Author: Justin Sherrill

I’ve got an eclipse happening right over me tomorrow – hope it’s not cloudy!

• Playing Piano to Control My Smart Home.  MIDI could be considered an instruction set.
• Open Source Software: The $9 Trillion Resource Companies Take for Granted.  A case study from Harvard, not just an opinion piece.
• One hour of the thruster sound from the 1979 video game LUNAR LANDER.  Too many bits; sounds too modern.  (via)
• The Single File Philosophy.  (via)
• The Lost Worlds of Telnet.  Galactic Trader looks fun.  (via)
• Master of Magic – The Official Rob Hubbard Softography.  For C64 music history.  (via)
• Tiny undervalued hardware companions.  Remember this at Christmastime.
• The xz hack.  I think it does not affect any BSD, going by the structure as described.
• The First Appendix N.

I have been saving up posts from some long threads on the TUHS and COFF mailing lists, so you’re getting some esoteric history today.

• Every OS Sucks.  (Youtube, via)
• Aztec C, which I did not know existed.  (via)
• “romcc is a C compiler which produces binaries which do not rely on RAM, but
  instead only use CPU registers.“
• Ford, first commercial BSD UNIX client.  (via)
• Random facts about rand().
• Related: insults as random passphrases, a generator.  (via)
• paranoia, test your computer’s floating-point ability.  (via)
• Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know.  (via)
• Are We Watching The Internet Die?  “Habsburg AI”  (via)
• The Coherent operating system.  I’ve never heard of this before – a sort of clean-room UNIX.  (via)
• XigmaNAS, a horribly-named FreeNAS replacement.  (via)
• 20 Years of NYC*BUG and Can We Handle 20 More?  April 3rd.

Command line / history is I guess the mini-theme.

• ELIZA Effect, something important to remember about AI.  From a dinosaur blog of all places.
• The Art and History of Lettering Comics.  Authoritative work from a master in the field.  You have seen his work even if you do not realize it.  (via)
• State of the Terminal.  (via)
• The Life and Death of the Bulbdial Clock.  Links to interesting sources.
• Failing to Fail: The Spiderweb Software Way.  (via)
• Regular Expression Matching Can Be Simple And Fast.  (via)
• Related: Structural Regular Expressions (PDF).  You may not be surprised to see it’s by the author of sam.  (via)
• Followup: video is up for the most recent NYCBUG event, “NetBSD for the Advanced Minimalist“.
• Editing long commands in your shell.  (via)