Author: Justin Sherrill

Surely some of these are repeats?

• CSVs: The good, the bad, and the ugly.  (via)
• This seems like a good form factor.
• present: ‘a terminal-based presentation tool with colors and effects’.  (via)
• A book about books bound in human skin.  (via)
• Rare Alphonse Mucha illustrations.  I saw some of his work close up recently.
• 20 double-edged potions for the ingenious adventurer.
• Miscellany ? 89: 2020, year of the asterisk.
• The Video Game Source Project.  (via)
• Exploding Whale, remastered in 4K.   (via)
• computecuter.com.  Exactly what it sounds like.
• Return to Plan 9.  (via)
• Computer Unit 1979.  (via)
• Text Editors III: Emacs.
• Thinking out loud about Vim.  Equal time.
• Efficient text editing on a PDP-10.  I link, others get into it: I’m so happy!

There’s some good reading/projects linked in here, so if you have free time, this can keep you busy.

• Psion Series 3 palmtop EReader.  That’s 25 year old hardware?
• BBC’s In Our Time podcast on Alan Turing.  (via)
• 808303.studio.  Surely I’ve linked this already?  (via)
• The Museum of Obsolete Media.  (thanks, swildner)
• The 100 best fantasy books of all time.  I thought it was another corny listicle, but on the other hand I’ve loved every book I’ve read on that list, and there’s a lot more I didn’t know about.  (via)
• 15 Sci-Fi Books That Forever Shaped The Genre.  Ditto.  (also via)
• The Web Key Directory, based on this.  I need to use it.  My source link for this works as a sort of how-to.
• Unraveling the JPEG.  (via)
• New Nixie tube manufacturing.
• dimensions.com – reference drawings for everything.  (via)
• Configuring Windows for key-based SSH access.  For reference.
• A curated non-violent games list.

Your unrelated music of the week: KUTMAH: Isolation Tapes v.006.  There’s a lot more good music from this person.

 

Change your clocks, depending on what time zone you are in.

• Looking Back on 35 Years as an Amiga User.
• I did not realize org mode has its own website.  (via)
• a truly naked, brutalist html quine.  (via)
• Bookmark alignment chart.  (scroll to end)
• What Was BeOS, and Why Did People Love It?  (via)
• List of Generative Art and Live Coding Tools.  (via)
• Results from 20 years of experiments summarized.  Food experiments, done by a scientist.  (via)
• Writing a Book with Unix.  (via)
• Sorting out what the Single Unix Specification is and covers.
• Telemelt, group console playing simulator.  (via)
• I Solved British Square.
• Internet Ascendant, Part 2: Going Private and Going Public.
• Stereoscopic computing: converting Quake and Doom.

 

Two shopping months until Christmas!

• I’ll take “problems we solved correctly in the 80s” for $100, Alex.
• Come Internet With Me: Zettelkasten method.
• Building a computer in Conway’s game of life.  (via)
• MONOSPACE, less than 1kb of code.  (via)
• archive.assembly.org, so many short films, related to the last link.
• The HTML5 accelerator card.
• Basic Unix Tools – dd.
• Why I Chose Emacs as My New Text Editor.  (via)
• Replacing FreshRSS With Miniflux.  (via)
• SSH 2FA with Google Authenticator and Yubikey.  (via)
• 2.1 Million of the Oldest Internet Posts Are Now Online for Anyone to Read.  i.e. USENET.  (via)
• introducing the i.webthings directory.  Find some spare time before following that link; there’s a lot there.