Bytes

A complete machine you operate, on its own domain, with its own sources and honesty ledger.

A byte leaves this site. Each one lives on the domain it earned, with its own sources and its own honesty ledger, and is a Logical Art machine wherever it sits. The smaller pieces are bits and nibbles, and everything is in one chronology on the studio index.

  1. 1933-1991 Byte Subject: hardware, also numbers.

    Rangekeeper (on rangekeeper.dev)

    The answer is on both sides of the equation, so it had to be a machine.

    rangekeeper.dev
  2. 1964-1990s Byte Subject: encoding, also storage, logic, errors.

    Abend (on abend.dev)

    The loop nobody wrote. It cost a day.

    abend.dev
  3. 1971-1995 Byte Subject: networks, also encoding.

    Line Mode (on linemode.dev)

    For a while you could telnet to port 80 and be the browser.

    linemode.dev
  4. 1975 Byte Subject: hardware.

    Front Panel (on frontpanel.dev)

    A working 1975 Altair 8800 you program by flipping switches.

    frontpanel.dev
  5. 1980s Byte Subject: networks, also encoding.

    300 Baud (on 300baud.dev)

    A real dial-up modem and the BBS on the other end of it.

    300baud.dev
  6. 1994 Byte Subject: networks.

    Winsock (on winsock.dev)

    The two seconds after the modem stopped screeching, before anything worked.

    winsock.dev
  7. 2020s Byte Subject: numbers.

    LLM Lab (on watchitlearn.com)

    Train a tiny language model and watch every number as it learns.

    watchitlearn.com