May 14th, NYCBUG has Charlie Li presenting on the FreeBSD Laptop-Desktop Working Group, and DJ BSD? Anyway, go if you are near (but RSVP so they let you in!), and watch the stream if you are not.
This Wednesday, Jim Brown presents on QEMU at NYCBUG’s monthly meeting. Go, if you are near, but RSVP first so you can get in. It should be streamed too.
I could use a recommendation for a good, cheap registrar to use for domain names; I use gandi and the price has been creeping up. Any suggestions?
- Next NYCBUG: QEMU Virtualization on BSDs, Jim Brown, 2025-01-08. QEMU is far more influential than I expected.
- For The Love of God, Make Your Own Website. (via)
- The Most Iconic Electronic Music Sample of Every Year (1990-2023).
- A physical save button.
- Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System (1978) vs Spanner (2012). (via)
- SCCS roach motel. A pretty exhaustive description of SCCS and the weave format.
- Creating a Typeface: Humanist Computer.
- Public domain works done for NASA. (via previous)
- The Biggest Shell Programs in the World. You want to look and also look away. (via)
Links are from a wide range of sources this week; it’s often a good idea to follow the (via) tags to find even more.
- NYCBUG meets 12/4 at the usual time, for lightning talks.
- Maximizing Time For Reading. (via)
- Half-Life 2 20th anniversary. Documentaries like this are sort of about the game but also an inside track on software development case studies. (See also Psychodyssey)
- Asterogue. (via)
- Procedural text and tabletop roleplaying. Speaking of roguelikes…
- The missing text focused programming environment. Makes me think of Smalltalk.
- IMG_0416. (via)
- MyNoise. (via)
- CW&T, a design studio. (via)
- Keep It Simple Tools. (via)
This week’s music: Thank You, Dream Girl. (via)
NYCBUG is having a streaming-only event at 6:45 PM eastern tonight, with Jim Brown presenting on QEMU. Go, if you are near a computer. Also join IRC on #nycbug on Libera, too.
I don’t have a good link for the SDF item; their mailing list doesn’t appear to have a public archive, or I haven’t found it. SSH will get you there faster anyway.
- DragonFly: git: rtld – do not allow both dynamic DTV index and static TLS offset. Useful if p5-DBD-mysql is failing for you.
- inetd and daemons, a 4 part series.
- Moving my FreeBSD laptop to a Thinkpad X1 Carbon G6. Linked cause I just handled a newer X1 recently; might replace my ancient x220. More links in article.
- You can now play WUMPUS and OREGON TRAIL on the sigma-9 instance at sdf.org.
- Technical Marvels, Part 8: Historical Surveying Instruments. (via)
- Next NYC*BUG: 2024-11-06 @ 17:45 EST “Life with a FreeBSD Laptop” by Brian Reynolds. RSVP if you are going, so you can get in the facility.
- What Are The Civilian Applications?
- Building a game with the Real Engine. A heck of a lot of work but the results will be unique. (via)
- revealing the fediverse’s gifts. (via)
- Paper types ranked by likelihood of paper cuts.
- Iconic consoles of the IBM System/360 mainframes, 55 years old.
- Broughlike.
Next NYCBUG meeting is Wednesday night, and you need to RSVP if you’re going to be there in person. It sounds like there’s going to be a nice roundup of EuroBSDCon experiences and also the video … team? squad? support.
FINALLY cleaned out my inbox.
- NYCBUG Aug 7: Brian Callahan “Once again, I’ve done something no one asked for”
- (added after I published this) “Constructing Your Own Linux and FreeBSD Packages” at GoLUG August 7. Watch both.
- Beyond All Reason on OpenBSD, a video. (via)
- Hypercard Simulator. (via)
- Stephen King’s The Mist, 80’s text adventure.
- OpenBSD Workstation for the People.
- the contemporary carphone.
- Pretty pictures, bootable floppy disks, and the first Canon Cat demo. I find the Canon Cat interesting in a “what if…” sort of way.
- Barbarian Prince – Ultimate Edition. Solitaire D&D.
- How MetaFilter works.
- Unigram-X newsletters, early commercial UNIX history. (Scroll down)
- “in BLISS we don’t solve problems, we ELUDOM.“
- What’s neater than e-ink? Ferrofluid.
- Lamentations of the Flame Princess, free version. (via)
I got quote-happy this week.
- Ladybird Browser Initiative. (via several places)
- Related to the previous link: Mozilla is an advertising company now and Mozilla’s Original Sin.
- The new Fantasy Steampunk Storybundle, with orcs! Unrelated to MWL’s about-to-come-out tech book that you should order, or his next book.
