• Why I Like Small Keyboards.  Linked for the keyboard picture; smallest split I’ve ever seen.
• Erwin Wurm: One Minute Artworks.  Found via this post – read to the end for the connection, and watch the video while you are at it.
• Difficult, Important, Succeeding?
• OpenRA.  I thought I had linked to this before, and I had, but it was 8 years ago.  (reminded it exists via)
• Bringing Swift To The Apple II.
• Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD.
• Garbage for humans.  This is one of the incentives for gopher if you think about it.  (via)
• IIgs The Future.  Linked cause it reminded me about the old Apple game The Bilestoad.
• It Always Amazes Us.  Animation Obsessive’s current list of things they like.

• Cyberdeck Meetup Notes.  (via)  I wish Iffy Books was closer; those are some fun events on the calendar.
• Painting with Light.
• The Wholesale Plagiarism of Obscure Sorrows.  I was finding wholesale copies of this Digest back in I think 2008 or so.
• Using Claude Code to Personalise the Xteink X4.  Adding to some previous links about this device.  (via)
• And also this: The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader.
• Also probably related: I don’t need it (and neither do you).
• Gmail Thinks I’m Stupid, So I Left.  (also via)
• Please, Just Stop Ruining “10 PRINT”. Seriously.
• Connect FreeBSD to OpenBSD using WireGuard.
• The Starlog 50.

• 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.

• I Left Port 22 Open on the Internet for 54 Days.  (via)
• Taken.  (also via)
• Feynman’s formula on trying new restaurant foods.
• The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech.  Yeah, clickbait, but accurate.  (via)
• How NASA Built Artemis II’s Fault-Tolerant Computer.  (via)
• 21st Century Nightmares: Dark Animations.  Movies to watch, mostly stopmotion.  (via)
• Detecting and removing dangerous secrets on dev workstations before Shai-Hulud does.
• Kentucky’s Bourbon problem.  Read to the end.
• SCIFICORRIDORARCHIVE.  (via)
• The Kaiser and a “Mediocre Man” Theory of History.  (via)
• I Am Retiring from Tech to Live Offline.  I am doing something similar but not as drastic.  (via)

• 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)

• Vibe Coding a $20k /year Enterprise Logistics Platform.  We are returning to the era of custom internal software.  This I sort of like?
• my favorite independent stop-motion movies.  I saw Blood Tea and Red String years ago; it was a wonderful if strange experience.
• Those old modem upgrades.  I had a similar experience; starting at perhaps 2400 baud?  9600?  and working up.
• Key, in sight.  (via)
• AI errno(2) values.
• How and why I jailbroke my Kindle.  I am curious about calibre integration. (via)
• An Apple ][+ compatible laptop.  I would really love to have this, despite it being a complete folly.  (via)
• It’s time to talk about my writerdeck.  But then again, maybe a command line is all you need?   (via)
• Planescape: Torment, Part 1: From the Tabletop…
• “Why pay for an orchestra when your computer can do it all?”
• “the moat will keep getting filled“.
• Microcosm Industries, simulation toys.  (via)

• Let’s find out how to get predictable IPv6 addresses assigned to OpenBSD VMs.  Linked in part just for the IPv6 details.
• Fractions in HTML.  Linked to remember it for next time I need to write a fraction, though not here.  WordPress will eat the HTML entities when saving.
• DinoCon 2026 schedule.  I won’t make it, but it sounds fun.
• The vi Family.  (via)
• rsstrogen/CLAUDE.md.  (via)
• Your Dinner Got Worse on Purpose.  (via)
• Actually, just go look at the most recent Things entry.  Too many good links to cherry-pick.
• Obsidian Ecosystem Overhaul Announced.
• OpenSMTPd instead of exim.
• Orion PDA.  I can think of remote locations where this would be useful.
• Three Things about Data.  “Gather less of it” is a surprisingly practical rule.

• Building my own Vi text editor in BASIC.  (via)
• Monitor your devices with LibreNMS on FreeBSD.
• Adventures in Code.  (via)
• Related: Russ Cox on regex.  (via)
• Vibing a wardriving visualizer.  Linked for the wifi mapping.
• The 2FA app that tells you when you get `314159`.  I wish I had thought of this, cause I am entertained by the same coincidences.   (via)
• Very manual bootstrapping.
• Markdown Ate The World.  A useful document history.  (via)
• curl to /dev/sda.  A fun idea, not a good idea.  (also via)
• LibreOffice and the art of overreacting.  Remember: pay, always pay, for what you like using, even if it’s not required.  It makes a huge difference.  (via)
• INIT HELLO: A New Apple II Conference.

