Author: Justin Sherrill

Apple ][ minitheme, this week.

• • The Public Domain Review, an Interview With Editor Adam Green.  Worth looking at just for the images.  Public Domain!   (via)
  • Related: Nightingale, the journal of the Data Visualisation Society.  I would like to have a card stating I was a member, just to feel smug in a good way.
  • Legible News, culled from Wikipedia.  Readability is the draw.  (via multiple)
  • Pervane, a plain text private note taking tool.  (via)
  • Org-mode features You May Not Know.  (via)
  • “…this is my initial experience of a website…”  Get a newsletter, click a link, get a “subscribe to our newsletter!” popup.  That’s just laziness.  (via)
  • Common LISP awk macro for easy text file operations.  I like reading LISP even if I never write it.
  • OK Doomer.  (via)
  • Firing Up the Apple //c for “Not x86 Week”.  (via)
  • Vintage Apple.  (via)
  • The Importance of Being E.R.N.I.E.  (via)
  • Intro to the Haiku review series: the BeOS reborn.  (via)
  • Geometry: A minimalistic, fully customizable ZSH theme.  Linked cause I never thought of shells as themeable before.   (via)
  • ThinkPad Mods, Done Right.  Dangit dangit dangit!  This mod uses the one corner I smashed on my x220.  (via)

Your unrelated music link of the day: A Beginner’s Guide to Venetian Snares’ Breakcore Madness.  Oh Bandcamp RSS feed, how did I live without you?

Today’s date is fun to type.

• Elizabeth Goodspeed’s list of open access archives, historical ephemera and found materials.  (via)
• Tinker Tech, a review of the Pinebook Pro that’s an exact description of the target audience.
• Pinebookpro gaming part 2, related.  (via)
• NexDock 2, a Kickstarter I regret missing.  (via previous link)
• Meet micro:bit.  I think I linked these before.  (via)
• SourceGen Disassembly Projects.  Mostly Apple][.  (via)
• PastWindow, a window with a 6-month delay.  (via)
• Plotting Perlin Landscapes.  Pen plotters are hypnotizing to watch in motion.
• Sea and Spar Between, an online generator of Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson’s poetry, mashed together.  Read the instructions.  (via)
• The text adventure game of exiting a telnet session.  (via)
• Coffee++ keyboardlayout (ENTI-key++).  For when you don’t want to put down your drink.  (via)
• Mysterious packets in the night.  Linked cause live monitoring is underrated.
• AI Dungeon and Creativity.
• Tangent: The Automated Dungeon Master.
• Bucklespring, Model M audio emulation.  (via)
• Terminal Phase, a terminal-based space shooter.  (via)
• The happinesses and stresses of full-time FOSS work.
• KnightOS was an interesting operating system.
• The 4X seen as an RPG.  (via)
• Master of Orion, in-depth.
• anideafora.website.  Exactly that.  (via)
• 2020 Web Milestones.  Flash and Python 2 finally stop this year.  (via)

Your unrelated music link of the day: The Death Metal Double Life of “Atypical” Star Keir Gilchrist.  (thanks, Drew Diver)  Getting that link made me notice the Bandcamp RSS feed quietly stopped working; an inquiry to their support got me this independent link for now.