I very nearly scheduled this to January 01, 2019.  And then fixed it for the right year but not the day, so you may have seen an early draft of this.  Oops; it’s here now.

• • The link that will eat the most of your time: href.cool links of the decade: there is a lot to look at in here.  Some highlights: Smash TV (video collage), esp8266.net (ultracheap hardware hacking), Magic Mirror (achievable tech), SPACEPLAN (clicker game), and Line Wobbler (physical roguelike).  If I hadn’t linked to some of these things before, I should have.
  • ASCII graffiti.  Not really ASCII but that’s OK, still fun to see.  (via)
  • The modern web is becoming an unusable, user-hostile wasteland.  My current peeve: following a link in a newsletter and getting a popup over the content … to subscribe to the newsletter.  This is not hard to fix.  (via)
  • Public Domain Day 2020.
  • multicians.org.  Pre-UNIX.  (via)
  • Time will end in 2038… for Unix.   (via)
  • Managing my dotfiles as a git repository.  Not a new idea, but has a nice host-specific setup.
  • Inter-networking.
  • Chesterton’s Shell Script.  (via)
  • Black Hack 2nd Edition and Apocalypse World, 2 RPGs recommended.
  • Can We Build Trustable Hardware?  Like any headline posted as a question, the answer is “no”, but this is Bunnie Huang, so there’s a much more complex but real solution.
  • The Joys of UNIX Keyboards.
  • Good times create weak men.  (via)
  • fingers.today, like wandering through someone’s $HOME.  (via)
  • A brief history of liquid computers.  “Billiard-ball computing”.  (via)
  • Rhasspy: a completely offline voice assistant.  That’s what I want.  (via)
  • X11 screen locking: a secure and modular approach.  Requires no new technology.

Your unrelated comics link of the week: Cankor.  (click on preview button)  I saw Cankor pages years ago; it’s disturbing in a good way.