• Moppetry.  Muppets plus D&D.  (via)
• Using A VT-100 Today.  That reminds me, I have a VT-320 in the basement that I need to hook up.
• NetHack 5.0.0: Release Notes.  (via)
• And you can run it on your Atari.  (via)
• THEC64 Handheld.  (via)
• Claude saved me hours of link cleanup.  Boil the oceans to replicate:%s/http:/https:/g.  (via)
• Ellanew.com posts tagged “obsidian”.  Linked for me to go through later.
• Incidentally, bubbles.town is turning out great for link discovery.   I also even see my own self linked which is quite heartening.
• How I Discover New Blogs, and Why I Still Like the Internet, both related.  Get a RSS reader if you haven’t already and follow their tips.  (via)
• The one change that worked: I swapped doomscrolling for reading comic books.  (via)
• “these messages “pee in the pool” of internet communication“.  Relevant in a week where I’ve sent (and received, thank you!) multiple ‘hey you don’t know me but I like your blog’ messages with real people.
• “It’s the best articulation I’ve seen yet for a blanket ban on LLM-assisted contributions“.

Your unrelated music link of the week: Angine de Poitrine, Vol II.

• “Plain text has been around for decades and it’s here to stay.”  Pseudo-ASCII design tools.
• Old-School Essentials Online Rules Reference.
• Root Loops, cereal-themed terminal colors.  (via this discussion of tmux config, via)
• “Don’t eat your seed corn”, about homogenization of ideas.
• Who Is That Knocking At My (SSH) Door?  Incidentally a fabulous domain name on that link.
• The implementation of the Carrier Pigeon Internet Protocol, RFC1149, 25 years later.
• A list of list of alternative service providers.  (via)
• Open web vs AI: what can W3C do?  A lot, as it turns out…
• HyperCard on the Macintosh.  A retrospective of a fantastic tool.
• ‘Slimline’ Commodore 64C Ultimate: BASIC Beige.  This is going to be really exciting for anyone with a liking of Commodore hardware.
• The GPS III Rollout Is Almost Complete, But What Is It?  A nice summary of what will be nearly invisible to everyone… if it goes well.

Your unrelated subscription item of the week: The Cacao Barista Snail Mail Club.  I’ve been running a small chocolate manufacturing company for several years now and I’ve tasted a lot of chocolate from many sources.  Map Chocolate is some of the best.

• The Utah teapot in tandem with the recent Unix V4 tape discovery.  (via)
• Roguelike Celebration 2026 Call for Proposals.  Look at previous years to see the topics.
• The Adventure Shell, your shell prompt as text adventure.  (via)
• Apple History in Prototypes.  (via)
• Knight Rider 2025.  (via)
• An Ode to bzip.  Linked for the compression algorithm descriptions.  (via)
• Open Source Has a Bot Problem.  Prompt injection to help classify AI patches.  (via)
• Strawberry Music Player, linked cause I read somewhere it filled the same niche as Winamp.  I tried it – and yep, it scratches that itch very well.
• Crosspoint Reader for the XTEInk X4.
• Related: XTEInk X4 notes, including moving Markdown files to it.
• Also related: A local epub eBook server for my xteink.
• Lovecraft Investigations Season 5 – Official Crowdfund Trailer.  Posted cause I enjoyed all the previous seasons and I’ve been reading the author’s blog for some time.  It’s a story structured as if it was a real podcast which makes it remarkably immersive.
• A few thoughts on the AYN Thor.  Linked cause small hardware is always fun.

• 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)

• Signboard is a kanban app that writes Markdown files.  This makes an astonishing amount of sense as a format.  (via)
• Select a Security Question.  Made me snort.
• Women of the early early era of industrial music.
• “everyday objects made specifically to annoy people“.  (via)
• Things to say when you’re losing a technical argument.  (via)
• “Failover” CPUs to handle faults used to be a thing.
• Video of the celebration of 80th anniversary of ENIAC Day.
• EditionCrafter, open source software for publishing digital editions of historical documents.  (via)
• Origin of the “swap should be 2x RAM” idea.  Some familiar names in there.  (via)
• The ReCode Project, recreating classic computer art with more recent code.  (via)

Your unrelated game of the week: Kolydr.  From the same person who did Canabalt and a lot of other games I hadn’t seen.  (via)

• Updates 2025/Q1.  Linked for the pictures of keyboard stores in Seoul.
• Breaking up with Big Tech – Progress update.  A Uses This of sorts.
• OSHintosh – an open source 68000 Macintosh.  (via)
• XScreenSaver 6.15 is out.
• Which led to Painting with Math: A Gentle Study of Raymarching.
• Notes on clarifying man pages.
• A Quick and Easy Guide to tmux.
• And then Make tmux Pretty and Usable.
• “I like to use Soviet control panels as a starting point.”
• zipcodefirst.com.  (via)
• The Book of PF, 4th Edition: It’s Here, It’s Real.
• Digital Collections.  (via)
• 2.11BSD is 35 years old and getting more updates.
• Every 4-5 months or so, Joshua Stein writes another “install OpenBSD to a new device” article; the newest is the Pomera DM250.

