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2025/06/222025/06/17

Lazy Reading for 2025/06/22

I’m on the road as I type this – though I’ll be back by the time it’s posted – and so the links are without much comment.

The Best Interfaces We Never Built.
The 80s were shit. (via)
Memory Banks.
Malleable Software. (via)
Lightweight C compilers.
Exterminate all rational AI scrapers, redux.
A year of funded FreeBSD.
Bill Atkinson Dies From Cancer at 74. Few people realize how much of the modern software world came right from what he did. (via)
So you should read Memories of Lisa for the details. (via)
Unveiling the EndBOX: A NetBSD-based embedded box for EndBASIC.
BoxyBSD. (via)
Look for the UNIX license plate.

Your unrelated comics link of the week: What’s the best comic I’ve ever read? Lynda Barry is a master of the form. (via)

2025/03/022025/02/22

Lazy Reading for 2025/03/02

I had to get some of my tabs closed, so here’s a dump of some of them. Still have 30 to get through.

Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of ProVUE at MacWorld Expo! Rare to see software that started on a FatMac, still going. (via)
Auto-Download Your Kindle Books Before February 26th Deadline. Makes the alternatives look better.
The Perfect Pi Pico Portable Computer which led me to the more accessible DevTerm.
Related: the Ink Console. Read all the way through for more story.
The hardest working font in Manhattan. If you think that article’s in-depth, you should read the author’s book, Shift Happens – which I am halfway through.
Post-Quantum Cryptography in February 2025. Short version: start preferring AES now and deprecate ECDSA.
The Pocket Computer Museum. (via)
Analog vs. Digital? Nah. PC vs. Hardware. (via)

2024/09/212024/09/19

Lazy Reading for 2024/09/21

A bit short this week; I’ve been traveling.

G4 Mac Mini Is A Wolf In Apple IIc Clothing.
Origin of the ‘more’ command. (via)
The Doc Web. (via)
Balance of Power, a game I never heard of.
Technical Marvels, Part 6: Musical Automatons.
rc, the paper, and rc, designed and redesigned for UNIX shell. (via)
SQLite exists because of battleship database failure. And other things. (via)
POSSE, Publish On your Site, Syndicate Elsewhere. I see this more often now from writers that I would call Serious. (via)

2022/12/242022/12/24

Lazy In Other BSDs Reading for end of 2022

Merry Christmas! Here is a present. I haven’t been posting while I fiddle with layouts, or just get too busy from holiday work, but here’s a pile of links, also known as “all my open tabs so that I can now close them”.

In praise of Plan 9.
X11 Conservancy Project.
A brief history of murder in Ultima Online. (via)
A2osX. “Multi Tasking OS for Apple IIe //c IIgs”.
An objective criteria for deprecating community platforms,
Mailing List Freebies. Worth it worth it. Also recent book plans.
GoToSocial on OpenBSD, a Fediverse adventure.
The Art Teacher from Drohobycz. New Brothers Quay!
The Foundation and the FreeBSD Desktop.
Pattern Collider. (via)
Weekend Links 650, the source for the previous link, relinked cause of the note on Tom Phillips’ death. Phillips is responsible for A Humument, one of the more dense and complex books I’ve ever read. “Read” isn’t the correct term.
Authentication gateway with SSH on OpenBSD.
FreeBSD vs. Linux – Where and How To Run OpenZFS.
The Palmpilot returns, this time in your browser.
Dwarf Fortress’ Steam version immediately punched me in the gut. Note to self: buy.
Best Books of 2022.
Still Going: A zine on using old technology. (via)
New Desktop Synth, Prismatic Spray, Offers Knobby Control Of Bytebeat Synthesis. Linked for the app name, which I hope you recognize. (via)
Magic Cap, from the Magic Link to the DataRover and the stuff in-between.
XScreenSaver 6.06 out now. Newest screen hack is related to a pipes game I now can’t find the link for.
What we can learn from vintage computing.
How to buy a social network, with Tumblr CEO Matt Mullenweg.
Recently updated blogs on ooh.directory.
Vintage-Style Map of the Mandelbrot Set.
feedle.world. An RSS feed of RSS feeds.
Blogroll. Curated.
Open source is democratizing video game development.
Speech-to-text with Whisper: How I Use It & Why.
Sierpi?ski Triangle Interpreted as Musical Notes.
The Best Buried Treasures Of 2022.
As (Not) Seen In The Art of Darkness.
Haiku R1/beta4 has been released. (via)
9th International Workshop on Plan 9. Important because it’s all BSD licensed now. (via)

Edited later to add: Mörk Borg? Mörk Borg! Mörk Borg!

2022/05/222022/05/20

Lazy Reading for 2022/05/22

Oddball multimedia is the mini-theme.

Laws of Identity.
Business Wargames: Early Complex Text Games.
Using Game Design to Make Virtual Events More Social. Talks about the sort of MUD that was Roguelike Celebration 2020. (via)
Wifi/Bluetooth Apple // board. (via)
When will we learn? The ‘intentionally left blank’ part is ominous.
Destroy All Values: Designing Deinitialization in Programming Languages. (via)
Radio Shack Telephone Answering Machine Outgoing Messages: Music Edition. If you can’t stand it for more than a few minutes, well, that’s 1985. (via)
Walkies Day. (via)
Panasonic RK-P400C Penwriter typewritter plotter. (via)
History of computing/technology podcast suggestions.
Pie Manufacturing Process. (via)

2022/03/202022/03/16

Lazy Reading for 2022/03/20

Old computer mini-theme.

POCKIT, a modular computer. (via)
Exploring the Amiga. (via)
Remote Desktop Fun For Your Old Macintosh. (via)
Some tiny personal programs I’ve written. (via)
More Than a Dozen Command Line Tools I’ve Written. (via)
Relativistic Ray Tracing.
A Colorful “Peek” at the Graphics Performance of the Apple II.
Smurk (1981/1982). Linked for the Smurfenstein screenshot.
A UTF-8 / Ruby tutorial. (via)
History of Interactive Computing. (video, via)

2021/05/162021/05/13

Lazy Reading for 2021/05/16

Time for a new category marking.

2021 IGF nominees: stunning environments, cosmic horror and not-horror, and there’s a bunch more summaries.
Full Motion, Double High-Res Video Playback on the Apple IIe.
Understanding OpenSSH’s future deprecation of the ‘ssh-rsa’ signature scheme. More than one thing named RSA, is the issue.
The Ratings Game, Part 3: Dueling Standards. Goes with lyrics labeling in music.
Digital.Visual.Material, computers as audiovisual material, a symposium. (via)
“Bluetooth” name origin story filters through to normal media – remember I linked to a similar story some time ago? There’s a lifecycle to where news shows up.
NEVER OBSOLETE. (via)
Diffusion-limited aggregation, so you now know where that one screensaver comes from. (The more interesting source.)
Nixie tubes AND persistence of vision effects, together.
50 Years of Text Games: 1988: P.R.E.S.T.A.V.B.A. and 1989: Monster Island.
A Few More Useful Pandoc Tricks.
z88dk, the z88 development kit. (via)
How the personal computer broke the human body. Excellent pictures. (via)
Who Invented Heavy Metal?