A little bit of a thread here on the current crawling plague.
- The Terminal Demise Of Consumer Electronics Through Subscription Services.
- Why I prefer rST to markdown. Nobody remembers SGML, but everyone reinvents it. (via)
- gpart on FreeBSD to partition and format a USB key.
- stylish bugs.
- The Magic Switch. Surely I’ve mentioned this story before? This is the actual hardware.
- Box131: You’re a National Security Project, Harry. Read the first point, about accuracy and how it can be counterproductive.
- Yet Another Roguelike Tutorial, Parts 0 and 1. (via)
- The current (2025) crawler plague and the fragility of the web.
- Related to the previous: “Bro, ban me at the IP level if you don’t like me!”
- And more followup: A neat idea, but I can see this leading to the Balkanization of the Internet.
- VIC-20 Ultima I. (via)
- My other email client is a daemon. (via)