Lazy Reading – Page 26 – DragonFly BSD Digest

2016/02/072016/02/05

Lazy Reading for 2016/02/07

A bit nostalgic this week.

Pardon My French, But This Code Is C.R.A.P., parts one and two. (via)
dungeoncrawlers.org, a comprehensive list of exactly that. (via)
Showrunner: the Game. Scroll down about halfway. A roguelike!
Why so much Internet video is viral but no longer weird. For those who remember Portal of Evil or Stile Project or eBaum’s World, etc. (via)
Results of the 2015 Underhanded C Contest. (via)
The Malware Museum. (via)
Learn Enough Git to Be Dangerous. (via)
Getting a Job After Coding Bootcamp. Good advice.
My Bathroom Mirror Is Smarter Than Yours. (via multiple places)
Digital Technology – Past and Present. (large PDF, via)
Shmoocon 2016 Videos. (via)
Old-School PC Fonts. (via)

Your unrelated video link of the week: Aircraft Crash Tests Composite Data Film. (via)

2016/01/312016/01/29

Lazy Reading for 2016/01/31

I am proud of finding some of these links this week; they are not the usual “here’s what everyone else linked to” that you see.

Evolution of Ethernet Speeds: What’s New and What’s Next. I did not know about 2.5G/5G speeds over existing cat5. (via)
Why the Sun 2 has a message “Love your country, but never trust its government” (via)
#screensaverjam.
Most off-putting introduction to a new technology.
Sanos PDP-11 Simulator with UNIX V7e. Boot SanOS which runs a PDP-11 simulator, which then runs UNIX v7. (via)
best idea ever
***** – Five star cron job. Will run again. (via)
The Amiga Graphics Archive. (via)
The Bear Essentials: Developing a Commodore 64 Game, Part 1. (via)
The anatomy of an ssh session. (via)
Go 1.7 planning. I like peeking into other open source groups’ release planning.
The New Sound Of Music 1979 (Part 1) The fun part of computer history, and it talks about the Radiophonics Workshop! (via)
Your Development Environment is Probably an Eldritch Horror. (via)

Your unrelated graph link of the week: Visualizing HipHop trends from 1989 – 2015. (via)

2016/01/242016/01/22

Lazy Reading for 2016/01/24

The links get weird this week; get ready!

IN THE THEATER OF LITERATE DISASSEMBLY, PASTOR MANUL LAPHROAIG AND HIS MERRY BAND OF REVERSE ENGINEERS LIFT THE WELDED HOOD FROM THE ENGINE THAT RUNS THE WORLD! Note the Apple ][ section. (via)
The World’s Worst Spam Support ISPs. (via)
SSH – A brief analysis of the internet. (via profmakx on EFNet #dragonflybsd)
FOSDEM 2016 is coming up in a week. (via)
Fractal fun on the web.
A Quarter Century of UNIX. available as a PDF, too. (via)
Novena on the Ben Heck Show.
when preloads go sideways.
The Art of the Command Line. Scroll down. Linux/bash-specific in many places, but potentially useful. (also via)
The Original Mobile App Was Made of Paper. Volvelles! (via)
The Creepy Beauty of VCR Errors. (via)
DNS Censorship (DNS Lies) As Seen By RIPE Atlas. (via)

2016/01/172016/01/16

Lazy Reading for 2016/01/17

I’m taking an online course and don’t have as much clicking-about time, unfortunately.

Vimer – Convenience wrapper for gvim/mvim –remote(-tab)-silent. (via)
Compilation-bookmarks for emacs. In the interest of equal time. (via)
Vim Galore. Unequal again. (via)
Freeciv-Earth play anywhere on earth. (via)
My payphone runs Linux now. More a hardware hacking story.
Electronics That Last: How I Built an Heirloom Laptop. More hardware. (via)
NANOG 66, February 7-10, San Diego, CA.
FOSSAsia 2016, March 18-20, Singapore.
The Axe Attack on the Early GPS Navigation System. (via)

Your unrelated link of the week: Golem Arcana. For the miniatures gamer with a handheld.

