• The BSDCan 2026 Schedule is up, plus some other event details.
• pcc lives again, with details.
• Silvio Lorusso: Serif Populism, Hyperpolitics and the Diminishing Returns of Graphic Design Culture.  (via)
• A dictionary of demons.  Not daemons.  (also via)
• Roguelike Conference 2026 is in October.
• SSH escape sequences.  Social media posts are the worst way to archive information, of course.   (via)
• Charcuterie: A visual explorer for Unicode.  (via)
• The Western Electric 500 phone.  I have one of these phones; it is … iconic?  I don’t have the right word.
• I Connected a Desktop Phone to a FreeBSD Server, so Now I Can Call It.  Related to the previous link; I’ve set up a Model 500 via an ATA in a similar fashion, though it needed some voltage fiddling to get the mechanical ringer to ring.  (via)
• 2026 Hugo Award finalists.  Use as a “to-read/view” list.
• Cybersecurity Looks Like Proof of Work Now.  I like the idea that there’s an incentive to debug / secure more open source projects, though that can cut both ways.   (via)
• A love letter to cassette futurism.  (via)

• Updates 2025/Q1.  Linked for the pictures of keyboard stores in Seoul.
• Breaking up with Big Tech – Progress update.  A Uses This of sorts.
• OSHintosh – an open source 68000 Macintosh.  (via)
• XScreenSaver 6.15 is out.
• Which led to Painting with Math: A Gentle Study of Raymarching.
• Notes on clarifying man pages.
• A Quick and Easy Guide to tmux.
• And then Make tmux Pretty and Usable.
• “I like to use Soviet control panels as a starting point.”
• zipcodefirst.com.  (via)
• The Book of PF, 4th Edition: It’s Here, It’s Real.
• Digital Collections.  (via)
• 2.11BSD is 35 years old and getting more updates.
• Every 4-5 months or so, Joshua Stein writes another “install OpenBSD to a new device” article; the newest is the Pomera DM250.

• BSDCan registration is open.  5 tutorial sessions this year!
• Print and fold your own mini-comic.  (via)
• Actually Existing Solarpunk.  (via)
• finally we have created the silver bullet.   Brooks’ Law rules.
• bsd.rd breakdown.  I always like looking at emergency repair tools in non-emergency situations.
• A.I. Isn’t People and Can AI Prompt Us to Ask New Questions?  Two essays on LLMs, not in opposition to each other.
• Diomidis Spinellis’ video talk about integrating the newly rediscovered V4 UNIX into his UNIX history repo.  Note the first commit in that repo is 57 years ago.
• How much it costs to run OpenBenches.  Extrapolate to any other independent website that isn’t a store.  (via)
• No leap second needed this year.
• Physical Phones.  (via)

• Weird Code Injection Techniques on FreeBSD is the next NYCBUG meeting, 3 days from now.  Go, if you are near.
• On pressing the space bar for the cabinet.
• The state of Linux music players in 2026.  A subset of that is BSD music players of course.  (via)
• ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering.  (via)
• The Dunking Decree.  (via)
• Bending ePaper To Our Will with Custom LUTs.  E-paper ‘pixels’ are not binary on/off.
• This is magic.  Good comments from Youtube, a rarity.
• The original vi is a product of its time (and its time has passed) and Undo in Vi and its successors, and my views on the mess.  The important thing to me is the note that vi exists as a specification, not just different software variations.
• Sorta related: Design Deconstruction, Vim as video editor.
• Things that are not backup solutions.
• All Your Base, slight remaster.

Note that the recorded stream from the last event, The Once and Future COBOL, is available on YouTube and PeerTube.  I heard the speaker, James K. Lowden, talk about FreeTDS years ago and enjoyed it too.

Update:  here’s the video:

• Networking for System Administrators (2nd Edition) is definitely happening.
• Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web.  (via)
• Replacing Music Streaming Services with a Self-hosted Stack.  (via)
• ELIZA turns 60.  Check the bibliographic links at the end.  (via)
• BSD-USER 4 LINUX or the BSDULATOR.  (via)
• Selling Lemons.
• Abagious Tactics, a sort of sequel to Oblique Strategies.  (via)
• PIRACYKILLS, a clever method to turn pirates into customers.  (via)
• A dumb use of AI.
• A clever use of AI.
• MUNG origin.
• Other tech trees.
• Special admin tools.  (via)
• Simple X11 configuration.  Saved for my own benefit.  (also via)

Current event: Roguelike Celebration 2025 is happening right now if you read this soon enough.  If you missed it, there’s a related Steam sale filled with roguelike games.

