All over the spectrum this week.
- The Story of the Intel 4004. (via)
- Why Perl Didn’t Win. Some methods that could be useful for the BSDs here. (via)
- uBlock, a less-resource-intensive version of AdBlock. (via joris on EFNet #dragonflybsd)
- Emacs user at work. (via alexh on EFNet #dragonflybsd)
- Librem 15, “A Free/Libre Software Laptop”. Blobless. (via Mike)
- How to cheat at the future. Something I need to address for this very Digest. (via)
- What does {some strange unix command name} stand for? (via)
- Your entire PC in a mouse. (via)
- So I bought a mechanical keyboard.
- Emacs is my new window manager. (via)
- m-x start-them-early.
- Slackbot bot. (via)
- List of Good Free Programming and Data Resources. (via)
- Open Hardware Random Number Generator. (via EFNet #dragonflybsd)
- The Hemingwrite. Looks like a TRS-80. (via)
- The Emularity.
Your unrelated link of the week: Skymall, 2007.
As to the Hemingwrite, I would love for someone to do a modern TRS 80 Model 100 or 200 that runs BSD. I think it would fill this modern minimalism niche quite well.
It probably wouldn’t be hard to cobble something like that together using RetroBSD and a TRS-80 shell.
Thanks for uBlock—was looking for something like this long ago.
Perl still has more market share than bsd though afaik?
Dean – not thinking in terms of market share, but rather a comment on strategies for open source. Not perl-specific.
4004: missed that, I remember researching the more advanced 4040, writing to Intel(UK) and receiving a copy of the user manual and several datasheets. However, 8 bit chips became available so I actually ended up getting an 8080 to try.