A web diary of on-line discoveries.
Lua 5.5 released . Tcl : The Most Underrated, But The Most Productive Programming Language ( via ). File d’attente : File-based job queue tool written in Go ( via ). Gershwin : Desktop Environment based on GNUstep. RetroMagazine World . How Microsoft Vaporized a Trillion Dollars . Stone Tools : Exploring retro productivity software from the 8/16-bit era. Man pages ( via ). Open Slopware :…
Confessions of a Necromancer (2016). Open Source is one person ( via ). LPD for fun and MP3 playing (2003). Video: So we finished decompiling LEGO Island ( via ). Am I online? ( via ) A Dive Into Open Chat Protocols ( via ). microdot : minimalistic Python web framework inspired by Flask ( via ). Serving 200 million requests per day with a cgi-bin ( via ). Fortran For C Programmers . nginx-cgi :…
lon lat lon lat . NO_COLOR ( via ). Tellico : free collection management software ( via ). Public Domain Image Archive ( via ). The Monospace Web ( via ). The Pocket Computer Museum ( via ). LLVM Fortran Levels Up: Goodbye flang-new, Hello flang! FFmpeg By Example ( via ). Zork: The Great Inner Workings ( via ). The Visible Zorker ( via ). Quake II for MS-DOS ( via ). The Sims Game Design…
FreeBSD 14 on the Desktop ( via ). raylib 5.5 has been released. What I wish someone told me about Postgres ( via ). QNX becomes free for non-commercial use (again) ( via ). How the new sqlite3_rsync utility works ( via ). Video: Porting ioquake3 from SDL 2.0 to SDL 3.0 ( via ). Iconography of the X Window System: The Boot Stipple ( via ). Neko: History of a Software Pet ( via ). Tclssg :…
Classic Computer Brochures ( via ). WireViz : easily document cables and wiring harnesses ( via ). City In A Bottle : a 256 byte raycasting system ( via ). CBSD : FreeBSD Jail and Bhyve management tools. Ode to Blue Skies : The Importance of the Flight Simulator. Doom for SNES full source code released . re2c : compiles regular expression specifications to deterministic finite automata. The…
Lode Runner Gallery : catalog of official Lode Runner levels. The new features of Fortran 2023 (PDF). arix : KDE1 on Debian 13 ( via ). AppleTrek source code (1978). New BSD Games : package of 18 text-based modern games. Cog : Python-based file generation tool. Apache Rivet : like PHP, but with Tcl. DBeaver : free multi-platform database tool written in Java. Intel oneAPI DPC++/C++ on FreeBSD .…
Banner Depot 2000 ( via ). 7DRL Challenge 2024 : March 1 – 11. PGF/TikZ Manual : Complete Online Documentation ( via ). Web CGI programs aren’t particularly slow these days ( via ). Challenging projects every programmer should try ( via ). SQLite: JSONB has landed ( via ). The hidden gems of moreutils ( via ). Harlequin : The SQL IDE for your terminal ( via ). Free fantasy map brushes ( via ).…
LLVM-MOS 6502 Backend : Having a Blast in the Past ( via ). Kristall Small-Internet Browser ( via ). μMon : stupid simple monitoring ( via ). Colors : a nicer color palette for the web. Systemd service file generator . Beej’s Quick Guide to GDB (2009). Quake Brutalist Jam II ( via ). Libpq-Fortran : a modern Fortran interface for libpq. Vintage CGI Archive . Half-Life : 25th Anniversary…
Going Rogue . An Adventure walkthrough, with bugs ( via ). HTTP has become the default, universal communication protocol ( via ). 50 Years of Text Games : From Oregon Trail to AI Dungeon. StarCraft : Legacy of the Real-Time Strategy. Battlezone (1980) Disassembly . Netscape Meteors ( via ). Duke Smoochem 3D : an interactive shitpost. No More Secrets : decryption effect seen in the 1992 film…
Anatomy of a random number generator . QB64 Phoenix Edition : extended BASIC + OpenGL language that retains QB 4.5 compatibility. COBOL-CASTER : raycaster exercise in COBOL. EndBASIC : BASIC environment with REPL. FOSBIC : BASIC compiler in FORTRAN IV. Atom feed format was born 20 years ago ( via ). Veusz : a scientific plotting package. ndjson : newline-delimited JSON. The Gemini protocol seen by…