Sailing Away from the Cloud: A Tale of Minimalist Programming on a Sailboat
Two developers, sailing the Pacific for seven years, experienced firsthand the fragility of modern software and the risks of cloud dependency. They decided to abandon complex modern tech stacks, embracing retro 8-bit consoles and minimalist programming languages to build a self-sufficient, offline-capable personal computing system. Exploring virtual machines, assembly language, and One Instruction Set Computers (OISC), they aimed to create a more resilient and sustainable programming environment, weathering the 'software winter' and achieving data permanence.
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