Lazy Reading – Page 22 – DragonFly BSD Digest

The joy of reading role-playing games. I may have spent more time reading rulebooks than playing the actual games. (via)
Endless Orchard, a map of (U.S.) public fruit trees. Dunno if there’s an equivalent for any part of Europe. (via)
Summertime, and the lemonade is easy. Optimized Lemonade Stand strategy.
Programming Games. Not programming a game, but games you play that are structured like programming.
books chapter one. Ted Unangst summarizes a bunch of coding books – but just the start.
Dear Lazyweb, tell me about colo and the followup, Colo, again.
Retro ThinkPad: It’s Alive. Hoping to buy one to replace my aging X220 at work, if the stats are right. (via luxh on #dragonflybsd) Related to this historical post which I have linked before.
Improvements to the Xerox Alto Mandelbrot drop runtime from 1 hour to 9 minutes. (via)
efficient music players remain elusive.
WiFi232 with a Macintosh 512ke. Related: the Lobste.rs BBS.
Nodes of Yesod: ZX Spectrum Next – developer blog episode 1.
Old usenet maps. Remember, the originals were done by hand. (via)
Canon Cat Resources. A business application appliance with a built-in Forth interpreter, and built by Jef Raskin of original Macintosh fame. An odd and powerful machine from another timeline. (via)

2017/06/262017/06/23

Lazy Reading for 2017/06/26

Only half a year until Christmas!

Base-4 fractions in Telugu.
Custom Built “Commute Deck”. (via)
VMS Software’s OpenVMS Rolling Roadmap. VMS won’t die. (via)
One-Hour Mandelbrot: Creating a Fractal on the Xerox Alto. (via)
Git remote branches and Git’s missing terminology.
Same source – Git’s rejected push error.
Archive it or you will miss it. (via)
The cutest palm-sized Apple II Computer. (via)
Rations for various RPG Races. (via)
Neural networks can name guinea pigs.
This is Spinal Map. (via)
Burrowing a Gopher Hole. The state of Gopher in 2017.
Statistical Analysis of Yorkshire Pudding. One could create a sort of “ur-pudding” based on this, I suppose – but I bet it would the least interesting variation.

Your unrelated video link of the week: time for sushi. A followup to going to the store and late for meeting. (via)

2017/06/182017/06/16

Lazy Reading for 2017/06/18

The weather’s nice but the links aren’t stopping!

The future of education is plain text. (via)
Compiling the Original Commodore 64 KERNAL Source. (via)
Getting a working toilet in a video game. (via)
Harvey OS, a descendent of Plan9. (via)
Pointer Overflow Checking is in LLVM.
Shanzhai Archeology. I like the multi-SIM phones. (via)
200-odd developer tools.
How is GNU `yes` so fast?
The smell of bad software.
‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ book structures. (via)
What the jot command can do for you.
How gaming got its dice. (via)
Apple IIe Design Guidelines [pdf]. The human interface section is still relevant. (via)

Your unrelated comics link of the week: Mister Hayden Comics.

2017/06/112017/06/09

Lazy Reading for 2017/06/11

All over the map today.

$3,200 per month for 5 megabytes of space: the first hard drives.
csv,conf,v3, a cleverly named data conference. (via)
Silicon Graphics’ IRIX and Magic Desktop return as Linux desktop. Nostalgia! (via)
C64 Yourself. C64 palette applied to a picture. (via)
Strategy headroom in roguelikes. (via)
WiFi232 – An Internet Hayes Modem for your Retro Computer. (via)
ESR Shares A Forgotten ‘Roots Of Open Source’ Moment From 1984.
Plan9-9k: 64-bit Plan 9. (via)
Leave Britney’s Command and Control Server Alone! Many places linked to this, but this is the best link text. (via)
How Thou Canst Maketh a Fine Program in Fortran. (via)
Best Board Games of Essen 2016. Complex games, too. (via)
Warren Ellis’s podcast subscription list.

Unrelated link of the week: I Love Butter Tarts. If you’ve never encountered a butter tart, you should. Found via the Midland Butter Tart Festival, which I am disappointed to have missed.

2017/06/042017/05/30

Lazy Reading for 2017/06/04

A lot of this was picked up during the previous long U.S. holiday weekend.

A Brief History of the ATM and As cash becomes quaint, are ATMs on path to obsolescence? (via)
The evolution of the laptop computer. Clickbaity and not comprehensive, but fun to look at the pictures. (also via)
A tip for catching process state changes.
The Pacification of the Nerd.
The forgotten joys of the screen saver. (via, of course)
Erdos-Bacon-Sabbath Numbers. (via)
Decalogue, by Jan Svankmajer. Svankmajer’s movie “Lunacy” is the most disturbing? distressing? film I’ve ever watched. (via)
Speaking of which, Svankmajer was an influence on the Quay Brothers, whom I was talking about with someone else recently. Surely you’ve seen Street of Crocodiles?
userland xnr jit.
open-adventure, the original, ported. (via)
Writing a Unix Shell. (via)
Compiler Optimizations are Awesome.
Tron B-Roll. Most evocative to those who remember computer graphics pre-texture-mapping.

2017/05/282017/05/26

Lazy Reading for 2017/05/28

All these links came together at once, after I cleaned up a lot of browser tabs.

The Making of Freeciv WebGL 3D. (via)
For those times when downloading over the Internet is too slow.
Your choice of Telnet/SSH terminal client, and why? A perennial question.
A brief history of IPv4 address space exhaustion. (via)
Little Things I Like to Do with Git. (via)
AmigaOS 4: Google Cloud Print driver released. (via)
Tracking down a segfault in grep. The sequel: Digging deeper. (via)
How Your Data Is Stored. Eventual consistency, explained. (via)
Urban Exploration Resources. You’ll want to search or just dig.
Rise of the Dungeon Master: Gary Gygax and the Creation of D&D. (via)

2017/05/212017/05/20

Lazy Reading for 2017/05/21

The weather’s nice, so the links are light. Well, they were, then I got some reading done, and now we have a good-size list.

