Author: Justin Sherrill

If you were hoping for a mini-theme of synthesizers, you are in luck.

• Chonky Palmtop.
• What’s your favorite vim shortcut/hack
• My New Old Apple Macintosh SE/30 Computer.  (via)
• Emulating Vintage Mac Compilers.  (via)
• The problem of keeping track of hardlinks as you traverse a directory tree.  Linked cause this was a pain for HAMMER2, too.
• Arthur Wesley Dow’s Floating World: Composition (1905 edition).
• Becoming Universal: A New History of Modern Computing.  (via)
• The Sinclair QL.  (also via)
• The Casio QA-100, a simulated synth/sequencer.  (via)
• The Casio MT-40/MT-41 and sleng teng riddim, the start of dancehall.  (via)
• Original Jungle Samples.  (via)
• Making Portishead’s “Dummy”: The Production Experiments of a Trip-Hop Classic.  (via)
• An Improvement on the Pomodoro Technique.
• All desktop calculators are wrong, so I had to build my own.  (via)

This was done early; there’s been a lot of interesting reads on the feeds, so to speak.

• Ask Tilde: What small internet protocols do you like?
• 2022 IGF nominees: on history, intimate and/or personal, miscellaneous, fireworks.
• Animation Storage, animations from the 60s-70s.  (via)
• Aleister Crowley, sysadmin.
• A Web Around the World, Part 3: …Try, Try Again, and Part 4: From Telegraphy to Telephony.
• Year 2038 problem is still alive and well.  (via)
• Yarchive, a lot of archived USENET.  There are some gems in the computer section, like this.  (via)
• The benefits and costs of writing a POSIX kernel in a high-level language.   Easier to debug, less memory control.  (PDF, via)
• The Plausibly Deniable DataBase (PDDB).
• Precursor: From Boot to Root.
• Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy.  (PDF, via)
• Ubuntu limits the console kernel log level even on servers.  I’d rather have noise than missing info.
• Refurb weekend: Texas Instruments Silent 700 Model 745 teletype.
• 50 Years of Text Games: HUTSPIEL and Dr. Dorothy Clark.