•  Intel has published a HTML5 development environment.  I don’t even know if it would work on DragonFly or even any BSD, but I feel efforts to make tools that are actually, genuinely, crossplatform should be looked at.  Defensive platform-specific content seems to still be a thing.
• Slightly related: Building a Roguelike in Javascript.  There’s several parts to this.  (via)
• The Eternal Mainframe.  The argument is a little wild-eyed, but the underlying thesis: “Cloud == Mainframe” is valid.  (via)
• A Primer on IPv4, IPv6, and Transition.  I signed up for an IPv6 tunnel recently, but I’m not directing traffic over it.  I should be.  (via)
• How to make Your Open Source Project Really Awesome.  The title is linkbaity, but the steps listed are correct.  You will look at the “If you want to completely screw your users…” notes and nod to yourself, recognizing something that bit you.  (via)
• There’s still Apple ][ software being sold.  I vaguely feel like I bought from there before…  (via)
• Everything’s being put into a git repo these days.  (via)  Wait, spoke too soon.  (thanks, ‘bla’ in comments)
• Scaling Pinterest.  I like seeing what technology is used as a site transitions from “oh yeah, running on leftover hardware in my basement” to “we need to hire yet another person to keep this all running”.  (via)

Your unrelated link of the week: Sometimes, repeated variations on a single theme can lead to some entertaining humor.  Therefore, Dog Snack.

(Did I just sneak in two unrelated links?  Yes I did.)

• E-TeX: Guidelines for Future TeX Extensions – revisited. It’s interesting to look at a software project that has had 20 years to run, with a very specific problem domain, and see that there’s always something more that could be done.   (via)
• You SHOULD CONSIDER RFC6919.  (via)
• The largest computer ever built.  Why are there no SAGE emulators?  (also via)
• The newlisp.org logo is a dragonfly, similar to ours.  I don’t know why.  Oh, wait: I  bet it’s parentheses for the wings, which makes sense for Lisp.  (thanks, Charles Rapenne)
• UNIX V5, OpenBSD, Plan 9, FreeBSD, and GNU coreutils implementations of echo.c.  Not necessarily a fair comparison, but interesting; there’s some useful links in the comments, such as this similar exercise for cat.c.  (via)
  
• Top 10 reasons I Like Postgres Over SQL Server.  SQL Server is not that bad a product, but I do wish Postgres was run more often.
• Our Regressive Web.  A story on how we’re losing the tools that let us focus on content on the web.  The author doesn’t say, but should, that this is partially because we’re using platforms owned by other companies (Facebook, Twitter) instead of talking on our own. (email, blogs)  (via)
• The earliest known version of D&D, the “Dalluhn Manuscript“, is on display at a museum right around the corner from me.  (via)
• Workflow in Tmux. (via)

Your unrelated link of the week: A bunch of monster models, all taken at a convention called Monsterpalooza.  A bit grody, but still some very good construction work.  (via)

• Has anyone noticed how there’s been an explosion in nontraditional peripherals lately?  Seriously, follow those links.  I know there’s more.
• A Roguelike Primer.  An excellent overview of a lot of different roguelikes.  I didn’t know NetHack had an isometric view.  (via)
• There’s a programming language called Quylthulg.  That makes me happy, in a D&D/roguelike kind of way.
• Abandoned Apples.  I feel bad about the Apple ][ units, and the fatmacs.  (via I forget)
• yes `yes no`.  The comments on the linking page note how the linking description is all wrong (and here's corrections), but one comment is fun: shell Russian Roulette: [ $[ $RANDOM % 6 ] == 0 ] && rm -rf / || echo *Click* (via)
• A note about Google Reader’s demise from an interview with one of the creators.  It strikes me that there aren’t more people mad that RSS feeds are hard to find.  There’s lots of conversations on Twitter and Facebook and Google Plus and other places, and I can’t see them without getting an account for each, and logging in.  The overall effect of this separation is that it’s hard to follow any one source.
• The Thing, an art BBS.
• Here’s a chart of possible Google Reader replacements, plus my query earlier this week let to a number of comment suggestions.  tt-rss looks like a good candidate, because I don’t have to worry about someone deciding not to run it anymore.  There’s also newsbeuter, though maybe that’s too minimal.

