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Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: May 17, 2021golang asserts and the PLATO terminalWe’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers included Adam Jacob, Matt Ranney, Nima Johari, Antranig Vartanian, Joshua Clulow, Tom Lyon, and Bob Mader (and thanks to Jeremy Morris for catching Bob’s profile!).(Did we miss your name and/or get it wrong? Drop a PR!)We recorded the space, but we had some challenges, and we lost the recording when the first Twitter Space died at around 5:30p. We recorded the second half though; the recording is here.Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:Khan Academy blog entry on GoAdam’s blog entry, I Love Go, I Hate Go > I found novelty in the strictures, but objected to some of the specifics[@2:40](https://youtu.be/8tJEwCvZWsg?t=160) Go’s assertion assertionThe Elm Language[@4:40](https://youtu.be/8tJEwCvZWsg?t=280) Lionizing Unix > 7th edition is amazing, incredible, a break through.. > and it’s also kind of a shitty engineering artifact that needed a lot of work.[@6:32](https://youtu.be/8tJEwCvZWsg?t=392) Core dumps[@7:03](https://youtu.be/8tJEwCvZWsg?t=423) Impromptu PSA: Happy 81st Birthday Alan Kay!Alan Kay tribute video to Ted Nelson, including the story of how Alan Kay and his wife – Bonnie MacBird – were brought together by Ted Nelson, and how PARC inspired her to write TRON (!)Bedknobs and Broomsticks (WAT)[@13:18](https://youtu.be/8tJEwCvZWsg?t=798) Brian Dear’s The Friendly Orange GlowThe PLATO TerminalControl Data Corp (CDC)Dr. David Gräper’s GrapenotesEmpire game[@20:05](https://youtu.be/8tJEwCvZWsg?t=1205) Write your own lessons in TUTORDartmouth BASICSNOBOL[@23:12](https://youtu.be/8tJEwCvZWsg?t=1392) Dr. David Gräper’s Grapenotes started in 1977Xerox Alto computer(Did we miss anything? PRs always welcome!)Our next Twitter Space will be on May 24th, 2021 at 5p Pacific! We’ll be kicking off the discussion with Silicon Cowboys (aka the real and sexless Halt and Catch Fire) on the rise of Compaq – and their aspiration to be a different kind of company. Join us; we always love to hear from new speakers!

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