• Aspire Zine.  An e-book that is a poster or vice versa.
• Did Cheetos try to incite a rebellion in 2008?  A chunk of Internet history that passed me by.  (via)
• Why I prefer human-readable file formats.  You should not be surprised by any of these reasons.  (via)
• EU CRA: It’s Later Than You Think, Time to Engineer Up!  An indirect explainer of what the CRA requires.
• Shamogu: a roguelike developed on OpenBSD!
• Your very own humane interface: Try Jef Raskin’s ideas at home.  What might have been.  (via)
• Qavg po fnoppy.
• The broad state of ZFS on Illumos, Linux, and FreeBSD (as I understand it)  Describing the branches and status.
• Spending time with the material.
• Some interesting stuff I found on IX LANs.  So much chatter.

Your unrelated video link of the week: Lessons in Questioning.

• The $69 Billion Domino Effect.  Another reason for open source.  (via)
• pf reconsolidation.  I’d hope for One True pf.
• curl is in your car.  (via)
• How Social Media shortens your life.
• Before UNIX there was MULTICS.  Before MULTICS there was GECOS, and there’s still people hacking on it.  (via)
• Incidentally, there’s a “GECOS field” in /etc/passwd that comes from that, I think.
• No leap second this year.  (via)
• humanely dealing with humungus crawlers.
• Boombox City.  Linked for the design styles; ignore the text.  (via)
• Magical Systems Thinking.  20 years ago this was called “skunkworks”.  (also via)
• SDF Plan 9 Boot Camp Registration.  (via)

Your unrelated video link of the week: new Cyriak video.  (via)

• Open hardware model rocketry.
• vimrc: settings based on terminal background.
• Choose Your Own Adventure, a history.
• MacPaint 1-bit patterns.  (via)
• HTTP headers that tell syndication feed fetchers how soon to come back.
• Voynich Manuscript Structural Analysis.  (via)
• Adventures in porting a Wayland Compositor to NetBSD and OpenBSD by Jeff Frasca.  Video.
• KDE Plasma 6 Wayland on FreeBSD.  Includes install instructions.
• How I felt in love with calendar.txt.  (via)
• Quality-of-life on Tetris games.
• Underworld Amusements.  A niche literary interest.
• Playing the Open Source Game.  (via)
• ++080925.

Your unrelated music video of the week: Return of the Phantom by VOID.  2025 or 1985?  Can’t easily tell.

• The Terminal Demise Of Consumer Electronics Through Subscription Services.
• Why I prefer rST to markdown.  Nobody remembers SGML, but everyone reinvents it.  (via)
• gpart on FreeBSD to partition and format a USB key.
• stylish bugs.
• The Magic Switch.  Surely I’ve mentioned this story before?  This is the actual hardware.
• Box131: You’re a National Security Project, Harry.  Read the first point, about accuracy and how it can be counterproductive.
• Yet Another Roguelike Tutorial, Parts 0 and 1.  (via)
• The current (2025) crawler plague and the fragility of the web.
• Related to the previous: “Bro, ban me at the IP level if you don’t like me!”
• And more followup: A neat idea, but I can see this leading to the Balkanization of the Internet.
• VIC-20 Ultima I.  (via)
• My other email client is a daemon.  (via)

• microm8, an Apple][ emulator that adds new features.  (via last week’s theme)
• Why are you (still) using OpenBSD?
• Installing *BSD in 2025 part 5.  Wrapping up a series with some non-BSD, too.
• Building A Stirling Engine Bike.  I don’t think it’s necessarily practical but I like the concept of a Stirling Engine.
• asncounter and grepcidr, two tools I wish I knew about long ago.  (via)
• Mastodon has continued to function and grow for longer than the entire existence of Google+.
• Learning, AI, and John Searle’s Chinese Room.
• If OpenSSL were a GUI.  (via)
• The New Dinosaurs, 2025.
• Objects should shut the fuck up.  (via)
• The Lethal Trifecta and prompt injection.
• confusable_homoglyphs.  (via)

Meeting is canceled cause no presenter available.

• The original computer mouse.  (third link)
• The Fundamental Failure-Mode Theorem: Systems lie about their proper functioning.  That first paragraph should be required reading.
• The Hype is the Product.  (via)
• Founder Mode, hackers, and being bored by tech.  Managing knowledge workers is not a new idea but tech companies want to think it is.  (from previous link)
• Curate your own newspaper with RSS.  (via)
• Classic CDE (Common Desktop Environment) coming to OpenBSD.  See the CDE wiki for some screenshots; surely you’ve seen it before.
• The Poetics and Power of Small Language Models.
• Vibe code is legacy code.  (via)
• TRMNL X.  I preordered.
• Projects can’t be divorced from the people involved in them.  The “Nazi Bar” idea sort of in reverse.