Next NYCBUG meeting is Wednesday night, and you need to RSVP if you’re going to be there in person. It sounds like there’s going to be a nice roundup of EuroBSDCon experiences and also the video … team? squad? support.
Tab cleanout!
- How computers remained unpatented. (via)
- 50 years of New Worlds magazine, archived. (via)
- THE CYBERIZER, Mk.2.
- Cyberdelia 2024 – look at the D20 and 2D16 drink menus for fun.
- Small Internet protocol roundup. (via)
- You Have Installed OpenBSD. Now For The Daily Tasks.
- Programming the Convergent WorkSlate’s spreadsheet microcassette future. An 80s spreadsheet tablet.
- ten years ago i let people fuck up my 8-bit art.
- Eadgar of Poe, ‘Þe Hræfn’. þ is pronounced ‘th’ if it helps.
- The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine. (via)
- The agony and the ecstasy of, um, hardware products.
A bit short this week; I’ve been traveling.
- G4 Mac Mini Is A Wolf In Apple IIc Clothing.
- Origin of the ‘more’ command. (via)
- The Doc Web. (via)
- Balance of Power, a game I never heard of.
- Technical Marvels, Part 6: Musical Automatons.
- rc, the paper, and rc, designed and redesigned for UNIX shell. (via)
- SQLite exists because of battleship database failure. And other things. (via)
- POSSE, Publish On your Site, Syndicate Elsewhere. I see this more often now from writers that I would call Serious. (via)
A bit more… artsy? this week.
- Coding Together on the Apple II+. Mostly I just like the site design. (via)
- Introducing MNT Reform Next. Might replace my ancient, indestructible X220.
- Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison.
- DOOM on a volumetric display.
- “Run Your Own Mail Server” Auction for BSD Conference AV Team. Closes today!
- A new BSD made out of old BSDs. (via)
- Every Single Company’s Website Right Now. Also 2000s Business Names. (both via)
- The Moral Economy of the Shire. (via)
- ‘Images Heard And A Music Seen’: A Conversation With The Brothers Quay. (via)
Your unrelated music link of the week: DJ Krush – Strictly Turntablized.
No mini-theme this week.
- nmap in the movies. (via)
- “This is the first image taken from space.”
- “THE HIVEMIND SWARMED, an oral history exploring Gamergate’s aftermath”.
- Roguelike Celebration Preview Event! September 8th, so in a few hours.
- Related: Roguelike Celebration 2024 Speakers. Each individual speaker’s presentation sounds like an article I’d link here.
- Email addresses almost became backwards to what we all know now. (notice the author)
- Dead Media Project. More vanished technology than I’ve ever seen. (via)
- Programming-related rants. (also via)
- BRIEFLY NOTED: Non-Fiction That Could Be RPG Sourcebooks. (via)
- Unraveling character webs. I love the diagrams and don’t know any of the books. (via)
After the initial notes, this is a week to dedicate some time to reading; these are more intense than usual.
- Sept 4 NYC*BUG: GEFS: The Long road to Production Use, Ori Bernstein. Go if you are near, and there are plans to stream if you are not near.
- Speaking of streaming, the NYCBUG group has done a significant amount of work on streaming open-source meetings; now you can contribute (tax-advantaged) to it.
- OK, now for the reading bits.
- The Tic-Tac-Toe Mysteries of Xerloc O’Xolmes.
- In Which Graphic Novels Are Optimized for Portability.
- Dinosaur’s Pen, old tech media images. (via)
- No apps no masters.
- Fight On! Returns.
- The rich history of ham radio culture.
- Steampunk strandbeest.
- SSH has become our universal (Unix) external access protocol.
- Generating Mazes. (via)
- The Dying Computer Museum. A good reason to pay attention to the Computer History Museum, SDF’s Interim Computer Museum, or the not-enough-people-know-it iCHEG.
- Vibing With Some Tunes and a Retro Wave Slideshow on the Apple IIe. Synthwave already has early Apple visual associations; this seems like a perfect match.