• 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.

• 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)

• 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)

• 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.

• 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)

• 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)