this is a show-n-tell of all the hardware I bought over the summer (including some cool accessories like a thinkpad classic keyboard usb converter) which I picked up when I wasn't busy cutting grass (I touch a lot of grass) and going through why I bought it!

this is a show-n-tell of all the hardware I bought over the summer (including some cool accessories like a thinkpad classic keyboard usb converter) which I picked up when I wasn't busy cutting grass (I touch a lot of grass) and going through why I bought it!

Nostalgia for a more relaxed era of computing can drive one to resurrecting ancient protocols, breathing in solder fumes, and exploring old-new networking technologies on OpenBSD.

Original on the Gemini protocol

Nostalgia for a more relaxed era of computing can drive one to resurrecting ancient protocols, breathing in solder fumes, and exploring old-new networking technologies on OpenBSD.

Original on the Gemini protocol

Programming sucks. Code sucks. It's hard to read, hard to test, and hard to maintain. Only a handful of people can understand any particular software project. These are major problems. I'm here to explain how we can fix them.

We& liked the ideas posed in this article. Literate programming has intrigued us for some time, and those of us who like Windows (in a retrocomputing sense lol) are also quite fond of Visual Basic (at least pre-.NET), which is at least part way towards a visual programming environment.

A list of wikis with policies prohibiting generative AI

This is a fledgling community of programmers who view programming as an art, and thus reject AI.

So this is a guide on a thing that my system and several other systems do that helps us a lot with intentional switching, internal communication, and so forth. We kind of cultivate for every member of the system a "bundle" of associations and sensory impressions as a way for the rest of the system to reach them or as a way for them to reach out. For ease of discussion, I'll refer to these association-bundles as "internal signatures", or simply "signatures".

As a disclaimer, this technique works well for us, but your mileage may vary. You probably won't experience everything the exact same way that we do, and that's okay! No two systems are the same - take what works and leave the rest.

We caught ourselves doing this long before we read this article.

These signatures also help with other aspects of our identities as well. There's a decent amount of us who are therians, and their animal-related signatures are a big part of that identity.

(This is a guest post by Rairii)

So today I reached a nice milestone in one of my projects: my work porting classic Mac OS to PowerPC systems with what I affectionately call ArtX chipsets (Nintendo GameCube, Wii, eventually Wii U; the GameCube’s Flipper integrated chipset was very much designed by ArtX as it was effectively finished when ATI acquired the company, and the Wii’s Vegas (and its later revision Bollywood) and Wii U’s Latte are effectively straight successors) reached the desktop for the first time, most likely the first time since the CHRP clone era that someone outside of Apple brought up classic Mac OS on a new system to the desktop. Despite still being nowhere near ready for a public release, I want to talk about the challenges I faced with this project so far.

(This is a guest post by Rairii)

So today I reached a nice milestone in one of my projects: my work porting classic Mac OS to PowerPC systems with what I affectionately call ArtX chipsets (Nintendo GameCube, Wii, eventually Wii U; the GameCube’s Flipper integrated chipset was very much designed by ArtX as it was effectively finished when ATI acquired the company, and the Wii’s Vegas (and its later revision Bollywood) and Wii U’s Latte are effectively straight successors) reached the desktop for the first time, most likely the first time since the CHRP clone era that someone outside of Apple brought up classic Mac OS on a new system to the desktop. Despite still being nowhere near ready for a public release, I want to talk about the challenges I faced with this project so far.

Fanfic Author Appreciation Week (FAAW) is a week-long event celebrating all authors who create fanfiction. You can participate in this event by assigning a fanfiction you have read during the big 2026 AO3 outage to each of the prompts listed below. The event starts on the day AO3 is back to its full capacity, right after the site states that there will be no more sudden, unexpected downtimes for maintenance.

Found the video interesting as someone from the US. I honestly thought the TurboGrafx-16 was, well, a 16-bit console based on the name. It's actually a very advanced 8-bit console, which I find far more interesting from a hardware point of view.