Month: February 2015

Lots of in-depth reading this week.  Put on something warm/drink something warm (especially if you are in the northeast US) and start reading.

• Making a C64/C65 compatible computer in an FPGA.  (via)
• Joe Chip’s problem was never his door.  (via)
• A Whole New World.  (via, via)
• CORE 2015, the magazine from the Computer History Museum.  (PDF)
• Warren Ellis on the Apple Watch.
• Understanding Code Forking in Open Source Software, a paper.  (via)
• Chart of similar operations with sed and awk.  (via)
• A Tale of Two Zippers.  (via)
• 10 fancy zsh tricks you may not know… and Six hacks for less(1).
• “Why are there so many goddamn package managers?”  (via)
• The Last of the Typewriter Men.  (via)
• Where to buy amazing tea online.  Maybe a bit pretentious.
• It’s a UNIX system.  I know this.  (via)

Your unrelated quote of the week:

“If we had Smart Dogs right now, they’d have screens instead of ears, and they wouldn’t be able to bark in a somewhat indecipherable but yet still full of meaning way, they’d just have a whole bunch of notification icons that would come out of their butt and would all be red circles with numbers in them.”

Your unrelated link of the week: Drone over Niagara Falls.  That’s about 70 miles from here; I’ve been there many times.  That may give you an idea of the snow buildup/cold level here recently.

Being home sick in the middle of the week gave me a head start on all these links.

• Tea – Instead of Coffee.  Some cheap purchasing links in the comments.
• The Obfuscated Fibonacci; Or, a Curious Connection in Computation.  (via)
• BASIC Computer Games, 1978.  I loved this book, and especially the illustrations.  (via)
• A comment link from the previous story led me to DiscoRunner.com, a “multi-dialect BASIC interpreter”.
• Brands are not your friends.
• The Classic Super Star Trek Game. (via)
• Modern C, a PDF.  (via)
• Learning to love the command line.  (via)
• Networks of New York: An Internet Infrastructure Field Guide.  (via)
• Stop Playing Monopoly With Your Kids.
• The last twenty years building the web no-one asked for in two wireframes.  (via)
• The Realities of Installing iBeacon to Scale.  (via)
• osh, the V6 UNIX sh.  (via)
• Fractal Flowchart.  (via)
• Pterosaur, Vim within Firefox text fields.  Not new, but I like the screencast example.
• Has modern Linux lost its way?  Another variation on the “Linux is a mess compared to any BSD” argument – not that I’m discounting it.  (via)
• Cosma.org’s computer preservation page.  (via)