Unofficial theme: synthesizers!

• • How to Build a Chess Engine and Fail.  (via)
  • cablesoft.  Finally, a ‘computers are bad’ story where I experienced (some of) the history described.
  • Jon Makes Beats.  Seeing synthesizers and samplers in use.  (via)
  • More synthesizer stuff: the Orchid.  (via)
  • Even more: Music Thing Modular Workshop System.  (via)
  • Using (only) a Linux terminal for my personal computing in 2024.
  • more tales of the unscreenshotable.
  • AI-powered Self Service Checkouts.
  • Why pipes sometimes get “stuck”: buffering.  (via)
  • Minitel: The Online World France Built Before the Web.  (via)
  • Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground.  Tabletop RPG history.  (via)
  • A Margaret Hamilton’s worth of printed code.  (via)
  • What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen.  (also via)

Your video experience of the week: Hundreds of Beavers.  This was played in a theater in my town months ago and I missed it.  I should have gone to see it on the big screen, but here it is on YouTube.  (via)