I’m on the road as I type this – though I’ll be back by the time it’s posted – and so the links are without much comment.

• The Best Interfaces We Never Built.
• The 80s were shit.   (via)
• Memory Banks.
• Malleable Software.  (via)
• Lightweight C compilers.
• Exterminate all rational AI scrapers, redux.
• A year of funded FreeBSD.
• Bill Atkinson Dies From Cancer at 74.  Few people realize how much of the modern software world came right from what he did.  (via)
• So you should read Memories of Lisa for the details.  (via)
• Unveiling the EndBOX: A NetBSD-based embedded box for EndBASIC.
• BoxyBSD.  (via)
• Look for the UNIX license plate.

Your unrelated comics link of the week: What’s the best comic I’ve ever read?  Lynda Barry is a master of the form.  (via)