Author: Justin Sherrill

No mini-theme this week.

• lofi generator.  Pleasant, though it says something that it can be autogenerated.  (via)
• Animated Engines.  (also via)
• Real Spaceships.  Interesting but I can’t take a chonky shuttle seriously.  (via, via)
• Everything I Know About Life I Learned From PowerPoint.  Not the book itself, but a list of the resources used for the book, all of which are useful.
• Why You Should Start a Blog Right Now.  (via)
• Reed-alert: five years later.
• Tedium on self-hosting / cloud service replacement.  A good article.
• Vintage Computer Festival East (NJ) is in-person, February 26th.
• Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported.  (via)
• SheepSforza: the SheepShaver Power Mac emulator for OpenPOWER.  (via)
• Ketchup mayo mustard.
• Manicules.
• The Influence of Roguelike Visuals.

Old hardware is the mini-theme.

• RAIN PSP, a homebrew 80s-style laptop.
• Cosmic Background Radiation Dice.  Of course a nixie display.
• The comp.sys.sinclair crap games competition 2021.  (via)\
• ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories: Seeking Submissions and Pitches!  (via)
• Video game preservation  vs copyright.  I’m still not sure who owns Castle Wolfenstein.   (via)
• CR+LF has a long history.   (via)
• GitHub – ViolenceWorks/VT-69.  Possibly vapor but looks neat.  (via)
• PC booting from a vinyl record (turn volume down).  (via)
• DNSSEC Mastery, second edition, creeping out.
• My retrocomputer projects, Q1 2022.
• Epitaph to Laptops.

Mini-theme: music.

• Retrocomputing can be more than games.
• The PinePhone keyboard case.  PDA nostalgia.
• Simulating the IBM 360/50 mainframe from its microcode.  Linked cause The Mythical Man-Month talks about the 360 and I never had a picture in my head to connect.
• The Whimsical Web.  (via)
• (Non-)Human, AI Reproducing Absence.
• Sendxmpp as a Replacement for Mail(1).  Odd but I can’t say why.  (via)
• The Old Internet Shows Signs of Quietly Coming Back.  (via)
• Chuck Moore’s Creations (Forth and ColorForth).  (via)
• Writing better release notes.  Points 3, 5, and 6 are important.
• “A Political History of X” – Keith Packard (LCA 2020).  (via)
• Dialing Up.  All modem sounds.  (via)
• Track, a vector music visualizer.  (via)
• John Peel Roulette.  Eclectic forever.  (also via)

 

No theme; nicely eclectic.

• 3D-printable void switches.  Nicely documented.
• Successfully Crowdfunded Product Designs of 2021.  Interesting to see what makes it.  (via)
• Related: poke around core77.com for a bit.
• The 40 Greatest Synth Sounds of All Time.  Ugh, I linked to a listicle.
• A Web Around the World, Part 1: Signals Down a Wire and Part 2: If At First You Don’t Succeed…  Early, early telecoms.
• OpenQuest System Resource Document.  D100 gaming is a new term to me.  (via)
• 1977 computer office.  The rest of Watergate Living is entertaining, or awful depending on how you feel about the 1970s.  (via)
• The Making of Lode Runner.  (via)
• Bud Plant’s Incredible Catalog.  Anything able to survive Amazon’s impact has got to be good.
• Mycroft Mark II, a better choice than Alexa. (via)
• Processing: the Software that Shaped Creative Coding.  (via)

Your unrelated video of the week: Tom Baker saying “bread”.  (via)