{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Oxide and Friends","title":"golang asserts and the PLATO terminal","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/cfd2df25\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1769,"description":"Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: May 17, 2021\ngolang asserts and the PLATO terminal\nWe’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers included Adam Jacob, Matt Ranney, Nima Johari, Antranig Vartanian, Joshua Clulow, Tom Lyon, and Bob Mader (and thanks to Jeremy Morris for catching Bob’s profile!).\n(Did we miss your name and/or get it wrong? Drop a PR!)\nWe recorded the space, but we had some challenges, and we lost the recording when the first Twitter Space died at around 5:30p. We recorded the second half though; the recording is here.\nSome of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:\nKhan Academy blog entry on Go\nAdam’s blog entry, I Love Go, I Hate Go > I found novelty in the strictures, but objected to some of the specifics\n[@2:40](https://youtu.be/8tJEwCvZWsg?t=160) Go’s assertion assertion\nThe Elm Language\n[@4:40](https://youtu.be/8tJEwCvZWsg?t=280) Lionizing Unix > 7th edition is amazing, incredible, a break through.. > and it’s also kind of a shitty engineering artifact that needed a lot of work.\n[@6:32](https://youtu.be/8tJEwCvZWsg?t=392) Core dumps\n[@7:03](https://youtu.be/8tJEwCvZWsg?t=423) Impromptu PSA: Happy 81st Birthday Alan Kay!\nAlan Kay tribute video to Ted Nelson, including the story of how Alan Kay and his wife – Bonnie MacBird – were brought together by Ted Nelson, and how PARC inspired her to write TRON (!)\nBedknobs and Broomsticks (WAT)\n[@13:18](https://youtu.be/8tJEwCvZWsg?t=798) Brian Dear’s The Friendly Orange GlowThe PLATO Terminal\nControl Data Corp (CDC)\nDr. David Gräper’s Grapenotes\nEmpire game\n[@20:05](https://youtu.be/8tJEwCvZWsg?t=1205) Write your own lessons in TUTORDartmouth BASIC\nSNOBOL\n[@23:12](https://youtu.be/8tJEwCvZWsg?t=1392) Dr. David Gräper’s Grapenotes started in 1977\nXerox Alto computer\n(Did we miss anything? PRs always welcome!)\nOur next Twitter Space will be on May 24th, 2021 at 5p Pacific! We’ll be kicking off the...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/cVYTzMGAZ_7gNn2i7iJYSuWlQOM4wHdJAzEuWrnLo9A/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS80OGI3/NjA5NWY4Yjc4NzE0/ZGI5ZmMzZmY4MjFi/YThiYy5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}