Month: July 2024

I am attempting to clear my link backlog but not succeeding.

• Deconstructing the Role-Playing Video Game.  (via)
• From boiling lead and black art.  Veers into UNIX history at the end.  (via)
• A Look Back at StripWare.
• Escaping the software tar pit: model clashes and how to avoid them.  (via)
• The Programmer Productivity Myth.
• Plan 9 ported to SPARC over a few days.
• More engineering case studies to dive into.
• You can see when Great Britain changed from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar by typing ‘cal 9 1752’.  Just cause time is messy, it’s different for other countries.
• Also, time goes faster on the moon.  That’s not a figure of speech.
• Video of Michael W. Lucas’s recent presentation on Run Your Own Mail Server at NYCBUG.
• State of Text Rendering 2024.  (via)
• Esquire’s 75 best sci-fi books of all time.  Feels clickbaity, but a good list for finding books you may not have read yet.  (via)

I wanted to clear all the newsletters items I’ve saved, so you are getting links until my inbox no longer paginates.

• Just Use Postgres for Everything.  (via)
• When web search failed me for Postgres.
• The Future of MySQL is Postgres. (target from previous link)
• From Cloud Chaos to FreeBSD Efficiency.  Or any BSD.   (via)
• Layers and Gateways, a historical view.  Railways vs networks.
• The workstation you wanted in 1990, in your pocket.
• Paul Ceruzzi has a Substack.
• pkgsrc-2024Q2 is out.
• X Window System at 40.  (via)
• Some TENEX history.
• Why shitty robots are the antidote of perfectionism, a video.  Her store has neat stuff.
• Scifiinterfaces.com.  I linked to this in 2013 but it’s still going.  (reminded via)
• Largest old computer I’ve seen a person keep yet.  (via)
• Tiny TV 2.  (via)
• UNLICENSED: Bootlegging As Creative Practice, a book.  (via)
• One Page Dungeon Reviews.  (via)