Category: Lazy Reading

I start a new job tomorrow!

• Fixing up TS-440s rigs.  An interesting hobby.
• TODO Group Open Source Guides.  (via)
• What’s So Bad About Posix I/O? (via)
• Xtermcontrol: change colors, title, font and geometry of a running xterm.  (via)
• ANES: emulate a classic Mac on a classic Amiga.  (via)
• Dwarf Fortress bugs.  There’s so much simulated in the game that the bugs sound like broken reality, not programming problems.  (via)
• The Universal Aggregator.  Everything into maildir!  (via)
• Inbox-zero via shell mail.  (via)
• The only safe email is text-only email.  (via)
• Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces.  There’s a lot to read here.  (via)
• books chapter twelve
• 30 interesting shell commands for the Linux shell.  I link this just because I’m amazed that someone built a ‘tac’ program, not because these commands are all equally useful.  (via)

Seventies/Eighties computing, this week.

• books chapter ten
• Eclipses and decibels.
• Twenty-plus years on, SMTP callbacks are still pointless and need to die.
• Destroy All Monsters: A Journey into the Caverns of Dungeons and Dragons.  First comment in the source link is great.
• The Icewind Dale Problem.  Related to previous link.  (via)
• The Enduring Legacy of Zork.  (via)
• Your load is too heavy: Zork deep reading.  (via)
• Noticed in the same place, in an article about VERB and NOUN buttons: People are patching the code for the Apollo 11 guidance computer. People apparently can’t help patching code.
• Interface, a decent non-serif, non-monospaced font.  (via)
• So You Want to Read… A Guide to Sci-Fi and Fantasy Subgenres.  (via I lost it, sorry!)
• The Return of the Cray files (2013-2016)  (via)
• Arithmetic for Beginners.  (via via)
• 1976 word processor error messages.  They sound exactly right.  (via)
• Having Played Every Adventure From the 1970s, Some Thoughts.  (via)
• 6502cloud – Bringing the 80’s to the cloud.  (via)
• Software development 450 words per minute.  (via)
• The Light Phone.  (via)

This is overflow from last week’s overflow.

• Can we please do useful things with software?  (via)
• Morrow Micronix Operating System User’s Manual (1983)   Section 1.1 is called “Confusion Relief” and it gets better from there.  (via)
• Cultural items as clickbait.  Pictures!
• Tilix: A tiling terminal emulator.  Use with a tiling window manager for maximum tile level.  Tile-ception!   (via)
• HyperCard On The Archive.  (via)
• a repo upon the deep
• The world in which IPv6 was a good design.
• Where TCL and TK went wrong.  (via)
• The NOVA filesystem.  (via)
• The 14 Deadly Sins of Graphic-Adventure Design.  (via)
• The quitting economy.  (also via)
• My 100 Favorite Programming, Math, Physics and Science Books: Part Seven.  I have book 33 on this list and really like it.

Your web game of the week: Sword Shop.  Unity, so not sure where it can run other than Windows, unfortunately.  (via)

Overflow!

• Toward A More Useful X Keyboard.  (via)
• My $169 development Chromebook.  (via)
• Class Apples, an album made entirely on the Apple ][ – in 2017.  (via)
• CES, 1987.  “2 new Betamax players hitting the market this summer…”  etc. etc.  (via)
• Programming in the 1960s.  A slide deck of personal experience.  (via)
• books chapter six, books chapter seven, books chapter eight.
• Unix: dealing with signals.
• How are users choosing their passwords on the internet?
• Everything is an HTTPS interface.  (via)
• Better spelling with aspell.  a reminder that a spell checker can always be available.
• Let ‘localhost’ be localhost.  I guess people need to be reminded.  (via)
• Text Editor Performance Comparison.  (via)
• The Return of the Hipster PDA.  (via)

A bumper crop of odd links today!  Reading for a long weekend, or at least it’s a long weekend for most North American readers, I think.

