Elements of dsynth, the mass package builder for DragonFly, are now appearing in the base system. It looks like this is most helpful for building packages as part of the base install, but there might be other applications.
This is mostly an ID change, but the Mercusys MW150US USB wifi adapter is now supported in DragonFly.
I missed last week because of a time crunch at 2 jobs, but at least I can make this week up.
- DAK and the Golden Age of Gadget Catalogs. (via)
- Mechanical Creations. Sort of the opposite of the previous link. (also via)
- Monaspace Fonts. (via)
- Thank you for holding my duck.
- HTML Web Components: an example.
- mud resources. (via)
- Not On Amazon. (via)
- What font are you using now?
- Complex Simulation: Artifacts of a Russian spy.
- The Mediterranean Iron Omni-Spear.
- The Vim features that make me a Vim user instead of a Vi user.
The monthly ChiBUG meeting is tomorrow at the normal location.
SemiBUG is having a meeting tomorrow, the 21st, with a presentation on shell scripting. It’ll be online through Jitsi. Slides from Nick Holland’s last presentation are available, for the curious.
No natural theme at all this week. Which is OK!
- How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Big Data. I would like to see this on a larger scale. (via)
- An adorably small Connection Machine. The real thing, if you are unfamiliar.
- Also cute: networked tiny TRS-80 model.
- Naming things needn’t be hard. (via)
- Confusing git terminology. (also via)
- EuroBSDCon 2023 report, part 1 and part 2.
- “The ports system exists to not only share misery, but to reliably replicate it“
- My MNT Reform – almost a year on.
- FreeBSD Bhyve Virtualization.
- OctOpenBSD. I am a bit late linking that.
- Talk about the Basics.
- Reading your RSS feed on FreeBSD.
- Manipulate PDF files easily with pdftk. An underappreciated program.
- Presenting Syncthing, discovery server, relay server on OpenBSD.
- A small warning about UDP based protocols.
You can now run devfs(5) and procfs(5) in a jailed environment for DragonFly. As the commit message says, it’s for dsynth but I imagine this may be good for other applications.
NYCBUG is having a combination release party (FreeBSD 14) and swag time (EuroBSDCon stickers). It will be streamed. Go, if you are near.
More wide-ranging this week.
- Patrick Newman’s Software Engineering Management Checklist. (via)
- Through the Ages: Apple CPU Architecture. (via, via)
- Pool topology, I mean yes but why? (via)
- The difference in penalties in AD&D1 and D&D5.
- The Great Drone Ones.
- The Distractor.
- mii_emu: MII Apple //e Emulator for Linux. Linked for the Total Replay screenshot. (via)
- GET LAMP, which I know I have linked before, but I was reminded.
- Fantasy Inspiration, Era by Era. Books to read by time setting.
- Personal mail server issues. (a good reason for this book.)