DragonFly BSD Digest

Literally most of the tabs I have open right now, in front of you.

• The Definitive Guide to the Doctor Who Theme Music.  (via, via)
• Sinister Sounds of the Solar System.  (also via)
• Well There’s Your Problem Podcast.  Actually stills and audio about engineering disasters.  (via)
• Woodpecker dubstep.
• Softbody Tetris, Fuzzy Edition.
• A Visual History of Internet (IPv4) Address Allocations.  (via)
• The JavaScript Ecosystem.
• Features of a Modern Terminal Emulator.  (video, via)
• Why I Teach vim.  (via)
• Vimcal.  Not totally sure why Vim is in the name but what the heck.  (via)
• My Obsession with Chess.  Incidentally, McCloud’s Understanding Comics has an excellent explanation of closure that goes far beyond comics.   (via)
• Pinafore, for Mastodon instances.
• What is a System-on-Chip (SoC), and Why Do We Care if They are Open Source?
• The Backbone: Conclusion.  Story of the Internet.

Surely some of these are repeats?

• CSVs: The good, the bad, and the ugly.  (via)
• This seems like a good form factor.
• present: ‘a terminal-based presentation tool with colors and effects’.  (via)
• A book about books bound in human skin.  (via)
• Rare Alphonse Mucha illustrations.  I saw some of his work close up recently.
• 20 double-edged potions for the ingenious adventurer.
• Miscellany ? 89: 2020, year of the asterisk.
• The Video Game Source Project.  (via)
• Exploding Whale, remastered in 4K.   (via)
• computecuter.com.  Exactly what it sounds like.
• Return to Plan 9.  (via)
• Computer Unit 1979.  (via)
• Text Editors III: Emacs.
• Thinking out loud about Vim.  Equal time.
• Efficient text editing on a PDP-10.  I link, others get into it: I’m so happy!

There’s some good reading/projects linked in here, so if you have free time, this can keep you busy.

• Psion Series 3 palmtop EReader.  That’s 25 year old hardware?
• BBC’s In Our Time podcast on Alan Turing.  (via)
• 808303.studio.  Surely I’ve linked this already?  (via)
• The Museum of Obsolete Media.  (thanks, swildner)
• The 100 best fantasy books of all time.  I thought it was another corny listicle, but on the other hand I’ve loved every book I’ve read on that list, and there’s a lot more I didn’t know about.  (via)
• 15 Sci-Fi Books That Forever Shaped The Genre.  Ditto.  (also via)
• The Web Key Directory, based on this.  I need to use it.  My source link for this works as a sort of how-to.
• Unraveling the JPEG.  (via)
• New Nixie tube manufacturing.
• dimensions.com – reference drawings for everything.  (via)
• Configuring Windows for key-based SSH access.  For reference.
• A curated non-violent games list.

Your unrelated music of the week: KUTMAH: Isolation Tapes v.006.  There’s a lot more good music from this person.

 

Change your clocks, depending on what time zone you are in.

• Looking Back on 35 Years as an Amiga User.
• I did not realize org mode has its own website.  (via)
• a truly naked, brutalist html quine.  (via)
• Bookmark alignment chart.  (scroll to end)
• What Was BeOS, and Why Did People Love It?  (via)
• List of Generative Art and Live Coding Tools.  (via)
• Results from 20 years of experiments summarized.  Food experiments, done by a scientist.  (via)
• Writing a Book with Unix.  (via)
• Sorting out what the Single Unix Specification is and covers.
• Telemelt, group console playing simulator.  (via)
• I Solved British Square.
• Internet Ascendant, Part 2: Going Private and Going Public.
• Stereoscopic computing: converting Quake and Doom.