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2023/07/162023/07/13

Lazy Reading for 2023/07/16

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.

2023/07/092023/07/07

Lazy Reading for 2023/07/09

History mini-theme.

The Secret History of Mac Gaming, a book. Found in a picture of someone’s workspace, linked to by Naive Weekly,
Andrex x Eno. The base of the joke.
An Adventure walkthrough.
Forced email triage. (via)
Pull in satellite images, right from the satellites. (via)
“CRT Inspired“.
The Xerox Smalltalk-80 GUI Was Weird. (via)
AppleII-VGA: VGA card for Apple II+/IIe computer. (via)
how (not) to write a pipeline. “I don’t see a lot of error handling.” (via)
OpenBSD pfsync(4) is rewritten and softdeps are out.
Limited Audience Jokes. (via)

2023/07/022023/06/30

Lazy Reading for 2023/07/02

A little short today but still good links.

The Blit was also the Jerq, thanks to LucasArts, and chunks of it still exist in Plan 9. That sentence may be confusing but follow the links.
Control, Escape, and Meta Tricks. (via)
Also, yay, 200 issues of Nixers!
pkgsrc-2023Q2 is out. The 79th!
HUDs and GUIs. (via)
CoBUG (Colorado BSD user group) is starting the mailing list back up.
Naked Domains. If you like large scale stats, today is your lucky day.

2023/06/252023/06/22

Lazy Reading for 2023/06/25

Half a year til Christmas!

Software written in B. C’s predecessor, revived – follow the whole thread for tools.
History that I didn’t know: at one point the U.S. Department of Defense had its own Unix, supported by Ford, the car company.
BSDNow at BSDCan.
writefreesoftware.org. (via)
Three Challenges to Contribute Back to Open Source. The not-code-but-essential parts. (via)
Netnews, the origin story. (PDF, via)
I asked ChatGPT to write a pf.conf to spec, 2023-06-07 version. “if Skynet ever came into existence for real it would be unreachable”
Operating Systems, Transit and Cultural Influences.
50 Years of Text Games: the games. This is a treat.
You can still buy hardware upgrades for your Mac Portable.
A comparison of text-based browsers. (via)
Related: text-only websites.
When Zeppelins Ruled the Earth.

2023/06/182023/06/15

Lazy Reading for 2023/06/18

Whee

General Turtle, Inc. and Educational Machines.
From the previous link, some in-the-know shirts.
Also from that link, Lessons from METAFONT.
Also also, The Computer Scientist Who Can’t Stop Telling Stories. Far better than I expected.
PNG glitches, one and two. (via)
Miniatua, tiny classic computer reproductions. (via)
Operation Razit: Raze Reddit. The long explainer.
Related: There’s no excuse to add content to Twitter, Facebook, or Reddit right now. The actual title is much longer. (via)
Charlie Bit My Finger should be acquired for the nation.
Browser game: Fallen London. About the game. (via)
20 GOTO 10. (via)

2023/06/112023/06/09

Lazy Reading for 2023/06/11

Still working through a lot of open tabs.

ChiBUG meets on the 20th. I’ll post a reminder.
What Your Favorite Classic Rock Band Says About You. (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3). “Jethro Tull: You have a favorite rune.” Odd short story: Ian Anderson called my house looking for someone. (via)
Sprite drawing sheets for Street Fighter 2. (via)
infrastructure that looks like sci fi. (also via)
Running VSCode in Chromium on OpenBSD. (via)
Running Apple 1 software on a breadboard computer (Wozmon) (via)
Capacitor reforming.
Tech debt metaphor maximalism.
Manual of Fear and Death. Linked for the images.

Your unrelated music of the week: Buck 65, an “uptempo rewind to the Golden Age of hip hop”. (via)

2023/06/042023/06/02

Links for 2023/06/04

A short list this week. I’m heading into the final month(s) of an ERP replacement projects at one of my jobs, so it ain’t going to get better for a while.

