DragonFly BSD Digest

Mathematically summarizing RPG combat.  This is extremely niche but extremely interesting if you fit that niche.

“UTF-8 was designed, in front of my eyes, on a placemat in a New Jersey diner one night in September or so 1992.”  Also why Windows had poor UTF-8 support for so long.

Just seeing the screens gives me a nostalgic feeling: early Mac floppies on the Internet Archive.  Collected by the same guy who did the Apple ][ cracks.  (via)

This printer recommendation matches what I’ve been saying for about 2-3 years now.  (via)

From “Run Your Own Mail Server” chapter 0:

“In 1978 Gary Thuerk, an employee of the Digital Equipment Corporation, emailed several hundred people he didn’t know an invitation to a demonstration of the new DEC packet-switching systems.  (…) Five days after the message went out the chief of the US Air Force’s ARPAnet Management Branch, Major Raymond Czahor, called Thuerk’s boss to tell them to never do it again on pain of disconnection.

This first advertising email sold twelve million dollars of computers.”

Every Sample from Beastie Boys’ “Paul’s Boutique”.  Music that would be impossible to commercially produce now because of licensing changes.  (via)

Finally a nice object system for Perl.  (via)