It has been a long time since last post. The pandemic changed the world and our lives. A lot of things were delayed or cancelled due to the Covid-19 situation, including keyboard/keycap stuff. I would like to give some brief updates about my keycap designs, although they were dormant during the past[……]
消失的两年
广东的冬天，寒冷就像一个脚步匆匆的过路人，冷空气刚过去不过几天，料峭的风中已经渐渐带上晴暖的春意，转眼间新的一年就要来了。自从两年前出现了新冠疫情以来，工作生活中就多了一个无处不在的因素，因为要防疫抗疫，我们减少聚集减少社交活动，转变成更多的隔离式生活，也渐渐习惯更多的远程式工作。在一天一天的重复当中，日子过得飞快，仿佛一回神，两年的时光就已经消失。
在这消失的两年中，一些我原本计划中的事情都被逼要进行调整，或者暂缓，键盘相关的事情也在其中。虽然这段时间还是有购入和卖出一些键盘和键帽，但整体上已经比之前减少了很多。一方面固然是因为由于疫情影响，国内外的快递渠道有较多变化，而个人财政在玩键盘这方[……]
后疫情时代的生活
距离新冠疫情的最早出现已经有一年多的时间，然而一切仿佛都如在昨天。我最早得知武汉有一种新型流行病，是 20 年一月初在香港的媒体看到相关的报道，当时虽然已经知道是一种类似 SARS 的肺炎，但是由于传播范围和严重性不太明确，并没有引起我的重视。到了一月底接近放春节长假的时候，国内媒体已经不再歌舞升平，开始大量报道。后面形势急转直下，武汉封城，全国戒备。近处市面萧条，而远处水深火热，就像很多人一样，我在老家度过了一个闭门不出每天刷媒体的春节。
二月初我回到广州，还是居家隔离。街上依然冷清，而疫情已经开始蔓延到国外。而后几个月间，欧洲，北美，东南亚，印度，南美，非洲，一一陷落。有些地方疫情消退又卷[……]
Lisp Machine Keyset Episode 1 – SA Symbiosis
The History of Lisp Machine
History repearts itself. Nowadays AI(artificial Intelligence) becomes a hype zone for academies and industries. It happened before. It’s called AI Boom in the 1980s, when the expert systems rised, and the specified hardware emerged to embrace high-lever programming langua[……]
Lisp Machine Keyset Episode 2 – SA Hacker
Here comes the Lisp Machine keyset episode 2.
Origin
Symbolics, Inc. was a computer manufacturer that designed and manufactured a line of Lisp machines. In 1981, Symbolics introduced the LM-2 as its initail product. The LM-2 had a complex Symbolics-branded keyboard, which is known as the space-cade[……]