The best how-it’s-made video ever, by Mr. Rogers.
Search Gizmos. No Shop Sherlock is nice. (via)
Early maps of the Internet, some of which I’ve never seen.
At this point, everything I post is probably going to be either BSD or not – meaning Lazy Reading. Those are the most fun categories anyway. I’ll mark appropriately.
Shift Happens – if you like anything I link to on keyboards, you’ll like this. (via)
The Best Comics of 2022. Comics Journal, so not the mainstream.
All About RSS. (via)
Merry Christmas! Here is a present. I haven’t been posting while I fiddle with layouts, or just get too busy from holiday work, but here’s a pile of links, also known as “all my open tabs so that I can now close them”.
- In praise of Plan 9.
- X11 Conservancy Project.
- A brief history of murder in Ultima Online. (via)
- A2osX. “Multi Tasking OS for Apple IIe //c IIgs”.
- An objective criteria for deprecating community platforms,
- Mailing List Freebies. Worth it worth it. Also recent book plans.
- GoToSocial on OpenBSD, a Fediverse adventure.
- The Art Teacher from Drohobycz. New Brothers Quay!
- The Foundation and the FreeBSD Desktop.
- Pattern Collider. (via)
- Weekend Links 650, the source for the previous link, relinked cause of the note on Tom Phillips’ death. Phillips is responsible for A Humument, one of the more dense and complex books I’ve ever read. “Read” isn’t the correct term.
- Authentication gateway with SSH on OpenBSD.
- FreeBSD vs. Linux – Where and How To Run OpenZFS.
- The Palmpilot returns, this time in your browser.
- Dwarf Fortress’ Steam version immediately punched me in the gut. Note to self: buy.
- Best Books of 2022.
- Still Going: A zine on using old technology. (via)
- New Desktop Synth, Prismatic Spray, Offers Knobby Control Of Bytebeat Synthesis. Linked for the app name, which I hope you recognize. (via)
- Magic Cap, from the Magic Link to the DataRover and the stuff in-between.
- XScreenSaver 6.06 out now. Newest screen hack is related to a pipes game I now can’t find the link for.
- What we can learn from vintage computing.
- How to buy a social network, with Tumblr CEO Matt Mullenweg.
- Recently updated blogs on ooh.directory.
- Vintage-Style Map of the Mandelbrot Set.
- feedle.world. An RSS feed of RSS feeds.
- Blogroll. Curated.
- Open source is democratizing video game development.
- Speech-to-text with Whisper: How I Use It & Why.
- Sierpi?ski Triangle Interpreted as Musical Notes.
- The Best Buried Treasures Of 2022.
- As (Not) Seen In The Art of Darkness.
- Haiku R1/beta4 has been released. (via)
- 9th International Workshop on Plan 9. Important because it’s all BSD licensed now. (via)
Edited later to add: Mörk Borg? Mörk Borg! Mörk Borg!
No theme this week.
- Distributed Cooperation
- Copilot lawsuit. Happening with images too but not as obvious yet.
- Barilla’s open source tool for perfect pasta. Is the app open source? Couldn’t tell.
- Pimping my Casio with Oddly Specific Objects’ alternate motherboard and firmware (via)
- In praise of ffmpeg
- More Thoughts About Dongles. 2FA TOTP mechanisms are sorta The New Dongle, arguably.
- The wonderful tee(1) command
- One more MOS 7600 Pong: Coleco Telstar Gemini
Your unrelated music link of the week: Death In Vegas – Zugaga. I heard it on the radio and thought it was a remix of something eighties – Vangelis?
No theme this week.
- Going where BeOS NetPositive hasn’t gone before: NetPositive+.
- Haiku Activity & Contract Report, September 2022. (via)
- The most important standard in development today.
- Last chance to preorder the “50 Years” book!
- Bea Wolf, a story.
- ISC DHCP Server has reached EOL. 20 years ago this was the only real reliable DHCP server I could find. (via)
- Make Things Bigger Part One.
- Exploring the Cutting Edge of Desktop ARM Hardware. Not there yet.
- Retrospective: Adventure.
- The Floppotron 3.0. (via)
- Community Governance Outside the Web’s Dictatorships.
“New commandline tools” is the mini-theme.
- UML: My Part in its Downfall.
- BSing at 300 Bits Per Second.
- The top 10 things about blog and IT you should know. Clever.
- Unix, Plan 9 and the Lurking Smalltalk. (via)
- VSIG Lecture on the Public Packet Infrastructure. (via)
- Software engineering practices.
- Open Book Abridged.
- The appeal of small computers. (via)
- Projecting Parallels in Archi Comics.
- Awesome Terminals.
- Nerd Fonts. Common terminal fonts with added image glyphs.
- Oh My Posh, prompt configs for any shell.
- Modern UNIX.
Your unrelated video of the week: Bollards. SheepFilms are fun. Also: Potato House.
- My Top 10 Favorite Imaginary Settings (Part I) and Part 2.
- On the strange joys of mainframe OSes and legacy tech that has survived into modern times. (via)
- The MIPS ThinkPad, kind of. I have one of these.
- the nevada national security site pt 4.
- Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers, follow-up.
- Stupid Shit No One Needs And Terrible Ideas Hackathon Toronto. MMOPong, for instance. (via)
- A short history of the drum machine. (via)
- So when did POP and IMAP become a “legacy protocol?”
- The Best Command-Line-Only Video Games. Kinda a listicle and no BSD-specific checks, I know. (via)
- Plan9port, cause of something I read.
- Oral Histories of Museum Computing. (via)
3 months until Christmas!
- Building the future of the command line.
- Working Offgrid Efficiently.
- Alternatives to Bloatware, found in the previous link.
- Ranking Vance’s SF and Fantasy Novels.
- The VCF East Swap Meet is coming up.
- Computing’s Woodstock. People in 1976 talking about their projects for the first time, like ENIAC and Colossus, no biggie. (via)
- Espresso machine historic gallery. (via)
- Atari 2600 joystick port history.
- The Prelinger Archives. Hours of ephemeral video.
- Running PalmOS without PalmOS. (via)
- The phrase “open source” (still) matters.
- Because We Still Have Net 1.0.
- Authenticated SMTP and IMAP authentication attacks and attempts we see here.
- I don’t know how to solve prompt injection and You can’t solve AI security problems with more AI.
- The Quintessential Dungeon. (via)
Oddities this week.
- Text-to-image for my inbox. Random subjects into pictures.
- How we monitor the temperature of our machine rooms. Linked for the reminder I need to look at that hardware.
- Bootstrapping the Old fashioned Way. So… painful!
- The Open Source Rotary Cell Phone, 2 years later. Surely I linked it before.
- A retro style online SSH client to play Nethack. (via)
- Connectix Quickcam, the first webcam. Designed by a studio in Schenectady, NY, which I happened to visit just after the product release.
- The Nevada National Security Site. Here’s part 2 and part 3.
- Prompt injection attacks against GPT-3.
- XScreenSaver 6.05 out now.