Category: Books

Happy birthday to my younger daughter.

• The Fall of Avalon Hill (1998).  The source link comments lead to a lot of neat game material, and a different viewpoint than what’s in this older article.
• Zones of Control: Perspectives on Wargaming.  From a link in those aforementioned comments.
• Dolphin Emulator – Booting the Final GameCube Game.  (via)
• Eigenvectors and Eigenvalues explained visually.  “Eigenwhatever” is a fun word to say.  (via)
• What typing ^D does on Unix.  (via)
• Xerox Alto Restoration Part 5.  I think I missed part 4.  (via)
• Tcl the misunderstood.  (via)
• Excellent Dwarf Fortress-Bug.
• Next steps for Gmane.  (via)
• RetroConnector.  Mostly Classic Mac forms at Raspberry Pi size.  The Fat Macs are so cute.  (via)
• Why is printing “B” dramatically slower than printing “#”?  (via)
• How the Bit Was Born (via)
• Advanced Compilers Weeks 1 and 2
• The Fidget Cube.  (via)

This post fleshed out at the last minute, between road trips.

• Why Can’t I Run a 100-Node CockroachDB Cluster?  Linked here as “A Focus on Stability”.  All projects overcomplicate.
• Comparison between Windows Terminal Emulators with pros and cons for each.  (via)
• Ken, Unix and Games  (via)
• Hardening Your Web Server’s SSL Ciphers.  (Thanks, Justin Whyte)
• Solutions to Integer Overflow.
• Are there any emulators/VMs that can run really old versions of Unix?
• Atomic.io, quick prototyping.  (via)
• New novel, and a new novel bundle.
• bucklespring, to simulate that type of keyboard.  (via)

For some reason, I had this complete days ago, and I’ve already started on next week’s links.

• The Apple II by Stephen Wozniak, a PDF.  The initial color range makes me nostalgic.  (via)
• Why Commodore disk drives were so slow.  (via previous link)
• Know where you stand: the `pwd` program.  A code reading, September 28th, in New York City.  (via)
• In the same vein as Endless Sky from a few weeks ago, here’s mention of Dune Legacy, a remake of Dune II, the earliest RTS – or at least the base model.  Following links there brought me to Dune Dynasty, Dune 2: The Golden Path, and OpenRA, all of which are cross platform and also may run on a BSD – F/DF ports exist for OpenRA and F/DF/O for Legacy.  (You understand my shorthand there, don’t you?)
• The sad state of web app deployment.  (via)
• Facebook has decided it is time I had a baby.  Have you ever avoided a search term because you knew that the advertising you’d see for the next few days/weeks would echo it back to you?  (also via)
• DigiPal, which sounds like a strangely named PDA, is a digital palaeography site focusing on medieval handwriting in England just before the Norman invasion.  I find this interesting because I’ve been listening to this History of England podcast.  (via)
• The US Long-haul Fiber Map.  Also seen as “How many people can go offline at once, because of a misdirected backhoe?”  (via)
• Similar: Undersea cable maps, or “How many people can go offline at once, because of a dragged anchor?”  (via)
• Software Defined Networks – Four Years Later. YouTube recording, from RIPE 70.  (via)
• Just some quick points about DHCP.
• New Forum – Version 7 UNIX.  (via)
• Hacker News and Subreddit simulators.  Startlingly accurate for being fancy Markov generators… which says something about the real content.  (via)
• rough idling.
• pigshell.

Your unrelated video link of the week: The Wizard of Speed and Time – Mike Jittlov (1988).