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.
Strawberry is so nice! Also loved Clementine back then and Amarok before that. With so many ports and resurrections it certainly scratches an itch for many. :)