ChiBUG will be meeting today at 6:30PM CST via Zoom. Go, even if you aren’t near.
Lazy Reading for 2021/04/11
Some looks backward to prior links, but in a good way.
- Beatportal’s Definitive Guide to Techno. (via)
- Which reminds me of eternal favorite Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic Music.
- Your E-Mail Validation Logic is Wrong. There’s a whole chapter about this in the most in-depth regex book I ever read.
- ifconfig.co. Fetch that site for your plain text IP, plus other features. (via)
- How does Go know time.Now? (via)
- When Hackers Were Heroes. A worthwhile history read / book review. (via)
- Map ruler overlays in Cogmind. Linked for the quality demonstration animations.
- AFFINITIES, public domain images bound.
- Gossamer Network, an exploration of very specific data visualizations through a website. (via)
- Generative Unfoldings, computer art. (also via)
- 50 Years of Text Games: 1983: Suspended and 1984: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
- Even the footnotes have footnotes.
- research!rsc: Unix Viruses. Linked for the history. (via)
- Picking an operating based on feel.
In Other BSDs for 2021/04/10
I’m hitting all the unixes.
- Atari Heavy Sixer. Not BSD, System V, but also note the post date.
- Knuth is still working on TeX. (via)
- Managing Multiple PostgreSQL Instances on FreeBSD. (via)
- XScreenSaver 6.00 out now. Haven’t seen it in dports yet.
- I got the GNU Modula-2 compiler working on OpenBSD.
- ChiBUG will be meeting on April 13th at 6:30PM CST via Zoom. I’ll post a reminder, of course.
- The pubnix history project. (via–via)
- Teach yourself Plan9 via SDF boot camp! Also why not get a mug? (via)
- i386 on FreeBSD 13 will be Tier 2, a reminder and look back.
- FreeBSD’s ports migration to git and its impact on HardenedBSD.
- Apologising to wpa_supplicant and FreeBSD Wi-Fi.
- Steam on FreeBSD.
- Valuable News – 2021/04/05.
- Interview with Abhinav Upadhyay, NetBSD contributor and machine learning software developer. (via)
- The state of toolchains in NetBSD.
HTTPS default
I thought I had done this before, but apparently not: the site is switched to https by default. Tell me if you notice problems from that.
BSD Now 397: Fresh BSD 2021
This week’s BSD Now covers the usual mix of articles – I see some Gemini sneaking in! – and mentions something I should have; the revamp of FreshBSD.
HardenedBSD at NYCBUG, tonight
HardenedBSD 2021 “State of the Hardened Union”, presented by Shawn Webb, happening at NYCBUG at 6:45 tonight. See the announcement for how to get the invite.
zstd in DragonFly
zstd(1) is now in dsynth, in DragonFly as a library, multi-threaded when you specify, and available as a decompression method for reading files.
Lazy Reading for 2021/04/04
I lost the origin of some of these links this week; too many tabs open. Sorry!
- Moog System 55, so many analog controls! (via)
- Mike Beauchamp Projects. I like the clock. (via)
- Shrink, Reduce, and Implode: The Legacy Zip Compression Methods. (via)
- The complete guide for open sourcing video games.
- A Gemini (and Atom and RSS) feed reader.
- Golem and My Other Seven Computer-Generated Books in Print.
- Don’t End The Week With Nothing.
- Anarchism in Practice Is Often Radically Boring Democracy.
- Equa! by James Chip. Tabletop RPG as a set of equations. This will scratch someone’s very particular itch. (via)
- Recognizing and rectifying your mistakes as an engineering leader. If you aren’t too sick of talking heads.
- Designing calculator apps.
- Internet routing can now vary based on things you wouldn’t expect, or ports matter for routing, not just destination.
- Different views of what are basic and advanced Vim features. A questions for every time I link a Vim tutorial.
- Is the Psion 5 still usable in 2017? (video, via)
- Turn your iPhone into a 90s pocket organiser. (also via)
- Hacker Simulator.
Your unrelated music of the week: The Best Beat Tapes on Bandcamp: March 2021.
In Other BSDs for 2021/04/03
Well, I made up for last week’s short list.
- What tool you use to read IPMI sensor information can matter. Not directly BSD, but the tools described are in ports.
- The origin of POSIX. The name, not the standard. TWAIN has the best pseudo-origin. (via)
- Does the old Unix still exist, besides its descendants? Yes, and so does Theseus’s ship.
- Related: Plan 9 is now open source, along with Inferno. Technically a later version of Unix – plus Inferno can run on BSD. (via)
- NetBSD Bounties for xhci features scatter-gather, suspend/resume. (via)
- HardenedBSD March 2021 Status Report.
- GSoC Reports: Make system(3), popen(3) and popenve(3) use posix_spawn(3) internally (Final report).
- KDE on FreeBSD 2021o2.
- Hitting donation milestone, financial report for 2020.
- How to split a file into small parts.
- UFS Boot Environments.
- What security does a default OpenBSD installation offer?
- Nginx as a TCP/UDP relay. On OpenBSD.
- pkgsrc-2021Q1 branch announcement.
- FVWM(3) and the quest for a comfortable NetBSD desktop. (via)
- Valuable News – 2021/03/29.
- OPNsense 21.1.4 released.
- Only Footnotes. But some of them are BSD footnotes!
Semi-BSD-related: One of my 3 workplaces needs a Software Team Lead. (scroll down) The main product is FreeBSD-based, though this team position does not directly work with it.
BSD Now 396: License to thrill
This week’s BSD Now is the usual roundup of news; FreeBSD-heavy, including some of the future planning for the project.