August 2026 – DragonFly BSD Digest

2026/08/162026/08/03

Lazy Reading for 2026/08/16

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)

2026/08/092026/07/27

Lazy Reading for 2026/08/09

“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“.

2026/08/042026/08/03

VIDAR at NYCBUG, tomorrow

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.

2026/08/02

Toots back for the Digest

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.

2026/08/022026/07/26

Lazy Reading for 2026/08/02

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.