roguelike – Page 3 – DragonFly BSD Digest

Unrelated link of the week: I Love Butter Tarts. If you’ve never encountered a butter tart, you should. Found via the Midland Butter Tart Festival, which I am disappointed to have missed.

2017/04/162017/04/15

Lazy Reading for 2017/04/16

A little heavy on the history this week. And no tea!

Commodore 64: For the Love of a Machine. (via)
Fun at the UNIX Terminal Part 1.
Exploring 3-Move – A LambdaMOO inspired environment. More places named in the source link comments.
A 1986 bulletin board system has brought the old Web back to life in 2017. (via)
A link at the same place brought me to the Telnet BBS Guide.
Hottest Editors.
Upgrading a Vectrex to 32 Bits. (via)
Taming Undefined Behavior in LLVM.
The secrets of password aging on Unix systems.
on the title of “git commit murder”
Dungeonfs: A FUSE filesystem and dungeon crawling adventure game engine

Your unrelated food link of the week: Eating In Translation. This person seeks out new places, eats there, and makes notes, and has been doing it for more than a decade. The result is the most in-depth informal food guide I’ve ever seen. It’s NYC focused, but not exclusively.

2017/04/092017/04/07

Lazy Reading for 2017/04/09

A slightly UK-ish tilt this week, by accident of course.

2017/03/262017/03/24

Lazy Reading for 2017/03/26

Old-school UNIX and games this week.

Managing an open source project. (via)
There was a Coke machine connected to the ARPANET in the 70’s. The local version of this has a Beastie on the front. (via)
Swan – GNU/Cygwin Xfce Desktop. At first glance, “XFCE for Windows” is a much more clear title. Plus the inevitable bash shell, which seems to be a good enough simulation of Unix for most people. (via)
Making Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup with 253 cooks and no head chef.
OCR typography, a more extensive subject than I expected.
Sunsetting SixXS. Time for service providers to put up.
No, I Don’t Want to Subscribe to Your Newsletter. I hate modal popups. (via)
Xfce bug: “default desktop screen causes damage to monitor” Cat problem, and not the one in /bin. (via)
Chasing the First Arcade Easter Egg. (via)
A Second Life for very old C programs. (via)

2017/03/192017/03/17

Lazy Reading for 2017/03/19

Technical details week for Lazy Reading.

Dwarf Fortress creator Tarn Adams talks about simulating the most complex magic system ever. (via)
mdp – A command-line based markdown presentation tool.
"ffscreencast is a shell wrapper for ffmpeg that allows fool-proof screen recording via the command line.” (via)
802.eleventy what? A deep dive into why Wi-Fi kind of sucks.
What it feels like to be an open-source maintainer. (via)
CIA’s vim user tips published by WikiLeaks. (via)
How Unexplored generates great roguelike dungeons.
Today in OBEY.
Windowmaker 0.95.8 released. I still like it after all this time. (via)
A game where Character Creation is the Whole Game.
Build your first PC in PC Building Simulator’s demo. Bizarre, but somehow makes sense.
Names that Make Computers Go Crazy. (via)
Discussion of analog timing sources on NANOG. Interesting precisely because it’s not Internet-visible, not directly.

Your unrelated tea link of the week: Haha, one of the world’s best tea houses is in my town. It’s Leaf Tea Bar, and Niraj is one of the nicest guys. His prices are reasonable for the quality of the tea, too.

Your related bug link of the week: Teeth of the DragonFly. (via)

2017/02/122017/02/10

Lazy Reading for 2017/02/12

It’s all twofer links this week.

