Category: Books

It’s rare, but I was able to collect most of these links more than 24 hours before you are reading them.

• Some views on having your system timezone set to UTC.
• The Era of Fragmentation, Part 3: The Statists.  Minitel!
• The Internet’s Many Branches.
• Roguelike Celebration is going to happen! (virtually)  Plus there’s a call for papers.
• PRINTING PRESSES ARE GIANT GPUS.  (via)
• New book: “Cash Flow for Creators”.  If you are working anything but a corporate job ever, this will have value for you.
• The Deprecated *nix API.  (via)
• When SimCity got serious: the story of Maxis Business Simulations and SimRefinery.  (via)
• Announcing the Second Edition of Learning Markdown.
• Dungeons & Dragons at a Distance: Early Play-by-Mail D&D.  (via)
• Hagoromo chalks, progress & Vim.  (via I lost it, sorry)
• Desperate Pleas for Nothing.  I get at least one of these every week.
• C&C open sourced.  (via)

I’ve got some unique links this week.

• “We’ve run the simulation a million million times…  and every time, the Dark Lord wins.”  Mageframe, a story told by AI (apparently not just another Markov Chain) with your seeded information.  Explanation here; I suggest this is art you should participate in.
• Return to Nib’s Knoll.  Another early-Internet sense of place, buried away.
• href.cool.  Old-style web directory.  (via)
• What I’m Thinking About 1995.  Makes sense if you listen to the author’s podcast.
• As A Service.  “Half a century ago it was called timesharing.”
• Twisty Little Passages, a sorta-RPG, sorta-roguelike … book?
• Fast FVP, the task sorting method.
• 110 days of Early Multics Emacs History.  (via)
• Cthulhu Dark, “A Rules-light system For lovecraftian Horror”.  I like how compact it is; a 3-page PDF.  (via)
• Related: the original Call of Cthulhu rules.  I’ve never had to type out Cthulhu before.
• 30-plus years of HyperCard, the missing link to the Web.  (via)
• The Software Arts, an “alternative history of software that places the arts at the very center of software’s evolution.”  (via)
• The 25¢ Apple II Real Time Clock.  The author shows up in the comments of the source link, 38 years later.
• Espruino ISS Notifier.  Yep, it’s a Space Station Detector.