Lazy Reading – DragonFly BSD Digest

2020/03/292020/03/27

Lazy Reading for 2020/03/29

Accidental open source ideas or maybe history this week. That might be too easy a category to fit into.

Panel Syndicate, online comics. (via Warren Ellis)
Mastermind at 50. And its impact on early computers. (via)
Opensource.builders. Alternate apps. (via)
Awesome-Selfhosted: “A list of Free Software web applications which can be hosted locally”. (via)
Text-Based VR: Explore the Pioneering World of MUSHes. (via)
DOS computer in a keyboard. (via)
Dos and Don’ts in Open Source. (via)
Remap caps lock key to escape with uncap. When you don’t have xmodmap.
The core memory inside a Saturn V rocket’s computer.
Looking inside a vintage Soviet TTL logic integrated circuit.
Inside a Titan missile guidance computer.
The Abiopause. “ABIopause” may make that more clear.
The Era of Fragmentation, Part 1: Load Factor.
Should I use Vim full-time? (via)
How to program a text adventure in C. (via)
EAX x86 Register: Meaning and History. (via)
Who’s ready for more Networking History? – all about APPLETALK. (via)
XScreenSaver 5.44 Hacks the Planet. New hacks!
A history of roguelike games. (via)
There’s a tar mode in emacs?
Any KVM over IP systems need to be on secure networks.

2020/03/222020/03/20

Lazy Reading for 2020/03/22

Random this week, but that’s not so different than usual.

- Bach’s prelude in C major written in sed. (via)
- Kill the Newsletter!, newsletter to RSS converter. (via)
- 100+ legal, free literature download sites.
- Katherine Cox-Buday Uses This. Someone who thinks hard about their setup.
- ARM-ed Mac: Not Again Or For Real This Time? Written by someone who would know.
- The Computer-free Automation of a Jukebox. (via)
- How to version control LibreOffice spreadsheets.
- Text Processing in the Shell. (via)
- reMarkable 2. Sorta feeds my small computer obsession.
- Two types of command-line interfaces. (via)
- Understanding X mouse cursors (and their several layers of history).
- 4 More Fonts to Help You Go Beyond Courier.
- Vim plugins that I use.
- The 68000 Wars, Part 6: The Unraveling.
- Sci-fi type based on spaceship form. (via)
- Zork II (1981).
- Goblin Filthomancer.
- Old computer ads.
- The Delco Magic line of aerospace computers.
- How to use Gmail more efficiently. (via)
- This is how science happens.

2020/03/152020/03/13

Lazy Reading for 2020/03/15

Again, dumping out all the links I can in case you are stuck at home.

Secure erase. I have done this yes.
“Encrypted email is LARP security”
4 Columns. Linked for the interface and how it’s tied to the content.
Best Ever Spooky House Adventures.
On The Metal, a technical podcast described as a garbage replacement, though without the BSD content.
Void: Terminal-based personal organizer. Looking at the resources listed at the end of the README is also instructive. (via)
Is Myst still one of the worst games ever?
The Best Fountain Pens Under 100 Dollars. The TWSBI 580 is my favorite.
4 Plain Text resource links.
Teletext: the Boring talk.
Variables, Pointers, and Indirection in Arduino C. (via)
You are a raccoon. Descend into a dungeon, looking for lost books. (via)
Removing characters with tr.
CSS didn’t decouple content from presentation.
A Quick Tour of the HP-9000 712/100 NEXTSTEP Workstation. (via)
Terminal Vision. Terminal == Serious Computer. (via)
Obscure features of JPEG. (via)

Your unrelated music link of the week: Hannibal Rex – The One Hundred & Forty Faces Of?.?.?. Has the same drive as early Mix Master Mike, to my ear. (via)

2020/03/082020/03/06

Lazy Reading for 2020/03/08

I had so many tabs open they weren’t all showing, so you get a straight dump.

