ChiBUG’s monthly meeting is today – go if you are near.
NYCBUG is meeting on the 9th – go if you are near.
This is one of the more eclectic groups of links I’ve published.
- 50 Years of Text Games as downloadable book; it will be available as a print on demand book eventually. I got my high-quality copy from the Kickstarter and it is a weighty tome. I was going to link to some of the posters but those are gone now too, geez. Here’s something not in the book.
- August 15th: TrueNAS presented at SEMIBUG‘s monthly.
- 2023Q2 FreeBSD Status Report.
- Tales of Type. Truetype is one of those all-nerds-should-be-passingly-familiar bits of history.
- Space Colony Art from the 1970s. Surely you’ve seen these before?
- Same source, Hokusai’s warriors series. You know the artist from the Great Wave, but probably never saw these.
- Weird 80s audio sampler history. (via)
- HTTP has become the default, universal communication protocol. Though people don’t always pay attention to the result codes.
- Rejected GitHub Profile Achievements. (via)
- Yubikey All the Things. Linked for the OpenBSD section.
- Between ISA and PCI, PCs had EISA and VLB. And it sucked.
- ARM Thinkpad. I might finally upgrade from my x220. (via)
- Installing Research UNIX on a PDP 11/70, emulated.
No theme this week.
- All the Nerds Are Dead. “But maybe the most characteristic feature of nerd culture is its total lack of irony.” (via)
- Hidden BeOS installs.
- A bit of Unix history on ‘su -‘.
- Letters to ed(1) is on sale.
- And the source, the FreeBSD Journal, has a new issue out.
- pkg_*: the road forward. OpenBSD pkg.
- Lessons Learned from Sendmail. (via)
- Using FreeBSD’s daemon(8)? Consider -r.
- How to install Kanboard on OpenBSD.
- Fake Nixie tubes with a bootup screen.
- Wayland on OpenBSD. (via)
Saturday meetup in Colorado for CoBUG. Go, if you are near.
SemiBUG is having John ‘maddog’ Hall talk about LPI for their meeting tomorrow evening. It’s on Jitsi if you want to see.
The ChiBUG meeting is tomorrow. RSVP if you are able to show up.
Mini-theme: things that haven’t existed for decades, recreated.
- Making a Studio Ghibli Wallpaper Carousel. Linked for the script.
- Resurrecting a Thinkpad 701c and its butterfly keyboard.
- The day my ping took countermeasures. (via)
- HAKMEM, the PDF. (via)
- Z1, a mechanical computer from the 1930s. You can see bits flip. (via)
- Unix support 50 years ago: “your only source of information is a 2-man operation an ocean away” Similar to much open source today. (via)
- B Compiler restored.
- Next NYCBUG: August 9th.
The Colorado BSD Users Group (CoBUG) is planning to meet on the 22nd of this month.
If you are near Chicago on July 18th, go to the ChiBUG meeting.
NYCBUG’s next meeting is Wednesday night, 7/12, 6:45. Go, if you are near.
History mini-theme.
- The Secret History of Mac Gaming, a book. Found in a picture of someone’s workspace, linked to by Naive Weekly,
- Andrex x Eno. The base of the joke.
- An Adventure walkthrough.
- Forced email triage. (via)
- Pull in satellite images, right from the satellites. (via)
- “CRT Inspired“.
- The Xerox Smalltalk-80 GUI Was Weird. (via)
- AppleII-VGA: VGA card for Apple II+/IIe computer. (via)
- how (not) to write a pipeline. “I don’t see a lot of error handling.” (via)
- OpenBSD pfsync(4) is rewritten and softdeps are out.
- Limited Audience Jokes. (via)
A little short today but still good links.
- The Blit was also the Jerq, thanks to LucasArts, and chunks of it still exist in Plan 9. That sentence may be confusing but follow the links.
- Control, Escape, and Meta Tricks. (via)
- Also, yay, 200 issues of Nixers!
- pkgsrc-2023Q2 is out. The 79th!
- HUDs and GUIs. (via)
- CoBUG (Colorado BSD user group) is starting the mailing list back up.
- Naked Domains. If you like large scale stats, today is your lucky day.
Half a year til Christmas!
- Software written in B. C’s predecessor, revived – follow the whole thread for tools.
- History that I didn’t know: at one point the U.S. Department of Defense had its own Unix, supported by Ford, the car company.
- BSDNow at BSDCan.
- writefreesoftware.org. (via)
- Three Challenges to Contribute Back to Open Source. The not-code-but-essential parts. (via)
- Netnews, the origin story. (PDF, via)
- I asked ChatGPT to write a pf.conf to spec, 2023-06-07 version. “if Skynet ever came into existence for real it would be unreachable”
- Operating Systems, Transit and Cultural Influences.
- 50 Years of Text Games: the games. This is a treat.
- You can still buy hardware upgrades for your Mac Portable.
- A comparison of text-based browsers. (via)
- Related: text-only websites.
- When Zeppelins Ruled the Earth.
It’s a presentation on backups.
ChiBUG’s meeting in person tomorrow at 6, at the usual location. Go, if you are near.
The writeup sounds fun. Go if you are near, 6:45 PM tonight. It may be getting streamed, too.
Update: the recording.
Take a look even if you aren’t going, to see what people are researching. (via)
Still working through a lot of open tabs.
- ChiBUG meets on the 20th. I’ll post a reminder.
- What Your Favorite Classic Rock Band Says About You. (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3). “Jethro Tull: You have a favorite rune.” Odd short story: Ian Anderson called my house looking for someone. (via)
- Sprite drawing sheets for Street Fighter 2. (via)
- infrastructure that looks like sci fi. (also via)
- Running VSCode in Chromium on OpenBSD. (via)
- Running Apple 1 software on a breadboard computer (Wozmon) (via)
- Capacitor reforming.
- Tech debt metaphor maximalism.
- Manual of Fear and Death. Linked for the images.
Your unrelated music of the week: Buck 65, an “uptempo rewind to the Golden Age of hip hop”. (via)
Events and crazy things are the mini themes this week.
- Mini Moog Model D. (via)
- ChiBUG’s next meeting is May 30th.
- NYCBUG has a double lightning talk on June 16th.
- Also the July NYCBUG monthly meeting will be on the 12th instead of the 5th.
- Internet Histories, Volume 7, Issue 2. “Let’s play something awful: a historical analysis of 14 years of threads” got me as a title. (via)
- Hidden Door, roleplaying games via AI using existing genre writing. I don’t know how I feel about this. (via)
- SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes. (via)
- Niklaus Wirth and Donald Knuth, 1985 interview.
- Just take a crowbar to it, glitches as storytelling techique.
- Doom modding and assuming everything on the internet is probably fake.
- What’s black, white, and red on 20 sides?
- Hieroglyphic monkeys holding stuff.
- BSDCan 2024 Reorganization. Michael W. Lucas is a fan of achievement/pain.
- The Story Of Mel, the actual biography. I never thought this would be explored. (via)
Your unrelated music of the week: rekt.network. (via)