Category: BUG

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• Next NYCBUG: QEMU Virtualization on BSDs, Jim Brown, 2025-01-08.  QEMU is far more influential than I expected.
• For The Love of God, Make Your Own Website.  (via)
• The Most Iconic Electronic Music Sample of Every Year (1990-2023).
• A physical save button.
• Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System (1978) vs Spanner (2012).  (via)
• SCCS roach motel.   A pretty exhaustive description of SCCS and the weave format.
• Creating a Typeface: Humanist Computer.
• Public domain works done for NASA.  (via previous)
• The Biggest Shell Programs in the World.  You want to look and also look away.  (via)

FINALLY cleaned out my inbox.

• NYCBUG Aug 7: Brian Callahan “Once again, I’ve done something no one asked for”
• (added after I published this) “Constructing Your Own Linux and FreeBSD Packages” at GoLUG August 7.  Watch both.
• Beyond All Reason on OpenBSD, a video.  (via)
• Hypercard Simulator.  (via)
• Stephen King’s The Mist, 80’s text adventure.
• OpenBSD Workstation for the People.
• the contemporary carphone.
• Pretty pictures, bootable floppy disks, and the first Canon Cat demo.  I find the Canon Cat interesting in a “what if…” sort of way.
• Barbarian Prince – Ultimate Edition.  Solitaire D&D.
• How MetaFilter works.
• Unigram-X newsletters, early commercial UNIX history.  (Scroll down)
• “in BLISS we don’t solve problems, we ELUDOM.“
• What’s neater than e-ink?  Ferrofluid.
• Lamentations of the Flame Princess, free version.  (via)

I got quote-happy this week.

• Ladybird Browser Initiative.   (via several places)
• Related to the previous link: Mozilla is an advertising company now and Mozilla’s Original Sin.
• The new Fantasy Steampunk Storybundle, with orcs!  Unrelated to MWL’s about-to-come-out tech book that you should order, or his next book.
• Related: Next NYC*BUG: July 10th The State of Email, By: Michael W. Lucas.  Note that you should RSVP so you can get access.
• I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again.  “Consider the fact that most companies are unable to successfully develop and deploy the simplest of CRUD applications on time and under budget.”  (via everywhere)
• Schotter, part 1 and part 2.  “Sometimes it’s fun to pick a rabbit hole and follow it all the way down.”  (via)
• Donkey Kong: A Record of Struggle.  (via)
• The time smart quotes prevented the entire Office division from committing code.  “Just another example of I HAVE NO TOOLS BECAUSE I’VE DESTROYED MY TOOLS WITH MY TOOLS.”
• Inside the tiny chip that powers Montreal subway tickets.  I am pretty sure you are carrying something similar to this in your pocket right now.
• A potpourri of cool-looking scripts.  Scripts as in typeface.
• 1/25-Scale Cray C90 Wristwatch.   “my wristwatch runs a full n-body simulation of Jupiter and 63 of its moons.”  (via)
• The best version of an Apple Watch.  (via)
• Chernobyl power plant as table lamp.  I am OK with linking to this cause I already bought mine.  (via I lost it, sorry)

Text tools this week.

• CommonMark, a Markdown specification.
• LyX, a TeX editor.  (this and previous from this thread.)
• nvi command summaries.  Follow the thread.
• BSD User Group Düsseldorf Juli 2024.
• Programming Prayer: The Woven Book of Hours (1886–87).
• XScreenSaver 6.09 out now.
• Greatest Comics Of All Time as Chosen by 45 Writers and Artists.  (via)
• Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers.  (via many)
• EuroBSDCon is in September.
• ASCII-Silhouettify.  (via)

Music of the week: The Deep Ark, 8 hours of 90s electronica.  (via)