This week filled up fast, despite me having an exam to take in the middle of it.
- Site Reliability Engineering, the book and the notes on the book. (via)
- Related: O’Reilly has a significant discount right now on the ebook version.
- How to recover lost files added to Git but not committed.
- How to make a minimalist stereo with an old phone and a $20 amp. This works with an old BSD machine too.
- Fun, distracting websites for down-time.
- THE 64 – Computer and Handheld Console. In a keyboard, and in a handheld.
- Classic Programmer Paintings. (via)
- What Dwarf Fortress Taught Me About Startups. (via)
- A Crypt-Crawling Tactical Roguelike: Ananias. Plays in browser.
- There is no cloud. I need one of those. (via)
- A Notable Omission. Related to the previous link. Also, there’s going to be some panicked selling over the next few weeks, I bet. (via)
- Curing Our Slack Addiction. An old business rule: Increase communication, people ask questions instead of making decisions. Increase available data, people make decisions instead of asking questions. (via)
- TEXT-MODE, ASCII/ANSI images. (via)
- Why is there a screen that says “It is now safe to turn off your computer”?
- The story behind NetHack’s first update since 2003. (via)
- ZALGO RLY.
- Next generation UNIX shell. Never improve, just reinvent! See also: CADT.(via)
- Fred Brooks’ The Mythical Man Month, free to read. One of the better books ever written about software development or even just knowledge projects. (via)
Your unrelated link of the week: HOW TO OPERATE YOUR FROG. (via)