Completed Tuesday, in an effort to reduce tab count in my browser.

• • A few tips about the command cd.
  • FOSS laptops and subpar displays.  Battery life is I think the hidden reason for this.
  • How the Digital Camera Transformed Our Concept of History.  “A century ago, nobody, not even a science fiction writer, predicted that someone would take a photo of a parking lot to remember where they’d left their car.”  (via)
  • Ideas Embodied in Metal: Babbage’s Engines Dismembered and Remembered.  Chunks of the Babbage Differential Engine still exist, from 120+ years ago.  So does Babbage’s brain, apparently.  (via)
  • DOOM via pregnancy test screen.  (via)
  • Vim as an IDE (VimConf 2020 Talk)  (via)
  • Starship, the cross-shell prompt.  (via)
  • “Damn your blood”: Swearing in early modern English.  (via)
  • Tales from the Public Domain: BOUND BY LAW?  A comic about public domain, of course free to download.  (via)
  • The Door Problem, or explaining what a game designer does.  (via)
  • moreutils is a growing collection of the unix tools that nobody thought to write long ago when unix was young.  (via)
  • Internet Ascendant, Part 1: Exponential Growth.  Everything in this series is pleasant to read.
  • Winamp Skin Museum.  (via)
  • Bullfrog after Populous.  Mentions underappreciated game Syndicate.
  • Walk Cycles.  (via)
  • The Unix timestamp will begin with 16 this Sunday.  (via)