Last of the year!
- The Internet of Unprofitable Things. Making mistakes permanent in hardware. (via)
- Why Mastodon is defying the “critical mass”.
- How People Used to Download Games From the Radio. (via)
- Why You Should Never, Ever Use Quora. Don’t support dead ends.
- On the attempts to resurrect Space Cadet Pinball.
- xclave: Hardware Testing in Mass Production, Made Easier.
- A Short History of Computer-Generated Visual Effects.
- Some new-to-me features in POSIX (or Single Unix Specification) Bourne shells.
- Cygwin and the Windows Subsystem for Linux, when to use one and not the other. (via)
- xterm full reverse.
- RSync the old is still new…
- A Visual Defragmenter for the Commodore 64. Fun to watch, oddly. (via)
- Git Your SQL Together (with a Query Library). The “SQL Truths” section is correct. (via)
- How I wound up finding a bug in GNU Tar. Goes with the “no standard for tar” link last week. This bug could be in other tar versions… or none at all.
- EmuTOS, a free operating system for Atari computers. (via)
- Creating a (Non-Trivial) Lisp Game in 2018. Not the first language for game development. (via)
- Deorbital’s best games of 2018 named by Dante Douglas, Wasim Salman, David Shimomura, Amr Al-Aaser, Yussef Cole, and Shonté Daniels.
- The Very Slow Movie Player. (via)
Another excellent issue! It was interesting to read more about Lisp game development, a thing I know exists, but not much else (despite the regular game jam on Itch). And the warning about Quora is most welcome. Reminds me of what Wattpad is doing with the stories people write, holding everyone’s books hostage (with DRM) even when they’re under a Creative Commons license, which is illegal. But who’s going to sue them…
And yes, I saw the article on Mastodon. It makes excellent points.