DragonFly BSD Digest

Whee

• General Turtle, Inc. and Educational Machines.
• From the previous link, some in-the-know shirts.
• Also from that link, Lessons from METAFONT.
• Also also, The Computer Scientist Who Can’t Stop Telling Stories.  Far better than I expected.
• PNG glitches, one and two.  (via)
• Miniatua, tiny classic computer reproductions.  (via)
• Operation Razit: Raze Reddit.  The long explainer.
• Related: There’s no excuse to add content to Twitter, Facebook, or Reddit right now.  The actual title is much longer.  (via)
• Charlie Bit My Finger should be acquired for the nation.
• Browser game: Fallen London.  About the game.  (via)
• 20 GOTO 10.  (via)

A short list this week.  I’m heading into the final month(s) of an ERP replacement projects at one of my jobs, so it ain’t going to get better for a while.

• Where does my computer get the time from?  (via)
• Software Modernization Failures.  (follow the whole thread)
• Bell Labs vs “East Coast” Management style of AT&T.  There’s some tangential BSD history in there.
• System Shock: The oral history of a forward-thinking PC classic.  (via)
• cooperative.computer.  I am surprised this didn’t exist years ago.  (via)
• Ctrl-Zine.  I like that you can print and fold your own.  (via)
• Macintosh Emulation and Printing using Mini VMac on a PocketCHIP.  (via)
• How design is governance.  (via)

Nostalgia / game styling is the inadvertent theme of the week.

• 1-bit pixel art of Hokusai’s ”The Great Wave off Kanagawa”.  The layout of that site is fun.  (via)
• SpaceTraders: an API based game.  (via)
• From comments on the previous source: Text Elite.
• The seven programming ur-languages.  (via)
• The Next Generation in Graphics, Part 2: Three Dimensions in Hardware.
• The Chonky Pocket computer.
• The Flexowriter which was I think the output from a version of the Whirlwind.  (via)
• Before UNIX daemons, there were gnomes.
• AutoHotKey, which I always thought of as compensation for Windows not having a shell.

Some links: The Next Generation in Graphics Part 1, talking about the colossal shift in gaming that was Doom/Quake, and different kinds of differential, explaining how GPS is corrected.  And here’s something unusual: Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band tracks with single instruments separated out by AI.  You can more easily hear how unique John French’s drumming was/is.

VCF East photos.  Some of these machines are complete mysteries to me.