Where does my computer get the time from? (via)
Software Modernization Failures. (follow the whole thread)
Bell Labs vs “East Coast” Management style of AT&T. There’s some tangential BSD history in there.
System Shock: The oral history of a forward-thinking PC classic. (via)
cooperative.computer. I am surprised this didn’t exist years ago. (via)
Ctrl-Zine. I like that you can print and fold your own. (via)
Macintosh Emulation and Printing using Mini VMac on a PocketCHIP. (via)
How design is governance. (via)

2023/05/282023/06/04

Links for 2023/05/28

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)

2023/05/212023/05/20

Links for 2023/05/21

Smushing BSD and Lazy Reading links together into one, again. Tell me if that’s good or bad from where you’re standing.

How To Survive, computing safely while on the road, from CCC 2019. (via)
Early Computer Art in the 50’s & 60’s. The sorts of images I love. (via)
degreeless.design. Some excellent, excellent books listed. (via)
My Top 10 Favorite D&D Monsters, part one and part two, and Magic Items, part one and part two.
Emulating the Casio Loopy with Phil Bennett. (via)
Rob Pike on the Origin of Unix Dot File Names. “Oops.” (via)
Stream your OpenBSD desktop audio to other devices.
Self-Hosted Bookmarks using DAV and httpd on OpenBSD.
cron(8) now supports random ranges with steps.
Exploring the CBSD virtual environment management framework – part 4: Jails (II).
Michael W Lucas on BSDNow.
Beepberry.
Hand 386 Delivers A “True 386 Processor” in a Handheld. (via)
Christopher Strachey and the Dawn of Interactive Text. Before program storage, even.

Your unrelated music of the week: DRASS – see it, say it, slaughtered. Another band name for Shardcore, which I have linked before. AI generated visuals if you can’t tell.

2023/05/142023/05/11

Links for 2023/05/14

Nostalgia / game styling is the inadvertent theme of the week.

1-bit pixel art of Hokusai’s ”The Great Wave off Kanagawa”. The layout of that site is fun. (via)
SpaceTraders: an API based game. (via)
From comments on the previous source: Text Elite.
The seven programming ur-languages. (via)
The Next Generation in Graphics, Part 2: Three Dimensions in Hardware.
The Chonky Pocket computer.
The Flexowriter which was I think the output from a version of the Whirlwind. (via)
Before UNIX daemons, there were gnomes.
AutoHotKey, which I always thought of as compensation for Windows not having a shell.

2023/04/302023/04/29

Links for 2023/04/30

Back by popular demand.

50 Shades of Rust, or emerging Rust GUIs in a WASM world. Everything has its own name and language, and there’s 20 of them! Great! (via)
Review of Six Text Editors. Fun hot takes on old-school editors. (via)
Calculators, codes, and hidden messages. (via)
textart.sh. Copy/paste almost anywhere. (via)
The Modern WWW.
WizardKnighting Planescape.
How an 18th Century Sailing Battleship Works. Ostensibly for an upcoming movie, but I always think of the Aubrey/Maturin books.
Fun with Kermit and ZMODEM over SSH.
130 A History Of The World According To Getty Images. Public domain does not mean public. (via)
The 13 Levels of Complexity of Turntable Scratching.
Junk Drawer Phone as a Music Streaming Server. (via)
Of Sun Ray laptops, MIPS and getting root on them.
Set up your own CalDAV and CardDAV servers on OpenBSD.

2023/04/21

3d history, GPS history, music you never heard

Some links: The Next Generation in Graphics Part 1, talking about the colossal shift in gaming that was Doom/Quake, and different kinds of differential, explaining how GPS is corrected. And here’s something unusual: Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band tracks with single instruments separated out by AI. You can more easily hear how unique John French’s drumming was/is.

2023/04/20

So many old machines

VCF East photos. Some of these machines are complete mysteries to me.

2023/04/10

LLM CLI

Large language model, via the command line.

2023/04/052023/04/04

Skipping a duopoly

Audiobooks Without Audible. Apple and Google have a financial incentive to make data loading that is on their platforms but outside of their marketplace as crappy as possible. (via)

2023/04/04

Against Innovation

Sometimes updates are bad. (via)

2023/04/03

Age of Average

The Age of Average, which applies to operating system / open source development these days too, I think.

2023/04/022023/03/31

Missing music

I haven’t done this in a while. Your unrelated music link of the week: Drifted Entities Vol. 2 by Healing Force Project. New electronic, but not modern.

2023/04/022023/03/31

Moving data

Data Transfer Initiative. (via)

2023/04/01

KREMVAX

An oldie but goodie for April 1. (via)