Moof-a-Day
Just seeing the screens gives me a nostalgic feeling: early Mac floppies on the Internet Archive. Collected by the same guy who did the Apple ][ cracks. (via)
View ArticleUTF-8’s creation
“UTF-8 was designed, in front of my eyes, on a placemat in a New Jersey diner one night in September or so 1992.” Also why Windows had poor UTF-8 support for so long.
View ArticleFast combat
Mathematically summarizing RPG combat. This is extremely niche but extremely interesting if you fit that niche.
View ArticleAn emulator to match the games
Infinite Mac, to go with previously linked Moof-A-Day. (via)
View ArticleMissing music
I haven’t done this in a while. Your unrelated music link of the week: Drifted Entities Vol. 2 by Healing Force Project. New electronic, but not modern.
View ArticleAge of Average
The Age of Average, which applies to operating system / open source development these days too, I think.
View ArticleSkipping a duopoly
Audiobooks Without Audible. Apple and Google have a financial incentive to make data loading that is on their platforms but outside of their marketplace as crappy as possible. (via)
View ArticleSo many old machines
VCF East photos. Some of these machines are complete mysteries to me.
View Article3d history, GPS history, music you never heard
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...
View ArticleLinks for 2023/04/30
Back by popular demand. 50 Shades of Rust, or emerging Rust GUIs in a WASM world. Everything has its own name and language, and there’s 20 of them! Great! (via) Review of Six Text Editors. Fun hot...
View ArticleLinks for 2023/05/14
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....
View ArticleLinks for 2023/05/21
Smushing BSD and Lazy Reading links together into one, again. Tell me if that’s good or bad from where you’re standing. How To Survive, computing safely while on the road, from CCC 2019. (via) Early...
View ArticleLinks for 2023/05/28
Events and crazy things are the mini themes this week. Mini Moog Model D. (via) ChiBUG’s next meeting is May 30th. NYCBUG has a double lightning talk on June 16th. Also the July NYCBUG monthly meeting...
View ArticleLinks for 2023/06/04
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?...
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