Overflow that started 2 weeks ago. Maybe I should go intraweekly for Lazy Reading?
- The Multics history of Unix. I link it for the Dennis Richie anecdote. (via)
- Unix: Building a Development Environment from Scratch. (PDF, via)
- A Life Lesson in Mishandling SMTP Sender Verification. Outlook.com is huge and poorly configured – it’s the AOL email of the 2010s!
- Whatever Happened to the Desktop Computer? (via)
- bhgv/Inferno-OS_Android – an Android port of Inferno OS. Phones seem a natural location for this. (via)
- What is Debian all about, really? Or: friction, packaging complex applications. Uses Debian, but applies to any packaging system. I like the “strong guarantee” language. (via)
- Analysis of SSHFS performance for large builds.
- Keyboard notebook – sized to fit under your keyboard, a good/simple idea. Kikkerland is like the U.S. version of Atypk.
- The Remarkable Number 1/89. (via)
- VF-1, a commandline Gopher client. (also via)
- Spacewar: Fanatic Life and Symbolic Death Among the Computer Bums. A Rolling Stone article from 1972 that ends with code. (via)