Your unrelated link of the week: I almost can’t tell this is a parody.  Actually, it’s more like a double level of parody.  Seen on this inexplicable, wonderful Tumblog; found via arts inscrutable.

Bonus link: Dog Snack Episode 3.

• Hey, other people are noticing that odd linkspam email I’ve been getting.  (via)
• The followup: Don’t share that infographic spam.  I’m pretty sure I’m the ‘one reader’ mentioned by the author, since I mailed him about the previous story.
• I always enjoy stories about troubleshooting strange performance problems.
• We need something like this Red Book idea for pkgsrc/DPorts.
• Ode to the Semicolon.  I love semicolons; I use them more than an em dash.  (via)
• The Maker Map.  You may find this useful for building resources.  I’m gaining one near me soon.  (via)
• The Book-writing Machine.  Possibly the first book written with a word processor.  (via)
• Vim Git Gutter.  A brilliant idea: show the git diff as you work in Vim.  (via)
• Add everything to Vim!  Add nothing to Vim! (via a long twisty path of links)
• An HTML5 roguelike, THE ROYAL WEDDING; nicely done.  (via)
• Hey, the Digest is on Google Plus, or at least the RSS feed is.
• Smallest analog computer ever made.  This is what computers should look like.  (via)
• List of inventors killed by their own inventions.  No good reason to link this other than it’s a longer list than I thought it would be.  (via)
• This PHP/MySQL assessment made me laugh.  (via)

Your unrelated link of the week: I’m the Computer Man.  I always thought the mid-1990s were sort of a Internet/computer teenager phase.  Everything had potential but everything was also awkward.  (via I forget, sorry!)

• Puctuation obscurantism, punctuation humor; I like it all.  (via)
• Exporting your git repository.  Found while looking for something else.
• I want CTRL-D at a terminal to make something like this to happen.
• Visual Representation of Regular Expression Character Classes.  I like visual ways of classifying complex data.
• Speaking of which: Anatomy of Data.  Not sure how I found it.
• Digital Files and 3D Printing – In the Renaissance?  The title sounds a bit linkbaity, but the story of the 14th century map designed to be recreated with a graphing tool is pretty neat.
• Postgres: The Bits You Haven’t Found.  Advanced/odd Postgres usage.  (via)
• Breaking your arrow keys is the latest idea in improving Vim usage.
• PC-BSD is moving to a ‘rolling release’ format, and also using the new pkg tools that are also in DPorts.  Historic details on this new setup are available.
• Fred, taking off.
• Ten hours with the most inscrutable game of all time.  I like the idea of Dwarf Fortress more than I actually like playing it.  I’m somewhat afraid of it.  It looks like this sounds.
• That last comparison wasn’t necessarily fair, but it was fun.
• If I’m going to talk about music like that, I should link Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic Music.
• The Wizard of Pinball.  I just want my own standup pinball or arcade cabinet game.  Yes, yes, I know,  MAME cabinet.
• Appropriately this week, “Ball Saved”, page 1 and page 2 of a 2-page comic about pinball.
• UnReal World, an Iron-Age roguelike.  Apparently pretty brutal, and two decades in development.  Runs on several platforms, but not BSD.  (via)
• You Are Boring.  Some of the ‘boring’ items made me laugh.  (via)
• The first review of Michael W. Lucas’s Absolute OpenBSD, Second Edition is available.

Your unrelated link of the week: I’ve already been offbeat enough in this Lazy Reading; I don’t have anything else.

• “Keep the workload off the pinkies.” is a good recommendation for any keyboard layout.  (via)
• Dan Langille started doing some price comparisons for various hard drives; see the comments on his article  for some specialty sites that do the same.
• “It was open source because we didn’t have any choice.”  Spacewar, the first computer game.  Or at least the first computer game like we’d expect it to be.
• If you read the details, Ethernet and Microsoft Word came from almost the same place.  (via)
• YouCompleteMe, a Fast, As-You-Type, Fuzzy-Search Code Completion Engine for Vim.  (via)  Haven’t tried it.
• This article about the correct pronounciation of “GIF” is mostly a historical rehash, but I really like the last two sentences.
• This Wired article does a good job of describing what’s special about Flickr compared to all the other big photo services, and also has an excellent metaphor for Facebook buried in there.  (via)
• This is perhaps one of the better descriptions of being a “nerd” and how it has changed recently.
• Well, that’s a bizarre translation.  (via tuxillo on EFNet #dragonflybsd)
• My favorite part of this excellent Economist article about Voyager 1 and 2 is this note: “Most ingeniously of all, Dr Stone’s team equipped the probes with an advanced bit of hardware called a Reed-Solomon encoder.  [...] The rub was that in 1977 a way to decrypt Reed-Solomon corrected data had yet to be worked out. Luckily, by the time Voyager 2 reached Uranus in 1986, it had been.“
• An HTML5-based roguelike.  I’m sure there’s others.  I like that HTML5 is starting to make things Just Work.  (via)

