Not sure how I ended up with so many interesting conference links.  There’s some substantial reading here too, so clear your schedule.

• A long-overdue update of the Cluetrain Manifesto.  (via)
• AWS Tips I Wish I’d Known Before I Started.  (via)
• Secure Secure Shell.  (via)
• Hacking a Gameboy with a speedrun bot to program new games.  It’s hard to wrap my brain around.  (via)
• Operating System development in Rust.
• Speaking of which, Rust just reached 1.0A.  (via)
• Improving your PuTTY connections.
• The Intel Compute stick looks fun.
• RIPE70 is in Amsterdam in March; the Call for Papers is out.
• NANOG 63 is in Texas at the start of February; registration and the agenda are up.
• Vintage Computer Fest East 10 is in April in New Jersey.  It’s hands-on – you get to run the old computers!  (via)
• CiE 2015, a cross-disciple conference in late June in Bucharest, also may interest you.  (via)
• The Millennial Literalist.
• Robots are starting to break the law and nobody knows what to do about it.  (via)
• Event Notify Test Runner, or entr.  Runs arbitrary commands when a file changes.  It was also talked about at the NYCBUG meeting that just happened.
• Moving Beyond TCP/IP.
• This program is the equivalent of ENIAC.  Really!  They’re both for calculating ballistics.  (also via)
• The Tears of Donald Knuth.  (via multiple places)
• When The Sky Is Falling.  DDOS mitigation, in slides.  (via)
• The Morris Worm, as a physical artifact.