Haiku Alpha 1: Rebirth of legend. (via)
Install & Configure BeOS R5.1d Using Oracle VirtualBox. (via)
Closing Periods on Flickr. Linked cause I do that here. (via)
Emulation on an iPhone/iPad. Linked just to show how difficult Apple chooses to make this. (via)
I believe this to possibly be the worst recipe-generating algorithm in existence. (via I lost it, sorry)
Build a 6502 computer. Video series. (via)
The eMate 300 Out In Front for “BBS Week V”.
7DRL is running now. (via)
A Text Renaissance.
My Linux and Vim Notes. Disregard the Linux part.
Digging up IP addresses with the Linux dig command. Disregard etc.
A random encounter with a 35 year old file format.
Fucking laptops. I agree on the x200 series.
Rotary Cellphone.
Payphone_Mk_2.
Lavender, a console font heavily inspired by Sun Gallant and the XNU console font. (via)
Ice Cream Book reviews. I agree wholeheartedly about Hello, My Name Is Ice Cream.
My Ordinary Life: Improvements Since the 1990s. Your reaction to this will vary based on your age.
Mark 1 FORTH Computer. “This computer has no microprocessor.” (via)
which led me to the Homebuilt CPU Webring. A Webring! Bizarre computers! Hooray!
opensource-challenges. (via)
Gears gears gears animations.
‘a dead simple git cheatsheet’. (via)
Simone.computer. The projects are interesting, the interface itself is interesting. (via)

2020/03/012020/02/28

Lazy Reading for 2020/03/01

Tab-clearing links!

Have You Played… SimCity 2000? Not really about the game, but the music involuntarily associated with it. Elektra:Assassin and MARRS is the same for me.
Prosthetic synthesizer. (via)
Cable standards history. More interesting than I make it sound!
Kermit, a history. Not just a summary; the source documents. (via)
Old CSS, new CSS. (via)
Evoboxx, uneasy retro synth. Game of Life as dedicated hardware.
A love letter to the fantasy airship. (via)
What is a traditional roguelike? (also via)
byNWR, streaming restored fringe films, plus a talk about it. (also via)
Stickers for the RSS massive.
Rooibos. Technically not tea.
Archivists are uploading hundreds of random VHS tapes to the internet. And that’s awesome. (via)
Gopher: When Adversarial Interoperability Burrowed Under the Gatekeepers’ Fortresses. (via)
Zip Files: History, Explanation and Implementation. (via)
The ‘sextortion’ Scams: The Numbers Show That What We Have Is A Failure Of Education. I like the deep dive.

Your unrelated music link of the week: KUTMAH – New Appliance. (via)

2020/02/232020/02/21

Lazy Reading for 2020/02/23

Still backlogged, which means one of these weekends I’ll catch up and you’ll have about a zillion links to click.

vt100.net. (via vttest)
Another post on open source civility.
How thick is an hour?
Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?
ENIAC, 74 years old and printable in 3D. Yes, the whole room. (via)
MIDI 2.0, 37 years after the 1.0 release. (via)
Apollo 11 Guidance Computer (AGC) vs USB-C Chargers. (via)
Age of Invention: Where Be Dragons? Why no ancient D&D? (via)
42 years ago, the first BBS. (via)
136 INTERNET VIDEOS THAT BLEW MY MIND. A Google Doc. (via)
Ice Cream Flavor: Chocolate.
A curated list of command line apps.
building a note-taking system with vanilla vim.
The worst of time64 breakage. (via)
NEXTSPACE, another NextStep revisit. (via)
i3wm 4.18 released. Useful to at least a few readers. (via)
Bunnie Huang’s Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen. PDF. (via)

2020/02/162020/02/14

Lazy Reading for 2020/02/16

Partial overflow this week, which means probably even more next week. We all benefit!