Your unrelated comics link of the week: Anthony Clark of Nedroid.com is selling his sketchbook; 101 pages as a digital download, for $1.  Look at his strip or his Tumblr doodles if you want to know more before, but that’s quite a deal.  Nedroid is the source of one of my favorite character names: Beartato.  Also makes a good shirt.

• Outgrow.me, a list of successfully funded Kickstarter and IndieGoGo projects.  There’s some neat technology doodads in there.  And a zillion hipster iPhone tripods.
• Remember when you could find program source code printed in magazines, for you to type in?  Here’s an interesting story about that.  (via)
• Some good news: despite the completely hostile (and wrong) story on Slashdot, the FreeBSD Foundation has exceeded their pledge goals for the year by a wide margin.
• A very early pre-Internet story about packets.  (via)
• Relational shell programming.  (via)
• History of the Microwriter.  I remember seeing a version of this called the Twiddler.   (also via)
• How to Host a Dungeon.  Follow some of the links at the bottom.  (also also via)
• Early Apple computer designs.  I link not because it’s Apple but because it’s very much 1980s industrial design, which is both wonderful and awful.  (via)

Your unrelated comics link of the week: Marlo Meekins’ Tumblr.   Her lettering is refreshingly expressive.  That may sounds strange to single out, but so many people place words as an set block of text rather than as part of a graphic layout.

• Playing at the World is apparently a good book.  The author has a blog where he dives into old RPG minutiae.  You will either find that not very interesting or super interesting.  No halfway point.
• Teleglitch, a roguelike top-down shooter with pixel graphics.  I was happy at the word “roguelike”, of course.  (via _hasso_ on EFNet #dragonflybsd)
• A review of Version Control with Git, 2nd Edition.
• “I’m writing my own OS“.  I think Dominic Giampolo said once that everyone in computer science goes through a phase where making your own operating system can’t be too hard and why not try it etc etc.  (via)
• This picture makes me happy.
• An entire book of studies based around a single line of C64 BASIC code.  It’s available as a free download.
• Teach Your Children Groff.  It’s sort of the opposite of the do-without-needing-to-understand practice that most people assume Steve Jobs wanted. (via)
• Your Objects, The Unix Way.  (via)
• Getting your computer work done in 1973.  Given the hardware, I don’t think this is Unix, but it’s still neat to see it work.  Punch cards!   (via)
• Here’s how arcade cabinets were first planned out.  I like seeing the old-school marker rendering.
• This notebook seems like a bad idea.  (via)
• This secure bootloader, on the other hand, could be useful.  (via)
• A hypnotic data visualization. (via aggelos on EFNet #dragonflybsd)
• A Star Wars roguelike on GitHub.  (via)

Your unrelated link of the week: GET LAMP.  I thought I had linked to it before, but I’m probably thinking of It Is Pitch Dark.  It’s a documentary by Jason Scott of textfiles fame about text adventures.

