A bit short this week – I am in the final parts of a large software transition at work.
SemiBUG is having a meeting tonight with a presentation from iXSystems on TrueNAS. There’s a video link in the posting.
Comfortably all over the map this week.
- Recreating a Cyberpunk 2077 game prop.
- Backblaze drive stats for 2023Q2. I just found out how cheap b2 storage can be.
- Awesome Inferno. (via)
- “Why would you do that?” The management review of yacc.
- What’s special about this number? (via)
- Dobbstown Mirror, $1. You should subscribe; I’ve enjoyed 3 issues so far.
- I did not know: vim exists via Atari/Amiga vi ports.
- Futurism Restated, an electronic music blog. I mean Substack. The lines blur. (via)
- v8 /etc/motd.
- Tiny life hack: paint your mouse dongles. I wish I had read this years ago.
- Inflation in 1983 must have been horrible. Linked just because 9 year old me thought the Elephant Memory Systems logo was cool.
- STIRred AND SHAKEN. Boring, but quietly important.
- The first color e-ink monitor I’ve seen.
- On the future of free long term support for Linux distributions. A certain amount of open source work is built on the tailings from venture capital, and from corporate waste.
ChiBUG’s monthly meeting is today – go if you are near.
NYCBUG is meeting on the 9th – go if you are near.
The mini-theme this week is that some of these links go to lists of more links, so I’m sure there’s a rabbit hole in here for you somewhere.
- Paypal security story. (via)
- LETTER BOMB TRANSFER PROTOCOL. (via)
- textual-paint. (via)
- Plain-text journaling. Not necessarily recommending this. (via)
- Why is DNS hard to learn? (via)
- Warren Ellis’s UbuWeb Top Ten.
- The only remaining pre-1950 valve computer.
- Free and open source software projects are in transition.
- tildeverse.org.
- Wrench button to root.
- Forthcoming books. (scroll down for the list of suggestions)
- CRT Rejuvenators. (via previous)
- The Garden of Computational Delights.