2016/01/102016/01/11

Lazy Reading for 2016/01/10

I am prewriting most of this post because I have a significant hardware changeout happening this weekend at work; let’s hope for quiet.

The Website Obesity Crisis. The Digest is <300K, which isn’t too bad. (via)
2015 CCC Videos. (via)
Bourne Basic – a BASIC interpreter implemented in pure Bourne shell. From 1987, originally in comp.sources.misc. (via)
The NLNOG Ring – join if you qualify.
The Apple ][ Library: The 4 AM Collection. Indirectly linked to before, but worth it again. (via)
From the same location, the BurgerTime crack. (via)
2015 Year In Review. The “The Coffee” section is important.
Linux and Unix SysAdmins New Year’s Resolutions. (via)
The Long Death of CGI.pm. (via)
Synchronise remote SSH authorised_keys. (via)
How to C in 2016. (via)
The story behind casual contributors. Relevant to open source.
D&D Meets the Electronic Age. (via)
All of UNIX. (via)
Piet. (via)

Your unrelated food link of the week: The teas to make you forget all about coffee. Not as smug as the usual tea article, thank goodness.

2016/01/032016/01/01

Lazy Reading for 2016/01/03

The first link will bring you a lot more reading.

How Mobile Carriers Skirt Net-Neutrality Rules. From a collection of interesting writing by Ingrid Burrington. (via)
ASCII table – Pronunciation Guide. (via)
UNIX manual, edition 0. (via)
Vim Regex. (via)
weather.agi. (I had a coworker who did TV weather reports in southern California for years; said it was a very boring job.)
Structured Logging, a concept I can’t disagree with. (via)
Where Have All the Gophers Gone? Why the Web Beat Gopher for Mindshare. (via)
46 years of Facebook friendship: the UNIX epoch strikes again. (via)
A survival guide for Unix beginners. Yeah, Linux, but whatever. (via)
Settling into Unix. Same author as previous. (via)

Your off-topic link of the week: The food timeline. This is one of those old-school sites without fancy formatting, created mostly though one person’s focus on a topic, and astonishingly in-depth. This sort of thing makes me so happy to see.

2015/12/272015/12/25

Lazy Reading for 2015/12/27

Last of the year, and all the links are terse!

How Tor Works: Part One. (via)
Building Up Perlin Noise. (via)
On choosing the Z80 over the 6502. (via)
Ulix – a Literate Unix. (via)
SSH Tips. (via)
Selectric bug (via)
Scripted Amiga Emulator. (via)
Wakka wakka bang splat. (via)
Perl 6 is out. (via)
Geometric animated GIFs. (via)
Search-oriented tools for Unix-style mail. (via)
Things I won’t work with. Chemistry, not software. (via)

2015/12/202015/12/19

Lazy Reading for 2015/12/20

Finally, a week of links you can get through in one sitting.

Old stuff that rocks. (via)
The itch.io app for indie games. It’s open source – could run on BSD, maybe? (via)
How I Paid My Rent by Publishing the Most Disgusting Things on the Internet. I remember PoE! The ‘Chet’ he refers to is 1/2 of Old Man Murray. (via)
Untangling the Tale of Ada Lovelace. (via)
Chw00t: Breaking unices’ chroot solutions. (via)
Tiny Letters to the Web We Miss. (via)
Works that Work, a magazine. Cabinet-ish. (also via)
Six months with a dumbphone.
The Feynman Lectures on Physics. (Thanks, Siju)
Procedural Castle Generation, which I find compelling for some reason. (via)

2015/12/132015/12/14

Lazy Reading for 2015/12/13

A good chunk of this is brought over from last week, cause there was so much.