The many faces of DOOM’s afterlife. A good example of what open source can do for the lifetime of a software project. (via)
The forgotten joys of turtling in strategy games. (also via)
Perl6 One Liners. (via)
How Unix erases things when you type a backspace while entering text. (via)
Whatever happened to Winamp? Arguably one of the better programs ever put together. (via)
Shut Up & Sit Down, tabletop board/card gaming reviews. There’s far more out there than I ever realized. (via I’m not sure at this point, sorry.)
A pragmatic decision on GNU Emacs versus Vim for programming. (via)
The TTY demystified. (via)
THE GRAY-1, A HOMEBREW CPU EXCLUSIVELY COMPOSED OF MEMORY (also via)
The BD Software C Compiler (BDS C). From 1979. (via)
Minesweeper: Advanced Tactics. (also via)
How piracy can accidentally encourage IPv6 adoption.
Dwarf Fortress and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Interface.
Free Online Courses at openculture. Get past the page ads, and there’s got to be something in that very long list that interests you. (lost source, sorry)
Cards Against Silicon Valley. The description of the game is more fun than the game, but then again maybe so is what it’s parodying. (via)
Vim’s 25th anniversary and the release of Vim 8. (via)

Your unrelated entertainment activities of the day: Places to Telnet. (indirectly via)

2017/02/052017/02/03

Lazy Reading for 2017/02/05

You weren’t planning to do anything else today, right? Find some headphones.

The future of iOS is 64-bit only: Apple to stop support of 32-bit apps. Following a trend. (via)
Four Column ASCII. (via)
From the previous link source’s comments: “The Evolution of Character Codes, 1874-1968“, a PDF from this repo.
A Quick Look at the SoftIron OverDrive 1000. Multiprocessor ARM is starting to show up in non-Pi shapes.
How computer terms came from physical parts of the Mark I. Neat pictures, too! I know I’ve seen the moth one before. (via)
How Linux got to be Linux: Test driving 1993-2003 distros. Someone do this with BSD flavors. (via)
Everything You Never Wanted To Know About Molecular Tschunk Spheres. Sounds mathematical, but actually related to Chaos Communication Congress and food. Read the ‘small scale hack’ at the end. (also via)
Printer Security. (via)
Electrocuted CERN weasel joins McFlurry hedgehog at dead animal exhibit. (via)
From free software to liberal software.
Classic NES Series Anti-Emulation Measures. (via)
CoVim – Collaborative Editing for Vim. (via)
The Enviable Pedigree of UNIX® and POSIX®. (via)
Dial-A-Grue
Level Up Your Game: The Untapped Potential of Roguelikes. (thanks, Brandon Gooch)

Your unrelated link of the week: Bandcamp Daily. Curated daily presentations about a band or type of music, where the enthusiasm for any given esoteric sonic whatsit oozes through the writing and samples are there to back it up. Of course I would like it. Recent highlights from just the past few days: a history of doom metal; Kid Koala’s new album, and whatever this is.

2017/01/152017/01/13

Lazy Reading for 2017/01/15

“Old consumer computers” is this week’s accidental theme.

Viva Amiga, the trailer. (via)
NANOG 69 is happening in early February.
A New Year, a New Round of pop3 Gropers from China
Every time we lift a pallet from the shipping room, the server times out. The Hacker News thread has some good stories, too. (via)
Hidden Voice Commands, where the computer understands but the humans do not. (via)
Using Unix commands to profile your users
When the little hand is on the two, and the big hand…
Read “The Tao of tmux” prerelease for free online (via)
RIPEStat, nicely summarized information about a given network. (via)
LISA16 slides and video (that’s the Large Scale System Administration conference) are available. (via)
Donsol, technically a roguelike. (via)
Portal for Apple ][. (via)

Your unrelated video of the week: Turbo Encabulator. There’s more like that out there, like the Rockwell Retro Encabulator.

2016/11/202016/11/19

Lazy Reading for 2016/11/20

It took me three edits of this post to spell “Salvador” correctly.

