DragonFly BSD Digest

I hope you like your links eclectic!

• A Tale of Postmortems.  As a work strategy, this strategy can restore trust that would otherwise be lost when people outside IT/Engineering experience problems.  (via)
• Unix: Viewing your processes through the eyes of /proc.
• “Writing Aliens”, or, “Duchamp, Markov, Queneau: A Mostly Delightful Quilt”  Data patterns as seen by a science fiction author, and how it comes out in history and twitter.  Really, a good presentation just for the range it covers.  More bits on the author’s blog.  (via)
• A brief history of USB, what it replaced, and what has failed to replace it.  I was just thinking the other day about how much I hated PS/2 connectors, especially because I encountered a KVM switch in a rack that didn’t do USB.  (via)
• How Flash changes the design of database storage engines.  It’s funny that when people say “Flash” nowadays, they mean the disk product, not the software.
• Tweetable Mathematical Art.  (via)
• RGB LEDs that change color if a Server has a problem/is not responding.  (via)
• Not Rocket Science.  An astonishingly good idea.  (also via)
• Years later, this image still gives me a mild jolt of panic.
• Halfassed implementations of SSH are no fun.
• Thursday, IRL.  I just like the expression he makes.

Your unrelated comics link of the week: John Pound, one of the original Garbage Pail Kids artists, nowadays creates his art by coding it – mostly by writing out Postscript.  He doesn’t draw sketchbooks – he generates them.  (via)

For once, a shorter week.

• One of the better telemarketer things I’ve ever read… and I realized what he was trying halfway through, cause I maintain the same models.  (via)
• Password Gropers Take the Spamtrap Bait.  Peter Hansteen is the same person who found the Hail Mary Cloud.
• Pseudo Automata, Fakes & Robot costumes.  (via a Kickstarter email)
• Input, a non-monospaced coding font, with a preview.  (via)
• Unix: Gaining network insights with tcpdump.
• Are you near Shenzen?  This hacker camp may interest you.
• UNIX Wildcards Gone Wild.  (via joris on EFNet #dragonflybsd)
• Continuous Integration and Delivery Illustrated.  Sometimes drawn versions are better than any text.  (via)
• Ten Years of OpenStreetMap.  OSM is one of those things that I’m happy it just exists.

Your unrelated comics link of the week: Wrenchies.  I like Farel Dalrymple’s style.

Bonus unrelated: New Cyriak video!

This week’s Lazy Reading started as overflow from last week.

• Cron checker.  Cron commands to English.  (via)
• Unboxing the Magnus supercomputer.  Aw, Crays don’t look as cool as they used to.  (via)
• OpenVMS gets a new lease on life.  (via)  Also, there are public OpenVMS installations like deathrow (via) and pub1 (via).
• Unix: Controlling privileged access.
• Unix: Top networking commands and what they tell you.
• runit instead of systemd, on Void Linux.  A ray of hope.  (via)
• The future of iced coffee.  Why can’t someone put the same treatment into tea?  (via)
• What ORMS have taught me: just learn SQL.  (via)
• Docker security with SELinux.  Containerization, which is all the rage these days, does not enforce the same security wall as with a virtual machine – containers can ‘leak’ to their parent operating system.  I’m not sure enough people realize this.  (via)
• A very tiny, monospace, bitmap font.  Check the screenshot of it being used on a 320×200 screen.  (via)
• lowRISC.  Open source System on a Chip.
• The Worst API Ever Made.  I can’t judge if that’s really so, but it’s always fun to watch trainwrecks.  (via)
• My history with Forth & stack machines.  Forth is a crazy language, in a good way.  (via)
• Lawless Legends, an Apple][ FRPG – in development.  (via)
• A Mac IIci

Your unrelated comics link of the week: Quantum & Pixel.  Another Boulet comic, this time exploring 2D physics.