Category: Lazy Reading

No theme, cause I’m nicely spread out this week over topics.

• Historical rediscovery: Zarf’s Old Time Religion search.
• The Shareware Scene series: Part 1: The Pioneers, Part 2: The Question of Games, and Part 3: The id Boys.
• Recruiter Spam.  I am quite familiar with this.  (via)
• The Adventurer-Dense to Adventurer-Sparse Spectrum: Vance to Tolkien.  I have several Vance books out from the library I want to get through.
• Zork 1977 Source Code Released.  Linking late to this cause I wanted a good analysis, not just a link like most people had.
• Atom Adventures (1981).  Linking cause the screenshots and map make me nostalgic, even though I never had that game or even architecture.
• Feynman videos.
• Ways of Seeing, which I am surprised I have not linked before.
• Bible + D&D.
• Why we at $FAMOUS_COMPANY Switched to $HYPED_TECHNOLOGY.  (via multiple)
• A minimal .vimrc.
• The FLOPKEY, possibly the slowest keyboard ever.  (via)
• My New Old Apple IIe Computer.  Oh, what a lucky guy.  (via)
• ReActiveMicro.  Found via previous story.
• Regular Expressions for Regular Folk.  (via)
• jrnl – the command line journal.  (via)
• “gundial“.

Apple ][ theme this week, barely.

• Shell productivity tips and tricks.  (via)
• Drawn.ca, back again.
• The Shingled magnetic recording NAS debacle.  SMR sounds bad.
• Read man pages with vim.
• ARM-ed Mac: We Have An Answer.
• What’s your favorite terminal command ?
• More about Sir Thomas Urquhart.
• SSH hacks | a little sanity for remote workers.  (via)
• Apple //c Scene From ’80s Bond Film “A View to a Kill” Perfectly Re-Created With Applesoft BASIC.
• War Stories: How Prince of Persia slew the Apple II’s memory limitations.  There’s more in that series.  (via)
• And here’s Prince of Persia for you to play.  (via)
• Ten Years of Open Source Hardware.  (via)
• When Parallel: Pull, Don’t Push.
• Pandoc links.
• Understanding the Internet vs. Telephony.  Intertwined but very different.
• A circuit board from the Saturn V rocket, reverse-engineered and explained.

A little short, I’m a little tired.

• Historical computer humor.
• 28mag, about Warhammer miniatures.  (via)
• Structuring and Formatting Your Plain Text Files (Without a Markup Language).
• Setting up your own tilde club (unix).
• All of the Online Family Games. (via)
• I don’t quite understand this attack and Is this attack a case of “why not?”
• edwood, a “Go version of Plan9 Acme Editor”.  Entertained by the name.  (via)
• Two months with Powershell on a UNIX.  (via)
• 98.css: A design system for building faithful recreations of old UIs.  (via)
• The Era of Fragmentation, Part 2: Sowing the Wasteland.  Videotex!

My sadly neglected RSS reader is overflowing.

• Chesses 2.  I posted about Chesses 1 some time ago; this is more.  (via)
• Paper Models of Polyhedra.  (via)
• Open Source Fonts Are Love Letters to the Design Community.
• The Original Internet Bottleneck.
• Gopherus – a DOS (and multi-platform, console-mode) gopher client.  Getting pretty obscure here.  (via)
• Curses City, a simple ASCII Sim City style game using ncurses.  (via)
• Internet Histories, Volume 4, Issue 1.  Parts available online.  (via)
• Tempestas II, A Clock style Barometer.  No display – physical sliding parts.
• pheriday 3: infrastructure.  Installing Netscape 6, with screenshots, on current hardware for fun.
• The Soul of a New Machine: Rethinking the Computer.  (via)
• Roam, real hypertext.
• This Super-Clean Smart Screen Puts a Newspaper on Your Wall.  Neat looking but of course expensive.  (via)
• Wolfram Style Cellular Automata with Vim Macros.  See comments at source link.
• A Definitive Guide to Enabling Italics in Vim and tmux.  (via)
• UI design is fun!  (via)
• The Implied Appendix N.

No theme this week.

