Folk Computer

[Folk Computer @FolkComputer]

Interested in setting up your own Folk Computer instance?

Fill out this form and we'll see if we can schedule a session (10 minute video call)

If you just want to mess with Folk yourself:
https://t.co/BuOIFuuEq7 has our OSS software and hardware recs

https://t.co/UpSPBpq0Kq

[Recurse Center @recursecenter]

🎥 Watch the talk online:

https://t.co/dhYHqdawWo

[Recurse Center @recursecenter]

Thank you to everyone who came to our last Localhost talk with @cwervo and @rsnous!

They presented on @FolkComputer and unveiled the Folk Gadget! Together we escaped the screen and entered the realm of light and paper-based computing.
​📽️📄🌀

Watch the recording below:⬇️

[Omar Rizwan @rsnous]

high-dimensional bouncing DVD logo

[Lu Wilson @TodePond]

it's @FolkComputer controlling slides

[Azlen @azlenelza]

Made a precision D6 @FolkComputer

It's kinda like a knob, but also a die, so you can roll any number between 0 - 6, like 4.31 or 2.76!

[Causal Islands Conference @causalislands]

We're announcing our first two speakers, as well as opening up a call for presentations.

Andres Cuervo @cwervo from @FolkComputer and Lu Wilson @TodePond from @tldraw will be joining us for Causal Islands Berlin, Oct 4th & 5th.
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[Omar Rizwan @rsnous]

i like how phone vibrate makes different weird sounds depending on what the phone is touching/sitting on, feels like a rare interaction between computer and the physical environment

[Omar Rizwan @rsnous]

It turns out that the gadget text rendering is garbled because the Raspberry Pi GPU Vulkan driver (v3dv) does not support dynamic indexing into an array of descriptors, the index just always gets sent to 0 with no warning

[cwervo @cwervo]

clipboards are the future of computation

[cristóbal @tobyshooters]

They keep on forking my hands!

[Maxim Leyzerovich @round]

https://t.co/XGg3PJvesu

[Folk Computer @FolkComputer]

Folk at @RecurseCenter is up and running!

Thanks @jmgrosen for getting this set up

[Maxim Leyzerovich @round]

once you experience @FolkComputer you’ll never stop thinking about malleable interfaces

[Recurse Center @recursecenter]

Some alums building great indie stuff outside typical jobs:

@b0rk writing zines
@itseieio designing wacky games
@rsnous & @cwervo making @FolkComputer
@heyvrk creating software that ♡'s paper
@saulfp making @VisiData
@FiloSottile maintaining OSS
Andrew Kelley building @ziglang

[Omar Rizwan @rsnous]

idea: computer which has a port bitmap instead of port numbers; programs can color in (bind) specific pixel regions of the port bitmap

[Folk Computer @FolkComputer]

goodnight :)

[Folk Computer @FolkComputer]

We published our June 2024 Notes today:

https://t.co/PACKl7Bafm

[Folk Computer @FolkComputer]

👀🫡

[Omar Rizwan @rsnous]

we need to hijack Apple NameDrop (the bump thing) so you can just NameDrop data into arbitrary objects in your environment. drop a video file into your couch, etc

[cwervo @cwervo]

Continuing this chain of thought … what if physical objects were programmable? @FolkComputer already allows digital → physical, what if you could use computer vision to enable physical → digital?

e.g.
- teach the computer to do highlighting to find physical notes? ⌘ + F IRL