Lots of analog this week.

• The Tactile Beauty of Buttons, Meters, Knobs and Dials.  (via)
• From the same place, Knobfeel.
• Baking Magnetic Recording Tape.  (via)
• “The purpose of the web software industry is to extract value out of Open-Source Software (OSS).”
• The possible return of Connections.  (via)
• The Computer Mouse Conference 2021 and The Mouse Sees.  (also via)
• XScreenSaver 6.0.1 is out.  No new savers in this release, just bugfixes.
• Explaining geometry with pizza.  The pull quotes are the point.
• Itanium UNIX history.
• Some Plain Text Note Taking Tactics.
• Playdate Update.  The cranking hardware console.  (via)
• The little details you don’t think about when playing D&D.
• 50 Years of Text Games: 1993: Curses.  Not the terminal software.