Lazy Reading – DragonFly BSD Digest

Your unrelated audio link of the week: Centuries of Sound. The major sounds of a given year, starting in 1859. Yes, 1859. It’s like time travel for your ears, with liner notes. (via)

2019/01/202019/01/17

Lazy Reading for 2019/01/20

One advantage of having a link ‘backlog’ is that I can pick and choose a bit, to present grouped items.

LiteCLI: A user-friendly command line client for SQLite. (via)
A holiday gift woodworking project using Clojure. (via)
2019 IGF nominees: something notable.
2019 IGF nominees: mixed reactions.
2019 IGF nominees: my favorites.
Privacy Engineer job at Wikimedia.
Rand Intelligent Terminal Agent (RITA): Design Philosophy. (PDF, via)
Book review: Retro debugging. (via)
The ‘Say Thanks’ Project. Can’t help thinking of T.Hanks. (via tuxillo on EFNet #dragonflybsd)
The Rise and Demise of RSS. Not as common nowadays, but invaluable for these weekend Digest articles. (via)
Nethack beaten in 7 minutes, 15 seconds realtime. One comment notes that you can, within game rules, die before you start playing. (via)
Text Games to Watch for in 2019.
In honor of Donald Knuth’s 81 birthday Stanford uploaded 111 lectures on Youtube. (via)
Facebook is the new crapware. (via)
404 Page Not Found: The internet feeds on its own dying dreams. (via)
Computers in Kids’ Bedrooms. (via)
Snowflake Archeology: Early computer animation (1960s) for the DEC PDP-1. (via)
Online Text Tools. For when you don’t have a shell handy.
Sinographs for “tea”.
Misadventures in process containment. Interesting for the history.
Dawn of the Second Epoch. Coming sooner than Y2038, possibly.
UNIX in pictures. (via)
Re-decentralizing the Web, for good this time. In-depth article, not just a polemic, getting into how Solid works. (via)

2019/01/132019/01/10

Lazy Reading for 2019/01/13

Unofficial theme this week: me commenting on almost every link.

An odd MIME Content-Disposition or two. I like seeing the analysis of parts of traffic people never usually see.
My one-liner Linux Dropbox client. Not saying to do this specifically, but the tool integration is nice. (via)
Pathfinding for Tower Defense. That whole Red Blob site has some interesting learning activities. (via)
The oral history of the Hampsterdance. Nostalgia for something that was always transitory. (via)
Flashing my Lenovo x230 with Coreboot. I understand why people do it, but I’d be so nervous about creating a laptop-shaped brick. (via)
We are now closer to the Y2038 bug than the Y2K bug.
National Inventors Hall of Fame honors creators of Unix, power drills and more. Power drills and UNIX have a history, though I am sure this was an accidental coincidence. (via)
Adding Glue To a Desktop Environment. (via)
Ethical alternatives to popular sites and apps. Linking for alternatives, not for ethics. (via)
ActivityPub: The “Worse Is Better” Approach to Federated Social Networking. (via)
The New Social Media. Also about federation. (via)
Google and Facebook are about advertising and not about it at the same time. (via)
How to Delete Online Accounts You No Longer Need.
DAN64, an AVR based 8-bit microcomputer. Crazy but neat. (via)
Your USB Serial Adapter Just Became a SDR. Software Defined Radio if you didn’t know. (via)
HelenOS 0.8. New to me. (via)
Building a Spotify player for my Mac SE/30. I love the FatMac shape. (via)
ATDT relief. I admit I have done something similar to this with Asterisk and callfiles to exit meetings. (via)

