Month: August 2022

This came together in about a day.

• Plua 2 continued: open source under GPL for your classic Palm.
• The ADAM74 terminal.  The ribbon cable does it for me.  (via)
• Retro UUCP/UNIX community?
• Indirectly from the above: A Compiler Writing Journey.
• Analyzing ScotRail audio announcements with Datasette—from prototype to production.
• Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers.
• PicoEMP.  You could really ruin someone’s day with this.  Or many someones. (via)
• ed is the standard editor.  (via)
• A Zen Guide to Paper and Pen Games.  (also via)
• XScreenSaver was released 30 years ago.
• Survival Research Labs medley.  Strandbeests with shotguns and flamethrowers.
• An Unnecessarily Detailed Look at the Design of the Login Screen.  (via)
• Setting up Minecraft, for absolute beginners.

Some link cleanout going on here.

• • bps.space successfully lands a model rocket.  Without smashing it into the ground, I mean. I can do that.
  • Emergency Exit Coffee Table.
  • Subgenius collage art.
  • The 100 Most Influential Pages in Comic Book History.  (via)
  • A design system for building retro Apple interfaces.  (via)
  • Make My Drive Fun.  Car trip, not your disk drive.  (via)
  • Links for people who remember Amstrads.
  • Play music from your LCD monitor with a radio.  (via)
  • Yabai — A tiling window manager for macOS.  A difficult hack.  (via)
  • I love my GPD Micro PC.
  • One D&D.
  • You can get 30-minute predictions on the Aurora Borealis.  Why 30 minutes?  Cause that’s how far away the L1 satellite is that gets hit by them first.

I managed to avoid a dominant theme this week.  On purpose!  I think it means a better summary.

• Build a tablet out of your Framework motherboard.
• In-browser retro-futuristic tank game, open source.  (via)
• Laptoppin’ like 1975.
• The Pong you could program, possibly: the MOS 7600/7601.
• The Comics Journal has been publishing link roundups about comics – all kinds, including good ones – for quite some time.  Here’s a recent one.
• The Spriter’s Resource.  Sprites sprites sprites.  (via)
• Plasma Tweeter.
• What I learned about markdown from interviewing a bunch of people.
• Decisions, decisions: Principles for making important choices in open source.
• Unhinged old newspaper reports lead to interesting ARPANET “first message” question.
• Reassembling a 3.5″ floppy.  (via)
• Video Nub Shank.

Some cranky links, some fun links.

• Re-reclaimed from nature: Resurrecting a DT80 terminal.  I’ve seen hardware worse off than this come back… but rarely.
• Amazon is incentivized to support ripoffs.  (via)
• It’s not just books, either.
• The Blessed Valley of Mild Proficiency.  (via)
• The Gametank game console.
• rePalm.  (via)
• 40 years of AutoCAD.  (via)
• Emacs Timeline.  (via)
• Mapmaking as a Game within a Game.
• Nam June Paik’s Wobbulator.  (indirectly via)

Unrelated game of the week: Hexagonal Pipes.