• Every layer of review makes you 10x slower.  Network effects run both directions!
• Vibe coding toward the incident horizon.  Always up for a Mickens-style column.
• Speaking of which: I did not expect this from a tenured Harvard professor.
• Or this.
• Similar: The Shaw Brothers Youtube channel.  Lots of violence.  Surely you know about the 36th Chamber? (via)
• How to Stop Jumping Ship.  (via)
• d20 Gameable Ideas from a 12th-Century Travelogue.  (also via)
• Simple sabotage of agents.
• The Web is bearable with RSS.  Also some links to start with, with some excellent tips.  (via)
• If you aren’t using an RSS reader, you should; it’s great.
• Eddie, email as scaffolding.  (via)
• Timeframe, a very sophisticated signboard.  (via)

• Another Type 30 Display Reproduction At 36% Scale.
• Corners of the Internet Database.  Set some time aside for this.  (via)
• Obsidian merchandise is surprisingly nice.  (via)
• Reflections from TPAC 2025.
• AI contributes code on GitHub.  Time, not code generation, is the scarcest resource for open source.  AI patching does not help.
• Framing and World of Warcraft’s Rest System.  (via)
• XSscreensaver 6.13 is out, a minor update.
• The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition.
• Inside the Great Firewall Part 3: Geopolitical and Societal Ramifications.  (via)
• The best tape dispenser I’ve ever seen.

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.

Oddly, searching for a nut manpage led me to a utility I haven’t seen before – nut(1), for nutritional analysis.

Update:  here’s the video:

Related: turning on vim mode in Obsidian gets you this entertaining dialog:

Shouldn’t it be “vi mode”?  Oh hey, look, an esoteric definition argument, just what you came to the Internet for.

• • How to Build a Chess Engine and Fail.  (via)
  • cablesoft.  Finally, a ‘computers are bad’ story where I experienced (some of) the history described.
  • Jon Makes Beats.  Seeing synthesizers and samplers in use.  (via)
  • More synthesizer stuff: the Orchid.  (via)
  • Even more: Music Thing Modular Workshop System.  (via)
  • Using (only) a Linux terminal for my personal computing in 2024.
  • more tales of the unscreenshotable.
  • AI-powered Self Service Checkouts.
  • Why pipes sometimes get “stuck”: buffering.  (via)
  • Minitel: The Online World France Built Before the Web.  (via)
  • Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground.  Tabletop RPG history.  (via)
  • A Margaret Hamilton’s worth of printed code.  (via)
  • What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen.  (also via)

Your video experience of the week: Hundreds of Beavers.  This was played in a theater in my town months ago and I missed it.  I should have gone to see it on the big screen, but here it is on YouTube.  (via)