Settle back, there’s a lot to read.

• CERN Terminal font.  I mentally expect the characters to be printed in green or amber, just from the shape.  (via)
• Systems Programming at Twitter.  (via)
• Richard Garriot’s D&D #1; his first game written in BASIC, long before Ultima.  There’s a contest involved, but that’s not the important part.  (via)
• Unix: Counting chickens or anything else.
• Matul Remit, a Dwarf Fortress story.  Yeah, I know, third Dwarf Fortress item in three weeks.  This one is about the story itself, not the gameplay.  (via)
• The Pac-Man Dossier, Obsessive notes and details about Pac-Man.  (also via)
• “…nothing worse for the future of home lighting than having to remember whether the lights in the bedroom were made by Sylvania or Philips before I can turn them off.”  The Internet of (proprietary) Things.
• The Modern Perl book, 2014 edition, is out and is a free download.
• Your favorite 2-piece keyboard.
• The Novena laptop, has a crowdfunding campaign.  It even has stretch goals, now.  It sounds fun, but you have to be seriously interested in hardware twiddling.  There’s a contest for a new logo, too.
• Worst common denominator programming.  You can guess the source.
• Technology Monoculture as threat.  It’s about OpenSSL, but I’d argue that Linux represents another monoculture problem.
• go in go.  (via)
• A discovered quirk is just [a] few steps away from becoming a feature.
• Microsoft Word is not a terminal emulator.  :wq
• Using Vim as a writing environment.  (via)
• boycottsystemd.org.  (via)

Your unrelated comics link of the week: Agatha Heterodyne & The Sleeping City.  It’s a kickstarter for the 13th volume of a long-running story – which is also free to read online.  As I have mentioned before, the artist Phil Foglio drew the original BSD daemons.