Rudolf Winestock

I am an aspiring mathematician and hacker. My web development company is Winestock Webdesign.

[Rudolf Winestock @rudolfwinestock]

John Gilmore: The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

Rudolf Winestock: The Internet interprets the absence of censorship as weakness and attacks it.

N.B.: The above two statements do not conflict with each other.

[Racket (& Rhombus) @racketlang]

# Rhombus version 1.0 is now available!

Release announcement https://t.co/PK2ZXgaCFr
Get Rhombus: https://t.co/gjC60KVNEy

*Rhombus is a general-purpose programming language that is easy to use and [uniquely customizable](https://t.co/N7qlWCiQ7Z).*

[Almighty Lisp @almighty_lisp]

99% OF MOBILE APPS ARE FANCY BROWSER BOOKMARKS THAT DEVELOPERS ASK APPLE AND GOOGLE PERMISSION TO OFFER PEOPLE

[Commodore Computer Museum 🕹 @MuseumCommodore]

In Memory of Jay Miner, the Father of the Amiga

Today, June 20, marks 32 years since we lost Jay Miner — the brilliant engineer and visionary who gave the world the Amiga.

Born on May 31, 1932, Miner’s passion for pushing hardware to its creative limits changed computing forever. His legacy still inspires retro enthusiasts, game developers, and tinkerers decades later.

Jay is best remembered as the driving force behind the AMIGA, launched in 1985 by Commodore. The Amiga 1000 was revolutionary: stunning graphics (up to 4096 colors), rich 4-channel stereo sound, and true preemptive multitasking years before it became standard on other platforms. Powered by a Motorola 68000 CPU and Miner’s custom chips — Agnus, Denise, and Paula — it became the ultimate machine for gamers, artists, musicians, and video creators.

From Defender of the Crown and Deluxe Paint to the Video Toaster, the Amiga didn’t just run software — it unleashed creativity like nothing before it. "Only Amiga Makes it Possible" was how Amiga was known!

Before the Amiga, Miner helped define home gaming and computing at Atari. He co-designed the groundbreaking TIA chip for the Atari 2600 (the heart of classics like Space Invaders and Pong) and led the graphics architecture for the Atari 400/800 computers.

Jay didn’t just build machines — he built dreams. He believed computers should empower people to create, play, and imagine. On June 20, 1994, we lost a true pioneer and every modern system owes a debt to his forward-thinking designs.

What did Jay Miner’s work mean to you?

RIP Jay Miner. Thank you for the Amiga

[Enderman @endermanch]

The first company to use this design on an energy drink can will pop off

[Rudolf Winestock @rudolfwinestock]

@CatCutiekitten "Oh, I get it! You want me to do it again! Well, if you insist..."

[Rudolf Winestock @rudolfwinestock]

@StuffForSisters I see what you did there.

[Rudolf Winestock @rudolfwinestock]

@kenzietuff Vanyarin legates negotiating reopening the Straight Path to the Undying Lands.

[Lukáš Hozda @LukasHozda]

Turning away from Lisp and Emacs is turning away from Holy Light

[Klara @klara_sjo]

"If I could time travel I’d kill Hitler”

“If I had time travel I’d stop my favorite politician getting assassinated”

You’re all thinking way too small.

If I had time travel I’d stop Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin from dying on the moon due to Soviet sabotage, kicking off the Great Nuclear War and devastating half the planet.

[Rudolf Winestock @rudolfwinestock]

"Trust me, this is the best deal ever. Follow my lead and you'll get those Silmarils back in no time."

[Rudolf Winestock @rudolfwinestock]

@royalserf "Trust me, this is the best deal ever. Follow my lead and you'll get those Silmarils back in no time."

[Alvaro Lozano-Robledo @mathandcobb]

If AI doesn't solve a millennium problem by the time it's 40 years old, then it won't be eligible for a Fields medal.

[Strace @straceX]

we named it random access memory (RAM).

then we built three levels of cache, prefetchers, data-oriented design, and an entire performance-engineering discipline whose whole purpose is making sure nobody accesses it randomly.

[Rudolf Winestock @rudolfwinestock]

@dandigangi @hunvreus @htmx_org @emjayess @BrendanEich wanted to put Scheme in the browser.

_That_ should have won.

[Rudolf Winestock @rudolfwinestock]

@awamzzz They made the best Yugoslavian music.

Look up Yumex.

[SpringerMath @SpringerMath]

Is mathematics invented or discovered?

[Rudolf Winestock @rudolfwinestock]

@SpringerMath Neither, it is hunted.

(I didn't come up with that and I can't remember the source.)

[Rudolf Winestock @rudolfwinestock]

@esrtweet @opdroid1234 Really? After the grilling those same guys gave you over your edits to The Jargon File?

[Rudolf Winestock @rudolfwinestock]

@TheGingerBill @htmx_org Your dad was right. Source: me.

Now get off my lawn.

[SDF @sdf_pubnix]

Today Simson Garfinkel visited https://t.co/ihON7y2jBE and a 9front meme was accidental committed. thank you for your submission.

#unix #history #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing