NYCBUG has a new venue and a May speaker. March and April are open if you want to give a talk.
A link here spawned a TUHS post which led to interesting notes on Wumpus and Moonlander, setuid exists because of mastermind, very early multiplayer games, and how Plan 9’s 9P is everywhere.
A short explainer on dsynth(1) options.
Monochrome terminal setup for an E-ink monitor. I love this idea. (via)
This is the first time I’ve seen an article about turning features off. In this case, stereo sound on BSD.
JSON is really becoming a common format.
Adventure(6) the original and Colossal Cave the remake 50 years later.
I like release notes, and here they are for helloSystem 0.8.0.
I never knew until now why a Centronics port was a Centronics port.
Console screendumps, an idea so useful I can’t believe it hasn’t been addressed before.
breakdancing medieval marginalia. There’s more.
The installer should always take care of this for you, but if for some reason you need it: formatting a disk with gpt.
Feedback on Music Players. Linked in part for my own benefit.
The Vintage Technology Digital Archive. barebones but contains gems.(via)
You too can play Space Travel, from 1969, created as part of inventing UNIX.
“OpenBSD Mastery: FIlesystems” is out.