OUIGO – Let’s Play. Pinball in your browser. Good pinball. (via)
shlide—a slide deck presentation tool written in pure bash. (via)
Under Armour Dumped Its App, and Consumers Feel the Heartbreak. As the article mentions, companies will dump cheap services – and your data and invested time – at a moment’s notice. The article might be paywalled.
How much better was DEC Alpha than contemporary x86? Begs the question, but still interesting to ask. (via)
Apple 2 connecting via acoustic coupler modem and rotary phone. (via)
Hard Drive Stats for 2019. Backblaze. (via)
Blackwing Pencils: A Comprehensive Guide.
Rotary Cellphone. (via)
noclip.website, game floor plans. (via)
Genres evolve and so does language. Roguelike arguments.
The Burroughs Memoirs. I briefly worked at a child company of Burroughs. (via)
The Missing Semester of Your CS Education. Open source teaches exactly this; most schools do not. Guess which makes you a better programmer? (via)
A Bit of History Regarding “Tunnels of Armageddon” for the Apple IIgs.
Building a Note-taking System with Vanilla Vim. (via)
Vintage Computer Festival East 2020. (via)

2020/02/092020/02/07

Lazy Reading for 2020/02/09

Apple ][ minitheme, this week.

- The Public Domain Review, an Interview With Editor Adam Green. Worth looking at just for the images. Public Domain! (via)
- Related: Nightingale, the journal of the Data Visualisation Society. I would like to have a card stating I was a member, just to feel smug in a good way.
- Legible News, culled from Wikipedia. Readability is the draw. (via multiple)
- Pervane, a plain text private note taking tool. (via)
- Org-mode features You May Not Know. (via)
- “…this is my initial experience of a website…” Get a newsletter, click a link, get a “subscribe to our newsletter!” popup. That’s just laziness. (via)
- Common LISP awk macro for easy text file operations. I like reading LISP even if I never write it.
- OK Doomer. (via)
- Firing Up the Apple //c for “Not x86 Week”. (via)
- Vintage Apple. (via)
- The Importance of Being E.R.N.I.E. (via)
- Intro to the Haiku review series: the BeOS reborn. (via)
- Geometry: A minimalistic, fully customizable ZSH theme. Linked cause I never thought of shells as themeable before. (via)
- ThinkPad Mods, Done Right. Dangit dangit dangit! This mod uses the one corner I smashed on my x220. (via)

Your unrelated music link of the day: A Beginner’s Guide to Venetian Snares’ Breakcore Madness. Oh Bandcamp RSS feed, how did I live without you?

2020/02/022020/01/31

Lazy Reading for 2020/02/02

Today’s date is fun to type.

Elizabeth Goodspeed’s list of open access archives, historical ephemera and found materials. (via)
Tinker Tech, a review of the Pinebook Pro that’s an exact description of the target audience.
Pinebookpro gaming part 2, related. (via)
NexDock 2, a Kickstarter I regret missing. (via previous link)
Meet micro:bit. I think I linked these before. (via)
SourceGen Disassembly Projects. Mostly Apple][. (via)
PastWindow, a window with a 6-month delay. (via)
Plotting Perlin Landscapes. Pen plotters are hypnotizing to watch in motion.
Sea and Spar Between, an online generator of Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson’s poetry, mashed together. Read the instructions. (via)
The text adventure game of exiting a telnet session. (via)
Coffee++ keyboardlayout (ENTI-key++). For when you don’t want to put down your drink. (via)
Mysterious packets in the night. Linked cause live monitoring is underrated.
AI Dungeon and Creativity.
Tangent: The Automated Dungeon Master.
Bucklespring, Model M audio emulation. (via)
Terminal Phase, a terminal-based space shooter. (via)
The happinesses and stresses of full-time FOSS work.
KnightOS was an interesting operating system.
The 4X seen as an RPG. (via)
Master of Orion, in-depth.
anideafora.website. Exactly that. (via)
2020 Web Milestones. Flash and Python 2 finally stop this year. (via)

Your unrelated music link of the day: The Death Metal Double Life of “Atypical” Star Keir Gilchrist. (thanks, Drew Diver) Getting that link made me notice the Bandcamp RSS feed quietly stopped working; an inquiry to their support got me this independent link for now.