Dick Tracy Wrist-Mounted Lisp Machine. It segues into a link to Atari 2600 keyboard controllers, which look painful.
Cataclysm DDA, a new dark future roguelike.
After 20 years, the Toasters have returned. (via)
A short history of shareware.
“Guys it’s 2016, why are we still using mailing lists (listserv)?” No, forums are not a good replacement.
A Magnetized Needle and a Steady Hand. (via)
Manifesto for Responsible Software Development. (via)
Related: Facebook: Still Literally The Worst. Related to that: irony.
How We Knew It Was Time to Leave the Cloud. (via)
29 Bullets, about PowerPoint as a concept.
Lost Car Key Puzzle. (via)
The speed of light is unlikely to improve: consequences.
i enter the web design class

Your unrelated food link of the week: Salvador Dali wrote a cookbook. (It’s getting reprinted.)

2016/10/022016/09/30

Lazy Reading for 2016/10/02

Every third link is about old technology, and I swear it’s not on purpose.

The creators of rogue talk about permadeath. (via)
IRCv3. (via)
Cyberdeck64. (via)
The oldest U.S. government computers. (via)
The Silmarillion Seminar. (via)
The MIT License, Line by Line. (via)
Network mapping.
Unix tips: Saving time by repeating history.
How to Capture Network Traffic using Tcpdump.
Wander (1974) — a lost mainframe game is found! (via)
The Ice Cream eBook. A comprehensive resource, free.
Advanced Compilers Weeks 3-5.
Debugging PostgreSQL performance the hard way. (via)
How Hollywood Gets Its Old-School Tech. (via)
Wot I think: Hackmud.
What’s up with Windows developer tools being written in perl? “Perl is a socially-acceptable form of Visual Basic.”
Searching for “finally got my Emacs setup just how I like it” yields excellent results.

Your unrelated comics link of the week: DHARBIN. I briefly met the artist at TCAF a few years ago; he looks exactly like how he draws himself. Here’s an affecting strip about pets and loss.

2016/09/182016/09/16

Lazy Reading for 2016/09/18

Partially assembled while I was in some multi-hour conference calls at work.

This Why Computers.
Why the Apple II ProDOS 2.4 Release is the OS News of the Year. An elegant weapon for a more civilized age. (via)
html email comments.
Schrödinger? I hardly know her!
The algorithms, they are not subtle.
Dealing with Unix arguments.
“Im a vi guy but consider changing to vim if it cleans the house“
Restoring YC’s Xerox Alto: how our boot disk was trashed with random data. (via)
Recommendations for Vim. (via)
Vim 8.0 released! (Changelog, via)
A tale of an impossible bug: big.LITTLE and caching. Asymmetrical core capabilities, yeesh. (via)
Weirdly broken wifi access points.
Dungeon Generator. (via)
How roguelike is your game? (via)

2016/09/162016/09/16

Roguelike Celebration tomorrow

Roguelike Celebration, happening tomorrow (the 17th) in San Francisco. Normally this would be in Lazy Reading, but that’s too late. (via)

2016/07/102016/07/09

Lazy Reading for 2016/07/10

Assembled hastily on Saturday, which is later than I’ve been in a long time.

Don’t tug on that, you never know what it might be attached to.
“Beautiful artwork plays the UNIX timestamp on cymbals“. A 32-bit art installation, judging from the year 2038 time limit.
Every parallel ATA connection ever in one device, or close to it.
The Forgotten Early History of Fanfiction. (via)
The Secret Nuclear History of Cat Videos. Where diffserv levels came from, in a very thorough explanation. (also via)
DevOps vs. SRE. (via)
“NetBox is an IP address management (IPAM) and data center infrastructure management (DCIM) tool.” I really could have used this about 8 years ago. (also via)
Mathematical term or Hollywood movie?
Xerox Alto Restoration Part 3: drive ok and First boot attempt. (via)
Sil, a roguelike that is as Tolkienish as possible. (via)
Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Useful. (via)
What to Consider When the Platforms Show Up with Money. This is why I still run the Digest as my own site, rather than through Facebook/Twitter/Medium/whatever. (via)

Unrelated link of the week: Heavy metal riff generator. (via) Related to unrelated: Heavy Metal and Natural Language Processing – Part 1. (via)

2016/05/152016/05/13

Lazy Reading for 2016/05/15

I have some links I meant to post weeks ago, so lots of variety this week.

