Category: Lazy Reading

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.

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)

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)

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.

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)

It’s a in-depth reading week, so make time!

• Restoration of First Edition Unix Kernel Sources.  I linked to a Google Code version of this before, but Google Code is shutting down.  (via)
• Dark corners of Unicode. In-depth and also might make you despair a little.  (via)
• In Search of SYNful Routers.  (via NANOG)
• ALTERNATE REALITY GAMES COULD STILL TAKE OVER THE WORLD (AND YOUR LIFE).
• Joint Statement of Internet Engineers and Pioneers. Amicus brief for the FCC’s Open Internet Order, but also a good explanation/history in itself. (via)
• XPRIZE’s Jono Bacon on the next great challenge.  “…the thing that is beautiful about open source is that anybody can play a role in a bigger picture.”  (via)
• Inside the Computer (EDSAC).  Video.  (via)
• 5 MB harddrive being shipped by IBM – 1956.  (via)
• “Whens the last time you saw a snow crash?“
• More New, Original Web Dev Jokes.
• Designing for accountability, designing for broken-ness.  The three failure modes listed at the end are interesting.

Your unrelated link of the week: Announcing the 2016 APPLE CABIN CALENDAR!  “Turts”.  For real purchase, though this might only be funny to someone who is familiar with the food and advertising it parodies.