2020/01/262020/01/24

Lazy Reading for 2019/01/26

I literally just smooshed all my open tabs that weren’t baking–related into this post.

Electric Rogue. (via)
Tiny Helpers. Single-purpose web development tools. (via)
Manytools, similar. (via)
Bringing the London Bus Network home. Home-made info screen. (via)
Fun With Software. An AR joke.
fast_template, your own blog, without having to buy into anyone’s platform. (via)
ReMarkdown.css, render HTML as Markdown. Full-circle! (sorta via)
Dark Ages of the Web. (via)
The clearest statement of how leap years work is a several-centuries-old papal statement. (via)
The Cidco MailStation.
Vintage Byte Magazine Library. (thanks, tuxillo)
Work Is Work. (via)
Ping, the game.
Meanwhile, the game, which originally was a comic I’ve mentioned before.
Tangent: The Automated Dungeon Master. Fun/nostalgic images for me. (via)
A philosophy of project governance.
Inside the digital clock from a Soyuz spacecraft.
Dick Gabriel Uses This. Computer scientist, poet, exclusive Lisp programmer.
Adding CGI support to my gopher server.
real world crypto talks.
TT2020, a typewriter font that doesn’t obviously look like a font. (via)
Which Machines Do Computer Architects Admire? (also via)
Formlabs Form 3 Teardown.
Unix bc command and its -l flag.

Your unrelated video of the week: Igorrr – Very Noise. Reminds me of early Garry’s Mod videos. (via)

2020/01/192020/01/17

Lazy Reading for 2020/01/19

No theme, just lots of links.

1978 “Heathkit” D&D Digital Dice Tower. Homebrew, Nixie tubes, D&D dice; this was made for me to link.
VisiData, command line tabular data manipulation. (thanks, Paul Ivanov)
The History of Games conference Call for Papers is out. (via)
No leap second this year.
Related: Did you know there is a global institution covering the rotation of the earth? The International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service. They graph Earth’s spin. (via)
The Beasts of Europe. More graphs! (Thanks, brother)
Why are modern computers so slow? Scroll to the Technology section; there’s a collection of writeups about modern latency, some of which I’ve linked before but all are worthwhile.
2020 IGF nominees: puzzles, Shakespeare, topical games, interactive storybooks, and adventure plus.
The Roots of Doom Mapping. Goes with the ReDoomEd link yesterday. (via)
The Art of the Post-Internet.
Using Computer Modern on the web. For the TeX-lovers. (via)
Ganymede Series 01 Watch Arrived. A deliberately confusing interface.
Retro Review: Zeven OS. (via)
Opening up the Baseboard Management Controller. (via)
My review of the Pinebook Pro – a $200 ARM powered laptop. I want to see some in-depth BSD experiences on that hardware. (via)

2020/01/122020/01/10

Lazy Reading for 2020/01/12

Accidental themes this week: keyboards and game remakes.

Indieweb; something I plan to explore more.
Autocomplete as an interface.
Heroes of Might and Magic 3, as open source game engine. (via)
Hello World, a comparative exercise. (for one meaning of “better”)
Why is Wednesday, November 17, 1858 the base time for OpenVMS? (via)
Benchmarking shell pipelines and the Unix “tools” philosophy.
Weird Keyboards, Programmable Keyboards. The author sells some bonkers keyboards. (via)
How to create a handheld Linux terminal (v2). Or BSD! (via)
The Planck Keyboard, via comments on the previous source. Apparently a “40% keyboard” is the phrase that describes this sort of smaller keyboard.
tmux-resurrect. Somewhat magical. (via kerma on EFNet #dragonflybsd)
Class of 2020: New in the Public Domain today! I linked to a different article before, but this one talks about outside the U.S.
BeOS: The Alternate Universe’s Mac OS X. (via)
A Decentralized Web Primer: Dat. “The read/write web”. (via)
Unciv, an open source Civilization V; probably could run with openjdk8? Haven’t tried. (via)
A retrospective of Command and Conquer: Tiberian Sun. (via)
Society for the History Of Technology call for papers is out. (via)
2020 IGF nominees: a good mood and 2020 IGF nominees: hit and miss.
Monoid: open source coding font. (via)
2019 Income Sources. Interesting since a chunk of that is BSD books.
A Compiler Writing Journey. (via)

