Month: May 2026

There’s some fun stuff here if you have the time to dig.

• Moppetry.  Muppets plus D&D.  (via)
• Using A VT-100 Today.  That reminds me, I have a VT-320 in the basement that I need to hook up.
• NetHack 5.0.0: Release Notes.  (via)
• And you can run it on your Atari.  (via)
• THEC64 Handheld.  (via)
• Claude saved me hours of link cleanup.  Boil the oceans to replicate:%s/http:/https:/g.  (via)
• Ellanew.com posts tagged “obsidian”.  Linked for me to go through later.
• Incidentally, bubbles.town is turning out great for link discovery.   I also even see my own self linked which is quite heartening.
• How I Discover New Blogs, and Why I Still Like the Internet, both related.  Get a RSS reader if you haven’t already and follow their tips.  (via)
• The one change that worked: I swapped doomscrolling for reading comic books.  (via)
• “these messages “pee in the pool” of internet communication“.  Relevant in a week where I’ve sent (and received, thank you!) multiple ‘hey you don’t know me but I like your blog’ messages with real people.
• “It’s the best articulation I’ve seen yet for a blanket ban on LLM-assisted contributions“.

Your unrelated music link of the week: Angine de Poitrine, Vol II.

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.