Accidental theme of the week: old-school non-UNIX operating systems.
- John Horton Conway: the world’s most charismatic mathematician. You may know his name from Conway’s Game of Life. (via)
- I will probably never give my shell dotfiles the major reform they could use.
- Tarn Adams Uses This. Dwarf Fortress.
- Dwarf Fortress Diary: The Basement Of Curiosity Episode Twelve – Pressure Cooker.
- ssh in https. Sneaking ssh in a port where https is already in use; clever.
- Playdate. The online game delivery is the real news; it’s more of an art project platform. (via)
- When you have reached Acme. The minimism of Vim, the overgrowth of Emacs, the brain-melting esotericism of Plan9. (via)
- RETRO: a Modern, Pragmatic Forth Programming Environment. (via)
- Retrocomputing for the masses. ZX80 recreation in the RC2014.
- Serenity OS: A love letter to ’90s user interfaces, with a custom Unix-like core. (via)
- Atari 800 vs. Commodore 64 – The Brief Tale of Two 8-Bit Home Computers. (via)
- Gopher and the Lynx Web. Don’t overcomplicate! (via)
- TempleOS: 1 – Installation. (via)
- OpenVMS/x86_64: VMSI announces first boot of VMS on x86 architecture. (via)
- IBM 360 Model 20 Rescue and Restoration. (via)
- Gallery of Programmer Interfaces. I have not heard of many of these. (via)