Termux. Turn your phone effectively into a VT100.
The Independent Discovery of TCP/IP, By Ants. (via)
The void left by the parallel port. Well, I don’t miss it. (via)
The invisible language of trains boats and planes. (via)
Teaching C. Lots of good links to follow there.
SDF Plan 9 boot camp. Here’s your chance to try Plan 9. Or maybe not yet. (via)
Oh dear, we’ve all been made redundant…
Remote serial consoles.
Will the NSA Finally Build Its Superconducting Spy Computer? Mostly about cryogenic computing. (via)
Remotely Interested, a podcast. Interesting guests.
Shiva Ayyadurai Wants My Emails (via)
It sounds like NTPsec is to NTP like LibreSSL is to OpenSSL.
How browsers render emoji. (via)
Curio. The “modern demoscene”. (via)
this week in astounding defaults.
Submarine Cable Map. (via)

Your unrelated link of the week: The GLOG. The Goblin Laws of Gaming, a homebrew RPG. I love just reading the rules on these sorts of things.

2016/04/242016/04/22

Lazy Reading for 2016/04/24

This week filled up fast, despite me having an exam to take in the middle of it.

Site Reliability Engineering, the book and the notes on the book. (via)
Related: O’Reilly has a significant discount right now on the ebook version.
How to recover lost files added to Git but not committed.
How to make a minimalist stereo with an old phone and a $20 amp. This works with an old BSD machine too.
Fun, distracting websites for down-time.
THE 64 – Computer and Handheld Console. In a keyboard, and in a handheld.
Classic Programmer Paintings. (via)
What Dwarf Fortress Taught Me About Startups. (via)
A Crypt-Crawling Tactical Roguelike: Ananias. Plays in browser.
There is no cloud. I need one of those. (via)
A Notable Omission. Related to the previous link. Also, there’s going to be some panicked selling over the next few weeks, I bet. (via)
Curing Our Slack Addiction. An old business rule: Increase communication, people ask questions instead of making decisions. Increase available data, people make decisions instead of asking questions. (via)
TEXT-MODE, ASCII/ANSI images. (via)
Why is there a screen that says “It is now safe to turn off your computer”?
The story behind NetHack’s first update since 2003. (via)
ZALGO RLY.
Next generation UNIX shell. Never improve, just reinvent! See also: CADT.(via)
Fred Brooks’ The Mythical Man Month, free to read. One of the better books ever written about software development or even just knowledge projects. (via)

Your unrelated link of the week: HOW TO OPERATE YOUR FROG. (via)

2016/04/032016/04/04

Lazy Reading for 2016/04/03

This I all built up over the past two weeks, so plenty to read here.

How To Write Unmaintainable Code. (via)
An implementation of Sublime’s PlainTasks plugin for Vim.
Dotfile Management and Documentation with Org-Mode. Equal time provision. (via)
@Play 85: A Talk with Digital Eel, Makers of the Infinite Space Games.
Digital Nature, a summary of world-building software starting with Bryce.
How to Write a Roguelike in 15 Steps. Not linkbait – a real, in-depth procedure. (via)
Generating and Populating Caves. I like the map images. (via)
The Imitation Game, about Alan Turing (sample). Here’s historical audio to go with it.
Redox – A Unix-Like Operating System Written in Rust. UNIX gets reinvented on a regular basis. Also related. (via)
Maintain Separate GitHub accounts. I’ve seen people bit by this just with email. (via)
Technical jargon failure modes.
Did you ever play Myst?
Instagram hates the Internet. Noted in article: people leaving Twitter for Instagram. I see that trend.