A little more on building and less on rights this week.
- Making a Laptop From Scratch. Note the protocol used to fetch the document. (via)
- 25th International Obfuscated C Code Contest. (via)
- Mutt and HTML Email. (via)
- Software Engineering Takeaways.
- The Game of Everything, Part 10: Civilization and the Limits of Progress.
- Steve Wozniak Recounts His Efforts to Engineer the Apple II Floppy Disk System. (via)
- Limbo X86 PC Emulator for Android. I want to try multimaster Hammer2 on multiple phones in emulation. No, it’s not a good idea, but it would be a fun idea. (via)
- The fanciest convention badge I’ve ever seen.
The laptop made me think of this:
https://www.pine64.org/?page_id=3707
It’s basically the same concept, just as a finished super cheap laptop.
Since the “Making a Laptop From Scratch” article served up its content via Gopher – can someone give me the ELI5 version of what Gohper is and how / why it was used?
Gopher is the web before there was the web, without HTML, etc.
Other than that grow up and read yourself. ;)