2020/01/052020/01/03

Lazy Reading for 2020/01/05

I very nearly scheduled this to January 01, 2019. And then fixed it for the right year but not the day, so you may have seen an early draft of this. Oops; it’s here now.

- The link that will eat the most of your time: href.cool links of the decade: there is a lot to look at in here. Some highlights: Smash TV (video collage), esp8266.net (ultracheap hardware hacking), Magic Mirror (achievable tech), SPACEPLAN (clicker game), and Line Wobbler (physical roguelike). If I hadn’t linked to some of these things before, I should have.
- ASCII graffiti. Not really ASCII but that’s OK, still fun to see. (via)
- The modern web is becoming an unusable, user-hostile wasteland. My current peeve: following a link in a newsletter and getting a popup over the content … to subscribe to the newsletter. This is not hard to fix. (via)
- Public Domain Day 2020.
- multicians.org. Pre-UNIX. (via)
- Time will end in 2038… for Unix. (via)
- Managing my dotfiles as a git repository. Not a new idea, but has a nice host-specific setup.
- Inter-networking.
- Chesterton’s Shell Script. (via)
- Black Hack 2nd Edition and Apocalypse World, 2 RPGs recommended.
- Can We Build Trustable Hardware? Like any headline posted as a question, the answer is “no”, but this is Bunnie Huang, so there’s a much more complex but real solution.
- The Joys of UNIX Keyboards.
- Good times create weak men. (via)
- fingers.today, like wandering through someone’s $HOME. (via)
- A brief history of liquid computers. “Billiard-ball computing”. (via)
- Rhasspy: a completely offline voice assistant. That’s what I want. (via)
- X11 screen locking: a secure and modular approach. Requires no new technology.

Your unrelated comics link of the week: Cankor. (click on preview button) I saw Cankor pages years ago; it’s disturbing in a good way.

2019/12/292019/12/28

Lazy Reading for 2019/12/29

There’s several accidental themes fighting it out this week.

Please for the love of Blarg, Start a Blog. Seriously.
Blogging Less in the 2020s. Social media demands your complete attention to “succeed”.
Why NUKEMAP isn’t on Google Maps anymore. The problem of depending on external services that can be turned off or changed.
This Page is Designed to Last. I have this worry about the Digest. (via)
Working on our Thoughts, a publish-in-multiple-formats (website, book, etc) method. (via)
Back In Time For Xmas. Linked for the picture of fiber wrapped around a large auger; the stuff of nightmares for anyone responsible for network infrastructure.
Public Sans, a typeface from the U.S. Government. (via)
PinePhone review.
Plasma Mobile as Daily Driver on PinePhone. (via)
Anyone Can Build This Open Source, DRM-Free Kindle Alternative. That is kinda linkbaity but what the heck. (via)
Inkplate 6, crowdfunded, via comments on the previous source.
reMarkable: the perfect tablet for academics. (via)
2019 Retrospective. Interactive Fiction. (via)
Miller, a command line tool for tabular data. (via)
The tyranny of ideas. (via I lost it, sorry)
The Blue Tape List. When I do this at a new job, I call it the Crazy List. You have only the first 6 months at a new job before everything that struck you as crazy becomes accepted, and you won’t be able to see the problem any more. (via)
In Memoriam of Chuck Peddle. He created the 6502, which powered it seems like almost every home computer. (via)
Tiny Tiny RSS + Readability == The best way to read RSS feed. I use Tiny Tiny RSS and had no idea how nice the Readability plugin is. (via)
Filenames and paths should be a unique type and not a form of strings. Ugh but convincing argument.
Separate or merge audio and video using ffmpeg and Crop a video using ffmpeg. Linked cause you’ll need it sooner or later.
The man who made Wolfenstein. One of the few commercially purchased Apple ][ games I ever had – and still have. (via)

