Mini-theme, barely: music.
- The Framework Laptop, Customizable parts, and pick-your-own ports. (via pikrzyszt on EFNet #dragonflybsd)
- Plaintext Distro. As in Distributor of zines. (via)
- Decoded: OpenTTD. (via)
- 50 Years of Text Games: 1997: Achaea. I never heard of this but it’s huge in scope.
- Playdate reviews. Quirky is not the right word but I want to say it.
- The little-known Soviet mission to rescue a dead space station. (via)
- Never Enough Rhodes. (via)
- The Tyranny of Spreadsheets. (via)
- Are we really engineers?, We are not special, and What engineering can teach (and learn) from us. A series of essays on software engineering.
- The DesQtop. (via)
- A collection of the worst volume control UIs. (via)
- Hot failover after 3 decades in space. (via)
- The best antivirus joke. (via)
- The best Wolfram Alpha joke. (also via)
- EXTREME RECORD COLLECTING: CONFESSIONS OF AN ANALOG VINYL SNOB. I hate to admit it but I have experienced this with first-generation analog recordings vs hearing their later digital versions. (via)