A mix of complaints, history, and odd technical items. The usual!
- Unsung Beauty of Analog Devices Datasheets. (via)
- Managing passwords using ed and gpg2. Because: no tempfile.
- Adding redirection to the gopher protocol.
- How Long Will Unbreakable Commercial Encryption Last? Readers of a certain age will remember how PGP was briefly export controlled; also remember that history rhymes. (via)
- How my application ran away and called home from Redmond. (Thanks, Heiko Kuhrt)
- Twenty Thousand Hertz, a podcast about audio. (via)
- The tiniest FatMac. (really a console and an emulator, but that’s fine.)
- Thoughts on (and pics of) the original Macintosh User Manual. (via)
- 93% of Paint Splatters are Valid Perl Programs. This is not the throwaway joke it sounds like. (via)
- ChessBoss – enhancing physical chessboards with computer vision. Chessboards are natural placemarkers. (via)
- Wackaging, a trend I hope will end. (via)
- The Fantasy of Opting Out. (via)
- Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q2 2019. (via)
- James Mickens’ Tenure Announcement. It is exactly as wonderful as you would think. (via)