Demoscene

From Assembly Intelligence to Artificial Intelligence My world view as a teenager was binary in at least 10 intertwined ways: all the code, obviously, and the fact that you were either elite or a “lamer”. I’d hazard a guess that this view was true for practically every demoscener at the time (mid-80s through early 90s). We conditioned each other and ourselves to wrap up all of our worth in one simple metric: how much impossible shit can you squeeze out of the machine? ...

Stravinsky talked about the concept of creative limitation in music being useful in order to reach new and different results. There have been TED talks on limitations as an upside. (LaaU?) Publications like Harvard Business Review and Forbes have written about constraints breeding creativity. Since the concept became somewhat popular, it can sometimes feel like way too much lemonade-making and not enough being pelted with a dozen lemons in the face with your eyes open. ...