ewxrjk/with-readline
github.com
Apply readline editing to arbitrary programs
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Forget spaceships; I just want my music
jeffgeerling.com
Enshittification has reached new heights, as Sony just decided to yoink over a thousand seasons—that’s right, seasons, not episodes—of Discovery shows from the PlayStation Store.
But they’re not just removing them from the store.
They’re removing them from people’s libraries.
A Surprising Side of Carl Sagan
nautil.us
“Art and science and literature and music and math—when you’re in school, you have these artificial delineations between them; we have this sense that there are walls between these subjects,” she says. “But they’re all intertwined and interconnected. And the more deeply we understand any one of them, the more deeply we can understand the others.”
Smol Net
communitywiki.org
The “smol” net is the “small” net. It’s small because it is build for friends and friends of friends. It doesn’t have to scale to millions of people because those millions should build their own local small nets.
Meet Your Interstitium, a Newfound "Organ"
scientificamerican.com
Previously, researchers had thought these tissue layers were a dense “wall” of collagen—a strong structural protein found in connective tissue. But the new finding reveals that, rather than a “wall,” this tissue is more like an “open, fluid-filled highway”.
The History of Robotron: 2084 - Running Away While Defending Humanoids
gamedeveloper.com
Like Defender before it – which proved that the public was ready for more complex games – Robotron proved that the public was ready for the type of simultaneous control that is a hallmark of modern gaming, where controlling both movement and aiming or camera control have become requirements for effective play within today’s 3D games.
Just Your Handyman
plough.com
Our orderly mastery of materials is powerful, but it’s secondary – McGilchrist believes we’ve spent centuries mistakenly trusting our engineered, manufactured, modern, manipulated existence as though we have the power to construct something fixed and predictable, all to the detriment of the inextricable relatedness of everything.
kfv/keylock
github.com
macOS utility to lock the keyboard for easy cleaning.
55 years ago, the ‘Mother of All Demos’ foresaw modern computing
opb.org
Engelbart grew up on a small farm in Southeast Portland where his father operated a radio store.
He graduated from Franklin High School in 1942 and enrolled at Oregon State College, now called Oregon State University, to study electrical engineering.
When World War II interrupted his studies, he spent two years working as a Navy radio and radar technician in the Philippines.
In a 1986 oral history, Engelbart said the radar training was critical to his later work: “I knew about screens, and how you could use the electronics to shape symbols from any kind of information you had. If there was information that could otherwise go to a card punch or a computer printer, you could convert that to any kind of symbology you wanted on the screen. That just all came from the radar training.”
Sneakers Computer Press Kit
archive.org
Released in conjuction with the computer hacking movie “Sneakers” (1992), this floppy-based “computer press kit” contained many of the aspects of regular movie press kits, including cast bios, plots, and information on all aspects of production. It was intended for press, and as such is both “locked up” (via passwords) but also endeavored to help the same press get through the barriers as quickly as possible.
The balancing act between technical complexity and simplicity to ensure promotion is quite notable.