• The Vault of the Atomic Space Age.  (via)
• Mud Map Magazine.  Examination of imagery.    (also via)
• Google Has a Secret Reference Desk.  Linked for the note on Verbatim Mode, but read to the end for the alternatives.  (also also via)
• Macs of Unusual Size.  (via I lost track, sorry)
• Remember, despite new weird rules in the US, BSD-based routers are a good option.  And in software.
• System shock: A story of a 25-year-old font coming back with a vengeance.
• A eulogy for Vim.  “Vim Classic” as a fork.  (via)
• TENEX and TOPS-20 history, a parallel realm to UNIX.  (via)
• I set all 376 Vim options and I’m still a fool.  (via)
• [SIGCIS-Members] Our “Women in Computing” book display.  See the attachment for the actual list.
• Indie Media list, on Garbage Day.
• Frustration detection via regex.  Claude Code source leak.  (via)

Your unrelated video of the week: Big Hairy Dog, from the same person who created badger badger badger.

• Arabesque, discussion of Unix tool usage.
• Troika Dungeon Stocking, for items in a megadungeon.
• Goblin Farmer, in early access.
• CHM Live | Apple at 50: Five Decades of Thinking Different, recorded.
• Here’s a good anecdote from that presentation about why you had to drop the Lisa to make it work.  (via)
• Blogs Are Back, a free RSS reader that runs locally in your browser.  If you aren’t using a RSS reader yet, get started here.  (via)
• OpenBSD Stories.  I’ve linked before, but it’s been updated.  (reminded via)
• Assorted less(1) tips.  (via)
• The reason to type “sync; sync”.
• The Social Smolnet.  Another email-as-underlying-protocol setup.  See Eddie link from last week.

• An Oral History of UNIX.  (via)
• How old are README files?  Probably the 1970s, possibly earlier.  Found in a thread that ends with this.
• The scariest bootloader code.  (via)
• Self-Hosted Software Names You’re Probably Mispronouncing.
• Build your own Obsolescence Guaranteed PiDP-11/70.
• Does it hurt to go to space?
• The E-Typer.
• Lightning on demand is back.  Anything involving SRL is great.
• Modifying the already-modifiable Framework computer keys.
• Artefact, a single player TTRPG that will look great to you if you remember the old Special Artifacts table III.E listing in the original Dungeon Master’s Guide.  (via)
• Composting Mobile Phones.  Linked both for the subject and for the thorough setup.  (via)
• OverTheWire: Wargames.  Security exercises / games via SSH.  (via)

Your unrelated music link of the week: Class of ’86: Unsung Classics From The Year Thrash Broke.

• BSDCan registration is open.  5 tutorial sessions this year!
• Print and fold your own mini-comic.  (via)
• Actually Existing Solarpunk.  (via)
• finally we have created the silver bullet.   Brooks’ Law rules.
• bsd.rd breakdown.  I always like looking at emergency repair tools in non-emergency situations.
• A.I. Isn’t People and Can AI Prompt Us to Ask New Questions?  Two essays on LLMs, not in opposition to each other.
• Diomidis Spinellis’ video talk about integrating the newly rediscovered V4 UNIX into his UNIX history repo.  Note the first commit in that repo is 57 years ago.
• How much it costs to run OpenBenches.  Extrapolate to any other independent website that isn’t a store.  (via)
• No leap second needed this year.
• Physical Phones.  (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.

• The Day the telnet Died.  (via)
• Reports of Telnet’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated.  (via)
• Offpunk 3.0 (via)
• How I Scrobble.
• Ultima IX.  Falling out of where I was familiar with the games.
• Penrose, diagram creation with text.  (via)
• Related: Penrose Tiling, in case you weren’t familiar with it.
• Freakpages, sorta like what I do here.  (via)
• The Squarp Hapax, linked because of the name.  (via, via)
• The Decision Before the Work.
• The consoles of UEFI, serial and otherwise, and their discontents.
• Exploring Docker containers on FreeBSD.
• Windows 11 Update.  (via)