An approach to computing and sustainability inspired from permaculture
summary
An argument for small, resilient computation that names limits and shows work: living with 200 watts of solar aboard a 33 ft boat drives a return to old designs, emulation, and tiny VMs; an implemented stack VM with 32 opcodes, a self‑hosted assembler and toolchain, assembly written in 6502, simple type/stack‑depth checkers, and asset/encoding experiments prove lower power software runs faster and lasts longer; sobering preservation data—87% of commercial games before 2010 are unavailable—motivates the choices.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 4:00Computing within limits
- 10:30Complexity simplicity elegance
- 15:30Sustainable computing limits
- 22:50Forgotten computing systems
- 31:00Software preservation
- 38:00Portable virtual machine
- 48:00Self-modifying code
- 52:00Future directions
