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A web diary of on-line discoveries.

Sun, 17 February 2019

The Spartan Web (via).
Awesome BSD (via).
sct: Utility to change screen temperature (via).
A bit of Sun’s history that still lingers on in Illumos (via).
A tutorial on portable Makefiles.
Fortran POV-Ray scene.
Unix flowers (via).
Build you own dial-up ISP in 2019 (via).
1991: Web-framework in Forth (via).
Landley’s Computer History Page (via).

Sun, 10 February 2019

Bouncing DVD logo.
Little Gopher Client (via).
Ternimal: simulate a lifeform in the terminal (via).
Gtk98Icons: icon theme that uses icons of Windows 98.
sxiv: lightweight image viewer (via).
Transfer files with Kermit (via).
Setting the boot logo on a ThinkPad (via).
Upgrading to FreeBSD 12.0 from FreeBSD 11.2 using beadm and freebsd-update. (via).
Music composed for PC speaker (via).
Handy pocket guide to Unix: printed 35 years ago and is still mostly current (via).
WebSockets the UNIX way (via).
sysctlview: GTK+ tool to explore FreeBSD sysctl MIB tree (via).

Thu, 31 January 2019

qengine: Retro game engine for developers that enjoy creating games like it’s 1997 (via).
MLVWM: Macintosh-like virtual window manager.
Building GCC 1.27 (via).
The Rise and Demise of RSS (via).
Unicode Consortium: 214 characters from legacy computers and teletext that were proposed by the Terminals Working Group were just accepted (via).
404 Page Not Found (via).
Free eBook: Computer Graphics and Computer Animation. A Retrospective Overview (via).

Sun, 27 January 2019

Xenix tales (via).
Brain: searching for the first PC virus in Pakistan.
Less known pkg(8) features.
B612 open source font family to be used on aircraft cockpit screens (via).
Advanced Mac Substitute, an API-level reimplementation of classic Mac OS (via).
Is it time to rewrite the operating system in Rust? (via).
Windows 98 icons are great (via).
The Art of Unix Programming by Eric Steven Raymond reformatted by Martin Tournoij (via).
The tinywm.c is a window manager in 50 lines of C code (via).
Why Microsoft Word must die, 2013 (via).

Mon, 14 January 2019

Werbespiel-Archiv.
netcat for multiplayer game programming (via).
Win16 for fun and (probably no) profit (via).
Coreboot on the Lenovo X230 (via).
Dawn of the second epoch.
XScreensaver 5.41 is out.
NCC: K&R C compiler for the AMD64 platform.
The Internet of unprofitable things (via).
A rediscovered mainframe game from 1974 might be the first text adventure (via).
Caduceus as a symbol of medicine (via).
Blogging and me (via).
Incorrect wumpus movement probability (via).

Tue, 18 December 2018

Microsoft Bookshelf (1991).
Why you should never, ever use Quora.
Celebrating Unix (via).
The post-REST world (via).
rc(8) in FreeBSD 12 now has new keywords: enable/disable/delete (via).
“Ex-Microsoft employees report Unix is all around” (via).
FreeBSD is not a Linux distribution (via).
PIC32-RETROBSD: small open-source hardware board which is capable to run RetroBSD (via).
Q: Why do keynote speakers keep suggesting that improving security is possible? (via).

Tue, 27 November 2018

SGI fonts for FreeBSD (includes SGI Haeberli, SGI Haebfix, SGI International, SGI Iris, SGI Rock, SGI Screen, and SGI Type).
D-Day Normandy: classic Quake 2 multiplayer modification that is compatible to Yamagi Quake 2 on FreeBSD. Still played on-line.
WebPerl: uses WebAssembly and Emscripten to run Perl in the browser (via).
How to make a roguelike (via).
One minute guide to real constants in Python (via).
RISC OS relicenced under Apache licence (via).
Fortran is still a thing (via).
The D language front-end finally merged into GCC 9 (via).
jq: lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor.
Awesome TTY games.
QEMU with bridged tap0 interface on FreeBSD host (via).

Mon, 15 October 2018

Apache CouchDB 2 has been ported to FreeBSD.
Legion of lobotomized Unices (via).
Procedural terrain with distance fields (via).
Inform: past, present, future (via).
iocage: FreeBSD jail manager written in Python 3.
geoGopher: Gopher client for C64 GEOS.
A great old-timey game-programming hack (via).
Unix in the National People’s Army (via).
ttyplot: a real time plotting utility for the terminal.

