Author: Justin Sherrill

I managed to clear some of my link backlog, finally.

• Windowing systems by example, part 9.  (via)
• Design and Implementation of a 256-Core BrainFuck Computer.  (via)
• Restoring YC’s Xerox Alto day 10: New boards, running programs, mouse problems.  (via)
• Crypt Community.  Linking it not for the game, but for the description of someone going from 0 to 60 in game design in a week.
• “The EastEnders Threshold”, and other tea-making issues.  (via)
• “Is SPF Simply Too Hard For Application Developers?“
• “What on earth can a person do with four gigabytes of RAM?“
• cidrmath – script for adding and subtracting subnets.  I could have really used this about 8 years ago.
• The Microscopic Alchemist.  I’m growing two varieties (for bread production) right now.
• Eventually every company tries open source, even Comcast.  (via)
• Restoring the first recording of computer music.  1951!  The anecdotes about Alan Turing and the aural feedback he pulled from his programs is completely new to me.  (via)
• Beloved, a sort of solo RPG.  Odd, but it works.  (via)
• export TERM=aaa-60.

Your unrelated link of the week: Retro Wave logo generator.  (via)

Little yesterday, lots today:

• Glean, a tiny bitmap font for programming.  I don’t know about this specific font, but there’s a whole lot more fonts mentioned in the original source link.
• English man spends 11 hours trying to make cup of tea with Wi-Fi kettle.  We’re building an Internet of crappy things, remember.  (via, among other locations)
• Principles for Undefined Behavior in Programming Language Design.
• Undefined Behavior: Not Just for Programming Languages.
• Have You Played… Dope Wars?  I played Taipan, which is almost the same thing.
• A Little Program to fix one particular type of mojibake.  Mojibake is a new word to me.
• A Haunted Operating System: Archimedes.
• Carolo Cup finals – self-driving R/C vehicle racing.  Yes, that’s a contradiction in terms.  (via)
• Latency numbers every programmer should know.  (also via)
• Solomon Golomb (1932–2016).  Where shift register sequences come from.  (via)
• XScreenSaver 5.36 is out with 5 new modules.
• Shipmap.  It’s fantastic visualization.  (via)
• 2.2MB.

Your unrelated extra lazy reading: IFComp 2016 games, a selection.