Author: Justin Sherrill

I am sorely tempted to buy one of those there Flippers.

• Internet Histories, Volume 5, Issue 2, June 2021.  (via)
• World’s first commercial flight simulator. (via)
• The Flipper Zero.  (via)
• The Age of Software: An Introduction.
• Monitoring the Health of Precursor’s TRNGs and Upgrading Precursor’s TRNG.
• Decoding the signal from 1988 Videophone.  (via)
• Basic Fantasy Role Playing Game. Not just talking about it, but you can download it.
• Science Fiction Novels for Economists.  (via several places)
• Hyperbolic Text.
• The Timeline of Information Technology.  (via)
• The Tyranny of Time.  Using a specific vocabulary, but good facts.  (via)
• Surprising shared word etymologies.  (via)

Your unrelated music link of the week: Chronicling Yautja’s Decade-Long Quest to Merge Sludge and Grindcore.

A short but oddball batch of links this week.

• Ambigram StyleGAN faces.  Somewhat disturbing but well explained.  (via)
• How Developers Choose Names.  (also via)
• Perl / Unix One-liner Cage Match, Part 1 and Part 2.  (via)
• rpg-cli: Your filesystem as a dungeon!  Did I link this already?  (via)
• Electric Ink Analysis.  Product review as category review.
• Dwarf Fortress Creator Explains its Complexity & Origins.  Video.  (via)
• RetroForth investigation.
• 50 Years of Text Games: 1992: Silverwolf.
• More 6502 Updates.
• Problems with video recreations of classic pinball.
• Gun book.  (via)
• Heavy Metal Parking Lot, the movie, which I am sure I have mentioned before.
• A New Session.  A telnet-only magazine.  (via)

 

Normally I’d throw this into the Lazy Reading section, but it’s happening Thursday and that would be too late: Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari (and Chuck E. Cheese) is doing a live Q&A Thursday in conjunction with ICHEG.

Oddball finds week.

• explain.dalibo.com, a Postgres EXPLAIN ANALYZE explainer.  (via)
• Hifi Wasteland I: 100 Year Old Quick Silver Cloud, the sound of a vacuum tube decaying.
• Zosya, modern games for Spectrum ZX machines, I think?  (via)
• The different types of modern (2021) SSH keys (and some opinions).
• Related: Understanding OpenSSH’s various options around keys and key algorithms.
• Pinebook Pro review.
• Cracking a 35 year old Macintosh Game.  (via)
• Reviving a Dead Macintosh Classic, from the same place.
• System76 announced an open source mechanical keyboard “Launch”.  (via)
• The Graphics Gremlin: a Retro ISA Video Card.  (via)
• 50 Years of Text Games: 1991: Trade Wars 2002.
• Handheld ePaper map.
• Roguelike Celebration 2021 open for submissions.

Your unrelated video of the week: “treat the human face like a graphic equaliser for breakbeat“.  Hypnotic.  (via)