- Related: Next NYC*BUG: July 10th The State of Email, By: Michael W. Lucas. Note that you should RSVP so you can get access.
- I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again. “Consider the fact that most companies are unable to successfully develop and deploy the simplest of CRUD applications on time and under budget.” (via everywhere)
- Schotter, part 1 and part 2. “Sometimes it’s fun to pick a rabbit hole and follow it all the way down.” (via)
- Donkey Kong: A Record of Struggle. (via)
- The time smart quotes prevented the entire Office division from committing code. “Just another example of I HAVE NO TOOLS BECAUSE I’VE DESTROYED MY TOOLS WITH MY TOOLS.”
- Inside the tiny chip that powers Montreal subway tickets. I am pretty sure you are carrying something similar to this in your pocket right now.
- A potpourri of cool-looking scripts. Scripts as in typeface.
- 1/25-Scale Cray C90 Wristwatch. “my wristwatch runs a full n-body simulation of Jupiter and 63 of its moons.” (via)
- The best version of an Apple Watch. (via)
- Chernobyl power plant as table lamp. I am OK with linking to this cause I already bought mine. (via I lost it, sorry)
Text tools this week.
- CommonMark, a Markdown specification.
- LyX, a TeX editor. (this and previous from this thread.)
- nvi command summaries. Follow the thread.
- BSD User Group Düsseldorf Juli 2024.
- Programming Prayer: The Woven Book of Hours (1886–87).
- XScreenSaver 6.09 out now.
- Greatest Comics Of All Time as Chosen by 45 Writers and Artists. (via)
- Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers. (via many)
- EuroBSDCon is in September.
- ASCII-Silhouettify. (via)
Music of the week: The Deep Ark, 8 hours of 90s electronica. (via)
NYCBUG is meeting tonight at a changed location. There’s going to be discussion of the just-finished BSDCan plus talk about membership growth and handling streaming events.
No theme this week, but some neat history items.
- Modern cactus.
- Winamp goes open source. (via)
- Non-Euclidean Doom: what happens to a game when pi is not 3.14159. (via)
- Next NYCBUG meeting: June 5th. It’ll be a post-BSDCan recap.
- “udm=14” is now useful for Google searches much like you had to turn on literal search to avoid ‘helpful’ spelling fixes.
- The Nature of Shareware. Mentioned: Ambrosia Software, a former local company. Not mentioned: the 1-2% pay rate for shareware, if you’re lucky.
- When you’re driving in Google Maps you’re re-enacting an ancient space combat sim.
- A history of Spelljammer. (via)
- Archie, rediscovered. (via)
- Retro tech in anime supercut. (via)
- sshd(8) is getting split.
Only a BSD conference announcement would include a note about changing your SSH listening port. Also, BSDCan in 2 weeks!
Tomorrow night, NYCBUG’s monthly meeting is about ZFS. There’s simultaneous chat in IRC and livestream video, too.
George Rosamond is presenting on the 20th anniversary of I think the longest-lived BUG, NYCBUG, tonight. Go if you are near (and RSVP so they can let you in), but it’s also going to be streamed.
It’s for COBUG, and details are available here.
The March 6 NYCBUG meeting is coming up, and it sounds like something I’d want to see: NetBSD for the Advanced Minimalist, working remote using only a $100 Pinebook. Be sure to RSVP if you can go cause this is in-person and they need to know who is coming into the NYU facility.
Assuming the weather hasn’t interfered (I am preposting this), NYCBUG meets tonight.
ChiBUG meets tomorrow, in I assume the normal place.
Update: postponed due to weather.
Of course the first thing I did was type the wrong year into the title of this post.
- OpenBSD printing and Avery labels.
- pkgsrc-2023Q4 out.
- Next NYC*BUG: Jan 10th.
- DragonFly BSD on a Thinkpad T480s.
- There’s a thread about disklabel on the TUHS list that went from interesting history to OpenFirmware discussion and then into the problem of bootstrapping/hardware monitors. Lots more I didn’t link. (iPhone-related)
- ‘Merchants of Complexity’: Why 37Signals Abandoned the Cloud. Recurring monthly payments for static goods are a goldmine – for the seller. (via)
- Critical mass in the Goldilocks zone. (via)
- Ten Things To Do After Installing FreeBSD. I don’t agree with it but it is interesting.
- 2024 FreeBSD community survey. Closes tomorrow.
- Why Prusa is floundering, and how you can avoid their fate. I don’t know the products well enough to say this is the only analysis.
- Why My Short Fiction Is Exclusively In My Store. Counterintuitively, he’s charging less money but making more money.
- The Internet Is About to Get Weird Again. Read the article for the links inside it.