Category: tea

• Have You Played… SimCity 2000?  Not really about the game, but the music involuntarily associated with it.  Elektra:Assassin and MARRS is the same for me.
• Prosthetic synthesizer.  (via)
• Cable standards history.  More interesting than I make it sound!
• Kermit, a history.  Not just a summary; the source documents.  (via)
• Old CSS, new CSS.  (via)
• Evoboxx, uneasy retro synth.  Game of Life as dedicated hardware.
• A love letter to the fantasy airship.  (via)
• What is a traditional roguelike?  (also via)
• byNWR, streaming restored fringe films, plus a talk about it.  (also via)
• Stickers for the RSS massive.
• Rooibos.  Technically not tea.
• Archivists are uploading hundreds of random VHS tapes to the internet.  And that's awesome.  (via)
• Gopher: When Adversarial Interoperability Burrowed Under the Gatekeepers' Fortresses.  (via)
• Zip Files: History, Explanation and Implementation.  (via)
• The 'sextortion' Scams: The Numbers Show That What We Have Is A Failure Of Education.  I like the deep dive.

• Cabinet Magazine is blogging and it's wonderful in a way I haven't seen in a long time.
• First, do no harm... with this software.  The Hippocratic License.  (via)
• BBC BASIC on Twitter.  (via)
• Conceptronica.  (via)
• Software Rights, the book.  (via)
• Solid State: Minnesota's High-Tech History.  Public material, so freely streamed.  (via)
• Berlin Tea Festival 2019, later this month.  I'd go if I was near.  (via)
• Pay attention to the difference between round() and floor().  (via)
• (mini-section about owning your information for the next several links)
• Historic Digital Places.
• Everything is Amazing, But Nothing is Ours.  (via)
• Computer files are going extinct.  (via previous)
• Yahoo Groups going away.  Well, technically still there, but not really.
• Own your content on social media using the Indieweb.  (via)
• The IndieWeb Movement: Owning Your Data and Being the Change You Want to See in the Web.  (via)
• (mini-section over)
• The Open Book Project.  Open hardware e-reader - not yet complete, so for hacking, not using.  (via)
• uGlass: an AR module on your glasses.  Low-cost, works on existing glasses - I like the idea.
• Cutest oscilloscope I've ever seen.
• Building the Ultimate Roguelike Morgue File, part 1, part 2, part 3, and part 4.
• The Hissing of Vintage Tapes.  Not mentioned but related: Cr02 tapes, or comfort noise, which I did not know exists in an RFC.  It's funny to think of having a standard way to present what is normally a defect.
• An old-school shell hack on a line printer.  (via)
• This Time, There Really Are NO IPv4 Internet Addresses Left.  (via)  My main workplace is sitting on a public /24, which shows how long ago it was obtained.
• Cluster SSH - Manage Multiple Linux Servers Simultaneously.  Those who do not remember expect are doomed to recreate it.  (via)
• Rotary Dial Phone Revival – 4 – Final.  (via)
• Text Editing Hates You Too.  (via)
• The $15 Sous-Vide Cooker.  Save $50, burn the house down, is what this says to me.
• How "special register groups" invaded computer dictionaries for decades.
• One Page Dungeon Generator.  Fun just to reload and read and reload and read, like a super-short story generator.  (via)

Sorta unofficial retro game theme this week.

• Ascending NetHack by breaking the RNG. (via)
• "This is an archive of the source code for various versions of the QED editor." A Git archive with commit dates that predate the creation of Git, cause QED dates to pre-UNIX. (also via)
• aphelia: A light, single-file, minimalist window manager for X11. (via)
• SyncTERM connecting to lobste.rs. (via)
• chezmoi: manage your dotfiles securely across multiple machines. Not necessarily advocating this over plain version control systems. (via)
• Monotonic clocks are not monotonic. Many people get to make this discovery, in many places. (via)
• A NES Emulator written in Emacs. (via)
• A computer built into a mouse. (via)
• Journalbook, a private, completely-offline notes browser app.
• Insects as food, a comprehensive PDF. (via)
• Xenix tales: 8086 and Xenix 386 networking. (via)
• Dwarf Fortress diary: The Basement Of Curiosity episode one - crushed legs and eagle guts.
• Dwarf Fortress diary: The Basement Of Curiosity episode two - flailing in a pool of dwarf pus.
• Getting an IBM AS/400 Midrange computer on the internet. (via)
• A Bit about Alphabit. A Commodore64 demo.
• When a cabinet and an automaton love each other very much…
• halting problem :: History of GNOME / Episode 2.0: Retrospective.
• kitty - the fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator. Blurs the line between terminal and windowing environment.
• Going old school: how I replaced Facebook with email. (via)
• Random Role Playing Game Inspiration. (via)
• SCRIPT-8, the Javascript-based retro computer. (via)
• 30th anniversary of the Macintosh SE/30. I would not argue with Best Mac Ever assessment. (via)
• 2018 Hard Drive Reliability Stats by Manufacturer and Model. The Backblaze report. (via)
• How You've Been Making Tea Wrong Your Entire Life - BBC. Some of this seems obvious? (video, via)

Your unrelated audio link of the week: Centuries of Sound. The major sounds of a given year, starting in 1859. Yes, 1859. It's like time travel for your ears, with liner notes. (via)