Ramsey Theory in the Dining Room. Not the shouty chef. (via)
Superpersistent bootkit. (PDF, via, via)
Raspberry Pis stuffed into classic computer shells. (via)
I Dreamed of a Perfect Database. “This is a risk of working alone, without anyone to tell you you’re insane.” A Paul Ford article. (via)
Project: Keyboard Conversion. More ambitious than I expected. (via)
It’s called fdisk because…
Computer Man [Extended Version]. Very 1980s. (via)
The story of one latency spike. (via)
Peering into inodes.
After a ten-year hiatus, NetHack 3.6. (via)
Big Data? No Thanks! Even if you don’t agree with the position, the images are neat. (via)
Roll your own toy Unix-clone OS. (via)
King’s Hand, which turns Go programs into utility scripts. (via)
Why doesn’t findstr use the standard regular expression library? Another grep variant.

Your unrelated game link of the week: Freecol. Runs on all the BSDs (thanks Thomas Klausner), as far as I can tell. (via)

2015/12/062015/12/04

Lazy Reading for 2015/12/06

Another done-early week. I’m already filling in next week’s Lazy Reading.

Computer graphics from the 1970s/1980s. (via)
How the Atari ST almost had Real UNIX. (via)
Worg, the Org-Mode Community. So many people sing the praises of orgmode. (via)
The 68000 Wars, a history of Commodore, parts one, two, three, four. (via)
Novena: A Laptop With No Secrets. Not easy to build or use, but I’m glad it exists. (via)
XINU OS – Xinu Is Not Unix. (via)
Eavesdropping on the Hidden World. (via)
“How the heck do you people google for Windows problems?“
dd – Destroyer of Disks. Not all these apply consistently to various BSDs. (via)
I can appreciate some of what Facebook’s doing with new offices, but a big room doesn’t have to be so ugly. (And I don’t even like FLW!) (via)
What’s so special about 2147483648?
Dwarf Fortress 0.42.01 is out.
Let’s Encrypt is in public beta. (via many places)
How I stay happy making open source software. (via)
Taco Bell Programming. I agree with some of the sentiments, though Taco Bell mostly just means crap, not reusability. I prefer my tacos to be Mighty.(via)

Your unrelated music clip of the week: Coldcut – More Beats n Pieces.

Your unrelated open source game of the week: MegaGlest. Runs on DragonFly, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD, or at least I can find references to binaries for all of them. (via comments)

Your unrelated community funded game of the week: Psychonauts 2. A sequel to one of my favoritest games ever.

2015/11/292015/11/28

Lazy Reading for 2015/11/29

I am all over the map this week.

How The Ballpoint Pen Killed Cursive. I learned D’Nealian; my mother wrote Spencerian. Technical lettering in college and signing labs as a grad student destroyed my style. Anyone know a good source of fountain pens that are cheap/usable? I don’t want to go down the crazy route. (via)
Triple redundancy in a Boeing 777. An Ada program compiled with 3 different compilers and run on 3 different processors. (PDF, via)
If you’re curious about gold (the software, not the metal) and how linkers work, given DragonFly’s recent switch, the author of gold, Ian Lance Taylor, wrote a 20-part series about the topic. (Linked here before some years ago, but it’s worth reading now.)
“We got around three“. A lesson in the persistence of Fortran.
Former Atari Employee Posts Work Email Log from 1982-1992. The source of the link has many choice comments pulled out.
Four examples of excellent interface design. In games, of course. The only one I’ve tried is Brogue, previously linked here, and its terminal controls don’t feel like terminal controls.
The Storage Engine: Timeline. History of data storage, an online exhibit at the Computer History Museum. There are some delightful pictures and stories. (via)
Raspberry Pi Zero: The $5 Computer. Pretty soon it’s going to be possible to sneeze and accidentally lose several computers because you blew them off the table. (via, also here)
Also, a comparison of price between similarly-powered computers: everything circa 1980 and the Pi Zero now.
C.H.I.P. vs Pi Zero: Which Sub-$10 Computer Is Better? Topical! “Which runs BSD better?” is the question you should ask, cause price is almost immaterial. (via)
A browser-based optics sandbox. Funny how this used to require a standalone program. (via)
The Software Freedom Conservancy is looking for your support. They provide infrastructure to software you use.

