This week’s garbage podcast is out, with some OpenBSD topics and also some interesting direct experience of licensing violations.
The GNN in the title is George Neville-Neil, interviewed on BSDNow 136 about the TeachBSD project, plus the usual collection of recent BSD news. The show title comes from this station advert.
Posting now so people have warning: NYCBUG’s monthly meeting is tomorrow, April 6th, and has John Wolfe presenting “Debugging with LLVM”. Note that the meeting announcement I just linked has the NYCBUG schedule and speakers for the rest of the calendar year. Surely you can make one of them?
Tomohiro Kusumi has been creating a near-constant stream of bugfixes and cleanups to Hammer for quite some time. I don’t often link to it, because they are incremental improvements and hard to linkblog, so to speak. In an effort to make up for this deficit, I do want to draw attention to his two recent commits: “Make hammer commands print root volume path“, and “Print volume list after volume-add|del“. Small changes, but this is what makes complex systems usable.
If you remember this Baytrail problem, Daniel Bilik has gone and found a fix, as this appears to be a cross-platform bug, and he has patches for DragonFly. If it’s affecting you, you don’t have to wait for the patches to be added in; he’s made them available directly.
Update: it’s committed to DragonFly now.
This I all built up over the past two weeks, so plenty to read here.
- How To Write Unmaintainable Code. (via)
- An implementation of Sublime’s PlainTasks plugin for Vim.
- Dotfile Management and Documentation with Org-Mode. Equal time provision. (via)
- @Play 85: A Talk with Digital Eel, Makers of the Infinite Space Games.
- Digital Nature, a summary of world-building software starting with Bryce.
- How to Write a Roguelike in 15 Steps. Not linkbait – a real, in-depth procedure. (via)
- Generating and Populating Caves. I like the map images. (via)
- The Imitation Game, about Alan Turing (sample). Here’s historical audio to go with it.
- Redox – A Unix-Like Operating System Written in Rust. UNIX gets reinvented on a regular basis. Also related. (via)
- Maintain Separate GitHub accounts. I’ve seen people bit by this just with email. (via)
- Technical jargon failure modes.
- Did you ever play Myst?
- Instagram hates the Internet. Noted in article: people leaving Twitter for Instagram. I see that trend.
I’m a bit short this week, but I’ve been on the road and unable to click around as much as I’d like.
- FreeBSD running on xhyve tutorial. (via)
- Ubuntu on Windows. It’s the year of
Linux on the DesktopBash on Windows and unfortunately that’s probably good enough for most. Could be worse, and was. - OpenBSD 5.9 released (early!) (via)
- DiscoverBSD for 2016/03/28.
- TrueNAS Three-Peats!!!
The 20th garbage episode, justing by the summary, talks a lot about the new OpenBSD 5.9 release and other BSD-related matters.