• New “Prohibition Orcs” today.
• Aggregate internet links with mlvpn.
• A USB Loader for the Cidco MailStation.  “worst use of Thunderbolt”.
• riftty.  Think about the name, and you can guess what it is.  (via)
• My home DSL link really is fast enough to make remote X acceptable.  This is the future we really sorta wanted.
• Preparing Presentations with Markdown.  (via)
• Repairing a vintage 40-kilovolt xenon lamp igniter.  Not as dangerous as it sounds.
• ESP8266 Network Display.  “For whatever”.
• The Hunt of the Unicorn, rediscovered.
• gifcap – screen recordings via browser.  (via)
• “Dusted off my GPD Pocket PC…”  (via)
• Vim rendered on a cube for no reason.  (via)
• “Please resend the virus“.
• Open source, experimental, and tiny tools roundup.  A Google Doc, which is a new-ish trend in “public rich media”, for lack of a better phrase.  (via)

Your unrelated video of the day: Horse.

Random this week, but that’s not so different than usual.

• • Bach’s prelude in C major written in sed.  (via)
  • Kill the Newsletter!, newsletter to RSS converter.  (via)
  • 100+ legal, free literature download sites.
  • Katherine Cox-Buday Uses This.  Someone who thinks hard about their setup.
  • ARM-ed Mac: Not Again Or For Real This Time?  Written by someone who would know.
  • The Computer-free Automation of a Jukebox.  (via)
  • How to version control LibreOffice spreadsheets.
  • Text Processing in the Shell.  (via)
  • reMarkable 2.  Sorta feeds my small computer obsession.
  • Two types of command-line interfaces.  (via)
  • Understanding X mouse cursors (and their several layers of history).
  • 4 More Fonts to Help You Go Beyond Courier.
  • Vim plugins that I use.
  • The 68000 Wars, Part 6: The Unraveling.
  • Sci-fi type based on spaceship form.  (via)
  • Zork II (1981).
  • Goblin Filthomancer.
  • Old computer ads.
  • The Delco Magic line of aerospace computers.
  • How to use Gmail more efficiently.  (via)
  • This is how science happens.

Still backlogged, which means one of these weekends I’ll catch up and you’ll have about a zillion links to click.

• vt100.net.  (via vttest)
• Another post on open source civility.
• How thick is an hour?
• Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?
• ENIAC, 74 years old and printable in 3D.  Yes, the whole room.  (via)
• MIDI 2.0, 37 years after the 1.0 release.  (via)
• Apollo 11 Guidance Computer (AGC) vs USB-C Chargers.  (via)
• Age of Invention: Where Be Dragons?   Why no ancient D&D?  (via)
• 42 years ago, the first BBS.  (via)
• 136 INTERNET VIDEOS THAT BLEW MY MIND.  A Google Doc.  (via)
• Ice Cream Flavor: Chocolate.
• A curated list of command line apps.
• building a note-taking system with vanilla vim.
• The worst of time64 breakage.  (via)
• NEXTSPACE, another NextStep revisit.  (via)
• i3wm 4.18 released.  Useful to at least a few readers.  (via)
• Bunnie Huang’s Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen.  PDF.  (via)

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.

Accidental themes this week: keyboards and game remakes.

• Indieweb; something I plan to explore more.
• Autocomplete as an interface.
• Heroes of Might and Magic 3, as open source game engine.  (via)
• Hello World, a comparative exercise.  (for one meaning of “better”)
• Why is Wednesday, November 17, 1858 the base time for OpenVMS?  (via)
• Benchmarking shell pipelines and the Unix “tools” philosophy.
• Weird Keyboards, Programmable Keyboards.  The author sells some bonkers keyboards.  (via)
• How to create a handheld Linux terminal (v2).  Or BSD!  (via)
• The Planck Keyboard, via comments on the previous source.  Apparently a “40% keyboard” is the phrase that describes this sort of smaller keyboard.
• tmux-resurrect.  Somewhat magical.  (via kerma on EFNet #dragonflybsd)
• Class of 2020: New in the Public Domain today!  I linked to a different article before, but this one talks about outside the U.S.
• BeOS: The Alternate Universe’s Mac OS X.  (via)
• A Decentralized Web Primer: Dat.  “The read/write web”.  (via)
• Unciv, an open source Civilization V; probably could run with openjdk8?  Haven’t tried.   (via)
• A retrospective of Command and Conquer: Tiberian Sun.  (via)
• Society for the History Of Technology call for papers is out.  (via)
• 2020 IGF nominees: a good mood and 2020 IGF nominees: hit and miss.
• Monoid: open source coding font.  (via)
• 2019 Income Sources.  Interesting since a chunk of that is BSD books.
• A Compiler Writing Journey.  (via)