A running description of activity related to DragonFly BSD.
Oddities week!
Happy birthday me!
NYCBUG’s holiday party / lightning talks event is tonight. If you can’t make it, it’ll be streamed on the website and available on IRC.
Note that the recorded stream from the last event, The Once and Future COBOL, is available on YouTube and PeerTube. I heard the speaker, James K. Lowden, talk about FreeTDS years ago and enjoyed it too.
Some good long reads.
No theme though a bit dark.
No theme, just fun.
I meant to link this months ago: if you run DragonFly intermittently in a virtual machine, and it’s not left on overnight, it’ll never get around to automatic cleanup of the Hammer volumes. You could then run out of space. The fix is manually running the cleanup process.
Mini games theme this week.
Your unrelated music of the week: the ‘lost album’ Stereotype from Squarepusher.
That’s two days from now, on 11/5: James Lowden will be talking about COBOL and the gcobol in GCC, which is in part his fault. This should be good. RSVP and go, if you are near. Stream if you are not.
Update: here’s the video:
Hey, I made my averaging-once-yearly commit!
nvi2, which is what you get in DragonFly when you type “vi”, has been updated to version 2.2.2. The nvi2 README gives a little history of how many years this has been around. Close to 50? A family tree would be interesting.
Related: turning on vim mode in Obsidian gets you this entertaining dialog:
Shouldn’t it be “vi mode”? Oh hey, look, an esoteric definition argument, just what you came to the Internet for.
It’s short link title week!
Current event: Roguelike Celebration 2025 is happening right now if you read this soon enough. If you missed it, there’s a related Steam sale filled with roguelike games.
Doing my best to clean out old to-post items, so some of these sources are weeks old – but I hope new to you.
Entertainingly odd trivia.
This is from a while ago, but: your Framework Laptop keyboard should be recognized now on DragonFly.
There’s a certain amount of aspirational ideas this week.
Your unrelated video link of the week: Lessons in Questioning.
NYCBUG’s trying out a new location tonight – go, if you are near.
Done while traveling.
Your unrelated video link of the week: new Cyriak video. (via)