Month: November 2025

Some good long reads.

• Claude is listening.  Linked to note there’s no standard in how long a company keeps your data.
• Strandbeest evolution 2025.  I am glad this has kept happening.
• Using FreeBSD to make self-hosting fun again.  (lost the source, sorry)
• Containers and giving up on expecting good software installation practices.
• The Space Sim’s Last Hurrah.
• Running a PDP-8 from 1965.  (video, via)
• Colossus: The Missing Manual.  (via)
• ACM has gone open access.  This is a significant leap from a major publisher.
• Related: the most comprehensive technical journal bibliography I’ve ever seen.  (both via)
• Apple 2 Black Friday sales.  (via)

No theme though a bit dark.

• The only existing copy of UNIX v4.  (via)
• readtape, for Magnetic tape data recovery in software.  Related.
• The Internet of Things That Don’t Work.  Surely I’ve linked to this before?
• The Baby and the Black Box, about ‘Steve’ Shirley, who died earlier this year.  (via)
• User Specific Runit Supervisor.  Not BSD-specific but interesting detail.  (via)
• Always check that your bug report wasn’t solved a hundred-plus years ago.
• What was the Dark Age of Comic Books?
• Moving From Windows To FreeBSD As The Linux Chaos Alternative.
• Reviving Classic Unix Games: A 20-Year Journey Through Software Archaeology.  (via)
• how to use the internet again: a curriculum.  (via)

Hey, I made my averaging-once-yearly commit!

• The Questing Beast Appendix N.  I like the idea of “personal” Appendix Ns.
• Phrack is still publishing.  (via)
• PagedOut, tech articles with a one-page max.  (also via)
• Winners of the 2025 IFComp.  (via)
• One of Pascal’s original calculating machines from 1642 is up for sale.  (via)
• AT&T Archives: The UNIX Operating System.  Seeing the inside of Brian Kernighan’s office is sorta neat.  (video, via)
• Drawing an ASCII TIE fighter for post?quantum cryptography.
• Robot Phone Home…Or Else.
• Cursed Knowledge.  (via)