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2020/12/202020/12/17

Lazy Reading for 2020/12/20

This week’s links are all fun, but you had better have some time to read.

The Nethack story of Sery the tourist and Sery on the 7th floor.
Concentrichron. (via)
MAX HEADROOM 10\u0027 4\” Two levels of ironic there.
The Making of Donkey Kong on the Atari 2600. (via)
XScreenSaver 5.45 is out. New hacks, frustrating stories.
The Be Book…in lovely HTML. (via)
Web Conversations With the Year 2000. (via)
Music Video Roundup. From arguably the golden age of music videos.
Rick Priestley Uses This.
What’s the Value of Hackable Hardware, Anyway? Begs the question, but the details of building a 6-key Braille keyboard are neat.
Precursor’s Mechanical Design. “Single-crystal diamond milling”.
Winners of the 2020 IFComp. (via)

Your unrelated music of the week: Shimmer, Then Disappear.

2020/12/132020/12/10

Lazy Reading for 2020/12/13

I lean more to the fun topics this week.

Command Line Interface Guidelines. (via)
Ethics in Strategy Gaming, Part 2: Colonization.
Bombadillo, a non-web browser. Gemini, Gopher, finger. (via)
The Bastard Operator From Hell Complete WWW Archive . Well, not complete. (via)
How Tough is a First Level Fighter?
Low spec Computers. (via)
The Control Room: A Media Archaeology. (via)
Mousephone. Phone Mouse.
The manuscripts of Edsger W. Dijkstra. (via)
Ghoulstorm part 1 and part 2.
A Gopher client on the Nintendo Switch. (via)
The death and life of postmaster@anywhere.

2020/12/062020/12/04

Lazy Reading for 2020/12/06

This is one of my more backwards-looking Lazy Reading posts.

Digital Tools I Wish Existed. (via)
Floppy Emu Update: Apple II Copy-Protection. (via)
AppleCrate II: A New Apple II-Based Parallel Computer (2008). I linked to this back in 2011, but this is a new, updated version. (via)
Hexographer, for making hexmaps quickly. (via)
The return of Bobby Tables, LLC.
I Love ED on CP/M. (via)
The Book of Trees: Visualizing Branches of Knowledge. More good books there.
Athanor: The Alchemical Furnace, a documentary about Jan Svankmajer. (via)
ALGOL 60 is 60.
The Colors of Noise.
Technically, nobody really agreed what time it was until a few decades ago. (Read the rest of the thread while you are there; there’s a lot of interesting history.)

Your unrelated music of the week: High Command, recommended by the thrashiest band of recent times: Power Trip.

2020/11/292020/11/29

Lazy Reading for 2020/11/29

I don’t have to work today for the first time since I am not sure when. For that, you get links links links.

My Raspberry Pi Desktop. (via)
Text-only websites. There’s a lot of links to follow there. (via)
The secrets of Monkey Island’s source code. (via)
Connection Interrupted, image data corruption in motion. (via)
The Benefits of Collecting.
How Mozart became a bad composer. There is so much in the public domain that I don’t realize. (via)
Your computer isn’t yours. Apple tracks what you run, when. (via)
Mini Arcade. (via)
Retro games – How I fixed the Atari 2600 awful music. (via)
Evaluating Precursor’s Hardware Security.
Booting from a vinyl record. (via)
Beepbox.co. (via)
epr — Terminal/CLI Epub reader. A few seconds of search doesn’t show a BSD port, though. No, wait, I was wrong. (via)
Permissive IPs. That’s Intellectual Property, and mentions a bunch of tabletop industry things I wasn’t familiar with.
A few ways to make money in FOSS.
Improving on QBasic’s Random Number Generator.
Pen plotter SVG Snowflake generator.
Fun with Crypto Ancienne: TLS for the Browsers of the Internet of Old Things.
A review of Envision glasses, a proper use of Google Glass technology. (via)

2020/11/222020/11/20

Lazy Reading for 2020/11/22

Literally most of the tabs I have open right now, in front of you.

The Definitive Guide to the Doctor Who Theme Music. (via, via)
Sinister Sounds of the Solar System. (also via)
Well There’s Your Problem Podcast. Actually stills and audio about engineering disasters. (via)
Woodpecker dubstep.
Softbody Tetris, Fuzzy Edition.
A Visual History of Internet (IPv4) Address Allocations. (via)
The JavaScript Ecosystem.
Features of a Modern Terminal Emulator. (video, via)
Why I Teach vim. (via)
Vimcal. Not totally sure why Vim is in the name but what the heck. (via)
My Obsession with Chess. Incidentally, McCloud’s Understanding Comics has an excellent explanation of closure that goes far beyond comics. (via)
Pinafore, for Mastodon instances.
What is a System-on-Chip (SoC), and Why Do We Care if They are Open Source?
The Backbone: Conclusion. Story of the Internet.

2020/11/152020/11/12

Lazy Reading for 2020/11/15

Surely some of these are repeats?

CSVs: The good, the bad, and the ugly. (via)
This seems like a good form factor.
present: ‘a terminal-based presentation tool with colors and effects’. (via)
A book about books bound in human skin. (via)
Rare Alphonse Mucha illustrations. I saw some of his work close up recently.
20 double-edged potions for the ingenious adventurer.
Miscellany ? 89: 2020, year of the asterisk.
The Video Game Source Project. (via)
Exploding Whale, remastered in 4K. (via)
computecuter.com. Exactly what it sounds like.
Return to Plan 9. (via)
Computer Unit 1979. (via)
Text Editors III: Emacs.
Thinking out loud about Vim. Equal time.
Efficient text editing on a PDP-10. I link, others get into it: I’m so happy!

