Lazy Reading – Page 14 – DragonFly BSD Digest

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.