A running description of activity related to DragonFly BSD.
No theme, all eclectic. The Bad Apple video, ASCII version, playing without CSS or JS. (via) Sounds of the 60s: The IBM 1401. I ve heard this before as sound effects and never realized it. (via) The Map of Metal. Similar to longtime favorite Ishkur s Guide to Electronic Music. (also via) The BBC Tetris Companion. Hardware Continue reading "Lazy Reading for 2026/08/16"
Interesting personal tech feats is the mini-theme. How you wind up with switches above your office s false ceiling. Every office job I ever had, now that I think about it. How I self-host my ebooks and audiobooks. Calibre is an astonishingly useful program. Entering accented characters in Linux. Which should be in X11 , so it Continue reading "Lazy Reading for 2026/08/09"
Tomorrow s presentation at NYCBUG is VIDAR, a FreeBSD-based automatic firewall program. Read the event description for details. Go, if you are near. The announcement doesn t mention streaming so you may need to be in-person.
Alert reader Nick pointed out that Mastodon posts to bsd.network for the Digest weren t happening automatically. The plugin was disabled and I don t have a reason as to why. I just turned it back on and we ll see if this post comes through.
It s a fun links week! Decker, a modern tool enough like Hypercard to make me notice. (via) Dinos That Drive, a new book illustrated by the guy who brought you Behold! The Dinosaurs! Be More Party Cannon. Hardcore IndieWeb. (via) Describing the early Internet was surprisingly easy. The Cybernetics Digital Library. (via) I Did Not Continue reading "Lazy Reading for 2026/08/02"
Tiny computer mini-theme. A Minimal Syntax For Quantum Text, the methods used to generate the different-every-printing novel Subcutanean. The book itself has been linked here before. (via) Li’l Factory AB, a tiny fiction publisher. (via) Asterism Books, another oddities publisher. (via) The Virtual OS Museum, emulated computer setups, pre-prepared as Linux VM images. (via) Declassified Continue…
There s some rabbit holes here. Next NYCBUG meeting: it s a social meeting (no guest speaker), August 5th. The Life and Times of Maxis, Part 1: SimEverything. Everyone s played at least one Sim game in their lifetime, correct? Weird Side Projects. (via) Diane Lindo, stop motion animations. (also via) A terminal version of Obsidian. Different from Continue reading "Lazy Reading for 2026/07/19"
Some of these will keep you busy a long time. Why I Like Small Keyboards. Linked for the keyboard picture; smallest split I ve ever seen. Erwin Wurm: One Minute Artworks. Found via this post read to the end for the connection, and watch the video while you are at it. Difficult, Important, Succeeding? OpenRA. Continue reading "Lazy Reading for 2026/07/12"
This is entirely overflow links from last week, pre-posted. Cyberdeck Meetup Notes. (via) I wish Iffy Books was closer; those are some fun events on the calendar. Painting with Light. The Wholesale Plagiarism of Obscure Sorrows. I was finding wholesale copies of this Digest back in I think 2008 or so. Using Claude Code to Continue reading "Lazy Reading for 2026/07/05"
I should maybe create a Thinkpad category. NYCBUG s having a social meetup on July 1st; stories about BSDCan will be told, I m sure. When Dystopian Sci-Fi Ruled the Cola Wars. This seems like a named aesthetic. (via) Building a serial and VGA everything console . Linked cause the author is using one of the IBM keyboards Continue reading "Lazy Reading for 2026/06/28"
Some of these links are more mainstream? I Left Port 22 Open on the Internet for 54 Days. (via) Taken. (also via) Feynman s formula on trying new restaurant foods. The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech. Yeah, clickbait, but accurate. (via) How NASA Built Artemis II’s Fault-Tolerant Computer. (via) 21st Century Nightmares: Dark Animations. Movies Continue reading "Lazy Reading for 2026/06/21"
I found a stash of saved emails/links that I don t think I ever posted, so they re mixed in here. FreeBSD sh for MacOS. Biggest DynaTAC ever. 3D.City. (via) Dice Soup. (via The Glatisant. Lots of other links in that source.) The best secondary prompt string possible. A hat on your calculator. (via) Related: modern versions Continue reading "Lazy Reading for 2026/06/14"
I m posting this now cause it s timely: there s a remote-only FreeBSD presentation at SLUUG so everyone can watch.
I get to break out the Apple ][ category again! Vibe Coding a $20k /year Enterprise Logistics Platform. We are returning to the era of custom internal software. This I sort of like? my favorite independent stop-motion movies. I saw Blood Tea and Red String years ago; it was a wonderful if strange experience. Those Continue reading "Lazy Reading for 2026/06/07"
Because of Circumstances, I didn t post earlier about this but there is a stream to watch right now at the NYCBUG website for tonight s OpenBSD Security Mitigations presentation with Brian Callahan.
No theme, just links. Let s find out how to get predictable IPv6 addresses assigned to OpenBSD VMs. Linked in part just for the IPv6 details. Fractions in HTML. Linked to remember it for next time I need to write a fraction, though not here. WordPress will eat the HTML entities when saving. DinoCon 2026 schedule. Continue reading "Lazy Reading for 2026/05/31"
Is anyone reading this a Home Assistant user and if so, how do you like it? Building my own Vi text editor in BASIC. (via) Monitor your devices with LibreNMS on FreeBSD. Adventures in Code. (via) Related: Russ Cox on regex. (via) Vibing a wardriving visualizer. Linked for the wifi mapping. The 2FA app that Continue reading "Lazy Reading for 2026/05/24"
There s some fun stuff here if you have the time to dig. Moppetry. Muppets plus D D. (via) Using A VT-100 Today. That reminds me, I have a VT-320 in the basement that I need to hook up. NetHack 5.0.0: Release Notes. (via) And you can run it on your Atari. (via) THEC64 Handheld. (via) Claude Continue reading "Lazy Reading for 2026/05/17"
Reminder: NYCBUG s next event is in two days. It s The Design of Unix Shell with Stephen Bourne. You should go; it s a chance to talk directly with the author of foundational software. Update: apparently the slides for this talk have been ready for 48 years or so.
Nostalgia might be creeping in here. “Plain text has been around for decades and it’s here to stay.” Pseudo-ASCII design tools. Old-School Essentials Online Rules Reference. Root Loops, cereal-themed terminal colors. (via this discussion of tmux config, via) “Don’t eat your seed corn”, about homogenization of ideas. Who Is That Knocking At My (SSH) Door? Continue reading "Lazy Reading for…