This week, I’m opinionated on every link.
- An 80s computer ad that got almost everything correct. It used to be sci-fi environments were super-clean – now they’re dirty, with ubiquitous electronics. That’s something that could be picture-blogged to prove, but I ain’t doing it.
- Bunnie Huang does “exit interviews” when he stops using equipment. Given his electronics knowledge, he goes into a lot of detail, including pictures through a microscope. Speaking of this, how has my ancient HTC Incredible survived 3 years of trips into a salt mine? I don’t know.
- InterTwinkles, open source group decision making software. Don’t know how well it works, but it certainly seems like the right idea. (via)
- Turning the Apple //e into a Lisp machine, part 1. They don’t actually get to the Lisp machine part, but it talks about how Apple computers could load data through the audio jack. I remember doing that with a tape player, too. It sucked. (via)
- kOS. It’s so minimal that I am not sure what it can do or how to use it, but it’s also so minimal that I’m sure there must be something to it. (via)
- Building a Chording Keyboard. I’ve mentioned the Microwriter and Twiddler before, but this article goes into a lot of detail about the actual construction of a home-made unit. (also via)
- Book review: The Healthy Programmer. It may or may not make you exercise, but it will make you feel a little guilty about sitting and reading the web like you are doing right now.
- Hyphen, en dash, em dash, minus. So few people know there’s a difference. (via)
- ASCII Art. History of, examples, and so on. (via, with video)
- Five Useful Git Tips. Git tips come up all the time, but this one is interesting because it’s using “showterm“, which lets you make text-based animations? movies? to show a work process in a terminal. I think I may have linked to something similar before, but this is good.
- How to Avoid the Emacs Pinky Problem. A neat idea, but some of the suggestions are actually going to make it worse. (via)
- Vim: revisited. Decent ideas, and the links at the end are good further reading. There, I’ve posted on both sides of the editor issue. (via)
- The problem with Vim. (via)
Your unrelated link of the week: the Scary Godmother Doll. One of my favorite illustrators, building a doll. I met the creator years ago in Pittsburgh; she is an astonishingly energetic person.