SemiBUG is having a meeting tomorrow, the 21st, with a presentation on shell scripting. It’ll be online through Jitsi. Slides from Nick Holland’s last presentation are available, for the curious.
No natural theme at all this week. Which is OK!
- How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Big Data. I would like to see this on a larger scale. (via)
- An adorably small Connection Machine. The real thing, if you are unfamiliar.
- Also cute: networked tiny TRS-80 model.
- Naming things needn’t be hard. (via)
- Confusing git terminology. (also via)
- EuroBSDCon 2023 report, part 1 and part 2.
- “The ports system exists to not only share misery, but to reliably replicate it“
- My MNT Reform – almost a year on.
- FreeBSD Bhyve Virtualization.
- OctOpenBSD. I am a bit late linking that.
- Talk about the Basics.
- Reading your RSS feed on FreeBSD.
- Manipulate PDF files easily with pdftk. An underappreciated program.
- Presenting Syncthing, discovery server, relay server on OpenBSD.
- A small warning about UDP based protocols.
NYCBUG is having a combination release party (FreeBSD 14) and swag time (EuroBSDCon stickers). It will be streamed. Go, if you are near.
ChiBUG’s monthly meeting is later today. Go, if you are near and not mired in ERP transition like I am at work.
SemiBUG is having a meeting tonight with a presentation from iXSystems on TrueNAS. There’s a video link in the posting.
ChiBUG’s monthly meeting is today – go if you are near.
NYCBUG is meeting on the 9th – go if you are near.
This is one of the more eclectic groups of links I’ve published.
- 50 Years of Text Games as downloadable book; it will be available as a print on demand book eventually. I got my high-quality copy from the Kickstarter and it is a weighty tome. I was going to link to some of the posters but those are gone now too, geez. Here’s something not in the book.
- August 15th: TrueNAS presented at SEMIBUG‘s monthly.
- 2023Q2 FreeBSD Status Report.
- Tales of Type. Truetype is one of those all-nerds-should-be-passingly-familiar bits of history.
- Space Colony Art from the 1970s. Surely you’ve seen these before?
- Same source, Hokusai’s warriors series. You know the artist from the Great Wave, but probably never saw these.
- Weird 80s audio sampler history. (via)
- HTTP has become the default, universal communication protocol. Though people don’t always pay attention to the result codes.
- Rejected GitHub Profile Achievements. (via)
- Yubikey All the Things. Linked for the OpenBSD section.
- Between ISA and PCI, PCs had EISA and VLB. And it sucked.
- ARM Thinkpad. I might finally upgrade from my x220. (via)
- Installing Research UNIX on a PDP 11/70, emulated.
Saturday meetup in Colorado for CoBUG. Go, if you are near.
SemiBUG is having John ‘maddog’ Hall talk about LPI for their meeting tomorrow evening. It’s on Jitsi if you want to see.
The ChiBUG meeting is tomorrow. RSVP if you are able to show up.
Mini-theme: things that haven’t existed for decades, recreated.
- Making a Studio Ghibli Wallpaper Carousel. Linked for the script.
- Resurrecting a Thinkpad 701c and its butterfly keyboard.
- The day my ping took countermeasures. (via)
- HAKMEM, the PDF. (via)
- Z1, a mechanical computer from the 1930s. You can see bits flip. (via)
- Unix support 50 years ago: “your only source of information is a 2-man operation an ocean away” Similar to much open source today. (via)
- B Compiler restored.
- Next NYCBUG: August 9th.
The Colorado BSD Users Group (CoBUG) is planning to meet on the 22nd of this month.
If you are near Chicago on July 18th, go to the ChiBUG meeting.
NYCBUG’s next meeting is Wednesday night, 7/12, 6:45. Go, if you are near.
It’s a presentation on backups.
ChiBUG’s meeting in person tomorrow at 6, at the usual location. Go, if you are near.
The writeup sounds fun. Go if you are near, 6:45 PM tonight. It may be getting streamed, too.
Update: the recording.
Events and crazy things are the mini themes this week.
- Mini Moog Model D. (via)
- ChiBUG’s next meeting is May 30th.
- NYCBUG has a double lightning talk on June 16th.
- Also the July NYCBUG monthly meeting will be on the 12th instead of the 5th.
- Internet Histories, Volume 7, Issue 2. “Let’s play something awful: a historical analysis of 14 years of threads” got me as a title. (via)
- Hidden Door, roleplaying games via AI using existing genre writing. I don’t know how I feel about this. (via)
- SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes. (via)
- Niklaus Wirth and Donald Knuth, 1985 interview.
- Just take a crowbar to it, glitches as storytelling techique.
- Doom modding and assuming everything on the internet is probably fake.
- What’s black, white, and red on 20 sides?
- Hieroglyphic monkeys holding stuff.
- BSDCan 2024 Reorganization. Michael W. Lucas is a fan of achievement/pain.
- The Story Of Mel, the actual biography. I never thought this would be explored. (via)
Your unrelated music of the week: rekt.network. (via)
While I slowly work on the layout, here’s something that can’t wait: ChiBUG meets tomorrow at the usual place, 6 PM. Go, if you are anywhere near Chicago.