Wed, 26 September 2018

How to build a low-tech website (via).
Readme driven development, 2010 (via).
OpenNT 4.5 revisited (via).
Diagon: ASCII art diagram generator (via).
KornShell fun.
Ancient UNIX operating systems on archive.org.
Commodore history part 5: the C128 (via).
Using make – writing less Makefile (via).
Old-school text adventures playable in the web browser (via).
Hyper-realistic “Desert Bus”-like flight simulator (via).

Mon, 17 September 2018

COBOL on Wheelchair: a web-framework for GnuCOBOL (via).
FrontPage 98: Elegant & Exquisite, 1997 (via).
Learning BASIC like it’s 1983 (via).
Fortran interface to the WinBGIm library.
RS-232 library wrapper for Fortran.
Beej’s Quick Guide to GDB (via).
What the hell was the Microsoft Network? (via).
Commodore C64 OS with modern concepts (via).

Tue, 28 August 2018

The story behind the Windows XP “Bliss” wallpaper (via).
Why ed(1) is not a good editor today (via).
24-core CPU and I can’t type an email, part one and part two (via).
IRC turns 30!
Admiral Grace Hopper (via).
XScreenSaver 5.40 is out.
Re-enabling WinHelp on Windows 10.
An oral history of “GoldenEye 007” on the N64 (via).
qb.js: an implementation of QBASIC in Javascript (via).
Inform 6 compiler for Linux/Unix.
The Icon Browser.
pydantic: data validation using Python 3.6 type hinting.
Fortran bitmasks.

Sun, 5 August 2018

Why Neovim is better than Vim (via).
PHP: a fractal of bad design.
Deadline demo party in Berlin: 5 – 7 October 2018.
OpenBSD on an iBook G4 (via).
BASIC Engine: low-cost single-board home computer with advanced 2D color graphics and sound capabilities (via).
GeoCities Bootstrap theme.
How the blog broke the web (via).
A mansion filled with hidden worlds: when the internet was young (via).
Microsoft FORTRAN PowerStation 1.00 for NT.
xwpe, Borland-like IDE.

Mon, 23 July 2018

NetBSD 8.0 has been released.
TinySSH, minimalistic SSH server that implements only a subset of SSHv2 features. (via).
Gemini, a modern LaTeX poster theme (via).
FreeBSD Jails: the hard way (via).
Serverless QBasic (via).
CDE 2.3.0 running on Tribblix (via).
DOS nostalgia: new apps for MS-DOS (via).
WordTsar, a modern Wordstar clone. (via).
Hidden gems of XTerm (via).

Mon, 9 July 2018

Did blogs ruin the web? Or did the web ruin blogs? (via).
Zork I: Storm-Tossed Trees (via).
itty bitty, microsites stored within their own URL fragment (via).
Cool Retro Term, terminal emulator which mimics the look and feel of the old cathode tube screens (via).
Docker considered harmful: on using cgroups and namespaces to run isolated services on Linux (via).
D as better C.
WebAssembly: Mozilla may have won, but all of us have lost.
A bunch of X-Faces and on-line converter.
Vim cheet sheet for programmers (via).
FVWM themes (via).
sysutils/ssd_report, SSD health report (via).
Modern C++ for C programmers (via).
The influence of the UNIX® operating system on the development of two video games (via).

Mon, 25 June 2018

Old Internet files (via).
Notes on discrete mathematics (via).
Inside the Windows 95 file system, 1997 (via).
Painting by prime number (via).
Genealogy of Elizas (via).
Beginner’s guide to firewalling with PF firewall (via).
Devilution, reverse engineered Diablo (via).
Commodore C64 game written in C++ 17 (via).
Unicode 11.0 has been released (via).
The birth and death of JavaScript (via).

Tue, 15 May 2018

Origins of the finger command, 1990 (via).
GCC optimisations (via).
PostgreSQL vs. MySQL (via).
SAM, tiny speech synthesiser from the 1980s (via).
VIC-TRACKER, tracker-style music editor for the Commodore VIC-20.
Qt for Python (via).
Building Win16 GUI applications in C.

Tue, 1 May 2018

The origin of the <blink> tag (via).
Introduction to modern Pascal (via).
Miniboa-py3 and telnetlib3, Telnet libraries for Python.
Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 versus UNIX (1998).
Manual of Abacus Fortran-64 for the Commodore C64.

Sun, 22 April 2018

Introducing data classes in Python 3.7 (via).
GifCities, the GeoCities Animated GIF Search Engine (via).
OpenGL bindings for Bash (via).
Python 3 cheat sheet (via).
The graphing calculator story (via).
Structured text tools (via).
BKED, the de-facto text editor in Vietnam in the 80s - 90s (via).
It’s time to rebuild the web (via).
The long death of CGI.pm (via).

