Month: February 2022

This was done early; there’s been a lot of interesting reads on the feeds, so to speak.

• Ask Tilde: What small internet protocols do you like?
• 2022 IGF nominees: on history, intimate and/or personal, miscellaneous, fireworks.
• Animation Storage, animations from the 60s-70s.  (via)
• Aleister Crowley, sysadmin.
• A Web Around the World, Part 3: …Try, Try Again, and Part 4: From Telegraphy to Telephony.
• Year 2038 problem is still alive and well.  (via)
• Yarchive, a lot of archived USENET.  There are some gems in the computer section, like this.  (via)
• The benefits and costs of writing a POSIX kernel in a high-level language.   Easier to debug, less memory control.  (PDF, via)
• The Plausibly Deniable DataBase (PDDB).
• Precursor: From Boot to Root.
• Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy.  (PDF, via)
• Ubuntu limits the console kernel log level even on servers.  I’d rather have noise than missing info.
• Refurb weekend: Texas Instruments Silent 700 Model 745 teletype.
• 50 Years of Text Games: HUTSPIEL and Dr. Dorothy Clark.

 

 

No mini-theme this week.

• lofi generator.  Pleasant, though it says something that it can be autogenerated.  (via)
• Animated Engines.  (also via)
• Real Spaceships.  Interesting but I can’t take a chonky shuttle seriously.  (via, via)
• Everything I Know About Life I Learned From PowerPoint.  Not the book itself, but a list of the resources used for the book, all of which are useful.
• Why You Should Start a Blog Right Now.  (via)
• Reed-alert: five years later.
• Tedium on self-hosting / cloud service replacement.  A good article.
• Vintage Computer Festival East (NJ) is in-person, February 26th.
• Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported.  (via)
• SheepSforza: the SheepShaver Power Mac emulator for OpenPOWER.  (via)
• Ketchup mayo mustard.
• Manicules.
• The Influence of Roguelike Visuals.

Old hardware is the mini-theme.

• RAIN PSP, a homebrew 80s-style laptop.
• Cosmic Background Radiation Dice.  Of course a nixie display.
• The comp.sys.sinclair crap games competition 2021.  (via)\
• ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories: Seeking Submissions and Pitches!  (via)
• Video game preservation  vs copyright.  I’m still not sure who owns Castle Wolfenstein.   (via)
• CR+LF has a long history.   (via)
• GitHub – ViolenceWorks/VT-69.  Possibly vapor but looks neat.  (via)
• PC booting from a vinyl record (turn volume down).  (via)
• DNSSEC Mastery, second edition, creeping out.
• My retrocomputer projects, Q1 2022.
• Epitaph to Laptops.

Mini-theme: music.

• Retrocomputing can be more than games.
• The PinePhone keyboard case.  PDA nostalgia.
• Simulating the IBM 360/50 mainframe from its microcode.  Linked cause The Mythical Man-Month talks about the 360 and I never had a picture in my head to connect.
• The Whimsical Web.  (via)
• (Non-)Human, AI Reproducing Absence.
• Sendxmpp as a Replacement for Mail(1).  Odd but I can’t say why.  (via)
• The Old Internet Shows Signs of Quietly Coming Back.  (via)
• Chuck Moore’s Creations (Forth and ColorForth).  (via)
• Writing better release notes.  Points 3, 5, and 6 are important.
• “A Political History of X” – Keith Packard (LCA 2020).  (via)
• Dialing Up.  All modem sounds.  (via)
• Track, a vector music visualizer.  (via)
• John Peel Roulette.  Eclectic forever.  (also via)