Category: Books

I am all over this week.

• On Being Operationally Incompetent.  Harsh but true.  (via)
• Floating Point Visually Explained.  (via)
• Unapplied Linguistics.  (via I lost it, sorry)
• CORE (Curriculum Open-access Resources in Economics).  A free economics textbook, which I find oddly interesting both for the topic and because it’s a specific effort to produce a freely available comprehensive textbook.
• A Program from a 35 Year Old Magazine for BASIC Month and a Chat with Its Author.  (via)
• The Librem 5 Development Roadmap and Progress.  Miiiight be able to run a BSD.  (via)
• The Golden Age of the Video Game Arcade: 1981.  (via)
• Practical Self-Defense against the Scourge of Dot-Files.
• Computer – Journal of the IEEE Computer Society. Circa 1970s.
• Retro ThinkPad announcement.

This wrote itself a week ago.

• More dialing, more weirdness.
• The Internet On Dead Trees.  I remember a number of these products.
• If you’d like to pay too much for ancient Radio Shack electronics, now’s your chance!  (via)
• books chapter two, a followup to books chapter one which I thought I had linked before, but maybe not.  Anyway, the same numeric chapter from a number of text books, described.
• And I delayed long enough to add books chapter three.
• The Internet Phone.  Most inconvenient way to browse the Internet ever?  (via)
• Stopping the Internet of Noise.  RSS still works, and works well!  (via)
• Urban and suburban camouflage.
• Trying to work in Haiku, the BeOS successor.  (via)
• Winamp’s woes: How the greatest MP3 player undid itself. (via)
• Bashfill – art for your terminal.  (via)
• Skip grep, use awk.  (via)
• The origin of HTTP POST explained in a dinosaur comic.
• Not-butters.  (sorta via)
• IFComp 2017 is open.
• Get My Books Cheap.  Not me, Michael W. Lucas’s books – his fiction work, along with a number of other authors.

Your unrelated video link of the week: Animated Short Films.  An animator’s favorites, if the above list of links hasn’t kept you busy enough..

Accidental topic this week: text interfaces!

• PuTTY 0.69 has been released.  (via)
• Made by the same author: Simon Tatham’s Portable Puzzle Collection.  Like Minesweeper times one thousand.  (via)
• Random ASCII spaceship generator.
• Telnet MapSCII.
• terminal emulators’ processing of escape sequences.  I’ve Ctrl-S’d myself a few times, I’ll admit.  (via)
• ZX Spectrum Next.  Actually contains a ZX chip.  (via)
• BSD author Michael W. Lucas is having a flash sale on his fiction.  It may be over by the time you read this.
• The quest to crack and preserve vintage Apple II software.  A podcast episode, with some speakers I really like.  (via)
• Securing Telnet with SSL.  (via)
• Apple ][ clone and lawsuit history, some of which is new to me.

Your unrelated video of the week: DOUBLE KING.  (via multiple places)