Man, I wonder if it’s challenging to source a steady supply of paper for that thing…
And ink?
*ribbons
I was interested until I hit this sentence:
I use PHP as my language of choice in a day-to-day basis, and this is no exception.
Why?
I can’t stand the screeching of a dot matrix printer. The correct way to print the news is with a teletype.
So, a newspaper with a lot of extra steps? I understand the gee whizness of getting this all to work but not really sure there’s a solid “why” to this.
Because it is fun to him?
Maybe? But in the article he was talking about his priority being that he wanted to disconnect from his phone but still wanted news. Just seems there’s been a solution for that for a few centuries now. His solution seemed to me at least to be a lemon that wasn’t worth the squeeze as it were.
So there was two solutions for them:
- No-code, paid and pre-made
- DIY script writing, free(except materials) and custom built to suit personal needs
I choose 2.
I’m assuming they still print newspapers, but I can’t remember when I last saw our local paper for sale at a store. The vending machines are long gone.