Reminder: NYCBUG‘s next event is in two days. It’s “The Design of Unix Shell” with Stephen Bourne. You should go; it’s a chance to talk directly with the author of foundational software.
Nostalgia might be creeping in here.
- “Plain text has been around for decades and it’s here to stay.” Pseudo-ASCII design tools.
- Old-School Essentials Online Rules Reference.
- Root Loops, cereal-themed terminal colors. (via this discussion of tmux config, via)
- “Don’t eat your seed corn”, about homogenization of ideas.
- Who Is That Knocking At My (SSH) Door? Incidentally a fabulous domain name on that link.
- The implementation of the Carrier Pigeon Internet Protocol, RFC1149, 25 years later.
- A list of list of alternative service providers. (via)
- Open web vs AI: what can W3C do? A lot, as it turns out…
- HyperCard on the Macintosh. A retrospective of a fantastic tool.
- ‘Slimline’ Commodore 64C Ultimate: BASIC Beige. This is going to be really exciting for anyone with a liking of Commodore hardware.
- The GPS III Rollout Is Almost Complete, But What Is It? A nice summary of what will be nearly invisible to everyone… if it goes well.
Your unrelated subscription item of the week: The Cacao Barista Snail Mail Club. I’ve been running a small chocolate manufacturing company for several years now and I’ve tasted a lot of chocolate from many sources. Map Chocolate is some of the best.
Several of these links were discovered via bubbles.town, including a min e-ink hardware trend you’ll notice below.
- The Utah teapot in tandem with the recent Unix V4 tape discovery. (via)
- Roguelike Celebration 2026 Call for Proposals. Look at previous years to see the topics.
- The Adventure Shell, your shell prompt as text adventure. (via)
- Apple History in Prototypes. (via)
- Knight Rider 2025. (via)
- An Ode to bzip. Linked for the compression algorithm descriptions. (via)
- Open Source Has a Bot Problem. Prompt injection to help classify AI patches. (via)
- Strawberry Music Player, linked cause I read somewhere it filled the same niche as Winamp. I tried it – and yep, it scratches that itch very well.
- Crosspoint Reader for the XTEInk X4.
- Related: XTEInk X4 notes, including moving Markdown files to it.
- Also related: A local epub eBook server for my xteink.
- Lovecraft Investigations Season 5 – Official Crowdfund Trailer. Posted cause I enjoyed all the previous seasons and I’ve been reading the author’s blog for some time. It’s a story structured as if it was a real podcast which makes it remarkably immersive.
- A few thoughts on the AYN Thor. Linked cause small hardware is always fun.