Month: January 2026

A couple off-the-beaten-track items.

• The Rise of Computer Games, Part II: Digitizing Nerddom.  (see previous in series)
• Narrascope, happening in June in Albany, NY.  It sounds like there will be games and experiences to try, not just discussion.  (via)
• I sell onions on the Internet.  I thought for sure I had linked this before.  (via)
• The Caligra C100.  (also via)
• “Do something productive with your 10,000 hours people.”  I am only qualified to run around a restricted area and be worried, going by my gameplay hours.
• Discord IPO, again.  Notes on self-hosting chat, as a transition and fallback for the inevitable enshittification of Discord.
• Thinking About Thinking.
• SystemSix.
• How the past models the future.  Linked for the page x-ray comparison images.
• Eat This Newsletter.  His podcast is soothing.
• Jan Švankmajer Day.  Lots of animated gifs if you aren’t familar with his work.  (via)
• The original BSD proposal.  (via)

Your unrelated comics art link of the week: Jack Kirby Heroes & Humanity exhibition.

I am linking to the Public Domain stuff “late”, seeing as how we’re 3 weeks into the new year.  It’s good forever though.

• The Dream of the Universal Library.
• Related to the previous link: Public Domain Day 2026.
• Also related: ImageS Magazine.  The man who put them together died a few years ago; pick up any you can find now because a collection like this won’t happen again.
• Dead Archivist Society.  A worry I have too.
• Corporate Breakfast, a Kickstarter.
• The Market for Lemons, about web frameworks.  (via)
• Eighteen Years of Greytrapping – Is the Weirdness Finally Paying Off?  (via)
• How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner.  (via)
• @YouAreCarrying, an Infocom inventory bot.  (via)

More BSD content than usual.

• Home Assistant as Personal Device Tracker.
• BSD PF versus Linux nftables for firewalls for us.
• The Rise of Computer Games, Part I: Adventure.  “The tale grew in the telling”
• Systems design 3: LLMs and the semantic revolution.
• ASP level generation autoplay.
• The story of Propolice, the OpenBSD stack protector.
• Modern Commodore 64 cartridge loaders.
• Trying Navidrome on FreeBSD.
• Flock and Urban Surveillance.  See also 404 Media’s Flock coverage.
• Tangible Media.  (via)
• How Rob Pike got spammed with an AI slop “act of kindness”.

Your unrelated comics link of the week: Webtoons revisited.  Many links to follow.