Your unrelated music link of the week: Cosey Fanni Tutti ?– Tutti. Found via Ted Gioia’s Best 100 Albums of 2019, which was discovered via Conversations with Tyler. There, now you definitely have enough to listen to until 2020.

2019/12/222019/12/21

Lazy Reading for 2019/12/22

Accidental theme this week: roguelikes! Maybe with me that’s not so accidental.

Neal.fun. The old weird web. This will eat some hours.
“Link In Bio” is a slow knife. There’s a lot of things I can’t link to because they are hidden away just like this.
blinry’s Advent Calendar of Curiosities 2019. (via)
It’s Time to Get Personal. (via)
Tmux and Vim — configurations to be better together. (via)
OpenHAB, open source home automation software. (via)
36th Chaos Communications Congress, coming up.
Real time clock for your ISA slot.
A Spotify playlist of all songs mentioned in the Time Zone Database documentation. I love everything about this without even hearing the music. (via)
AI Dungeon 2: “My Musical Troupe of Orcs Uses Music to Advance Orc Rights”.
(via)
Roguelike Tutorial: Up-to-Date and Literate. (via)
Roguelike Tutorial – In Rust, via comments in the last source. There’s a lot more links in there, too.
Dungeon Generation in Enter The Gungeon. (via)
The Bloomberg Terminal, Explained. (via)

2019/12/152019/12/13

Lazy Reading for 2019/12/15

Some deep dives here; take your time today.

The ZedRipper: Part 1. 16 cores, 83 MHz. (via)
Play AI Dungeon 2. Become a dragon. Eat the moon.
Links of the 2010s. There’s a lot here.
3 Wyrd Things: Robin the Fog. Listen to Catch 22-20, on that page; a skipping recording that skips with the right timing to create coherent music.
Two malicious Python libraries caught stealing SSH and GPG keys. (via)
DNote, self-hosted personal note saving.
Unreleased Infocom Game Unearthed (from 1986).
“The Unbeatable Deck of Ronan Shin” by Kiyash Monsef. (via)
Think App Updates Suck? Try Upgrading a Programming Language. Every language gets to find this out.
Freebies. Oddball desktops, etc. (via)
Vim 8.2 is out. (via)
Andy Baio Uses This. Linked cause he’s a superior link source.
What I want for CES.
It’s a good idea to label all of the drives in your desktop.

2019/12/082019/12/07

Lazy Reading for 2019/12/08

Accidental theme this week: terminals.

Teletext’s creative legacy. (via)
Related: Teletext, the font. (via)
The Plain Text Project. (Thanks, Benn Collver.)
TROS: How IBM mainframes stored microcode in transformers.
IBM, sonic delay lines, and the history of the 80×24 display. An answer to the recently-linked-here “80×25” post, and perhaps the definitive answer on terminal size. Also: sound delay lines are bonkers.
The Magical Excel 97 Far East Language Build Screwdriver™.
26th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (2019) winners. (via)
New Tricks for an Old Z-Machine, Part 2: Hacking Deeper (or, Follies of Graham Nelson’s Youth).
New Tricks for an Old Z-Machine, Part 3: A Renaissance is Nigh.
Unlocked Recordings, via the recent Music Modernization Act. This is one of the many reasons to donate to the Internet Archive. (via)
Migrationator: Open source tool to help migrate away from Google. (via)
Big Pile of Vim-like. (via)
It was 20 years ago today. 4 years ahead of me.

