Happy St. Patrick’s Day! In the U.S., we drink green beer and wear kilts, cause nobody’s terribly sure what Irish means within an American context anymore.
- Can you identify this VMS roguelike? (thanks, Erik Blomberg)
- An amusing story about a practical use of the null garbage collector.
- A potential way to have spaces in filenames and not break the Unix command line.
- QueryParser. Well, at least Uber has a positive side effect. (via)
- Sortix. (via)
- Light Phone 2. Linked to mostly because of the e-ink screen. (via)
- futures of distributions, “programmer-archaeologists”. (via)
- Tidelift. Related to the previous link: a sort of umbrella organization to create financial incentives for open source maintenance. (via)
- Looking back on the Jupiter Ace (Forth Minicomputer). (via)
- Unix folklore: using multiple sync commands. (via)
- Actually using ed. (via)
- Pulled from the last item’s source link: people who use acme seem to be devoted to it – even more than vi/emacs users.
- But there’s always ed. (also via)
- While on the editor kick: Spacemacs, an enhanced Emacs.
Your unrelated mollusk-related death metal of the week: Slugdge.
Yay, someone remembers the Jupiter Ace!
On a different note, maybe the reason Linux distros have trouble packaging anything made with Node is that npm is absolutely terrible. Twice already hundreds of packages in there were totaled by one dev removing one lib made of one little function it would have been easier to inline, or heck, reimplement. And that’s just the high-profile cases everyone’s heard about. So maybe, just maybe, we don’t want to blame everyone else for refusing to deal with that insanity.