• Homebrew Cray-1A.  Duplicating the internals is interesting in a “that’s crazy/difficult” way, but the case is the best part.  (via dfcat on #dragonflybsd)
• If you understand the structure of haiku, you can contribute to Absolute OpenBSD, 2nd Ed.
• Here’s a browser-based roguelike called Second Wind, and another called Epilogue.  No particular reason to link to them other than I haven’t had much roguelikes linked recently.
• “The role of the troll in social media is to ruin that product.”  There’s a line that can be drawn to connect the idea of being esoteric enough that social networks (i.e. Facebook) don’t intrude on your interests, and the idea of being interested in BSD operating system creation.  What I’m saying is that BSD is less hyped, and thank goodness.
• Another social media caution: it’s their space, not yours, and they can boot you at any time. (via)
• Yeah, I’m getting curmudgeonly.  I’ll stop now.
• Go By Example.
• git-ftp, when the files you are working on are in a location only accessible by FTP – no git or ssh access.  This appears to copy them in and out as part of the commit/change process.  I can imagine a very specific workflow where this would be useful.  (via)
• Bash One-Liners, part 4.
• OS Upgrades powered by Git.  That’s a neat idea.  I don’t think you actually have to follow the link; that’s the whole concept right there.
• The Ultimate Vim Distribution.  (via)  I like how slick the single-line install methods are on these things…  but I want the number of packaging/install methods on every computer I administer to equal exactly 1, not (1 x number of installed programs).
• Why is Linux more popular than BSD?  Some of the answers are just plain wrong, or don’t understand causality… but that’s no surprise.  (via)
• Oh, hopefully this will solve the UEFI secureboot issue for DragonFly too.  (via)

Your unrelated link of the week:  A CD that comes with its own turntable and record.  Kid Koala scrapes over culture to find mentions of vinyl and DJing the same way I scrounge the Internet for mention of BSD.  His “Nerdball” from Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is an astonishing display  of turntable skill.

• I don’t think I’ve seen this before: Very old UNIX releases, listed for running in emulation.  (via)
• Where the red-black tree name came from.  A red-black tree underpins Hammer 1′s data structures, though it does not in Hammer 2.  (also via)
• Someone with a HP passport login want to help this guy?  He just needs to reinstall Windows in IDE mode, or perhaps find the right sysctl to toggle.
• The acme editor, from Plan 9.  I didn’t realize it’s 20 years old.
• Speaking of editors, Replace in Multiple Files with Vim.  I haven’t seen the argdo command before, or the Vim Ninjas site.  Their color schemes article is useful just for the screenshots. (via)
• Adbuntu.  It’s not as bad or as inconsequential as most reactions would lead you to believe, but advertising within an OS seems heavy-handed.  The BSD model has been to use the operating system as a vehicle for selling hardware, and that’s been much more successful.  (see iOS, PC-BSD.)
• Where Did the Internet Come From?
• The map for Adventure.  (via)

Your unrelated link of the day: Victorian Sci-Fi.  It’s not just a reference list, it’s a link to a lot of the original material, since copyright no longer applies.

• deadweight, “Find unused CSS selectors by scraping your HTML”.  I’ve needed something like this for years.  (via)
• The same sort of thing for pkgsrc: pkg_leaves.  Worth running at least yearly, or at least before any significant pkgsrc upgrade.  There’s no point in updating a package you don’t use or need.
• GNU Coreutils cheat sheet, plus the instructions to make it.  There’s other cheatsheets linked in the article that may be useful.
• Compiler benchmarks, comparing gcc and clang versions.  For a complete benchmark, I’d want to compare what number of programs build with each, too.  (via ftigeot on #dragonflybsd)
• When ‘your mom’ and Unix jokes collide.
• Distraction-free writing with Vim.  (via)
• Also, there’s a “Modern Vim” book on the way.  Will it be good?  I have no idea; I don’t know of any prior books by the author or who the publisher is.  Those facts might help.
• For a known author and publisher, here’s a status report on Absolute OpenBSD, 2nd Edition.  If you don’t know what a BOFH is from his last sentence, read the original stories.
• Quadrilateral Cowboy, a cyberpunk hacking game that actually involves non-boring programming and not just a pipe-matching game under the guise of hacking.
• While I’m linking to games, GUTS, sorta like Diablo but more… roguey?  It’s turn-based.  Also, an excuse to use the roguelike tag.
• 4 UNIX commands I abuse every day.  Having done a fair amount of Perl programming, I am entertained by having side effects being the intended goal.  Also, the author pays attention to what runs on BSD.  (via)
• “Disks lie. And the controllers that run them are partners in crime.”  Marshall Kirk McKusick describes just how hard it is to know when your data has really made it from memory to disk.  (via)

Your unrelated link of the week.  Dubgif.  Random animated gifs and dubstep clips.  Sometimes it doesn’t work, and sometimes it’s perfect.  (via)  If that’s too random, there’s also this .

