Small computers is the accidental theme this week.
- Remembering the TRS-80.
- 80s Corporate Airbrush-High Tech. Eighties! (via)
- My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge. What could yours be? You could have a website, not just a social media identity, and be much better off for it. (via)
- Beaker Browser, a peer-to-peer browser. (via)
- Good signoffs. (via)
- Open Library book sponsorships. (via)
- ASCIIdent. All-ASCII characters, open world game. (via)
- are.na, a site I am repeatedly stumbling into. A sort of blogging platform/visual recorder? I have only just started to look, but it seems like a good place to record an aesthetic, sort of like ffffound was, once.
- The Teletext Archaeologist – A visual and interactive teletext history. (via)
- Pocket Popcorn Computer. (via)
- Review of Pinebook Pro. The hardware notes are most relevant, not the Linux whateverness. (via)
- Ditching Event Platforms for the IndieWeb. (via)
- The Invention of Forth. (via)
- Falsehoods CS Students (Still) Believe Upon Graduating.
- Neovim and the state of text editor art in 2019. First explanation of “why NeoVim” that I’ve seen. (via)
- Emacs: Fury Road. (via)
Unrequited nostalgia! I followed the TRS-80 link, hoping to find something about the Z-80-in-keyboard computer that I first met in about 1980, but no: this is the Johnny-come-lately portable thing with the eight-line LCD screen. I’m sure it was all manner of cool at the time, but I never met one. I can’t even complain about the re-use of the name, because there’s at least another completely different thing with the same name that ran on a 6809 and could do color.