Author: Justin Sherrill

I lean more to the fun topics this week.

• Command Line Interface Guidelines.  (via)
• Ethics in Strategy Gaming, Part 2: Colonization.
• Bombadillo, a non-web browser.  Gemini, Gopher, finger.  (via)
• The Bastard Operator From Hell Complete WWW Archive .  Well, not complete.  (via)
• How Tough is a First Level Fighter?
• Low spec Computers.  (via)
• The Control Room: A Media Archaeology.  (via)
• Mousephone.  Phone Mouse.
• The manuscripts of Edsger W. Dijkstra.  (via)
• Ghoulstorm part 1 and part 2.
• A Gopher client on the Nintendo Switch.  (via)
• The death and life of postmaster@anywhere.

This is one of my more backwards-looking Lazy Reading posts.

• Digital Tools I Wish Existed.  (via)
• Floppy Emu Update: Apple II Copy-Protection.  (via)
• AppleCrate II: A New Apple II-Based Parallel Computer (2008).  I linked to this back in 2011, but this is a new, updated version.  (via)
• Hexographer, for making hexmaps quickly.  (via)
• The return of Bobby Tables, LLC.
• I Love ED on CP/M.  (via)
• The Book of Trees: Visualizing Branches of Knowledge.  More good books there.
• Athanor: The Alchemical Furnace, a documentary about Jan Svankmajer.  (via)
• ALGOL 60 is 60.
• The Colors of Noise.
• Technically, nobody really agreed what time it was until a few decades ago.  (Read the rest of the thread while you are there; there’s a lot of interesting history.)

Your unrelated music of the week: High Command, recommended by the thrashiest band of recent times: Power Trip.

I don’t have to work today for the first time since I am not sure when.  For that, you get links links links.

• My Raspberry Pi Desktop.  (via)
• Text-only websites.  There’s a lot of links to follow there.  (via)
• The secrets of Monkey Island’s source code.  (via)
• Connection Interrupted, image data corruption in motion.  (via)
• The Benefits of Collecting.
• How Mozart became a bad composer.  There is so much in the public domain that I don’t realize.  (via)
• Your computer isn’t yours.  Apple tracks what you run, when.  (via)
• Mini Arcade.  (via)
• Retro games – How I fixed the Atari 2600 awful music.  (via)
• Evaluating Precursor’s Hardware Security.
• Booting from a vinyl record.  (via)
• Beepbox.co.  (via)
• epr — Terminal/CLI Epub reader.  A few seconds of search doesn’t show a BSD port, though.  No, wait, I was wrong.  (via)
• Permissive IPs.  That’s Intellectual Property, and mentions a bunch of tabletop industry things I wasn’t familiar with.
• A few ways to make money in FOSS.
• Improving on QBasic’s Random Number Generator.
• Pen plotter SVG Snowflake generator.
• Fun with Crypto Ancienne: TLS for the Browsers of the Internet of Old Things.
• A review of Envision glasses, a proper use of Google Glass technology.  (via)

Literally most of the tabs I have open right now, in front of you.

• The Definitive Guide to the Doctor Who Theme Music.  (via, via)
• Sinister Sounds of the Solar System.  (also via)
• Well There’s Your Problem Podcast.  Actually stills and audio about engineering disasters.  (via)
• Woodpecker dubstep.
• Softbody Tetris, Fuzzy Edition.
• A Visual History of Internet (IPv4) Address Allocations.  (via)
• The JavaScript Ecosystem.
• Features of a Modern Terminal Emulator.  (video, via)
• Why I Teach vim.  (via)
• Vimcal.  Not totally sure why Vim is in the name but what the heck.  (via)
• My Obsession with Chess.  Incidentally, McCloud’s Understanding Comics has an excellent explanation of closure that goes far beyond comics.   (via)
• Pinafore, for Mastodon instances.
• What is a System-on-Chip (SoC), and Why Do We Care if They are Open Source?
• The Backbone: Conclusion.  Story of the Internet.