Your unrelated comics link of the week: Sunday Comics Kickstarter.

Your unrelated open source game of the week: 0 A.D. Works on FreeBSD and OpenBSD and can run on DragonFly if you can fix gloox. (via)

2015/11/222015/11/20

Lazy Reading for 2015/11/22

This is one of those weeks where everything gets covered. Settle in, there’s lots to click.

For Better or For Worse. About Go, but also about language design in general. (via)
The Birth of ZFS. See comments in the source link about Oracle’s version vs. the BSD version.
The Docker Monitoring Problem. Good for an explanation of containers. (via)
Cmder. Slowly, the UNIX workflow style is taking over everything – even Windows. (via)
The Early History of the more Command. “I named the program more. This was a daring move at the time, since it was such a long name for a UNIX command, and was also a real English word.” (via)
Early Phishing. Click the PDF link on the upper right for the content. (also via)
Where SCCS came from. (also also via)
Alta Vista, 5 servers, 1996. (via)
Dragonfly Key Exchange, RFC 7664. Nothing to do with DragonFly. (via swildner on EFNet #dragonflybsd)
ex reference manual, from Bill Joy. (PDF, via)
xv6, “a modern reimplementation of Sixth Edition Unix” (via)
Something to think about for “supported” older versions of software, especially in those long-term support versions of various Linux distributions.
ADOM is now available on Steam. Runs on BSD, sorta.
The AS7007 Incident. I knew of things like the Morris Worm, but not this event. (via)
Does the Internet route around damage? I also did not realize the size of the RIPE ATLAS network.
System Shock, a font reappears! (via)
JF Ptak Science Books. A historical bookseller blogs – a lot! (via, via)

Your eighties video link for the week: The 80s.mp4. (via)

Your unrelated browser toy of the week: A browser-based optics sandbox. (via)

2015/11/152015/11/14

Lazy Reading for 2015/11/15

It might snow around here today, and I am looking forward to it.

Why I Quit Ordering From Uber-for-Food Start-Ups. Describes the two ways online tools are going – centralization, or decentralized. (via)
The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences. Some readers will find this intensely enjoyable. Some highlights: funny, familiar, and complicated. (via print )
What can you do when you can’t chmod chmod?
The best logos from the Commodore Amiga scene. (via)
Why Do Big Irons Still Exist? (via)
The 10 Best Hacking, Coding, Computing Games
Freeciv turned 20 years old. Play it online, immediately. (via)
Voyager needs an assembly programmer. (via)
Retro computer trump cards. (via)
Forays Into Norrendrin, your roguelike link for the week.
How one company is bringing old video games back from the dead. (via)
Using ed(1) as a password manager. (via)
Don’t copy/paste commands from the web. (via)
Fashion Tech 1992

2015/11/082015/11/06

Lazy Reading for 2015/11/08

When I say the links are wide-ranging this week, I mean it.

Do one thing… An excellent reading of an overabused saying.
Saga, control over your work. (via)
Dungeon Robber. A Gary Gygax dungeon game from 1979, recreated. Flash, unfortunately. (via)
What do your photos know about you? JFIF data is always a surprise to people.
IF Comp 2015 Roundup. (via)
How do we see each other…? (via)
pinboard tips for web design.
Flying Toasters, again. (via)
What People Mean When They Talk About ‘The Cloud’. (via)
The Midnight Archive – Old Machines. (video, via)
Blue Lion, a new OS/2 distribution. (via)
3 films talking about pre-WW2 computer work. (via)
Telidon: Early 1980s Net Artists. I never heard of this and I wish I had. (via)
Measuring Network Throughput. (via)

2015/11/012015/10/30

Lazy Reading for 2015/11/01

No themes evolved this week.

