DragonFly BSD Digest

That BBS link is possibly going to eat a zillion hours of your life.  Fair warning.

• Programming in 1987 Versus Today.  (via)
• late 1980s Czech video games.  (via)
• The Best Comics of 2021.
• Cursed.  It gets worse the longer you look at it.
• Haiku Contract Report: December 2021.  Linked cause I am unsure if X11 compatibility is good or bad for an ecosystem.
• World’s First Single Chip Apple II Boots.  (via)
• Public libraries are better than Google.  Sounds reactionary, but I just realized my last 3 real work conundrums were solved by library books.  (via)
• BBSing in the Snow Is the Best Way to Login.
• which led me to the Telnet BBS Guide.
• CathodeTV, like time travel to late night US TV circa 1979.  (via)

Mini-theme this week: small hardware projects.

• Casio watch + ARM.
• RPG Maker: History & Games.  (via)
• Please don’t use Discord for FOSS projects.  Cause then someone else owns your conversation, and the conversation is part of the project.
• Welcoming Recorded Music to the Public Domain.
• TinyNES: An open hardware NES using the original 6502-derived chips.  It’s cute!  (via)
• Get Your Classic Macintosh Online & More! RaSCSI Review and Tutorial.  Also aggressively cute!  (via)
• 202?
• Open Source Security Process Wishlist.
• Stampadia, print and play roguelike.  (via)
• 50 Years of Text Games: 2020: Scents & Semiosis.  This is the last game in the series, and here’s a post about what’s next.
• The Gift of It’s Your Problem Now.   I don’t agree with the political analogy, but there are good points.
• On Max Headroom: The Most Misunderstood Joke on TV.

I almost scheduled this post for 2021/01/02.

• Zolatron 64 – first PCBs.  I like that while the common market for processors is unfortunately only Intel or Apple, small-scale new platforms have become possible on a relatively trivial budget.  (via)
• Make ping audible.  Turn up the volume and you can tell when you plug in the correct cable in another room.
• Sustainable creativity in a world without copyright.  I am sympathetic but it confuses work-for-hire terms with copyright.
• Welcoming Recorded Music to the Public Domain.  Speaking of copyright…
• 50 Years of Text Games: 2019: A.I. Dungeon.  The penultimate chapter.
• Monitoring the vintage server room (and reverse-engineering USB sensors).  I need to set up some temperature sensors too.
• Embarrassing product names created: Windows CE.
• Introduction to the Sam Text Editor.  Your non-Emacs/non-vi link of the day.  (via)
• Software can just never be done it seems.
• mkrl/misbrands: The world’s most hated IT stickers.  The original misconception, 20 years old.  I hate this, I love this.  (via)
• A followup:  I went back to the Ether device I linked a few weeks ago; it seems worth buying just because it’s so different.  Following links to stores that sell it took me down a rabbit hole of analog interfaces on audio equipment.  Note that every store “sells” with a shot of the dials, cause it’s so fun to see.

I am definitely doing very much nothing today.

• Bandcamp: The Chaos Bazaar.  Very in-depth analysis of the different business models between Bandcamp and Spotify.  Also: Bandcamp may be the biggest physical music media seller in the world?  (via)
• Searzall Pro.  I have the original and it works great, so here’s your chance to get a rather unique device.  The creators have a podcast which I enjoy in part because unlike many podcasts they talk fast enough.
• 34 at 34 for v5.34: Modern Perl features for Perl’s birthday.  (via)
• The Raspberry Pi 400 as a couch game machine.  Have I linked to that hardware before?
• ElitePetite.
• A followup on the open source creators photos I think I linked to at some point.
• Zala Vacha.
• thewebisfucked.com.  (via)
• Scoundrel of the Year.  It’s the lack of imagination that bothers me.  (via many places)
• Summary of “Unix Administration Horror Stories” thread.  (via)
• Might and Magic, a history.
• NextSpace: NeXTSTEP-like desktop environment for Linux.  (via)
• GameDev News for 15 December 2021.  Linked for the links; lots to read from there.

Your unrelated music for the week: The Best Beat Tapes of 2021.