Mini-theme, barely: music.

• The Framework Laptop,   Customizable parts, and pick-your-own ports.  (via pikrzyszt on EFNet #dragonflybsd)
• Plaintext Distro.  As in Distributor of zines.  (via)
• Decoded: OpenTTD.  (via)
• 50 Years of Text Games: 1997: Achaea.  I never heard of this but it’s huge in scope.
• Playdate reviews.  Quirky is not the right word but I want to say it.
• The little-known Soviet mission to rescue a dead space station.  (via)
• Never Enough Rhodes.  (via)
• The Tyranny of Spreadsheets.  (via)
• Are we really engineers?, We are not special, and What engineering can teach (and learn) from us.  A series of essays on software engineering.
• The DesQtop.  (via)
• A collection of the worst volume control UIs.  (via)
• Hot failover after 3 decades in space.  (via)
• The best antivirus joke.  (via)
• The best Wolfram Alpha joke.  (also via)
• EXTREME RECORD COLLECTING: CONFESSIONS OF AN ANALOG VINYL SNOB.  I hate to admit it but I have experienced this with first-generation analog recordings vs hearing their later digital versions. (via)