User:LEa/notes1/Prototyping

2025-09-16 Class

References / practices / ideas: 

Tools: 
- Aligning an Open Source Ethos (Webzine by Roopa Vasudevan) 
- A Feminist Server Manifesto 0.01 
- A Brief Introduction to Decolonial Computing (Syed Mustafa Ali) 
- Permacomputing Wiki 
- Community Memory: Precedents in Social Media and Movements (Bo Doub) 
- Media Archeology (from: Postprint - Books and Becoming Computational, N. Katherine Hayles) 

Collectivity: 
- self-organizing 
- communities of practice / collective practices 
- inter-dependence 
- trans-local networks 
- sharing, ownership, licensing, distributive practices

sending name ideas to a printer—also used for babblebash

Our new server name: sergio

Text for website / worm: 

Writing Machines–Protocols–Feedback | Special Issue #28

1st year Experimental Publishing (XPUB) students from Piet Zwart Institute are cooking up a radio show for you. Tune in and embrace experimentation! On Monday mornings from 10-11h we will be learning live how to broadcast, create and remix audio. The show is part of Special Issue #28 "Writing Machines–Protocols–Feedback". This is an evolving project we are conceiving and enriching as we go. Listen to our experiments to learn more. Also - save your appetite for our public event coming up in November!

 The Castle of Crossed Destinies (Italo Calvino)

 ...next week: state machines

2025-09-23 Class

Sharing 

- Xu Bing: Square Word Calligraphy 
- Sebastien Robert: Back and Forth
- Mud-cell Poem

State Machines 

- extrapuppybarking and other State Machines
- Graphviz Documentation
- [Graphviz Visual Editor](https://magjac.com/graphviz-visual-editor/)) 
- state-writing-machines folder on sergio

....next week: ssh from home + making chatbots

2025-09-30 Class

This thing called Phyton 

- created by Guido van Rossum in the late 1980s
- virtual environments for different projects (that work on different versions)
- Python virtual environments: venv
- Python modes: Interactive Mode / Script Mode
- Package managers: dnf/yum/rpm (Red Hat), apt (Debian), brew (macOS), winget (Windows), pip/**uv** (Python), npm (Node.js)
- Python: General Purpose / CLI
- JavaScript: Browser / Node.js for CLI 

what we did:
- install python3 (if not installed yet)
- install uv (or a different package manager for python) https://docs.astral.sh/uv/getting-started/installation/
- make virtual environment: § uv venv $ source .venv/bin/activate
- install websockets: $ uv pip install websocket

ssh from home 

working config file:


Host xvm_jump 
User jump 
Hostname 194.61.65.6 Port 2501
Identityfile ~/.ssh/jump_sergio 


Host sergio
HostName 10.0.0.27
User lea 
ProxyJump xvm_jump 
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_ed25519_sergio  


Host sergio_local 
HostName 145.24.152.29 
User lea 
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_ed25519_sergio

What is a chatbot? 
 
to run manetta's hello bot:
- python3 hello_bot.py
- change the python script to customize nickname / messages / conditions

2025-10-07 Class

Text Adventures! 

- first developed in the late 1980s
- natural language processing: input > parse > output
- Infocom: The Hobbit (1982): classic text adventure game with complex language parser (using Inglish)
- The Infocom Files: A Compilation of Historical Source Code
- ZIL: Zork Implementation Language (Learning ZIL)


- Jason Scott: GET LAMP: The Text Adventure Documentary
- [The GET LAMP Interview Archives](https://archive.org/details/getlamp-interviews)


- The Hitchhiker's Guide to an Active Archive
- Electrifying: a terminal text adventure by Thijs & Senka


- Jordan Magnuson: Game Poems - Videogame Design as Lyric Practice
- Slay The Princess - The Pristine Cut (> recommended by Bart)
- Bitsy Game Poems
- you are dough ❤️
- Decker: platform for creating and sharing interactive documents (sound, images, hypertext, scripted behavior)


- text generative (poetic!) potential of commands and interface messaging (> you go north > you talk to gandalf > you run quickly)
- "performative utterance": sentences which not only describe a given reality, but also change the social reality they are describing


- Alison Knowles: House of Dust > not just generated (random) text, but translated into a physical structure


- ask for input > process input > present to player
> python is very useful for this!

Wiki text adventure

2025-10-14 Class

ELIZA
* early natural language processing computer program
* meant to be a therapist
* made by Joseph Weizenbaum
* named after Eliza Doolittle from the play Pygmalion
* Essay: Computational Linguistics
* Original ELIZA source code in MAD-SLIP
* Janet H. Murray: Hamlet on the Holodeck - The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace

examples of Chinese characters https://web.ygsf.com (shared by Kiki) ___

Jupyter
cd .../eliza uv venv uv pip install jupyterlab jupyter lab

LATER…. to go back….
cd path/to/my/eliza source .venv/bin/activate jupyter lab

Talking to Daan
Alice in Wonderland - eat me pill > putting something in your mouth that transforms you - writing instructions on food - “taste the love in the meal” (Steve)
Text adventure: combination of virtual world and actual walking
Is walking really inclusive? in an ableist city

2025-10-28 Class

Git
Writing from the middle on the XPUB git

Useful docs
* https://pythonfordesigners.com/ 
* https://devdocs.io https://regex101.com/ 
* https://varia.zone/en/more-than-computational-reflections.html 
* https://http.cat/