DragonFly BSD Digest

Classic Lazy Reading weirdness.

• Can the Subaltern Speak?, radical augmented gaze.  Not really augmented but definitely aesthetic.
• The System Reference Document for D&D, I think version 3.5?  Here’s v5 which might be better.
• More Tomy Tutor homebrew.
• 50 Years of Text Games: 2003: The Kingdom of Loathing.
• A visualization of the logos of 5,837 metal bands, grouped by theme, similarity, font, and “13 Dimensions of Doom”.
• SIGCIS 2021 is coming up and is entirely online.
• Spine Desk Lamp.  Could be real if you wanted.
• Game of Life patterns.  (via)
• Three Wifi meters.
• “the most consequential figures in the tech world…”  (via)
• Suzanne Ciani Creates The Soundtrack For A Pinball Machine.  (via)
• Barnsworthburning, a directory.

Your unrelated music link for the week: The Bug – Skeng.  I’ve heard this a million times, but never the whole thing until now.

 

There’s a toy/game mini-theme this week.

• Optimizing the Nethack 4.3 Save System.  (via)
• Plua revisited: Lua for PalmOS (and resurrecting plua2c).  Niche but neat.
• The Commodore Plus/4, 3-Plus-1 and computer literacy.
• Being sure about things.
• Venn diagrams and humor.
• “The Good Games“, a playlist showing influential 1980s games.  I’ve played almost every one, and the mechanisms hold up today.  (Thanks, Sasha)
• The Dance Music Archive.  If you were at a particular age at a particular place, you will like this.  I was neither but it’s still fun.  (via)
• Systems Thinking.  (via)
• TZExplorer, for exploring the time zone file.  (via)
• Raspberry Pi glasses and Sidekick.
• All the computer history and science books you should read.
• Herbie Hancock demonstrates a synthesizer on Sesame Street in 1983.  (via)
• Roguelike Celebration 2021 – the speakers.  Tickets available.
• Remaking Vintage Computer Toys.

 

Somehow I still have 20 tabs open…  I need to clean out harder.

• A Culture of Innovation: Insider Accounts of Computing and Life at BBN.  (via)
• Building a random Aeropress recipe generator for my search engine.
• 20 Years of Haiku.  (via)
• MAD GOD.
• The IBM 1401 datacenter simulator – experience 1960’s mainframe programming.  (via)
• The Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition Challenge Rating system is deranged.
• My sleeper PC… curse!
• It’s Time to Retire the CSV.  (via)
• A 6 byte Commodore 64 Demo and C64 Coding Under (Many) Constraints.
• Living the Beta Life.
• The xterm terminal emulator can do a lot more than just display text.
• Learning that Vim has insert mode keystrokes that do special things.
• Vieb – Vim bindings for the web by design.  (via)
• 50 Years of Text Games: 2001: The Beast and 2002: Screen.

A BSD followup: today’s SEMIBUG presentation from Peter Hansteen is at this Jitsi link, in about 5 hours from this post.

• Comics Laureate Recommended Reading List.  (via)
• The truth about semver.
• Undead Dinosaur Generator.
• atari64: Commodore 64 OS running on Atari 8-bit hardware.  (via)
• Announcing RetroChallenge 2021/10.  (via)
• TLDs — Putting the ‘.fun’ in the top of the DNS.
• Cracking into the Sun Ray General Dynamics-Tadpole M1400.  Odd hardware, though not the oddest Tadpole made.
• Open-sourcing a more precise time appliance.  I am not sure but it seems like Facebook reinvented a wheel.  (via)
• ZIL tidbits and Inform 6 dev news.
• “the only planet where 100% of Linux systems have working sound is Mars.“
• This Clifford Stoll interview made me realize he’s the author of The Cuckoo’s Egg, a good book about Cold War hacking, and the creator of ACME Klein Bottles.  I’ve mentioned both before separately without connecting the dots.  (via)
• Trevor Owens Uses This.  The first ever Head of Digital Content Management at the Library of Congress.
• Minimal Computing, via the previous link.
• 50 Years of Text Games: 2000: Galatea.
• Introducing the PineNote.  (via)