No theme, just lots of links.

• 1978 “Heathkit” D&D Digital Dice Tower.  Homebrew, Nixie tubes, D&D dice; this was made for me to link.
• VisiData, command line tabular data manipulation.  (thanks, Paul Ivanov)
• The History of Games conference Call for Papers is out.  (via)
• No leap second this year.
• Related: Did you know there is a global institution covering the rotation of the earth?  The International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service.  They graph Earth’s spin.  (via)
• The Beasts of Europe.  More graphs!  (Thanks, brother)
• Why are modern computers so slow?  Scroll to the Technology section; there’s a collection of writeups about modern latency, some of which I’ve linked before but all are worthwhile.
• 2020 IGF nominees: puzzles, Shakespeare, topical games, interactive storybooks, and adventure plus.
• The Roots of Doom Mapping.  Goes with the ReDoomEd link yesterday.  (via)
• The Art of the Post-Internet.
• Using Computer Modern on the web.  For the TeX-lovers.  (via)
• Ganymede Series 01 Watch Arrived.  A deliberately confusing interface.
• Retro Review: Zeven OS.  (via)
• Opening up the Baseboard Management Controller.  (via)
• My review of the Pinebook Pro – a $200 ARM powered laptop.  I want to see some in-depth BSD experiences on that hardware.  (via)