DragonFly BSD Digest

I have possibly two weeks worth of Lazy Reading built up here, so sit down and get with the clicking:

• The Internet with a Human Face.  Maciej Ceglowski’s recent talk.  This is the you-should-read-it link of the week.  (via)
• I Broke My Phone’s Screen, and It Was Awesome.  Bunnie Huang finds the best place in the world to smash your cell phone.
• The Art of UNIX Programming.  Prompted by this.
• Alert Design.  The design of network monitor warnings, not designing alertly.  (via)
• UNIX History Repository.  On GitHub.  So much is on GitHub these days…  (via)
• A Trip Down UNIX Memory Lane.  A lot of UNIX links this week; I don’t know why.
• “Are you a native full-stack visiongineer who lives to marketech platishforms?” Funny but sorta realistic.
• Presenting Data and Information, taught by Edward Tufte.  Might be both interesting and local to some reader.  (via)
• Python 3 is killing Python.  This sort of thing has happened before, called “Perl 6”.  (via)
• The Design of SQLite 4.  The more I use SQLite, the more I like it.  (via)
• Relics of Technology.  How many of these things have you actually used?  (via)
• tetris-bsd: the most basic version of tetris I’ve ever seen.  (via saved Google search)
• That previous link led me to taipan, which is a game I loved on my Apple ][.  Wait, I can still play it now?
• Apple phone and tablet models from the 80s.  I remember shaping and painting models out of that sort of foam, years ago, before CAD ate it all.
• Notepad: more dangerous than you thought.
• Not necessarily the wrong way to look at tech blogs.
• 2000 or so Unicode characters.  What common fonts actually implement everything in Unicode?  Cause that would be a heck of a lot of designs.  (via a Kickstarter newsletter)
• Beyond the stack.  This way of setting up systems has taken over computing firms that are producing software for the Internet… but I don’t think people realize that isn’t all companies.
• The current Humble Book Bundle includes some Top Shelf comics publications, including semi-fictional-early-hacking-history Wizzywig which I’ve mentioned before, and the colossal not-related-to-computers work From Hell.  Hopefully will still be up when you read this…
• If I can run an arbitrary program, I can do arbitrary things.
• Sun stories.  Remember, it used to be BSD, back when Sun did was growing.  One thing everyone seems to agree on: the workstations were great.  (via)
• What’s going on with TrueCrypt.  Since DragonFly has a truecrypt-compatible implementation, I’d certainly like to see it continue.  (via)

Your unrelated comics link of the week: The End of Garfield. I don’t know if this is the original source for the image.

 

Lots to read this week – enjoy!

• Stories from net.rumors.  War stories about old, big hardware – the file is from USENET in 1989, so many of the stories are about UNIX or pre-UNIX.  It’s a long read, but worth it.  (via)
• Via the previous link: olduse.net.   “Usenet, updated in real time as it was thirty years ago.”  Also available via NNTP.  The web page simulates a terminal news reader, down to the key commands.  I’ve mentioned it before.
• SSH Tunnel – Local and Remote Port Forwarding Explained With Examples.  Partially for my own benefit, since I’ve always intended to set up forwarding but never had enough of a dire need to do so.  (via)
• Windows in video games.  A neat description of how video games simulate building interiors, and a near-perfect usage case for animated GIFs.  (via)
• Go for sysadmins.  Go seems to approach problems in a different way than Python/Ruby, but I don’t have enough experience to quantify that yet.  Also, we need to document PFI better to show how you can already do exactly what the presenter does, with DragonFly.  (via a mailinglist)
• The 12-Factor App, noticed in the video in the previous link.
• Building a homebrew USB device.  (via)  related: I wish lobste.rs would let you link directly to a story even if there weren’t comments yet.
• UNIX: Database connection testing.
• The future that everyone forgot.  I always liked what Danger did.  (via)
• Arcade Story.  I used to be that good with Black Tiger, though it wasn’t as flashy a game.  (via)
• RFC7258.  “Pervasive monitoring is an attack”.  (via many places)
• Problem of the Week at the Harvard Physics Department.  (via)
• Notation, notation, notation: a brief history of mathematical symbols. (via)
• An Open Letter on Feminism In Tech.  Related: I am still trying to hire a system admin at my workplace.  (via several places)
• Microservices and the migrating Unix philosophy.  As the first comment in the source link says, “They’ve not read Brooks enough.”
• A curated list of open source sysadmin resources.  Interesting set of links, though it seems silly to have this list as a Github project.  (via)
• Everything is Broken.  (via many places)

Your unrelated link of the week: Well, not really unrelated, but this thought occurred to me.