Lazy Reading š
The Cyber Vanguard
A web-diary of on-line discoveries.
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 Peopleās Army
(
via
).
ttyplot
: a real time plotting utility for the terminal (
via
).
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
ā writing less Makefile (
via
).
Old-school text adventures
playable in the web browser (
via
).
Hyper-realistic
āDesert Busā-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 itās 1983 (
via
).
Fortran interface to the
WinBGIm library
.
RS-232 library wrapper
for Fortran.
Beejās Quick Guide to GDB
(
via
).
What the hell was the
Microsoft Network
? (
via
).
Commodore C64 OS
with modern concepts (
via
).
Sun, 28 August 2018
The story behind the Windows XP āBlissā wallpaper
(
via
).
Why ed(1) is not a good editor today
(
via
).
24-core CPU and I canāt 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 āGoldenEye 007ā 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 ā 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 UNIXĀ® 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
).
Beginnerās 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
).
Itās 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
).
Thr, 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
).
90ās 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 itās 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 āHackersā
(
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 Feb 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 Feb 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 Feb 2018
A generation lost in the bazaar
.
Console text-editors
for Microsoft Windows.
A brief beginnerās guide to CMake
. (
via
)
Vim anti-patterns
.
WiFimgr
, a WiFi manager for FreeBSD.
The history of 3Dfx
. (
via
)
Wed, 14 Feb 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 Feb 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 Feb 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 Feb 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
)
