Author: Justin Sherrill

Dig up more on James Burke (linked below) if you can, and if you have the time.  His Connections show was a delight.

• “This $1,500 Toaster Oven Is Everything That’s Wrong With Silicon Valley Design”  This clickbaity title is everything that’s wrong with Silicon Valley journalism… but I digress.  (via)
• QoS when there is no congestion.  (via)
• “Blame is apportioned appropriately.”
• James Burke and Connections kickstarted app.  (via)
• “Weird, fun, wonderful, or useful automated phone numbers to call?”  1-800-444-4444 I use often at work, with a recorded message from a company that ceased to exist years ago.  (via)
• Monads: Programmer’s Definition  (via I think)
• The BASIC Issue with Retro Computers
• Procedural Dungeon Generation: Cellular Automata
• A vi-centric family tree of editors (2000)  (via)
• Making umask work for you
• No more Solaris 12.  A rumor.  (via)

A lot of this I picked up in previous weeks, knowing that the U.S Thanksgiving holiday was going to either dry up all links or give me a crapload.

• Junkbot competition results.  (via)
• It Came From Bell Labs – Story of the Plan 9 operating system.  (via)
• Modelling data structures as files and directories on disk.
• Compromising a Linux desktop using… 6502 processor opcodes on the NES?!  (via)
• Who Will Command The Robot Armies?  Starts describing awful things I knew about and then charges to a new level of awful, like this.  (via)
• Jason Scott on porting VLC to the browser.  (via)
• The Rise and Fall of the Open Source Mobile.  (via)
• Comments on the previous link led me to the fun-looking Pyra handheld.
• The end of the general purpose operating system.  Or the start of a new application development category?  I think this is a view that changes depending on what technology you are invested in.
• Hold down RET for 70 seconds to get a root shell.
• 30 days in a terminal: Day 0 — The adventure begins.  Spoiler: it doesn’t work out.  (via)
• Were your grandparents hacking in 1963?  (via)
• IFComp crowns its first non-parser game.
• The current Humble Book Bundle is a lot of classic/useful Unix books.  DRM-free, pay very little.  Worth it for any two of the books involved.  (via)

Your unrelated link of the week: The Secret World of Stuff.  (via)

Some of this is overflow from last week.

• “I don’t like computers.”  Same reasons here, too.  (via)
• Cheap IOT Threatens The Internet.  ‘Cheap’ is almost the entire idea behind the Internet of Things.
• IoT Goes Nuclear: Creating a ZigBee Chain Reaction.  A light worm.  (via)
• 54 years old, COBOL gets Wheelchair, a web framework.  (via)
• inks.  From Ted Unangst, an OpenBSD developer, though not necessarily BSD-specific.  (via)
• Coloring your world with LS_COLORS.
• The Possibly Russian Fingerprints on the Shadow Brokers’ Trick or Treat Package.  Peter N. M. Hansteen, but not BSD-related.
• Aztec for the Apple ][ was my first desktop video game.
• Windows file system compression had to be dumbed down.
• The Lost Civilization of Dial-Up Bulletin Board Systems.
• TERM=aaa60 Mk.2.
• When Your Screen Breaks (In The Himalayas)  (via)
• production ready
• LiveCode, a modern version of Hypercard.  It is available as open source, though I haven’t seen if it runs on any BSD.  (via)