• Vibe Coding a $20k /year Enterprise Logistics Platform.  We are returning to the era of custom internal software.  This I sort of like?
• my favorite independent stop-motion movies.  I saw Blood Tea and Red String years ago; it was a wonderful if strange experience.
• Those old modem upgrades.  I had a similar experience; starting at perhaps 2400 baud?  9600?  and working up.
• Key, in sight.  (via)
• AI errno(2) values.
• How and why I jailbroke my Kindle.  I am curious about calibre integration. (via)
• An Apple ][+ compatible laptop.  I would really love to have this, despite it being a complete folly.  (via)
• It’s time to talk about my writerdeck.  But then again, maybe a command line is all you need?   (via)
• Planescape: Torment, Part 1: From the Tabletop…
• “Why pay for an orchestra when your computer can do it all?”
• “the moat will keep getting filled“.
• Microcosm Industries, simulation toys.  (via)

• Building my own Vi text editor in BASIC.  (via)
• Monitor your devices with LibreNMS on FreeBSD.
• Adventures in Code.  (via)
• Related: Russ Cox on regex.  (via)
• Vibing a wardriving visualizer.  Linked for the wifi mapping.
• The 2FA app that tells you when you get `314159`.  I wish I had thought of this, cause I am entertained by the same coincidences.   (via)
• Very manual bootstrapping.
• Markdown Ate The World.  A useful document history.  (via)
• curl to /dev/sda.  A fun idea, not a good idea.  (also via)
• LibreOffice and the art of overreacting.  Remember: pay, always pay, for what you like using, even if it’s not required.  It makes a huge difference.  (via)
• INIT HELLO: A New Apple II Conference.

• The Texas Instruments CC-40 invades Gopherspace.
• Long Dog (and other elongated animals).
• “domestic livestock“.
• The Mysterious Forces Steering Views on Hacker News.  (via)
• The one-click Navidrome bandcamp purchase sync.
• 5 social media platforms that are actually social.
• how to repurpose your old phone into a web server.  (via)
• Archiving with Are.na.
• Dinosaurs Were Weirder Than We Ever Imagined.
• NASA supplies free science e-books.  (via)
• Open Source Power.  A good contrast on license types and what they do as a result.  (via)
• An initial analysis of the discovered Unix V4 tape.  Firsthand account, not a news summary.
• On self-managing Postgres.  Not wrong, though I still pick self-hosting.
• RuBee, the protocol.
• Ultima IV for Apple II, Remastered.  (via)

Upcoming event(s): NYCBUG’s got events on the 7th and the 10th, within the next few days.  Attend if you can.

• Cal Newport on the case for quitting social media – second video.
• Tea Brewing Guides.
• Our Ancestors Murdered Their Mother Tongue, Thankfully.  If you don’t know what Proto-Indo-European is, this will help.
• “you’re not talking to a helpful sci-fi robot – you’re roleplaying a story about a human talking to a helpful sci-fi robot“
• lenticular potato chip.
• YouTube… Over Dial Up.  Multilink PPP, which I have never seen in the wild.
• The 100 MHz 6502.  (via)
• UNIX99, a UNIX-like OS for the TI-99/4A.  (via multiple)
• Roguelike Celebration 2025 event list.  Happening in less than a month.
• [COFF] TECO variants.  I had heard TECO was arcane but I had no idea.

• Math finds.
• Comparing the Glove80 and Maltron keyboards.
• REXPaint – ASCII art editor.  (via)
• Baman Piderman returns.  (via)
• The Death Of Industrial Design And The Era Of Dull Electronics.  As a former industrial design student that went on to do nothing directly with my education, I agree.
• Simon Tatham’s Portable Puzzle Collection.  I linked to this 8 years ago and it’s time for a reminder link; a gem of a puzzle collection.
• Floor796.  You will lose some time searching around.  (via)
• INIT HELLO, a new Apple ][ convention that just happened, at The Computer Museum.  (via)
• FujiNet, networking for older computers.  (via previous link)
• Also, Applesauce.
• Silo, from an interesting design company.

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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!

• 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)

• 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 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?