• Ethernet’s Future: How Fast Is Fast Enough?  The article doesn’t answer any questions, but I like the IEEE-supplied graph it opens with that shows the trend of overall network traffic doubling yearly.  (via)
• Anti-open source propaganda in Disney kids’ TV show.  I’m actually more bothered by trying to hyphenate a phrase made from separate words.  Anti-’open source’?  Esoteric grammar issues appeal to me.
• Bash One-liners Explained, part 3.
• Perl hex and bit pack formats were added to fix the Magellan satellite’s output.  A neat origin for something I’ve used trivally.  Of course, I suppose any use is trivial compared to fixing output from a broken spaceship.  (via many places)
• Here’s a DragonFlyBSD article from 2010 linked on Hacker News.  The ensuing conversation in the Hacker News comments is lucid and useful, and not a single bit of whining about BSD being dead.  That’s so refreshing to see!
• Looks like there will be a new version of ADOM.  Will it run on DragonFly?  It should, since the previous version is in pkgsrc.
• Do you like set theory?  Then read this.  I don’t understand a word of it, but I like seeing the mathematical characters encoded on the page, apparently using MathJax.
• I also enjoy reading about BSD users’ origin stories.  In this case, Dru Lavigne.
• CDE has been open-sourced.  There’s a good chance it will show up in pkgsrc soon.  Seeing this interface will make you nostalgic if you are the right age.
• If you’re a fan of the Hammer filesystem, does that make you a hammerhead?  That’s my weak attempt to segue to this comic.
• Artisanal, hand-crafted unsigned ints.  Read the bottom of the About page for an explanation.  This may not make sense to you if you haven’t encountered the trend it’s making fun of, which seems to be centered in Brooklyn.  (via)
• I hope you enjoy scrolling, because this history of computers and history of computer graphics are very long single documents.  I like seeing the early computer art.  (via)

Your unrelated comic link of the week: Cul De Sac.   The strip is ending due to the creator’s health issues, but what he has done is marvelous.  This is one of the few newspaper strips that is both visually interesting and often abruptly laugh out loud funny, without being patronizing.

It’s a guess, and it’s not likely that I’m right.  If I am, it’s a seismic shift.  Enough armchair theory!  Here’s the links:

• Some details on the creation of the Bitrig project.  It’s mostly the drama side of the story, rather than the practical details.  (via)  The project appears to be backed by a commercial company, which is helpful.
• “Get out of my way, window manager!”  I don’t know if it’s any good, or evenif it works on DragonFly, but I like the name.  (via)
• Dru Lavigne, the driving force behind a lot of good BSD things, gets interviewed.  (via)
• Try Git in your browser.
• Building the British countryside generator.  Come for the concept, stay for the explanation of Voroni diagrams.
• BSD 4.4 and IPv6, possibly mashed together.  It’s kind of like making an all-electric Studebaker Land Cruiser, but worth it, in and of itself.
• DragonFly developer Alex Hornung has a blog, and I didn’t realize it.  There’s some interesting stories on crappy multimeters and keyboard repair.  Andsoftware.
• Hey, ADOM, which ceased development in 2002, is up as an Indiegogo project.  It’s a very sophisticated roguelike, and it runs on DragonFly.
• Can someone help this guy with his NFS question?  Maybe it’ll get answered before this gets posted, if I’m lucky.

Your unrelated comics link of the week: The Whole Story.  A comics collection, sort of  like the ‘humble indie bundles’ for games, where if you pay a bit more, you get even more comics.

• “The return of the FreeBSD desktop“, where Dag-Erling Smørgrav describes getting a BSD desktop working again due to a new ports system on FreeBSD.   It’s still too messy a process to get to a GUI, I think, and to support that I’ll point at this post of a KDE developer giving up.  (via)  One of the issues is the rapid flux of the underlying systems X has to run on – something touched on before.
• Here’s someone looking for a ‘Linux like BSD‘.  Most of the answers are “then use BSD”, though the poster is hampered by the new Intel video chipset.
• These “Ringbow” joystick controllers are described as being for games, but I think they could work as controllers like the Thinkpad nub.  (via)  It’s a Kickstarter project, so might be worth your money.
• With some minor changes, this command could find you all the BSD-licensed items in pkgsrc, I think.
• Phoronix thinks FreeBSD and Ivy Bridge don’t work together.  I could have sworn I’ve already heard of  Ivy Bridge systems running BSDs…  Take it with a grain of salt.
• Several readers will find the intext: Google search phrase incredibly useful.  (via)  Also, typing ‘*’ in Google Maps actually does what you’d expect.
• Less is exponentially more, Rob Pike talking about Go. (via)  The note about the Bell Labs numbering scheme explains a lot about UNIX’s terseness.
• Visual Git Reference. (via)  Showing a physical position to correlate with time is really helpful here.
• A review of FreeBSD Device Drivers, the new No Starch book.  Much of it should apply to DragonFly, I should think.
• I suppose this Dwarf Fortress book was inevitable.

