Update: And thanks to Thomas Klausner, it’s in pkgsrc as sysutils/entr, and in ports as sysutils/entr thanks to Eitan Adler.  You have no reason not to try it now.

I plan to branch DragonFly 3.4 very soon, and that version will have 2013Q1 as default.

Update: The 2013Q1 branch should be available by tomorrow on DragonFly’s git; the repository needs to update and convert from NetBSD’s CVS and that takes a little time.  I’ll post when it’s ready.

• Reading about KDE’s repository near-meltdown makes me think we need more checks for DragonFly.  We have the advantage of Hammer, of course, which would help in the same way that the linked article names ZFS as a ‘fix’.  (via multiple places)
• We know that Apple will reject apps it disagrees with.  Google also will do so.  Has there ever been a program rejected from pkgsrc or (FreeBSD/OpenBSD) ports on content grounds?  Not that I know of – anyone remember differently?  I’d argue that’s a favorable point for the BSD packaging systems, though it may just be that no application has tested those boundaries yet.
• Portscanning all IPv4 addresses on the planet.  Possibly the largest distributed effort ever?  The detail in the maps and returned services is especially interesting.  (via)
• Scale Fail, a Youtube video of a 2011 talk about screwing up your services.  Mostly about the humor, but the underlying points are valid.   (via #dragonflybsd IRC)
• There’s still improvement possible to fsck, apparently based on this.  That’s UFS2 fsck.
• What is your most productive shortcut with Vim?  A very thorough explanation of verbs, marks, and registers.  Holy cow, I wish I had known about ‘: … v’ before.  It’s long, but worth it.  (via)
• Matthew Garret’s description of Secure Boot vs. Restricted Boot with UEFI, (via a coworker who went to Libreplanet 2013).  I’m still not sure what DragonFly will need to do about this.
• I missed mentioning this earlier: 20 years of NetBSD.  We’re coming up on 10 soon.
• Dragonfly drones.  Unrelated except for name.
• That guy who starts to froth madly every time BSD is mentioned on Phoronix is still there (see comments).
• Mainframe computer supercut.  (via)

Your unrelated comics link of the week: Tom Spurgeon of the Comics Reporter asked people for their lists of webcomics that could go in a ‘Hall of Fame’.  The resulting list is a lot of really, really good material.  Go use up a few hours reading.

• An oldie but goodie.  ENHANCE.  This will make anyone who has done photo/video editing twitch.  Check the author’s Tumblr for more supercuts.  (indirectly via)
• Many people complain about regular expressions (and more recently), but they are an insanely powerful tool if you know them well.  If you do, figure out this crossword. (PDF)  (via)
• Followup on the first two links in that last item: xkcd drives a lot of traffic!
• If you are on Windows, you probably use PuTTY for ssh.  It saves everything in the registry, which can occasionally mean losing all your configuration.  There’s manual ways to save it, but there’s also PuTTYtray.  (I’ve used portaPuTTY in the past, but it seems to be missing/no longer updated.)
• Actually, holy crap there’s a lot of variations/addons for PuTTY.
• That makes sense given how many terminal emulators there are, really.
• Why piping something off the Internet right to a shell isn’t a good idea.  (via)
• Remember when the computer section in bookstores had books that involved programming?  (unfair, I know.)
• “Don’t Be A Stranger“, musing on how there isn’t enough meeting strangers through the Internet any more.  Here’s the odd thought I had while reading that article: I couldn’t pick most of the other DragonFly developers out of a lineup, but I’ve been working and talking with some of them for a decade.
• You could build Photoshop version 1 yourself – just substitute the original Mac libraries.
• Related: Photoshop is a city for everyone.
• Some of the oldest color film footage. Not the oldest,but possibly some of the earliest commercial film.  Of course, the first thing filmed are young, attractive women.  This is a re-occurring  theme.
• Hey, a comprehensive year-end BSD roundup.

Your unrelated tea link of the week: Epic Tea House Server.  Interesting just because of what he does and because I’ve never encountered tea from a samovar, though I’ve read of it.  (via)

Wait, this is better!  That previous link led to this film from an English chemistry professor about tea chemistry.  At first I was just entertained by his hair and his accent, but when he put tea in a NMR spectrometer, I decided this was the best tea thing ever.  Even better than Elemental!