Rule #1: Interop is all that matters. This is what gave us the Internet, really. (via)
Nethogs, the tool.
SIGGRAPH 2017 : Technical Papers Preview Trailer. See what will appear in movies and triple-A games a year from now. (via)
The Restoration of Early Unix Artifacts. (via)
The Computer Cook Book. (via)
Internet Histories, a n in-depth examination of exactly that. First issue. The introduction has a great Tim Berners-Lee quote. (via)
Please insert next floppy.
Many pet rabbits will die in Second Life on Saturday. As the source link says, “At least nobody will ever make real food depend on the cloud, right?”
Modern OS/2 released. (via)
The Unix Webserver. Interesting to see as a concept, but not necessarily a good idea as implemented. (via)
A list of “highly-specific one-person’s-passion” websites. One of my favorite things to see on the Internet. (via)

Your unrelated link of the week: Roads & Kingdoms Breakfast. Food and a story every weekday.

2017/05/142017/05/12

Lazy Reading for 2017/05/14

Reader suggestions always make me happy.

Is stockpiling AMD Bulldozer-based hardware from 2012 a good idea for those that care about privacy and security, since those CPUs don’t have PSP/Intel ME?
ECC Memory & AMD’s Ryzen – A Deep Dive. (thanks kerma on #dragonflybsd for this and the previous link)
Scrum makes you dumb. I don’t know if he’s setting up the right enemy, but it’s a good analysis of organizational silos. (via)
Memoir of a Homebrew Computer Club Member. Seriously homebrew, from that story. (via)
New D&D magic spells, designed by neural network. (via)
Related: same but for heavy metal band names.
Sexy Emacs. Sexy Vim. (via)
The Vim Learning Curve is a Myth. (via)
U.S. frequency allocations, with detail. (PDFs, via)
Zomg lots more anagram stuff. Lots.
The early Windows phone devices were liquid-cooled, sort of.
Zip Files All The Way Down. Oh, so that’s what a quine is? (via)

2017/05/072017/05/05

Lazy Reading for 2017/05/07

Accidental topic this week: text interfaces!

PuTTY 0.69 has been released. (via)
Made by the same author: Simon Tatham’s Portable Puzzle Collection. Like Minesweeper times one thousand. (via)
Random ASCII spaceship generator.
Telnet MapSCII.
terminal emulators’ processing of escape sequences. I’ve Ctrl-S’d myself a few times, I’ll admit. (via)
ZX Spectrum Next. Actually contains a ZX chip. (via)
BSD author Michael W. Lucas is having a flash sale on his fiction. It may be over by the time you read this.
The quest to crack and preserve vintage Apple II software. A podcast episode, with some speakers I really like. (via)
Securing Telnet with SSL. (via)
Apple ][ clone and lawsuit history, some of which is new to me.

Your unrelated video of the week: DOUBLE KING. (via multiple places)

2017/04/302017/04/27

Lazy Reading for 2017/04/30

April over already?

Adventure Games and Eigenvalues. (via)
The fish shell is awesome. (via)
How SSH got port number 22. (via)
The web’s best hidden gems.
The real reason why UNIX commands are short.
The History of Computer RPGs. (via)
The beauty of links on Unix servers. Many don’t understand hard links.
Programming thought experiment. Anything that works its way up to Forth is definitely starting from scratch.
Three horrible Internet trends. “Rent-seeking” is the correct phrase. (via)
How Game Titles Work. Note that it’s part 1 of several. (via)
Glob Matching Can Be Simple And Fast Too.
Early Nintendo programmer worked without a keyboard. (via)
Bug in monitor.

2017/04/232017/04/21

Lazy Reading for 2017/04/23

Eclectic! I cover everything this week: computer history, modern pessimistic computing, odd hardware, strange software stories, comics, and tea.

Tmux and Vim – better together. (via)
Free Fonts Are Getting Better, But What Does That Mean? Destruction of value!
vuln disclosure and risk equilibrium.
How Google eats a business whole. Google’s Featured Snippets are often not wrong but also not right.
Build a Better Monster. (via)
Binary Keyboard.
That time a customer reported an error in the map used by Flight Simulator.
Ireland and England’s ‘best’ teas, reviewed by an American.
“There are only 3 forms of bit storage, historically.” (via)
Operating In Obscurity. QNX, OS/2, and others.

Your sorta-a-comics-link of the week: Liartown USA, the book.

2017/04/162017/04/15

Lazy Reading for 2017/04/16

A little heavy on the history this week. And no tea!

Commodore 64: For the Love of a Machine. (via)
Fun at the UNIX Terminal Part 1.
Exploring 3-Move – A LambdaMOO inspired environment. More places named in the source link comments.
A 1986 bulletin board system has brought the old Web back to life in 2017. (via)
A link at the same place brought me to the Telnet BBS Guide.
Hottest Editors.
Upgrading a Vectrex to 32 Bits. (via)
Taming Undefined Behavior in LLVM.
The secrets of password aging on Unix systems.
on the title of “git commit murder”
Dungeonfs: A FUSE filesystem and dungeon crawling adventure game engine

Your unrelated food link of the week: Eating In Translation. This person seeks out new places, eats there, and makes notes, and has been doing it for more than a decade. The result is the most in-depth informal food guide I’ve ever seen. It’s NYC focused, but not exclusively.

2017/04/092017/04/07

Lazy Reading for 2017/04/09

A slightly UK-ish tilt this week, by accident of course.