DragonFly BSD Digest

Being home sick in the middle of the week gave me a head start on all these links.

• Tea – Instead of Coffee.  Some cheap purchasing links in the comments.
• The Obfuscated Fibonacci; Or, a Curious Connection in Computation.  (via)
• BASIC Computer Games, 1978.  I loved this book, and especially the illustrations.  (via)
• A comment link from the previous story led me to DiscoRunner.com, a “multi-dialect BASIC interpreter”.
• Brands are not your friends.
• The Classic Super Star Trek Game. (via)
• Modern C, a PDF.  (via)
• Learning to love the command line.  (via)
• Networks of New York: An Internet Infrastructure Field Guide.  (via)
• Stop Playing Monopoly With Your Kids.
• The last twenty years building the web no-one asked for in two wireframes.  (via)
• The Realities of Installing iBeacon to Scale.  (via)
• osh, the V6 UNIX sh.  (via)
• Fractal Flowchart.  (via)
• Pterosaur, Vim within Firefox text fields.  Not new, but I like the screencast example.
• Has modern Linux lost its way?  Another variation on the “Linux is a mess compared to any BSD” argument – not that I’m discounting it.  (via)
• Cosma.org’s computer preservation page.  (via)

I’m… not sure what happened this week.  I read the same amount of material, went through my RSS feeds, and this is the only stuff that looked linkable.  Sorry!

• This Industry Is Still Completely Ridiculous.  (via)
• Odd Comments and Strange Doings in Unix.  (via)
• .bashrc generator.  (via)
• The next Internet is TV.  (via)
• Robot Supercut.  Kinda clickbaity, but I like the footage.  (via)
• GnuPG needed funding, got funding.  (via)

Happy Groundhog Day!

• Early Copy Protection on the Apple ][.  (via)
• If it Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It.  I’ve linked to other stories on these computers before.  (via)
• Never Trust a Corporation to do a Library’s job.
• A homebuilt MOS 6502 based microcomputer system.  For those of you who thought the Hemingwrite link was interesting last week.  Plus, is the 6502 the best chip ever for homebuilding?  It sure crops up a lot.  (via)
• The Untold Story Of The Invention Of The Game Cartridge.  (via)
• “Pretty much everything AOL touches dies.”  I link to it because I once worked for Time Warner.
• “Networking for Systems Administrators” is now available on Kindle.
• Long Live Grim Fandango.  (via)
• The Queen of Code.  (via)
• The Media Archaeology Lab.  (via)
• Duckspeak Vs Smalltalk.  I agree that there’s less tools available these days.  (via)
• Do you like capacitors?
• tectur.io. Startup “inspiration”.  (via)

Your unrelated video link of the week: The showreel of Nick Denboer, AKA Smearballs.  (also via)