Month: February 2018

I finally worked through my Lazy Reading link backlog.

• Computer-generated books, a list.
• Every Icon, eventually drawing every 32×32 monochrome image possible.  I remember a 8×8 physical hardware version of this called All Possible Images, some years ago.  Google doesn’t remember it, though, or chooses to give me links to API docs instead.
• Frankenbook, Shelley’s Frankenstein with additional essays and annotations worked directly into the original text.  This is something web pages were built for.  (via)
• MacTote, for lugging your FatMac around.  (via)
• Grandma’s Zelda map.  (also via)
• Actual screenshot.
• Towards LaTeX in the Browser.  (via)
• Unix influence in history.  (via)
• The UNIX Operating System: A Model for Software Design.  Via this page.  The target is behind a paywall.  The mention of Kernighan as an author, though, made me wonder if he had published it separately.  He hasn’t, but I did find his books page at Princeton.
• My Delorean runs Perl.  (via)
• The revival of blogging.  English translated version.
• The vi input model.  (via)
• Mycroft II, an open source voice assistant.  Are there more like this?
• How’s your soldering technique?
• Welcome to Armageddon!  An excellent roguelike history from an excellent magazine.
• Why create a new Unix shell?  (via)

Your unrelated link of the week: see the last paragraph of this Don Hertzfeldt interview; it’s important.  “Every time you pay to watch something you’re casting a vote. You’re saying, ‘Hey go make more of this, please.’ Audiences have all of the power to shape what gets made and what doesn’t.”