There’s a few links in here that you could lose hours to. Those are the best!
- A 6502 (think Apple I) as a clamshell.
- “predicting the weather in the earth’s core is hard“. Meaning, the earth speeds up and slows down, unpredictably.
- Colour & Shape: Using Computer Vision to Explore the Science Museum Group Collection. (via)
- Simulating Zoom circa 1990. The whole Slow Networks series there is fun. (also via)
- Useful video clips of Turing Award winners. Talking about innovations with the people that actually did them; Knuth on compiler writing, Hellman on public key encryption, etc.
- I wish every program that wanted ‘a SQL database’ would let me use SQLite. Same.
- The Hidden, Destructive Legacy of ‘Duke Nukem’. (via)
- 50 Years of Text Games: 1975: dnd.
- Bluetooth trackball Mark II. The ball is the trackball. (via)
- Semi-related: The Computer History Museum’s short films sorted by topic. You will also find some gems here.
- “The center of the Cloud is in Ashburn, Virginia”. The Cloud, the Civil War, and the “War on Coal”. (via)
- little sound dj, emulating a Game Boy just to make music. (via)
- “TLS Mastery” first draft done! Looking for technical reviewers.
- Generative Unfoldings, Opening April 1, 2021. All open source generative art.
- Links about todo.txt.
Just wanted to add that fosdem’21 is still going on.
https://fosdem.org/2021/
Lots of great talks for a lazy sunday afternoon.