Some really fun things this week.

• A C89 compiler that produces executables that are also valid ASCII text files.  A fun, crazy read.  (via)
• Miniature Macintosh Plus.  Also crazy.  (via)
• Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest, going on now.
• Centralise Your Bash History.  (via)
• Computer Role-Playing Games Book released.  (via multiple)
• The Case for Automatic Updates.  (via)
• X’s network transparency has wound up mostly being a failure .  (via)
• How Facebook Is Killing Comedy.  And why I keep this all on my own blog.  (via)
• OpenSC2K – An Open Source Remake of SimCity 2000.  (via)
• From the same source, openra.net, a Red Alert remake.
• Backblaze 2017 Q4 and 2017 yearly report.  (via)
• spectre and the end of langsec.  (via)
• Plan 9 Public Grid.  (via)

Your unrelated comics link of the day: Verse.