It’s summer, and I’m too warm.  I’m whiny but still making with the links:

• “The return of the FreeBSD desktop“, where Dag-Erling Smørgrav describes getting a BSD desktop working again due to a new ports system on FreeBSD.   It’s still too messy a process to get to a GUI, I think, and to support that I’ll point at this post of a KDE developer giving up.  (via)  One of the issues is the rapid flux of the underlying systems X has to run on – something touched on before.
• Here’s someone looking for a ‘Linux like BSD‘.  Most of the answers are “then use BSD”, though the poster is hampered by the new Intel video chipset.
• These “Ringbow” joystick controllers are described as being for games, but I think they could work as controllers like the Thinkpad nub.  (via)  It’s a Kickstarter project, so might be worth your money.
• With some minor changes, this command could find you all the BSD-licensed items in pkgsrc, I think.
• Phoronix thinks FreeBSD and Ivy Bridge don’t work together.  I could have sworn I’ve already heard of  Ivy Bridge systems running BSDs…  Take it with a grain of salt.
• Several readers will find the intext: Google search phrase incredibly useful.  (via)  Also, typing ‘*’ in Google Maps actually does what you’d expect.
• Less is exponentially more, Rob Pike talking about Go. (via)  The note about the Bell Labs numbering scheme explains a lot about UNIX’s terseness.
• Visual Git Reference. (via)  Showing a physical position to correlate with time is really helpful here.
• A review of FreeBSD Device Drivers, the new No Starch book.  Much of it should apply to DragonFly, I should think.
• I suppose this Dwarf Fortress book was inevitable.

Your unrelated link of the day: The Kleptones are great, and this collection of the music that influenced Paul Simon’s Graceland is a wonderful find.  A happier album I’ve never heard.  I feel nostalgic for the days when you had to actually search for music.