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)