Network tools and analysis is the accidental topic this week.

• More open-source network management tools.
• How do ISPs and modems actually obtain the right signal off of a phone/cable/optical fiber/whatever line?  A layer-1 overview.  (via)
• A damp discussion of network queuing.  (via)
• How To Make Fossils Productive Again.  (via)
• Frolicsome Engines: The Long Prehistory of Artificial Intelligence.
• SSH for fun and profit.  (via)
• CV of Failures.  I like the last one.  (via)
• Go best practices, six years in.  (via)
• PocketCHIP, hardware for PICO-8.  (via)
• Typewriter.
• Circuit Classics — Sneak Peek!
• An update on SSH protocol 1.  Dead in a year, that’s the update.  (via)
• How difficult is the GVG-AI competition?
• Deflecting it old school.  From here.

Your unrelated tea link of the week: British tea consumption has been going down.  (via)  I like the additional charts about biscuits and cake, complementary to tea.  Which reminds me: Welsh cakes are so good that the first time I made them, I was angry that I hadn’t tried them years ago.