I’ve got an eclipse happening right over me tomorrow – hope it’s not cloudy!
- Playing Piano to Control My Smart Home. MIDI could be considered an instruction set.
- Open Source Software: The $9 Trillion Resource Companies Take for Granted. A case study from Harvard, not just an opinion piece.
- One hour of the thruster sound from the 1979 video game LUNAR LANDER. Too many bits; sounds too modern. (via)
- The Single File Philosophy. (via)
- The Lost Worlds of Telnet. Galactic Trader looks fun. (via)
- Master of Magic – The Official Rob Hubbard Softography. For C64 music history. (via)
- Tiny undervalued hardware companions. Remember this at Christmastime.
- The xz hack. I think it does not affect any BSD, going by the structure as described.
- The First Appendix N.
The single-file philosophy is a good one! I’ve been applying it to Python and Tcl apps, too. Helps a lot with distribution. And it’s good that people are waking up to the importance of open source at last.
https://groktiddlywiki.com/read/ — TiddlyWiki’s philosophy is to have the entire wiki in a single file