Some retrocomputing as a mini-theme this week.

• Download files listed in a http index with wget.  Eventually you will need this.
• A Conversation With the Mysterious Dubstep Sensation Hannibal Rex.
• Stretching the c64 Palette.  (via)
• Announcing Perl 7.  (via)
• Rainbow – an attempt to display colour on a B&W monitor.  (also via)
• Bluetooth (sound) latency is astonishingly bad.  50ms is all it takes.  (via)
• On Contact Tracing and Hardware Tokens.  This would be the right guy to evaluate this.
• modernish, a shell library?  I am not sure what to call it.  (via)
• General-purpose OS, special-purpose OS, and now: vendor-purpose OS.
• NeXTSTEP on the HP 712 Part 2: Getting Software.  (via)
• Real VT102 emulation with MAME.  (via)
• Commodore SX-64 keyboard restoration.  (via)
• Linux Kernel Is Still Seeing Driver Work for the Macintosh II.  Of course this isn’t surprising to a BSD person.  (via)
• A decidedly non-Linux distro walkthrough: Haiku R1/beta2.  (via)
• No lack of documentation.  Linked for the image, and for the note that Twitter threads are bad for information storage.  Don’t do it.

Your unrelated music of the week: Skratch Bastid.  (via)