Unofficial theme this week: me commenting on almost every link.
- An odd MIME Content-Disposition or two. I like seeing the analysis of parts of traffic people never usually see.
- My one-liner Linux Dropbox client. Not saying to do this specifically, but the tool integration is nice. (via)
- Pathfinding for Tower Defense. That whole Red Blob site has some interesting learning activities. (via)
- The oral history of the Hampsterdance. Nostalgia for something that was always transitory. (via)
- Flashing my Lenovo x230 with Coreboot. I understand why people do it, but I’d be so nervous about creating a laptop-shaped brick. (via)
- We are now closer to the Y2038 bug than the Y2K bug.
- National Inventors Hall of Fame honors creators of Unix, power drills and more. Power drills and UNIX have a history, though I am sure this was an accidental coincidence. (via)
- Adding Glue To a Desktop Environment. (via)
- Ethical alternatives to popular sites and apps. Linking for alternatives, not for ethics. (via)
- ActivityPub: The “Worse Is Better” Approach to Federated Social Networking. (via)
- The New Social Media. Also about federation. (via)
- Google and Facebook are about advertising and not about it at the same time. (via)
- How to Delete Online Accounts You No Longer Need.
- DAN64, an AVR based 8-bit microcomputer. Crazy but neat. (via)
- Your USB Serial Adapter Just Became a SDR. Software Defined Radio if you didn’t know. (via)
- HelenOS 0.8. New to me. (via)
- Building a Spotify player for my Mac SE/30. I love the FatMac shape. (via)
- ATDT relief. I admit I have done something similar to this with Asterisk and callfiles to exit meetings. (via)
Had to laugh when I saw Hampsterdance mentioned. Unfortunately I wasted some of my life time over reading a part of this convoluted story about a commercial fail par excellence…
We had lots of fun setting Hampsterdance as the homepage on any networked PC we found at a local office and IT fair at the time