Author: Justin Sherrill

I have some neat history items mixed in this week.

• ASCII table and history (or, why does Ctrl+i insert a Tab in my terminal?)   (via)
• As Flash dies a little more.
• Beginner Problems With TCP & The socket Module in Python.  Linked cause it shows why MTU size matters.  (via)
• My Top 20 Interactive Fiction, 2019 Edition.   With links to play.
• Monsters and Manuals’ 1500th Anniversary: Half Time After the Time?  Linked for the best-of links in the article; that’ll give you some reading.
• ‘A Humument’ is a completely novel project.  A meaningless book, extrapolated into 300+ works of art.  (via)
• Scanimate News.  This was TV/computer graphics in the early 80s.  (via)
• Deep dive into uber-obscure video game research.  Linking to the summary; continue on if the thread is interesting.
• The Dirty Business of Hosting Hate Online.  One of the reasons I don’t use Cloudflare.
• Level Design Patterns in 2D Games.
• disquiet.com.  Lots and lots to listen to.  (via)
• Looking inside a 1970s PROM chip that stores data in microscopic fuses.
• ASCII art RPG Stone Story launches into early access.  I’m stretching it with the ‘roguelike’ tag here.
• Turning a MacBook into a Touchscreen with $1 of Hardware.  (via)

Your unrelated music of the week: Blarf: Cease and Desist.  (via)

This week’s material filled up fast.  It’s vacation season in the northern hemisphere, so let’s see what next week brings…

• “Anyway my point here is that all of crypto should be run entirely by tweens.”  Look for the Utility Token section, though it’s all fun.
• How to calculate leap second variation for the year 3000.  (via)
• Ooops, I guess we’re full-stack developers now.  (via)
• Text size control in st.
• DLX400 typewriter as a Keyboard.  Neat but it must be annoying; those aren’t great keyboards.
• Fast Software, the Best Software.
• “Don’t put it on GitHub“, something we all should know.  (scroll down to last third)
• Creepy pumpkin.  It doesn’t have to be a pumpkin; this could apply to all sorts of things!
• Roguelike Level Design Addendum: Static or Procedural?  You’ve played both, I’m sure.
• An xargs lesson.  (via)
• The Legacy of the Unix Wars is still around us.  (also via)
• What I want out of my window manager.
• Emacs users are like Terry Pratchett’s Igors.  (via)
• Slacking on security.  I don’t think Slack is a healthy product to use.
• Dwarf Fortress will let dwarves pet animals and I’m sure that won’t backfire.
• Astronauts Falling on the Moon.  No achievement so amazing you can’t trip and fall in the middle of it.  (via)
• LGP-30 – A Drum Computer of Significance.  I think the computer in The Story of Mel, mentioned here before.  (via)

I get indirectly cranky, this week.

• Dungeon Generation in Diablo 1.  Roguelike!  (via)
• Pressing Forward.  “The grassroots mechanical keyboard scene”.  I did not know about the Hall Effect, or the X1 keyboard, both of which are interesting.
• sc-im, a terminal spreadsheet.  Like Visicalc all over again!
• Design tools are holding us back.  I like the note on how toolschains are becoming too ultra-specific.  (via)
• The Internet and My 53 Years Online.
• Finally got my Emacs setup just how I like it.
• Secretly Public Domain.  This means there’s now a huge amount of books, free to read, that couldn’t be reliably identified before.
• The Builder’s Remorse.  “once it was handed over to the corporation, everyone lost control”.  Collectively no-one’s fault.
• Size and the Inert Sandbox.  About Frontier: Elite.
• Tabletop Whale.  “An original science illustration blog”.  (via)
• The Glorious, Profitable, Inescapable Art of Addiction and Make Them Want. Delay. Fulfill. Repeat.  Video games, in an experience I bet we all share.