• The joy of reading role-playing games.  I may have spent more time reading rulebooks than playing the actual games.  (via)
• Endless Orchard, a map of (U.S.) public fruit trees.  Dunno if there’s an equivalent for any part of Europe.  (via)
• Summertime, and the lemonade is easy.  Optimized Lemonade Stand strategy.
• Programming Games.  Not programming a game, but games you play that are structured like programming.
• books chapter one.  Ted Unangst summarizes a bunch of coding books – but just the start.
• Dear Lazyweb, tell me about colo and the followup, Colo, again.
• Retro ThinkPad: It’s Alive.  Hoping to buy one to replace my aging X220 at work, if the stats are right.  (via luxh on #dragonflybsd)  Related to this historical post which I have linked before.
• Improvements to the Xerox Alto Mandelbrot drop runtime from 1 hour to 9 minutes.  (via)
• efficient music players remain elusive.
• WiFi232 with a Macintosh 512ke.  Related: the Lobste.rs BBS.
• Nodes of Yesod: ZX Spectrum Next – developer blog episode 1.
• Old usenet maps.  Remember, the originals were done by hand.  (via)
• Canon Cat Resources.  A business application appliance with a built-in Forth interpreter, and built by Jef Raskin of original Macintosh fame.   An odd and powerful machine from another timeline.  (via)

Only half a year until Christmas!

• Base-4 fractions in Telugu.
• Custom Built “Commute Deck”.  (via)
• VMS Software’s OpenVMS Rolling Roadmap.  VMS won’t die.  (via)
• One-Hour Mandelbrot: Creating a Fractal on the Xerox Alto.  (via)
• Git remote branches and Git’s missing terminology.
• Same source – Git’s rejected push error.
• Archive it or you will miss it.  (via)
• The cutest palm-sized Apple II Computer.  (via)
• Rations for various RPG Races.  (via)
• Neural networks can name guinea pigs.
• This is Spinal Map.  (via)
• Burrowing a Gopher Hole.  The state of Gopher in 2017.
• Statistical Analysis of Yorkshire Pudding.  One could create a sort of “ur-pudding” based on this, I suppose – but I bet it would the least interesting variation.

Your unrelated video link of the week: time for sushi.  A followup to going to the store and late for meeting.  (via)

The weather’s nice but the links aren’t stopping!

• The future of education is plain text.  (via)
• Compiling the Original Commodore 64 KERNAL Source.  (via)
• Getting a working toilet in a video game.  (via)
• Harvey OS, a descendent of Plan9.  (via)
• Pointer Overflow Checking is in LLVM.
• Shanzhai Archeology.  I like the multi-SIM phones.  (via)
• 200-odd developer tools.
• How is GNU `yes` so fast?
• The smell of bad software.
• ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ book structures.  (via)
• What the jot command can do for you.
• How gaming got its dice.  (via)
• Apple IIe Design Guidelines [pdf].  The human interface section is still relevant.  (via)

Your unrelated comics link of the week: Mister Hayden Comics.

All these links came together at once, after I cleaned up a lot of browser tabs.

• The Making of Freeciv WebGL 3D.  (via)
• For those times when downloading over the Internet is too slow.
• Your choice of Telnet/SSH terminal client, and why?  A perennial question.
• A brief history of IPv4 address space exhaustion.  (via)
• Little Things I Like to Do with Git.  (via)
• AmigaOS 4: Google Cloud Print driver released.  (via)
• Tracking down a segfault in grep.  The sequel: Digging deeper.  (via)
• How Your Data Is Stored.  Eventual consistency, explained.  (via)
• Urban Exploration Resources.  You’ll want to search or just dig.
• Rise of the Dungeon Master: Gary Gygax and the Creation of D&D.  (via)

Reader suggestions always make me happy.

• Is stockpiling AMD Bulldozer-based hardware from 2012 a good idea for those that care about privacy and security, since those CPUs don’t have PSP/Intel ME?
• ECC Memory & AMD’s Ryzen – A Deep Dive.  (thanks kerma on #dragonflybsd for this and the previous link)
• Scrum makes you dumb.  I don’t know if he’s setting up the right enemy, but it’s a good analysis of organizational silos.  (via)
• Memoir of a Homebrew Computer Club Member.  Seriously homebrew, from that story.  (via)
• New D&D magic spells, designed by neural network.  (via)
• Related: same but for heavy metal band names.
• Sexy Emacs.  Sexy Vim.  (via)
• The Vim Learning Curve is a Myth.  (via)
• U.S. frequency allocations, with detail.  (PDFs, via)
• Zomg lots more anagram stuff.  Lots.
• The early Windows phone devices were liquid-cooled, sort of.
• Zip Files All The Way Down.  Oh, so that’s what a quine is?  (via)