Lots of variety this week; I’m happy with this link batch.

• Categories: models of models.  Pleasingly abstract.  (via)
• The Complicated, Slightly Better Manhood of Achewood.  Linked so that someone who never read Achewood can now go through its entire archive.  (via)
• The End of Oz.  Read this if you read any/all of the many, many Land of Oz books when young.  (via)
• Modding, Vim, i3, and Efficiency.  (via)
• I’ve made a rotary dial number input, because why not?  (via)
• Coffee Is Hard.  (via)
• The Best Cast Iron Skillet.  Secret tip from someone who has been using them for decades: treat them poorly, don’t spend money, they’ll be great.  It’s a chunk of iron.
• The Computer as a Communication Device.  I did not realize the role Hawaii played in causing packet communication.
• Computer Files Are Going Extinct.  (via)
• Betrayal At Krondor.
• I hate the X11 ICCCM selection system, and you should too.  (via)
• You know, we might as well just run every network service over HTTPS/2 and build another six layers on top of that to appease the OSI 7-layer burrito guys.  Linked mostly for that sentence.
• The lines of code that changed everything.

Your unrelated music of the week: The Mysterious Professor 950’s Otherworldly Beat Tapes.