Again, way behind cause of being online only irregularly over the last week.   There’s still plenty to look at – August is made for Lazy Reading.

• Never fast enough.  (Scroll way down)  There’s a nonlinear payoff for software speed … for tools.
• Related: Fast Software, the Best Software.
• Also related: Performance Matters.
• On the flip side of that, limiting and slowing social software is a good idea.  (via)
• freemium.cc, free tools for makers.
• https://thehistoryofweb.design/.  The URL is perfectly descriptive.  (via)
• Typography Terms.  Gadzook!  (via)
• Why is modern web development so complicated? A long yet hasty explanation: Part 1.  (via)
• Why Checklists Fail.  Linked cause checklists are usually super-effective.  (via)
• The Roguelike Toolkit (RLTK), implemented for Rust.  The comments in the source page have some interesting further links.
• Dwarf Fortress Diary: The Basement Of Curiosity – Episode 22: Goatbusters.
• The Last Working Olivetti Mainframe Sits In a Tuscan High School.  Comments led me to this neat-looking Olivetti calculator from the year before I was born. (via)
• There are even bots crawling gopherspace.
• We all spend half our day using a keyboard. Do you use any specific keyboard? Which one? Why?  Far more suggestions than you need.
• USB-C Easy Bake Oven.  Interesting for how power is handled.  And cookies.  (via)
• Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q2 2019.  (via)
• I chanced upon an ancient cache of code…  (also via)