SEMIBUG’s having a presentation on CARP tomorrow. It’s being given by Nick Holland who has a long presentation history. It’ll be online through Jitsi, so anyone can see it.
Nostalgia / game styling is the inadvertent theme of the week.
- 1-bit pixel art of Hokusai’s ”The Great Wave off Kanagawa”. The layout of that site is fun. (via)
- SpaceTraders: an API based game. (via)
- From comments on the previous source: Text Elite.
- The seven programming ur-languages. (via)
- The Next Generation in Graphics, Part 2: Three Dimensions in Hardware.
- The Chonky Pocket computer.
- The Flexowriter which was I think the output from a version of the Whirlwind. (via)
- Before UNIX daemons, there were gnomes.
- AutoHotKey, which I always thought of as compensation for Windows not having a shell.
I’m glomming all BSD and not-BSD into these roundup posts. I don’t think they need to be separate.
- The Apple ][ Age, a new book. (via)
- Let’s Make Sure Github Doesn’t Become the only Option. (via)
- The Cocoa Press Chocolate 3D Printer.
- Converting My X201 ThinkPad into a Slabtop. (via)
- Xterm: It’s better than you thought. (via and via)
- A look at terminal emulators, part 1.
Sensenmann: Code Deletion at Scale. (via) - The NYCBUG presentation on GeFS from a few days ago is now online.
- More NYCBUG in the future!
- Ancient Myths and Open Source.
- intpm(4), the smbus power control I didn’t know existed.
- NetBSD AGM2023: Annual General Meeting, May 13. Nicely open.
- The Museum of Screens. (via)
- The Internet Isn’t Meant To Be So Small. (also via)
- Drass: Shadow of Doubt. Cubism makes a comeback. (also also via)
Reminder: GEFS, NYCBUG, tomorrow.
Back by popular demand.
- 50 Shades of Rust, or emerging Rust GUIs in a WASM world. Everything has its own name and language, and there’s 20 of them! Great! (via)
- Review of Six Text Editors. Fun hot takes on old-school editors. (via)
- Calculators, codes, and hidden messages. (via)
- textart.sh. Copy/paste almost anywhere. (via)
- The Modern WWW.
- WizardKnighting Planescape.
- How an 18th Century Sailing Battleship Works. Ostensibly for an upcoming movie, but I always think of the Aubrey/Maturin books.
- Fun with Kermit and ZMODEM over SSH.
- 130 A History Of The World According To Getty Images. Public domain does not mean public. (via)
- The 13 Levels of Complexity of Turntable Scratching.
- Junk Drawer Phone as a Music Streaming Server. (via)
- Of Sun Ray laptops, MIPS and getting root on them.
- Set up your own CalDAV and CardDAV servers on OpenBSD.
I’ve been posting in this new pattern for a while now. The content is mostly the same – DragonFly updates, BSD user meetings, oddball mostly history links – but I’m posting as I see them instead of doing a weekend summary. Which do you prefer? The summary or the drip?
Some links: The Next Generation in Graphics Part 1, talking about the colossal shift in gaming that was Doom/Quake, and different kinds of differential, explaining how GPS is corrected. And here’s something unusual: Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band tracks with single instruments separated out by AI. You can more easily hear how unique John French’s drumming was/is.
If you are near Portugal this September, so is EuroBSDCon 2023. Registration and the call for papers are both out.
VCF East photos. Some of these machines are complete mysteries to me.
The next NYCBUG meeting, May 3rd, will be a talk about GEFS, the Good Enough File System, and porting from Plan9 to OpenBSD.
Michael W. Lucas is talking about his new OpenBSD filesystems book tomorrow at SemiBUG’s meeting. It’s online so you don’t even have to be there.
Registration is open for BSDCan 2023, and here’s what you will see there.
SimCity 2000 on OpenBSD, but should work on most any BSD.
ChiBUG’s meeting in the normal location tomorrow. Go, if you are near.
Audiobooks Without Audible. Apple and Google have a financial incentive to make data loading that is on their platforms but outside of their marketplace as crappy as possible. (via)
NYCBUG is meeting in person tomorrow. Go if you are near, otherwise catch the stream.
The Age of Average, which applies to operating system / open source development these days too, I think.
I haven’t done this in a while. Your unrelated music link of the week: Drifted Entities Vol. 2 by Healing Force Project. New electronic, but not modern.