My craft in the computer medium
[ Modified: 2024 Apr 15 ]

I tend to favor practicing "computer wizardry" (a term from the 1900's), especially exploring my curiosity along the lines of personalizing interfaces of the computer medium.

I have pretty much no interest in more of the same. I explore my curiosity of personalizing computers when I have a computer, focusing on research and development (R&D), making notes and sharing what I learn as it emerges.

For now, I have subscribed to a telecopier service. Such a service is from a company (a.k.a. webhost) with its computer with a program (document server, a.k.a. fileserver or webserver) responding to requests for copies of digital documents while that computer is connected to the Internet (international telegramming network).

I have also rented a domain name "l8l.info" (or "L8L.info" [ Domain names are the same no matter what the capitalization; same thing for email addresses. ]), which is sort of like a phone number for a computer instead of for a telephone.

This docserver "l8l.info" has most of what I need to start over again (Sharing: 2. The computer as a tool), presuming I still have my longtime curiosity with computers if ever I have the means again (living indoors, electricity, components, and other resources). It is publicly accessible so I can access it from whatever computer, and consequently anybody else can reference it or maybe be inspired in their exploration or personalization of the computer medium, too.


A readily accessible example from the decades of my curiosity would be the main CSS stylesheet for documents from this docserver (Note stylesheet), or the CSS stylesheet for CSS stylesheets (stylesheet stylesheet). [ See also their precursors, the CSS stylesheets of "vault.jeancharlot.org" that I crafted for the Jean Charlot Foundation (JCF), as described in "Personally helped". ]

Other examples can be discovered from the list of documents I am sharing (Sharing — L8L.info), f.e. a dual-system approach for discreet computer experiences (Dual-system computing).

What you might also hear me saying:

    Endeavoring towards
     personalization
      of the computer medium
       by the everyday person
       (rather than by the computer programmer)
    for accessibly available:
     memory, information, and direct communication.

    In a word:  freedom.

Colloquially, practicing computer wizardry might be stated as "I am a computer wiz", but that might be misconstrued as a role or job, for lack of context in the written form. I have pretty much always been beyond the roleplay (LARP and PLARP) insistence from journalism, politics, and entertainment. I am just me, so I am interested in health, and I have an interest in the computer medium. That seems to be all.


sharing