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)