Author: Justin Sherrill

Oddities this week.

• Text-to-image for my inbox.  Random subjects into pictures.
• How we monitor the temperature of our machine rooms.  Linked for the reminder I need to look at that hardware.
• Bootstrapping the Old fashioned Way.  So… painful!
• The Open Source Rotary Cell Phone, 2 years later.  Surely I linked it before.
• A retro style online SSH client to play Nethack.  (via)
• Connectix Quickcam, the first webcam.  Designed by a studio in Schenectady, NY, which I happened to visit just after the product release.
• The Nevada National Security Site.  Here’s part 2 and part 3.
• Prompt injection attacks against GPT-3.
• XScreenSaver 6.05 out now.

No default theme this week.

• The Codeless Code, coding koans.
• The Black Beast cyberdeck.
• The World of TSRan.
• THE SYNTHESIZER’S GREATEST HITS – A1 POSTER.  (via)
• Campaign Cartographer 3.  Software for making fake maps.  (via)
• The Sender Policy Framework.  Ranks up there with IPSec as possibly designed to make things worse, not better.
• The Things Spammers Believe – A Tale of 300,000 Imaginary Friends.
• The Eternal Paradox.
• Pope Fibonacci.
• Roguelike Celebration 2022 speaker list, plus preview today.
• Syntactics Crystalwriter.
• Circuit Simulator.  (via)
• Enlightenment 2.0.

One of these is a pure nostalgia link for me.

• Games from the Trash: The History of the TRS-80.  (via)
• preventing loss dot jp2.
• Notes from a 1984 trip to Xerox PARC.
• Return to Monkey Island.
• SSH Tips and Tricks.  (via)
• Macintosh Classic II with e-ink display.
• Hacker News historical “I predict” statements; sometimes hilarious in hindsight.  (via)
• The Pitt Rivers Museum.  Old school museum; worth seeing in person but there’s nice images of the ‘Victorian Age of Pilfering’ artifacts.
• Advent of Computing: Episode 89 – Forth.  (via)
•  The Public Packet Infrastructure.
• Large scale Internet SSH brute force attacks seem to have stopped here.
• Rotating food gifs.

This came together in about a day.

• Plua 2 continued: open source under GPL for your classic Palm.
• The ADAM74 terminal.  The ribbon cable does it for me.  (via)
• Retro UUCP/UNIX community?
• Indirectly from the above: A Compiler Writing Journey.
• Analyzing ScotRail audio announcements with Datasette—from prototype to production.
• Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers.
• PicoEMP.  You could really ruin someone’s day with this.  Or many someones. (via)
• ed is the standard editor.  (via)
• A Zen Guide to Paper and Pen Games.  (also via)
• XScreenSaver was released 30 years ago.
• Survival Research Labs medley.  Strandbeests with shotguns and flamethrowers.
• An Unnecessarily Detailed Look at the Design of the Login Screen.  (via)
• Setting up Minecraft, for absolute beginners.

Some link cleanout going on here.

• • bps.space successfully lands a model rocket.  Without smashing it into the ground, I mean. I can do that.
  • Emergency Exit Coffee Table.
  • Subgenius collage art.
  • The 100 Most Influential Pages in Comic Book History.  (via)
  • A design system for building retro Apple interfaces.  (via)
  • Make My Drive Fun.  Car trip, not your disk drive.  (via)
  • Links for people who remember Amstrads.
  • Play music from your LCD monitor with a radio.  (via)
  • Yabai — A tiling window manager for macOS.  A difficult hack.  (via)
  • I love my GPD Micro PC.
  • One D&D.
  • You can get 30-minute predictions on the Aurora Borealis.  Why 30 minutes?  Cause that’s how far away the L1 satellite is that gets hit by them first.