Author: Justin Sherrill

Guess which link this week is a business decision I am maybe considering…

• Weird: Generative art in Common Lisp.  More here from comments at source link.
• Print-your-own chocolate molds.
• All Sound Recordings Prior to 1923 Will Enter the US Public Domain in 2022.
• Related: An advent calendar of works becoming public domain in 2022.
• A list of links about fakery.
• In Praise of Glitches.  I feel …nostalgic? about uuencoding errors in rebuilt images.
• 50 years of Text Games: 2018: Weyrwood.
• Parceiro: An Extraordinary Upgrade for Amiga 1000 Users.
• Fixing a Tiny Corner of the Supply Chain.

There’s some gift ideas in here.

• The  Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute.  Styles and time periods.  (via)
• d20 Orbs.
• Robot Arm Clock.  Entertainingly dumb.  (via)
• postmarketOS, an indirect explanation.
• SerenityOS, an indirect explanation.
• Meet the Self-Hosters, Taking Back the Internet One Server at a Time.  (via)
• Related and same source: r/selfhosted.
• Have Vint Cerf tell you about how he and others built the Internet.
• The Ether, an anti-radio.  This seems like a good Christmas present to me.  (via)
• This can’t work out well.  (via)
• 50 Years of Text Games: 2015: Lifeline, 2016: The Freshman, and 2017: Universal Paperclips.
• The Analog Thing.  (via)

There are some stealth links here to much more reading, if you look carefully.

• mepo, Open Street Map data app.  I didn’t think something like OSM could be built collectively but I am glad to be wrong.  (via)
• I will pay you cash to delete your npm module.
• What is not portable.
• IBM 5110 Emulator.  IBM’s first “portable”.  (also via)
• Orgdown – a New Lightweight Markup Standard for Text Documents.  I just like the portmanteau.  (via)
• Jumping in at the Deep End – On Starting Reading a Series Halfway Through.  I did this for Finder, and I think it was more enjoyable for me.
• Johnny Decimal.  Not a bad idea.  (via)
• Every business process secretly wants to fail.
• IFComp 2021 Results.
• Human Non-Universals, or: Make Your Own Vancian Culture ™.  Makes more sense if you’ve read Jack Vance.  Which you should, he’s in Appendix N.
• The History of Command Palettes: How Typing Commands Became The Norm Again.  (via)
• A good gift guide.  Remember my perpetual suggestions too.

No mini-theme this week.

• Cracking the Adventure Time Cipher.  (via)
• The Tildeverse Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup server is fixed.  There’s a tilde DCSS server?
• I Have No TV.  Gobs of documentaries.  (via)
• Concert Roulette.  (also via)
• Building WireGate: A WireGuard front to detect compromised keys.  (via)
• T700 Crowdfunding.  More Thinkpad life extension.  (via)
• Tiny Emus.  (via)
• 50 Years of Text Games: 2013: A Family Supper and 2014: 80 Days.
• Homebrew Game Characteristics.
• Plain Text Project Tools Roundup November 17, 2021.
• One of these JPEGs is not like the other.
• Pirijan Uses This.  A different style UT answer than I’ve seen before.
• Trackers: The Sound of 16-Bit.  (video, via)
• Cambridge, another falling-blocks game.  Check the Other Notable Games links at the end. (via)