This week blew up with links fast.

• An 8-bit integer overflow turns Mahatma Gandhi into “255 points of pure nuclear rage“.  That’s one of the more entertaining sentences I’ve ever typed here.
• “DevOps” is one of the new buzzwords lately.  The most shallow approaches seem to equate it with automated deployment, but it really seems to be about project management within IT.  It’s probably of most use within larger companies that have enough staff to build up department-internal silos.   I don’t know if it’s a new strategy or a way to deal with the rigidity of larger corporate IT groups.  (via)
• mosh: the answer to ssh annoyances.  (via)
• Why I use Emacs.  I like “retrogrouch.”  (via)
• The Zen of Comprehensive Archive Networks.  You know your system/program has really made it when it starts it own plugin/theme/library/mod/extension/app store collection.  (via)
• Only 90s Web Developers Remember This.  “DHTML was the Twitter Bootstrap of the time.”  (via)
• What is a web framework?  A temperate description.  (via)
• Reflections on Eric Raymond’s “Myth of the Fall”.  Makes a good point: open source is the best when it’s for architectural, interoperational reasons.
• Bitrot and atomic COWs.  Will make you worried about your already-RAIDed data.  (via #dragonflybsd)
• Thoughts on style, the TLS, and errors.  I agree with the note about ‘affirmative conformation confirmation’.
• Technology has changed.  Tech items from a decade ago.  Everything was silvery and round back then.  (via)
• A little farther back in time, Thomas Dolby Explains How Synthesis Works To Kids & Ghosts.  1989, and yes, he plays that song.  (via a mailing list for yetis)
• Related to nothing: it’s odd to see your great-grandfather mentioned in a random place on the web.
• The 2014 7-Day Roguelike Challenge has started.  (via)
• Ow my eyes.

Your unrelated video of the week: This trailer for Crawl.  This is a roguelike multiplayer cross-platform game, though I don’t know if it would work on BSD.  The important thing: the voiceover narration is fantastic.