Your odd pile of GIFs for the week: more Jan Svankmajer animations than I’ve ever seen in one place. (via)

2019/12/012019/11/29

Lazy Reading for 2019/12/01

I’m going with high-concept material this week. If you have time for some thinking today, you’ll enjoy the links.

Sounds recreated from pictures, a video and an album. Making sounds exist that were never recorded – a sort of time travel. (via)
Transformative Tools for Thought. (via)
A primer on hardware security keys, which I recommend. (via)
SIMjacking, a new term to me. (also via)
A history of procedural text.
To Go Green, the Energy Industry Goes Open Source.
Yes I do want LEDs and Bluetooth in my d20s.
Various IF crowdfunds.
The Information is Beautiful Award Winners 2019. (via)
Don Libes’ Expect: A Surprisingly Underappreciated Unix Automation Tool. (via)
Understanding and repairing the power supply from a 1969 analog computer. So pretty!
64 Bits ought to be enough for anybody. (via)
Notes on Ambient Privacy. (via)
Command and Conquer, a retrospective. Part of what defined RTS games. (via)
Sunless Skies, a review. Not defining a genre, but a mood. (also via)

2019/11/242019/11/21

Lazy Reading for 2019/11/24

Small computers is the accidental theme this week.

Remembering the TRS-80.
80s Corporate Airbrush-High Tech. Eighties! (via)
My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge. What could yours be? You could have a website, not just a social media identity, and be much better off for it. (via)
Beaker Browser, a peer-to-peer browser. (via)
Good signoffs. (via)
Open Library book sponsorships. (via)
ASCIIdent. All-ASCII characters, open world game. (via)
are.na, a site I am repeatedly stumbling into. A sort of blogging platform/visual recorder? I have only just started to look, but it seems like a good place to record an aesthetic, sort of like ffffound was, once.
The Teletext Archaeologist – A visual and interactive teletext history. (via)
Pocket Popcorn Computer. (via)
Review of Pinebook Pro. The hardware notes are most relevant, not the Linux whateverness. (via)
Ditching Event Platforms for the IndieWeb. (via)
The Invention of Forth. (via)
Falsehoods CS Students (Still) Believe Upon Graduating.
Neovim and the state of text editor art in 2019. First explanation of “why NeoVim” that I’ve seen. (via)
Emacs: Fury Road. (via)

2019/11/172020/02/20

Lazy Reading for 2019/11/17

Happy birthday to my father, today.

ALL HAIL LORD ENKI. It’s like a giant version of Lazy Reading; I hope you have some reading time set aside. (via)
80×25.
Lesser Known Coding Fonts. (via)
Niche Museums. You may be happily surprised to find one of these near you. (via)
Sougwen Chung is a Chinese-born, Canadian-raised artist & (re)searcher based in New York. A casual look appears to show an antist that works in tandem with robots to produce art. (via)
Apple I Emulator as a Shader. How could I not link this? (via)
Terminal Phase: building a space shooter that runs in your terminal. (via)
Take Take Take: Rethinking How I Consume Free and Open Source Software. (via)
Tabs or spaces for indentation? Statistics on 3.8 million Perl files created in 24 years. (via)
Riana Pfefferkorn Uses This. Always interesting to see the personal computer setup for someone strongly focused on security.
FANGo. If you can’t not participate, you get to at least not conform.
Newstweek: note that this is from 2011.
three.js. 3 dimensions on the web. This would be sheer magic to 1998 me. (via)
200 word RPG challenge. Complete by the time you read this. (via)
80×25.
RSS-Bridge. Creates feeds from walled gardens. (via)
Today in Hoffman Lenses.
Formally modeling database migrations.
The Greatest OSR Blog Posts Known to Man.

Your unrelated music link of the week: The Wyrding Module: Typhonic Neural Tantra. (via multiple places)