Your unrelated link of the day: The Kleptones are great, and this collection of the music that influenced Paul Simon’s Graceland is a wonderful find.  A happier album I’ve never heard.  I feel nostalgic for the days when you had to actually search for music.

• RSA encryption explained.  (via)
• Someone from Google went to BSDCan 2012 and blogged about it.  The takeaways are interesting, especially something I’ve seen elsewhere: “Don’t buy systems that can’t take registered RAM in a bazillion sockets”.
• Occam’s Razor applies here, but still: trust nobody.  (via)
• Bash One-liners Explained, part 1.
• They’re switching from ‘cvs import’ to ‘cvs add’ in pkgsrc.  Now if they’d just switch the ‘cvs’ part out…
• Not even vaguely computer related: Please won’t someone make these commercially available?  Wait, someone did!
• The Mechanics and Meaning of That Ol’ Dial-Up Modem Sound.  (via)  I feel nostalgic, but on the other hand… nobody missed 14.4 kbaud.
• Advanced Vim Macros.  ”As is typical in Vim, the rabbit hole of functionality goes much deeper than most users will ever plumb.”   (via)
• Also at the same place: Vim Koans.
• Hey, there’s a DragonFly page on the Wine Wiki.  It’s short but probably very useful if you want to run Wine.
• Also, an OpenCV fix for DragonFly, pushed upstream by a pkgsrc developer.  That’s always nice to see.
• Fish, a new shell with some nice features.  (via)  Does this compile on DragonFly?
• Found near the same place: a screen saver that auto-plays Angband.  OS X only, unfortunately.  There must be an easy way to do the same with xscreensaver.
• CLANG, but not the compiler.  Watch the movie.

Your unrelated link of the week: I happen to work at a salt mining operation, which leads to some unique problems (more).  Mining in the US is regulated by MSHA, which has been cracking down since the Upper Big Branch incident. MSHA issues  ’fatalgrams‘ every time a miner dies.  MSHA also shows up on site as soon as possible, which means they are there taking pictures within a few minutes, with equipment still running.  It’s essentially crime scene photos, and a little worrying; many of the deaths are of people around my age with similar experience.

• I pity people that had to make illustrations about abstract concepts like the Internet, especially in the 1990s.
• Slashdot jumps the shark.  I’m not really knocking what they are adding – I could use it for work – but Slashdot has gone corporate, in the bland sense of the word.  There’s no clear voice behind what they talk about.  Even if you don’t like what they are posting, there’s no longer a specific author to disagree with.  Younger folks may shrug and say “So what?”, but Slashdot used to be nearly the only decent source for nerdity online.
• A sensible discussion of open source and how it relates to obsolescence and access.
• Jan Schaumann’s NYCBUG presentation in mp3 form: “The Useless Use of *“
• Winning entries in the 2011 International Obfuscated C Code Contest.  (via)
• Hyperrogue III (Zeno Rogue).  (via)  It’s a roguelike, with vi-based directional controls and a non-Euclidian hyperbolic plane world, or at least that’s what the description says.  It might compile on DragonFly.
• “Why don’t more developers contribute to open source?“
• Spam-merican Apparel (via)  Spambots and T-shirts; that combination seems to be a natural growth of the internet.
• XFCE 4.8 is on the way in pkgsrc.  I know this will please some people.
• The smallest (ELF) Hello World possible.  (via profmakx onEFNet #dragonflybsd)
• A SSD roundup.  I have one in my work laptop right now and it makes a huge difference.
• DuckDuckHack.  (via)  Quick, someone make a plugin for pkgsrc packages.

Your unrelated links of the week: Turntablism.  I was talking about assembled music last week, and this is a whole area to itself.  Watch Kid Koala turn a few seconds of trumpet playing into an entire blues progression.