2020/11/092020/11/05

Lazy Reading for 2020/11/08

There’s some good reading/projects linked in here, so if you have free time, this can keep you busy.

Psion Series 3 palmtop EReader. That’s 25 year old hardware?
BBC’s In Our Time podcast on Alan Turing. (via)
808303.studio. Surely I’ve linked this already? (via)
The Museum of Obsolete Media. (thanks, swildner)
The 100 best fantasy books of all time. I thought it was another corny listicle, but on the other hand I’ve loved every book I’ve read on that list, and there’s a lot more I didn’t know about. (via)
15 Sci-Fi Books That Forever Shaped The Genre. Ditto. (also via)
The Web Key Directory, based on this. I need to use it. My source link for this works as a sort of how-to.
Unraveling the JPEG. (via)
New Nixie tube manufacturing.
dimensions.com – reference drawings for everything. (via)
Configuring Windows for key-based SSH access. For reference.
A curated non-violent games list.

Your unrelated music of the week: KUTMAH: Isolation Tapes v.006. There’s a lot more good music from this person.

2020/11/012020/10/30

Lazy Reading for 2020/11/01

Change your clocks, depending on what time zone you are in.

Looking Back on 35 Years as an Amiga User.
I did not realize org mode has its own website. (via)
a truly naked, brutalist html quine. (via)
Bookmark alignment chart. (scroll to end)
What Was BeOS, and Why Did People Love It? (via)
List of Generative Art and Live Coding Tools. (via)
Results from 20 years of experiments summarized. Food experiments, done by a scientist. (via)
Writing a Book with Unix. (via)
Sorting out what the Single Unix Specification is and covers.
Telemelt, group console playing simulator. (via)
I Solved British Square.
Internet Ascendant, Part 2: Going Private and Going Public.
Stereoscopic computing: converting Quake and Doom.

2020/10/252020/10/21

Lazy Reading for 2020/10/25

Two shopping months until Christmas!

I’ll take “problems we solved correctly in the 80s” for $100, Alex.
Come Internet With Me: Zettelkasten method.
Building a computer in Conway’s game of life. (via)
MONOSPACE, less than 1kb of code. (via)
archive.assembly.org, so many short films, related to the last link.
The HTML5 accelerator card.
Basic Unix Tools – dd.
Why I Chose Emacs as My New Text Editor. (via)
Replacing FreshRSS With Miniflux. (via)
SSH 2FA with Google Authenticator and Yubikey. (via)
2.1 Million of the Oldest Internet Posts Are Now Online for Anyone to Read. i.e. USENET. (via)
introducing the i.webthings directory. Find some spare time before following that link; there’s a lot there.

2020/10/182020/10/16

Lazy Reading for 2020/10/18

Some esoteric gems this week.

Derek Muller’s video on Penrose Tilings. One of those useful patterns to name, like Markov chains.
B3 Biennale – Panel on computer game history of the Eastern Bloc.
Something to think about: the longest-running computer ever built is also the farthest away.
FTP Fadeout.
SAILDART, an e-book. Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab Dump and Restore Tape Program, which gives you an idea of the history it covers. (via)
Developing Multitile Creatures in Roguelikes. That… is a problem that sorta upends some basic assumptions.
“More Lively Counterfaits” Experimental Imaging at the Birth of Modern Science.
Psion Series 3 palmtop EReader.
Oxide Computer Company. Building their own computer, plus their blog has neat logo entries and podcast talks. (via)
System 6 programming, by joshua stein. I just like seeing a fat mac in use.
Super Merryo Trolls or An Adventure From The Days Before VRAM. (via)

2020/10/112020/10/08

Lazy Reading for 2020/10/11

I guess history is a micro-theme?

Think Twice Dice. (via)
Happy Birthday, Ethernet. Still interoperable, 40 years later. (via)
How we ran a Unix-like OS (Xv6), on our home-built CPU with our home-built C compiler. Sorta UNIX. (via)
“Myst” demake for Apple II. (via)
Ars Electronic 2017. Follow the art links.
Spamtoberfest.
Related, Hacktoberfest needs to stop.
IFComp 2020 games are up.
Transport Tycoon.
New Object Storage Protocol Could Mean the End for POSIX. (thanks, Matthew C)
Retry Mock Toys, Or, model rockets are fun.
The Digital Future of Tabletop Games. (via)
Dispatch 09 — Synthetic Reality & The Metaverse. (also via)
A Nixie Tube Watch. Exactly as clunky as it sounds.
Welcome to your Bland. (via)

2020/10/042020/10/01

Lazy Reading for 2020/10/04

Hardware is the mini-theme this week, I think.

Open source job with a cool title: Director Of Product, Disinformation at Wikimedia.
Boring title but huge impact: Software engineer for BIND 9.
Elite – the annotated source. Quite readable, even if you don’t know assembly. (via)
Glitch techniques. (via)
Hacking a gopher client into the Alpha Micro. I don’t even recognize the computer! (via)
Built To Last. A story about COBOL. (via)
ScummVm now runs Colossal Cave Adventure. (via)
Open@RIT. There’s a name you should recognize on the advisory board.
David Fletcher’s photogrammetry models of London. (via)
Playing chess by email. Used to happen by snail mail!
Guided Tour of the Precursor Motherboard. Followup from last week. It has a self-destruct mode – seriously!
How to multiply currents: Inside a counterfeit analog multiplier. Linked for the cool analog computer picture.
Roguelike Celebration T-shirts.
Admiral Grace Hopper also drew. (via)

2020/09/272020/09/24

Lazy Reading for 2020/09/27