June 2026 – DragonFly BSD Digest

Lazy Reading for 2026/06/28

I should maybe create a Thinkpad category.

NYCBUG’s having a social meetup on July 1st; stories about BSDCan will be told, I’m sure.
When Dystopian Sci-Fi Ruled the Cola Wars. This seems like a named aesthetic. (via)
Building a serial and VGA “everything console”. Linked cause the author is using one of the IBM keyboards I always wanted.
Key, In Sight. The keyboard in the center of this also looks like one of those same keyboards. Marcin says it’s a Shinobi, which I’ve wanted to get before.
‘Vim’ has many faces.
Aeonic Nebular Character Generator, for a game jam for games that do not exist.
Powering up a module from the IBM 604. Linked for the computer styling that says “forties”.
That new Commodore phone is running Sailfish.
pkgsrc-2026Q2 is out.
The freebsd-update(8) Screensaver.
FreeBSD 15 on a Laptop. Linked for the Thinkpad-specific parts.
The Goldilocks Principle in Fantasy Strategy.

Lazy Reading for 2026/06/21

Some of these links are more… mainstream?

Lazy Reading for 2026/06/14

I found a stash of saved emails/links that I don’t think I ever posted, so they’re mixed in here.

FreeBSD talk at St Louis Unix Users Group, tonight

I’m posting this now cause it’s timely: there’s a remote-only FreeBSD presentation at SLUUG so everyone can watch.

Lazy Reading for 2026/06/07

I get to break out the Apple ][ category again!

Vibe Coding a $20k /year Enterprise Logistics Platform. We are returning to the era of custom internal software. This I sort of like?
my favorite independent stop-motion movies. I saw Blood Tea and Red String years ago; it was a wonderful if strange experience.
Those old modem upgrades. I had a similar experience; starting at perhaps 2400 baud? 9600? and working up.
Key, in sight. (via)
AI errno(2) values.
How and why I jailbroke my Kindle. I am curious about calibre integration. (via)
An Apple ][+ compatible laptop. I would really love to have this, despite it being a complete folly. (via)
It’s time to talk about my writerdeck. But then again, maybe a command line is all you need? (via)
Planescape: Torment, Part 1: From the Tabletop…
“Why pay for an orchestra when your computer can do it all?”
“the moat will keep getting filled“.
Microcosm Industries, simulation toys. (via)

OpenBSD Security Mitigations at NYCBUG, now