Accidental ‘old web’ nostalgia theme this week.
- BUTTERICK’S PRACTICAL TYPOGRAPHY. A very pretty site to read, unsurprisingly. (via)
- SmolBSD: make your own BSD UNIX MicroVM. (via)
- Email DNS Records Cheatsheet.
- Timeline of the xz open source attack.
- “Further Explorations” Now Available! If you missed the 50 Years of Text Games book.
- The Mask of the Sun, a playthrough. The first of several articles, posted simply because I remember every screen in it.
- The Wi-Fi only works when it’s raining. (via)
- Kyrios, a fun blackletter font. (via)
- Ways of Seeing, the website. I’ve mentioned that show before. (via)
- “read, write, own” web. (via)
- Read Me #5. Linked not for any particular segment, but for the writing style.
- BSDCan 2024 registration is open.
For people new to the internet, it can be hard to imagine that before social media the way we talked among each other was to have our own websites and use them. Nope, now it has to be comments, webmentions and real-time push notifications. And part of the problem is that younger developers also think that way, for obvious reasons. Good thing some of them get it. Neocities is no longer alone in carrying the torch, thanks to services like Ichi.city, yay.boo and Nekoweb. But we have to keep talking.