Lots of links this week.
- Device names. (via)
- xscreensaver 5.30 is out, along with a story of how much work jwz put into the first version of Lament.
- One Thing Well mentions toybox, which I think is similar to busybox, but BSD-licensed.
- This hard drive still worked. (via)
- Unix: Scripting with templates.
- Road to Rust 1.0 (via joris on EFNet #dragonflybsd)
- Intel Edison. Processors have become a sort of monoculture in the last 5-10 years; it’s good to see variety coming back at the small scale. (via sjg on EFNet #dragonflybsd)
- Bézier Clock (via I forget, sorry)
- Bézier Method. (via)
- wasavi, vi in most any web browser text area.
- How to become a GOOD theoretical physicist by Gerard ‘t Hooft. (via)
- Impossible Cookware and Other Triumphs of the Penrose Tile. (via)
- HPN-SSH – high performance SSH, as anyone who has scp’d a large file would want. (via)
- Lost Lessons from 8-Big BASIC. BASIC programming was very … immediate.(also via)
- Booting directly into Vim. (via)
- Memory Management Reference. (via)
- ENIACinaction.com, about the first modern computer, in the 1940s. (via SIGCIS)
- The Ig Nobel prizes for 2014 are announced.
- XScreenSaver on YouTube.
- World’s longest traceroutes.
Bezier clock has no link
(I love this lazy reading bulletin btw:)
Bezier clock link fixed. I think I was distracted figuring out how to do the accented e.
In fact, the toybox developer is a former busybox maintainer. And quit thanks to Bruce Perens.
Thanks for sharing my boot to Vim article. I saw +100 referrals this week coming from here, added it to my RSS reader :)
I was actually meaning to read about the Emacs as PID 1 thing, and I did because of the Vim one. I’d still be interested to see how much better that works out than systemd and if you can do Emacs LISP to do everything it needs to.