• Apparently there’s a Russian version of BSD Magazine, with a special Russian-only article.  Anyone who can read it willing to tell me what it’s about?
• Did you know BSD also stands for something bike-related?
• 70 Roguelikes!  The 7-Day Roguelike Challenge, just completed, has 70 games out as a result.  This will keep you busy, and there’s a very good writeup on several of the games to help you pick from the options.
• 20 Years of Adobe Photoshop.  (via)  I link it because almost everyone, sooner or later, has used it or has used a program with a very similar tool layout.  Though I suppose you could argue it all comes from MacPaint, designed by Susan Kare, who happens to have also originated Clarus the dogcow.  Moof!
• Man, Apple used to really have a sense of humor, too.  Maybe they still do.  Companies still do funny things (caution, autoplay video), but it seems to be done with the company’s marketing image in mind these days.  Also, get your ball out of my yard you darn kids etc.
• Michael Lucas is teaching a SSH class at BSDCan 2012.
• Lucas also has also disclosed numbers on his recent self-publishing venture.  I love seeing numbers like this because self-publishing discussion usually brings a whole lot of biases to the table, and people come down on one side or another because of what they want it to be, not because of what it is.  (Like discussions of the music industry, piracy, and software.)  This is just the plain numbers.  Also, Absolute OpenBSD, second edition, is definitely his next book.
• Still on ssh, This Undeadly article talks about using OpenBSD, make, and ssh to speed up research.
• 20 iconic tech sounds bound for extinction. (via)  Something in there will make you feel nostalgic.  I like the 8mm film noise.
• Speaking of noise, here’s Famous Sounds, mostly electronically generated or sampled.  (via)  I guarantee some of these will be instantly familiar even though you won’t have heard the original song.

Your unrelated link of the week: Traitor.  (via)  It’s a Flash space shootemup game.   But dragonflies show up in one part!  (to shoot.)

• I greatly enjoyed this history of personal computer mishaps and blunders.  Of course, nothing like any of that has ever happened to me.  Ever.  Ever ever ever.
• Nintendo Entertainment System stories.  (a comic)  Also familiar to anyone of a particular age.
• This is good advice about env(1) – use it.
• “Fork Yeah! The Rise and Development of illumos“, a video via matthiasr on EFNet #dragonflybsd.
• “What’s the strangest language feature you’ve ever encountered?“  (via)  Some of these are mind-boggling.  I’ve also never seen APL before, yeesh.
• My Year in Roguelikes.  I think a few of the games mentioned are in pkgsrc.

Your unrelated comic link of the week: Basic Instructions.  Well, not totally unrelated, since BSD author Michael Lucas’s tweet about it reminded me.  I’ve got the first book; I need to get the second and third.

• The Binding of Issac.  It’s a roguelike, with shooter elements.  It’s also creepy.  Here’s the Flash demo.  (Windows and Mac only, aww.)
• Why transparency is a good idea.  (via…  Michael Lucas?  I lost track, sorry)
• The JFDI Theory of Language Adoption.  This applies to operating systems too; create the shortest possible path between people and what they want to do on that OS.
• NetBSD has added SQLite to the base system.  (via)  Interesting…  having a database(ish) always available leads to some new ways to keep data, outside of the usually “stuff in a text file” format.

Your totally off-topic link for the week: Fat Birds.

• A musing about the waveform and how it’s the most iconic representation of music.  It’s also a holdover from analog days, if you think about it.  (via)
• There seems to be a new kinda-improper activity from GoDaddy found every 6 months or so.  Find yourself a new registrar, if you haven’t already.
• Here’s how you know DragonFly is actually getting somewhere: exploits show up.
• Not directly BSD related, but it’s from Colin Percival, writing as “FreeBSD Security Officer”.  With the recent Diginotar news, he points out what’s the best secure certificate to forge.
• Introduction to Arduino, a comic guide.  (via)
• “A jpeg is worth 1000kb“, talking about ZORK and other text adventures.  Look for the twisty column of familiar phrases, all alike.  The Interactive Fiction genre of game is still going surprisingly strong, so many years later.
• That article about ZORK links to this excellent, excellent exploration of the original Colossal Cave game, which led to Adventure and so many other games.   Oh yeah, the author was building ARPANet at the time, too.

Your unrelated comic link of the week: Chainsawsuit.