I’ve linked to Wizzywig (free complete book PDF at that link before, as a sort of early semi-fictional history of personal computing.  I met the author at TCAF this weekend; his Brain Rot comics about the start of hip-hop are enjoyable too.  There’s about a zillion more books I wanted to buy at TCAF, too…

• Arabic programming language artwork.  “At every single step of the way, every software tool you would use to build a language breaks horribly when encountering non-Latin text.”  (via)
• How babies are like Unix.
• Bringing up V6 Unix on the Ersatz-11 PDP-11 Emulator.  (via)
• How Steve Wozniak Wrote BASIC for the Original Apple From Scratch.  From the man himself.  (via)
• The Largest Vocabulary in Hip-Hop.  Diving into language use and data analysis.  (via)
• The Quest for Randomness.  (via)
•  Steading of the Hill Giant Chief.  An AD&D module and map, illustrated and turned into a complete narrative.   (via)
• Recreational Mathematics Magazine.  Someone will find this deeply satisfying.  (via)
• Practical Alternatives to systemd?
• The operating system: should there be one?  (PDF)  Smalltalk, lurking.  (via)
• Found via that previous link: The Interlisp Programming Environment.  (PDF)  Notice it says ‘environment’, not ‘language’.  Lisp implementations seem to be considered both the operating system and the programming language.
• Again found via: Go is more UNIX than UNIX.

Your unrelated link of the week: Memorex.  As a friend from years ago said, “Eiiiiiiiiighteeeeeees”.  (via)