2019/01/062019/01/04

Lazy Reading for 2019/01/06

Unofficial theme: DOOM

Plaintext parts of email are fading away (in spam and non-spam).
Solving murder with Prolog. (via)
Fancy Vim Plugins. This is the first time I’ve seen a focus on the visual effect of the plugins rather than the underlying task. Something you wouldn’t expect for a terminal-style editor – and a good idea! (via)
Reflections on DOOM’s Development. (via)
DOOMBA. (via)
How DOOM fire was done. (via)
Recovering Nintendo’s Lost SimCity for the NES. (via)
A Most Unusual Osborne 1. (via)
Why it’s time to reappraise the humble Choose Your Own Adventure book. (via)
Comparing Architectures: VAX, Alpha, Itanium and X86-64. (via)
The old guard of Mac indy apps has thrived for more than 25 years. I link that because I’ve used several of the programs named, and they are excellent, excellent examples of doing something well. (via)
XScreenSaver 5.41.
These products seem designed to confuse.
Most people don’t realize how much wifi pollution there can be. (via)
Christian Gingras: The Man Who Fixed Robotron. (via)
How Atari created the iconic Star Wars arcade game. The cabinet design was as important an element as the game itself, I think. (via)
Potholes to avoid when migrating to IPv6. (via)
some images i saved to my laptop in 2018. (via)

2018/12/302018/12/28

Lazy Reading for 2018/12/30

Last of the year!

The Internet of Unprofitable Things. Making mistakes permanent in hardware. (via)
Why Mastodon is defying the “critical mass”.
How People Used to Download Games From the Radio. (via)
Why You Should Never, Ever Use Quora. Don’t support dead ends.
On the attempts to resurrect Space Cadet Pinball.
xclave: Hardware Testing in Mass Production, Made Easier.
A Short History of Computer-Generated Visual Effects.
Some new-to-me features in POSIX (or Single Unix Specification) Bourne shells.
Cygwin and the Windows Subsystem for Linux, when to use one and not the other. (via)
xterm full reverse.
RSync the old is still new…
A Visual Defragmenter for the Commodore 64. Fun to watch, oddly. (via)
Git Your SQL Together (with a Query Library). The “SQL Truths” section is correct. (via)
How I wound up finding a bug in GNU Tar. Goes with the “no standard for tar” link last week. This bug could be in other tar versions… or none at all.
EmuTOS, a free operating system for Atari computers. (via)
Creating a (Non-Trivial) Lisp Game in 2018. Not the first language for game development. (via)
Deorbital’s best games of 2018 named by Dante Douglas, Wasim Salman, David Shimomura, Amr Al-Aaser, Yussef Cole, and Shonté Daniels.
The Very Slow Movie Player. (via)

2018/12/232018/12/21

Lazy Reading for 2018/12/23

Merry almost Christmas! I hope you like reading, because I’m linking to some large collections of text.

No Starch Press “Hacking for the Holidays” Humble Bundle. If Lazy Reading isn’t enough text for you, this will get you much, much more.
From Hi-Fi to CLI. One of the authors of VisiCalc, blogging. He’s done a lot of writing in the last few decades. (indirectly via)
Unfortunately with Mastodon, there’s no way (that I know of) to link to this stream of “edvent calendar” posts with various ed(1) tips, so I’m sending you to the main aggregation and you’ll have to scroll back.
Author Robin Sloan is reading a translation of the Middle English poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight live on YouTube at 3 PM Eastern time today.
A rediscovered mainframe game from 1974 might be the first text adventure. A comment on the source link mentions MULTICS games are available now.
Control Keys. (via)
A State of Sin. CERN has an artist in residence program?
Searching the Creative Internet. I have the same problem; so much crap to swim in to get to the real joy.
Related: Blogging and me. (via)
Rocky Bergen’s Retro Computer Papercraft.
Pro Office Calculator Is A Totally Normal Calculator.
r/UnixArt.
Small stupid things that make up my dev environment. (via)
My small vim and tmux flow cheatsheet. (via)
Magic Printer Cartridge Paintbrush.
Why I’m usually unnerved when modern SSDs die on us.
nest, Xephyr, ChromeOS, synergy, and syncing some clipboards.
Unix Folklore: curiosities from inside the Unix Room at Bell Labs. (via)
Working around an irritating recent XTerm change in behavior.
Publicly accessible .ENV files.
Star Control II. A deep dive into a great game – that you can play now.

2018/12/162018/12/15

Lazy Reading for 2018/12/16

I’m not planning a holiday gift guide this year, though they are fun to do. You can always check previous ones; I try to link to stores rather than individual items.