Sun, 15 April 2018

Cryptographic right answers (via).
List of emulators written in JavaScript (via).
XScreenSaver 5.39 is out.
The quiet history of Chinese microcomputers (via).
pkg vs. underlying OS upgrades (via).
Intel Intrinsic Guide to SSE, AVX, AVX-512, and more (via).

Thu, 12 April 2018

The computer designed to only run Java Applets: Sun JavaStation (via).
Encrypted Gopher (via).
Fossil SCM (via).
Thonny, Python IDE for beginners.
UnixTree, XTree alike file manager for Unix.
Debugging Fortran code with GDB (via).
Oracle poetry (via).

Wed, 4 April 2018

Complete Unix history diagram.
XBindKeys, if your WM does not support key bindings.
The Easterhegg 2018 videos are on-line.
BOOTSTRA.386 theme for Bootstrap.
Show dialog boxes with dialog(1) and pythondialog.

Mon, 26 March 2018

Vim info graphics.
Classic RAND titles.
Oldschool PC fonts.
Ye olde game programming with DirectX tutorial.
Collection of various boot sounds.
CSS3 patterns (via).

Wed, 21 March 2018

Videos of AsiaBSDCon 2018 are on-line (via).
fBlog, stand-alone static site generator written in Fortran.
Ken Silverman has released his BUILD2 engine (via).
NSA guide to writing efficient Fortran, 1972 (via).
Making Civilization (via).
If modern games were made in 1998.
Ed is Turing complete (via).
90’s police car dashboard computer runs XScreenSaver.

Sat, 10 March 2018

Comprehensive list of open source game clones.
UNIX on the GameBoy Advance.
Fachbegriffe der Informatik (via).
Simple examples of how to embed mruby in C applications.
GoAccess, web log analyser with HTML output.

Wed, 7 March 2018

Classic cat clock for X11.
Code like it’s 1957: FORTRAN I transcompiler written in Fortran 2008. See also: Forked version with some fixes and documentation (via).
The comp.lang.c Frequently Asked Questions.
Notes for new Make users (via).
Source port of Blake Stone, based on SDL.

Mon, 5 March 2018

Making of “Hackers” (via).
Unix architecture evolution, from the 1970 PDP-7 to the 2018 FreeBSD (via).
Source-code of NCSA Mosaic 2.7 for X11.
Reclaim your abandonware (via).
LoveDOS, Lua-based game engine API for MS-DOS (via).
X11-Basic, BASIC interpreter/compiler for Unix.
The DECWindows Archive.

Mon, 26 February 2018

ed(1), the original UNIX text editor, cheat sheet.
History and spirit of C (via).
Be newsletter archive (via).
Teach yourself C in 24 hours (via).
Military-grade data wiping on FreeBSD with BCWipe (via).
List of embedded scripting languages.
QuickBasic lives on with QB64 (via).

Tue, 20 February 2018

256-color VGA programming in C on DOS.
Compile Fortran online.
Doom.xlsx, a 3D engine in Microsoft Excel. (via)
ICBM address.
VF-1, command line Gopher client. High speed, low drag. (via)

Fri, 16 February 2018

A generation lost in the bazaar.
Console text-editors for Microsoft Windows.
A brief beginner’s guide to CMake. (via)
Vim anti-patterns.
WiFimgr, a WiFi manager for FreeBSD.
The history of 3Dfx. (via)

Wed, 14 February 2018

Free42, an HP-42S calculator simulator.
The ultimate CSS frameworks list. (via)
The cost of forsaking C. (via)
The story of Windows: Windows 3.0 takes off. (via)
IBM 1401 runs FORTRAN II once more. (via)
Tcl the misunderstood.

Sat, 10 February 2018

Nuklear, a public-domain GUI toolkit written in ANSI C. (via)
Classic Winamp in JavaScript. (via)
Fail-Safe C, a memory-safe implementation of ANSI C. (via)
Vim commands cheat sheet. (via)
The birth of the hashing algorithm. (via)
The case of the 500-mile email. (via)

Wed, 7 February 2018

Designing the Windows 95 user interface. (via)
DGen, a multi-platform SEGA Mega Drive emulator with vi-like controls.
The Johnny Castaway screen saver home page.
Run COBOL code from NodeJS. (via)
Why create a new Unix shell? (via)

Mon, 5 February 2018

The FOSDEM 2018 videos are on-line.
Paper about modern Fortran in spacecraft trajectory design. (via)
The revival of blogging. (via)
Please, keep your blog light. (via)

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