I had too many links for this as early as Tuesday.

• A perspective on the state of the SSLiverse as of early 2016.  (via the author on EFNet #dragonflybsd)
• In defense of Unix.  (via)
• The Plain Person’s Guide to Plain Text Social Science.  (via)
• SIGGRAPH 2016 – Computer Animation Festival Submissions.  (via)
• An interactive and audio history of interactive fiction.  This can eat some hours.  (via)
• A Configuration Management Rosetta Stone.  1 program, 4 systems.  (via)
• An explanation of database indexes.  Using PostgreSQL, but probably near-universal.   (also via)
• I knew but I didn’t really know there were so many named maneuvers in chess, and here’s a whole lot of visualization of them.  (via)
• Mr. Fart’s Favorite Colors: “you take it for granted that someone, somewhere is breaking everything he possibly can”  (via)
• Announcing SQL Server on Linux.  It was this, or losing relevancy within 5 years.  (via)
• A Robot That Has Fun at Telemarketers’ Expense.  Similar to Lenny.  (via)
• Is group chat making you sweat?  A good point on attention as a limited resource.  (via)
• @Play 84: The Rescue of Meta-Zelda.  Randomized Roguelike Legend of Zelda is a somewhat crazy, exciting concept to me.
• There’s a third game in the Infinite Space series out – Sea of Stars.  The first game is one of the best space-theme roguelikes out there.

Your unrelated video link of the week: Rotoscoped Horse.  Taken from the old Muybridge photos.  (via)