I totally meant to post this yesterday.  Oops!

• We’re using toeplitz.  I just like the name; I don’t understand how it works.
• The idea of software forks has been around since, oh, BSD and System V Unix diverged, if not earlier.  Here’s an article that talks about forking in general, rather breathlessly.  After reading that, read this perhaps more accurate fork parody.  (via)
• You know what we could use for pkgsrc, and all the other port/package collections?  Explanation.  They face the same problem phone application stores face: too many programs to easily select what you need.  You could certainly build a whole site just around package reviews; it’s even possible to argue that Ubuntu or PC-BSD are built around just making some 3rd-party-app choices ahead of time on an existing operating system.  Anyway, here’s an article talking about that idea specifically around the Apple App Store.  Please won’t somebody who is not me do something like that for pkgsrc?
• This writeup of one man’s experience with Forth gives a good feel for the language, or at least as good a feel as I can understand.  Posted in memoriam for our recently departed Forth bootloader.  (via)  There’s other enjoyable articles on that blog, too.
• This describes about two years of my life, except it was mostly Zangband.