundred Rabbits — realized that something had to change about the way they worked. Devine is a software developer who also makes music as Aliceffekt, and Rek is an illustrator and writer. Trying to download the latest Apple Xcode update, the pair had to place their iPhone in a bag and hoist it up the mast; the OS was around 10GB, but their SIM cards only had 5GB of data, and it took multiple attempts to get the job done. “At that moment, we began to feel like the modern development stack was utterly incompatible with our life,” the pair explain over email. > > It was the beginning of something small but profound: the Uxn, a virtual ecosystem to make experimental tools and games that exists outside the revolving door of always-online tech anchored to subscriptions, needlessly complicated upgrades, and increasingly problematic forms of digital ownership. It is essentially an emulator, to translate the actions of one computer onto another, that can prolong the life of digital data tied to aging hardware and software. In line with the Rabbits’ love of storytelling, Rek even brought the Uxn to life as a tiny ox-like creature (often accompanied by the humanoid Varvara, who represents a portable computing system built on Uxn). > > In 2016, Devine and Rek chose a life at sea after being inspired by “liveaboard” videos. They bought Pino, a 1982 Yamaha sailboat, and set about learning how to maintain their new craft. As their adventures expanded and they adjusted to living off solar panels, limited batteries, and donated secondhand devices, they learned to pare down on conveniences like food refrigeration. “Our decision to liveaboard shaped our current use of technologies, but in the beginning, we naively believed that we could keep on using the same convenient products we were already familiar with,” they say. > > Today, the Hundred Rabbits website has grown into a living repository for a bounty of seafaring knowledge, solarpunk-driven philosophy, and a window into their work — esoteric offline-first software that emphasizes sustainability and the values of permacomputing, a term coined by Finnish artist and writer Ville-Matias “Viznut’’ Heikkilä. Washed laundry, changed linens, cleaned kitchen. Servings: grains 2/6, fruit 0/4, vegetables 0/4, dairy 2/2, meat 0/3, nuts 0/0.5 Breakfast: ice cream Lunch: corn chips and cheese Afternoon snack: green tea Dinner:

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