Author: Justin Sherrill

For some reason, more historical links this week than usual.

• Thinking Forth.  It sounds to be – though I haven’t read it yet – one of those books that transcends the target language.  (via)
• Fuzix, a “new” OS.  (They should just try something else small, like RetroBSD.)  (via)
• The Best Small Computer in the World – 1968.  (pdf, via)
• Vim after 11 years.  (via)
• Terms of Service.  I have other comics from the artist.  (via)
• Recalculating Odds of RAID5 URE Failure.
• A brief history of spam and email crypto, from a former GMail worker.
• Kerberos Papers and Documentation  (via)
• Amazon Echo, which continues the long trend of companies reinventing existing open source projects and making them creepier.
• Or making lovable things annoying.  Seriously, phone alerts and “where are you?” alerts from a teddy bear?  I hate it when people pepper me with that.  (via)
• Noisy dead satellites.  (via)
• Old UNIX releases/source
• Building a 10BASE5 “Thick Ethernet” network.  I just barely remember seeing this hardware in the wild, so to speak.  It was awful.  (via)
• The Sixth Stage of Grief Is Retro-computing  (via)  Lose some time on this one.
• Forth in the USSR.  (PDF, via)

Unrelated link of the week: Cartozia Tales.  It’s a print comic in a limited series.  Many stories, many artists.  I’ve been getting the issues and it’s a lot of fun.  Here’s an interview with the person coordinating the whole thing.