Still working on cleaning up RSS backlogs, so this was done early.
- Chonky Palmtop is a DIY portable Linux computer with a split keyboard and 7 inch display. I’ve linked to this before. (via)
- r/ErgoMobileComputers/, from comments at the previous link. The e-ink setups are interesting.
- Porting Zelda Classic to the Web. Interesting for the game and the method. (via)
- MVC — Xerox PARC 1978—79. (via)
- Emulating the Space Invaders look and feel. Recreating analog issues. (via)
- Gopher on the Palm Pilot and the pitfalls of PalmOS connectivity.
- Pendragon, an RPG I never ever encountered.
- Triple Entry Blogging.
- Increasing the surface area of blogging.
- VCF East XIII — David Walden — Remembering the BBN ARPANET Project. (Youtube, via)
- Signs of Life, art show and technology experiment.
- Korg MS-20. (via)
- The failure of the idea of X resources, and What goes into an X resource and its name.
- Termtris on a terminal.
Your unrelated noise music of the week: GROAR by Juanjosé Rivas. (via)
Chris Siebenmann is correct in observing X resources are not used by Gnome, GTK and other toolkits. This may be viewed as a failure. Note, however, that the problem X resources solve–associating configuration parameters with the X server display hardware and decoupling them from shared host and user-level filesystems–was not even mentioned in the article.
In the non-networked environments that form the majority of today’s development systems one does not regularly mix and match X server display hardware with user filesystems and X clients running on different systems. Even the simplest case of home directories shared over NFS is increasingly rare. Thus, the problem that X resources solve doesn’t exist for many developers and is definitely not the focus that it used to be.
FreeBSD 13.1 released.