Month: January 2022

No theme; nicely eclectic.

• 3D-printable void switches.  Nicely documented.
• Successfully Crowdfunded Product Designs of 2021.  Interesting to see what makes it.  (via)
• Related: poke around core77.com for a bit.
• The 40 Greatest Synth Sounds of All Time.  Ugh, I linked to a listicle.
• A Web Around the World, Part 1: Signals Down a Wire and Part 2: If At First You Don’t Succeed…  Early, early telecoms.
• OpenQuest System Resource Document.  D100 gaming is a new term to me.  (via)
• 1977 computer office.  The rest of Watergate Living is entertaining, or awful depending on how you feel about the 1970s.  (via)
• The Making of Lode Runner.  (via)
• Bud Plant’s Incredible Catalog.  Anything able to survive Amazon’s impact has got to be good.
• Mycroft Mark II, a better choice than Alexa. (via)
• Processing: the Software that Shaped Creative Coding.  (via)

Your unrelated video of the week: Tom Baker saying “bread”.  (via)

Mini-theme: computer error.

• Astronomy community shapes their own destiny with Astropy.
• Debugging behind the Iron Curtain.  (via)
• Reddit stories on crazy bugs.
• A History of Modern Computer Crashing.
• Subcutanean, a book that changes the story every time it’s printed.
• In practice, there are two types of window managers in modern X.
• Figuring out how Amiga 500 RAM expansion projects work.
• Working “Teeny-Tiny Turntable”.
• Sorta related: Is Old Music Killing New Music?
• 22 indie games to look forward to in 2022.  (via)
• prior-art-dept.: OWL Guide, early hypertext, and “replacing” the Web.

Your unrelated personal frustration of the week: Legacy G Suite will no longer be free.   I need to figure out a self hosting solution.

That BBS link is possibly going to eat a zillion hours of your life.  Fair warning.

• Programming in 1987 Versus Today.  (via)
• late 1980s Czech video games.  (via)
• The Best Comics of 2021.
• Cursed.  It gets worse the longer you look at it.
• Haiku Contract Report: December 2021.  Linked cause I am unsure if X11 compatibility is good or bad for an ecosystem.
• World’s First Single Chip Apple II Boots.  (via)
• Public libraries are better than Google.  Sounds reactionary, but I just realized my last 3 real work conundrums were solved by library books.  (via)
• BBSing in the Snow Is the Best Way to Login.
• which led me to the Telnet BBS Guide.
• CathodeTV, like time travel to late night US TV circa 1979.  (via)

Mini-theme this week: small hardware projects.

• Casio watch + ARM.
• RPG Maker: History & Games.  (via)
• Please don’t use Discord for FOSS projects.  Cause then someone else owns your conversation, and the conversation is part of the project.
• Welcoming Recorded Music to the Public Domain.
• TinyNES: An open hardware NES using the original 6502-derived chips.  It’s cute!  (via)
• Get Your Classic Macintosh Online & More! RaSCSI Review and Tutorial.  Also aggressively cute!  (via)
• 202?
• Open Source Security Process Wishlist.
• Stampadia, print and play roguelike.  (via)
• 50 Years of Text Games: 2020: Scents & Semiosis.  This is the last game in the series, and here’s a post about what’s next.
• The Gift of It’s Your Problem Now.   I don’t agree with the political analogy, but there are good points.
• On Max Headroom: The Most Misunderstood Joke on TV.