NYCBUG will be testing IRC / Discord / streaming tech on September 2, this Wednesday, at Brass Monkey. What works there will work for future BSD conferences. Go, especially if you are interested in being able to attend conventions without leaving the house.
I’m only a little reactionary with this batch.
- City Builders. The SimCity genre has kept going.
- “It’s unclear how Sopwith escaped to the general public.” I remember playing this at least once.
- BeepAlive – keeping my soundbar from going to sleep.
- How I use Home Assistant to help with my cats. Far more ambitious than I expected.
- Found via the recent DinoCon: multiple high–quality small–company dinosaur reproductions.
- Tim Hunkin’s History Of Arcade Machines.
- Introducing Avogadro: A parametric waffle recipe generator.
- I love reading lists of people’s favorite books, especially when I’ve never seen any of them.
- WebZFS. (via)
- Michaelsoft Binbows. This is fun but the link has only worked intermittently for me. (via)
- Temperature Zero for Culture: Why Everything Is Starting to Look the Same. (via)
Cleaning out some old links.
- “Gravity is worth asking about.” Linked for describing the “zero-one-infinity” rule, but applied to things you don’t want.
- reTerminal Sticky, a new reader in the now-popular ‘Xteink’ form factor.
- A Network Filesystem for 2.11BSD. (via)
- Visiting the History of Computing and Play. Look for “abbreviated history of floppy disks in a single photo”.
- Curly braces: An evolution of UNIX and C. 1963 ASCII didn’t have } or {, and neither did the hardware. (via)
- “non-Unix stories about important Unix people“.
- BoxyBSD, virtual BSD systems for people to try out different flavors of BSD. The base machine is free. (via)
- UNIX in a Hostile Environment, or Mouse Watching by a Cat – go to page 13. (via)
- Where UNIX Runs Today. An interesting article, and a built-in shooter game at the same time? (via)
- Telehamster. (via)
No theme, all eclectic.
- The Bad Apple video, ASCII version, playing without CSS or JS. (via)
- Sounds of the 60s: The IBM 1401. I’ve heard this before as sound effects and never realized it. (via)
- The Map of Metal. Similar to longtime favorite Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic Music. (also via)
- The BBC Tetris Companion. Hardware I’ve never seen before.
- ICEBP Finally Documented. The article is 8 years old, but it took 30 years to be documented. (via Nick)
- “Kinky Latex Giraffe“, among others.
- This plant will die if I’m on my phone too much. (video, via)
- PGSimCity. Exactly what it sounds like. (via)
- Syl’s Indie [game] Recs, vol. 4.
- endoflife.date. (via)
“Interesting personal tech feats” is the mini-theme.
- How you wind up with switches above your office’s false ceiling. Every office job I ever had, now that I think about it.
- How I self-host my ebooks and audiobooks. Calibre is an astonishingly useful program.
- Entering accented characters in Linux. Which should be “in X11”, so it should apply to BSD.
- “Jokes, art projects, or cruel and unusual punishment”. Esoteric languages alert.
- The KEXP breakdown of Paul’s Boutique.
- BSD Make extravaganza. Mandelbrot in bmake. (via)
- Most Googlebots are fake. It used to just be “Mozilla” was fake.
- “That was then, this is now“.
Tomorrow’s presentation at NYCBUG is VIDAR, a FreeBSD-based automatic firewall program. Read the event description for details. Go, if you are near. The announcement doesn’t mention streaming so you may need to be in-person.
Alert reader Nick pointed out that Mastodon posts to bsd.network for the Digest weren’t happening automatically. The plugin was disabled and I don’t have a reason as to why. I just turned it back on and we’ll see if this post comes through.
It’s a fun links week!
- Decker, a modern tool enough like Hypercard to make me notice. (via)
- Dinos That Drive, a new book illustrated by the guy who brought you Behold! The Dinosaurs!
- Be More Party Cannon.
- Hardcore IndieWeb. (via)
- Describing the early Internet was surprisingly easy.
- The Cybernetics Digital Library. (via)
- I Did Not Kill Stanley Lieber: How to draw (with 9front). Sometimes the tutorial is the point, not the skill being taught. (via)
- email encryption. I have worked at least a little with every protocol mentioned and it was always, always painful.