Completely unrelated: I rebuilt a baking (Hoosier) cabinet over the past few months, and I’m quite happy with how it turned out.
- The $9 computer is shipping today. Well, some days ago by when you read this. (via)
- What Happens Next Will Amaze You. Maciej Ceglowski’s talks are always excellent. (via)
- Vim Creep. (via)
- Hacking Graphing Calculators. “As powerful as Game Boys, and mostly used for the same reason”.
- ASCII to My Heart. (via)
- Awesome Open Source Documents. (via)
- Roundup: Retro computers in your browser. (via)
- Breakouts, 36 Breakout variants. This will keep you busy for a while. See previous Breakout links here. (via)
- The price of the Internet of Things will be a vague dread of a malicious world. (via)
- The History of the Design of Unix’s Find Command. The comments at the source of the link are interesting.
- A vim Tutorial and Primer. Again, the comments at the source of the link are possibly a better read.
- 18 cardinal rules of systems administration.
- 30 years a sysadmin. Same author as previous article.
- Brian Kernighan interview. Steve Jobs is getting treated like a saint; BWK is barely known. They both helped the same number of people, but Steve Jobs made more money. (via)
- Content Addressable Memory intro. Why routers are both underpowered and faster than general hardware at some tasks. (via)
- Your phone’s homescreen is dead. The gradual removal of user-initiated actions in computing. (via)
- Why have digital books stopped evolving? Lack of competition, I’d say. (via)
- aRrgh: a newcomer’s (angry) guide to R. (via)
- Predicting and controlling NetHack’s randomness. (via)
I would argue that Kernighan was a far far far more important patriarch than Jobs.