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.