Month: November 2020

I don’t have to work today for the first time since I am not sure when.  For that, you get links links links.

• My Raspberry Pi Desktop.  (via)
• Text-only websites.  There’s a lot of links to follow there.  (via)
• The secrets of Monkey Island’s source code.  (via)
• Connection Interrupted, image data corruption in motion.  (via)
• The Benefits of Collecting.
• How Mozart became a bad composer.  There is so much in the public domain that I don’t realize.  (via)
• Your computer isn’t yours.  Apple tracks what you run, when.  (via)
• Mini Arcade.  (via)
• Retro games – How I fixed the Atari 2600 awful music.  (via)
• Evaluating Precursor’s Hardware Security.
• Booting from a vinyl record.  (via)
• Beepbox.co.  (via)
• epr — Terminal/CLI Epub reader.  A few seconds of search doesn’t show a BSD port, though.  No, wait, I was wrong.  (via)
• Permissive IPs.  That’s Intellectual Property, and mentions a bunch of tabletop industry things I wasn’t familiar with.
• A few ways to make money in FOSS.
• Improving on QBasic’s Random Number Generator.
• Pen plotter SVG Snowflake generator.
• Fun with Crypto Ancienne: TLS for the Browsers of the Internet of Old Things.
• A review of Envision glasses, a proper use of Google Glass technology.  (via)

Literally most of the tabs I have open right now, in front of you.

• The Definitive Guide to the Doctor Who Theme Music.  (via, via)
• Sinister Sounds of the Solar System.  (also via)
• Well There’s Your Problem Podcast.  Actually stills and audio about engineering disasters.  (via)
• Woodpecker dubstep.
• Softbody Tetris, Fuzzy Edition.
• A Visual History of Internet (IPv4) Address Allocations.  (via)
• The JavaScript Ecosystem.
• Features of a Modern Terminal Emulator.  (video, via)
• Why I Teach vim.  (via)
• Vimcal.  Not totally sure why Vim is in the name but what the heck.  (via)
• My Obsession with Chess.  Incidentally, McCloud’s Understanding Comics has an excellent explanation of closure that goes far beyond comics.   (via)
• Pinafore, for Mastodon instances.
• What is a System-on-Chip (SoC), and Why Do We Care if They are Open Source?
• The Backbone: Conclusion.  Story of the Internet.

Surely some of these are repeats?

• CSVs: The good, the bad, and the ugly.  (via)
• This seems like a good form factor.
• present: ‘a terminal-based presentation tool with colors and effects’.  (via)
• A book about books bound in human skin.  (via)
• Rare Alphonse Mucha illustrations.  I saw some of his work close up recently.
• 20 double-edged potions for the ingenious adventurer.
• Miscellany ? 89: 2020, year of the asterisk.
• The Video Game Source Project.  (via)
• Exploding Whale, remastered in 4K.   (via)
• computecuter.com.  Exactly what it sounds like.
• Return to Plan 9.  (via)
• Computer Unit 1979.  (via)
• Text Editors III: Emacs.
• Thinking out loud about Vim.  Equal time.
• Efficient text editing on a PDP-10.  I link, others get into it: I’m so happy!

There’s some good reading/projects linked in here, so if you have free time, this can keep you busy.

• Psion Series 3 palmtop EReader.  That’s 25 year old hardware?
• BBC’s In Our Time podcast on Alan Turing.  (via)
• 808303.studio.  Surely I’ve linked this already?  (via)
• The Museum of Obsolete Media.  (thanks, swildner)
• The 100 best fantasy books of all time.  I thought it was another corny listicle, but on the other hand I’ve loved every book I’ve read on that list, and there’s a lot more I didn’t know about.  (via)
• 15 Sci-Fi Books That Forever Shaped The Genre.  Ditto.  (also via)
• The Web Key Directory, based on this.  I need to use it.  My source link for this works as a sort of how-to.
• Unraveling the JPEG.  (via)
• New Nixie tube manufacturing.
• dimensions.com – reference drawings for everything.  (via)
• Configuring Windows for key-based SSH access.  For reference.
• A curated non-violent games list.

Your unrelated music of the week: KUTMAH: Isolation Tapes v.006.  There’s a lot more good music from this person.