• Next NYCBUG meeting: it’s a social meeting (no guest speaker), August 5th.
• The Life and Times of Maxis, Part 1: SimEverything.  Everyone’s played at least one Sim game in their lifetime, correct?
• Weird Side Projects.  (via)
• Diane Lindo, stop motion animations.  (also via)
• A terminal version of Obsidian.  Different from the official CLI.
• MNT June 2026 Update.  Notes that OpenBSD runs on the Pocket Reform.
• Fish Shell.
• A pocket computer history museum.
• Ditch your Alexa.
• Cutting the cord to the cloud.
• LibriVox, free public domain audiobooks.
• “If you never saw the words Game Over, did you really do it all?”  Linked for the animation showing an IBM 1401 console in action.

• NYCBUG’s having a social meetup on July 1st; stories about BSDCan will be told, I’m sure.
• When Dystopian Sci-Fi Ruled the Cola Wars.  This seems like a named aesthetic.  (via)
• Building a serial and VGA “everything console”.  Linked cause the author is using one of the IBM keyboards I always wanted.
• Key, In Sight.  The keyboard in the center of this also looks like one of those same keyboards.  Marcin says it’s a Shinobi, which I’ve wanted to get before.
• ‘Vim’ has many faces.
• Aeonic Nebular Character Generator, for a game jam for games that do not exist.
• Powering up a module from the IBM 604.  Linked for the computer styling that says “forties”.
• That new Commodore phone is running Sailfish.
• pkgsrc-2026Q2 is out.
• The freebsd-update(8) Screensaver.
• FreeBSD 15 on a Laptop.  Linked for the Thinkpad-specific parts.
• The Goldilocks Principle in Fantasy Strategy.

• FreeBSD sh for MacOS.
• Biggest DynaTAC ever.
• 3D.City.  (via)
• Dice Soup.  (via The Glatisant.  Lots of other links in that source.)
• The best secondary prompt string possible.
• A hat on your calculator.  (via)
• Related: modern versions of HP calculators.  (via)
• Video for NYC*BUG Nov 2025: The Once and Future COBOL, by James Lowden.
• Games for Freaks, a game magazine.
• the totalisator.
• Daniel Temkin – FORTY-­FOUR ESOLANGS, The Art of Esoteric Code, a book review.
• Some games that happen to be all about music.
• I don’t know how to describe this.  (via)

Update: apparently the slides for this talk have been ready for 48 years or so.

• 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)

• 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:

Meeting is canceled cause no presenter available.