Git. You may have already seen this.
The Container Ecosystem Project. Use it as a term reference. (via)
How many bad ideas can be bundled together at once? (via)
The threat of telecom sabotage and Submarine Internet Cable Vulnerabilties. (both via).
Future Forms. For fans of Braun/Dieter Rams design, largely. (via)
cOS on commodore 64: Modern user interface with optional touchscreen. (via)
99 Bottles Of Beer – find(1) version. (via)
Classic Bug Reports. I like this one. (via)
Any One Else Using It? (via)
YOU WILL REGRET THIS! You will maybe get the joke if you played the original SimCity.
Popular Unix Text Editors & How to Exit Them. (via)

Your unrelated comics link of the week: Secret Coders. I have several other books by Gene Luen Yang; he’s good. (via)

2015/10/252015/10/23

Lazy Reading for 2015/10/25

No themes this week.

Raiders of the Lost Web. (via)
The first chapter of “The Go Programming Language” (PDF).
The Cray Files. (via)
Turning a conference into a conference call. (via)
3 Envelopes for sysadmins.
A Beginner’s Guide to the Synth. (via)
The Little Printf. (via)
The Tech Model Railroad Club – Hackers at 30. See comments at via link about the IBM 407.
Guide to Deploying Diffie-Hellman for TLS. (via)
The real meaning of ‘systemd’.

Your unrelated food image of the week: Cheese Meets Bread: an International Love Story. I shall treat that as a sort of to-do list.

2015/10/182015/10/16

Lazy Reading for 2015/10/18

Accidental topic this week: very, very old computers.

Computer Show. Modern show, looks like it’s exactly from the mid 1980s. (via multiple places)
Computing Britain. From the BBC, freely downloadable computing history audiofiles, quite worth it. (via)
Phones for the People. I don’t think it’s as egalitarian as it is described, but it is interesting to see the variety. (via)
RTC Quickstart. RTC is an alternative to the not-private-and-not-open Skype. Why don’t more people use it?
More secure Wi-Fi routers. This would be the best Internet of Things approach. (via)
You Wouldn’t Base64 a Password. (via)
Blue screens of death, some of which you’ve surely seen before. (via)
The first Apple ][ viruses. (via)
Dark Castle and Macintosh System 6 Emulator. (via)
Vim and Composability (via)
A Simpler Vim Statusline. (via)
Vim: Convenient Code Navigation for Your Projects. (via)
Unix commands: The joy of curl
Ohmu. I like the visualization.
Wander (1974) — a lost mainframe game is found! (via)
Lost mainframe games (also via)
The lack of historic knowledge is so frustrating. AKA “learn from past mistakes”.
The SCELBI, rebuilt. (via)
CSIRAC, the oldest computer that’s still physically assembled – from 1949! (via)
Cardboard computers. (via)
Long long long term data storage. (via)
Google Code-In starts on my birthday, and Google Summer of Code 2016 has been announced.
INOC-DBA: dial an ASN, get the network operations center responsible for it. One of the ways people make the complex creature called the Internet continue to function. (via)
sandstorm.io, self-hosting which I’ve linked to before, and known, which I haven’t. More tools that people will eventually regret not using. (via)

Your comics link of the week: Cartozia Tales #1, with more added. I subscribed to this series long ago, and it’s a lot of fun.

2015/10/112015/10/08

Lazy Reading for 2015/10/11

You will probably be able to guess some of my thinking processes this week based on these links.

“If you work for Facebook, quit.“
Related: Facebook “Shadow Profiles”. A DragonFlyBSD “fan group” spontaneously appeared on Facebook at one point, but didn’t actually exist – they auto-create Facebook pages for other people’s work, but don’t make it clear that the actual owner isn’t involved.
Building an Analog Computer. (via)
The Joy of Non-Smoking Breaks. Has anyone read “the Healthy Programmer”, mentioned in the text?
Zipf’s Law, which I didn’t know existed.
SP800-199, “Guidelines for the Secure Deployment of IPv6” from NIST. Very complete. (via)
In defense of client certificates.
Coding like it’s 1999. (via)
Haunted by Data. More Maciej Ceglowski. (via)

Your unrelated tea link of the week: Health benefits of tea. Not the original title; I made it less clickbaity. (via)

2015/10/042015/10/03

Lazy Reading for 2015/10/04

Completely unrelated: I rebuilt a baking (Hoosier) cabinet over the past few months, and I’m quite happy with how it turned out.

The $9 computer is shipping today. Well, some days ago by when you read this. (via)
What Happens Next Will Amaze You. Maciej Ceglowski’s talks are always excellent. (via)
Vim Creep. (via)
Hacking Graphing Calculators. “As powerful as Game Boys, and mostly used for the same reason”.
ASCII to My Heart. (via)
Awesome Open Source Documents. (via)
Roundup: Retro computers in your browser. (via)
Breakouts, 36 Breakout variants. This will keep you busy for a while. See previous Breakout links here. (via)
The price of the Internet of Things will be a vague dread of a malicious world. (via)
The History of the Design of Unix’s Find Command. The comments at the source of the link are interesting.
A vim Tutorial and Primer. Again, the comments at the source of the link are possibly a better read.
18 cardinal rules of systems administration.
30 years a sysadmin. Same author as previous article.
Brian Kernighan interview. Steve Jobs is getting treated like a saint; BWK is barely known. They both helped the same number of people, but Steve Jobs made more money. (via)
Content Addressable Memory intro. Why routers are both underpowered and faster than general hardware at some tasks. (via)
Your phone’s homescreen is dead. The gradual removal of user-initiated actions in computing. (via)
Why have digital books stopped evolving? Lack of competition, I’d say. (via)
aRrgh: a newcomer’s (angry) guide to R. (via)
Predicting and controlling NetHack’s randomness. (via)

2015/09/272015/09/26

Lazy Reading for 2015/09/27

For some reason, I had this complete days ago, and I’ve already started on next week’s links.

The Apple II by Stephen Wozniak, a PDF. The initial color range makes me nostalgic. (via)
Why Commodore disk drives were so slow. (via previous link)
Know where you stand: the `pwd` program. A code reading, September 28th, in New York City. (via)
In the same vein as Endless Sky from a few weeks ago, here’s mention of Dune Legacy, a remake of Dune II, the earliest RTS – or at least the base model. Following links there brought me to Dune Dynasty, Dune 2: The Golden Path, and OpenRA, all of which are cross platform and also may run on a BSD – F/DF ports exist for OpenRA and F/DF/O for Legacy. (You understand my shorthand there, don’t you?)
The sad state of web app deployment. (via)
Facebook has decided it is time I had a baby. Have you ever avoided a search term because you knew that the advertising you’d see for the next few days/weeks would echo it back to you? (also via)
DigiPal, which sounds like a strangely named PDA, is a digital palaeography site focusing on medieval handwriting in England just before the Norman invasion. I find this interesting because I’ve been listening to this History of England podcast. (via)
The US Long-haul Fiber Map. Also seen as “How many people can go offline at once, because of a misdirected backhoe?” (via)
Similar: Undersea cable maps, or “How many people can go offline at once, because of a dragged anchor?” (via)
Software Defined Networks – Four Years Later. YouTube recording, from RIPE 70. (via)
Just some quick points about DHCP.
New Forum – Version 7 UNIX. (via)
Hacker News and Subreddit simulators. Startlingly accurate for being fancy Markov generators… which says something about the real content. (via)
rough idling.
pigshell.

Your unrelated video link of the week: The Wizard of Speed and Time – Mike Jittlov (1988).