what if instead of www over http, internet sites were git repositories and every day your browser fetched updates to each one and navigated them offline and as a bonus you had archives of your favorite internet sites that you could search with grep it could be called ggg: the Global Git Gossamer™

"Microsoft’s Open Source Programs Office (OSPO), Team Xbox, and Activision are making Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III available under the MIT License" opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11...

Who coulda seen that coming.... 🙄

Loose wires sink ships www.ntsb.gov/news/press-r...

The kerning on that Tr pair is really bothering me

"We're (now) moving from OpenBSD to FreeBSD for firewalls" utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/b...

It's official! #PicoIDE, the open source IDE/ATAPI drive emulator I've been working on for the better part of this year, will be launching at Crowd Supply! Go there to sign up for updates and to be notified when the campaign is live: www.crowdsupply.com/polpotronics...

Just as I suspected, it was all Rust's fault blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-...

New feature is up: The Cameras Tracking You Are A Security Nightmare youtu.be/uB0gr7Fh6lY

I was reminded I made a thing on my Machintosh Plus and had tried to say thank you to @jcs.org and realised I didn’t think I ever got that message to you. Anyway, thank you @jcs.org. Keep up the good work. youtu.be/38WJ7ZgrRQg?...

according to my wife

the overhead announcement at the grocery store just advertised a URL that ended in "dot html" i'm now imagining their webmaster uploading a static html file to their ftp site with WS_FTP

do i tell them

New video up! Just finished the massive project of restoring/rebuilding @lgr-yt.bsky.social’s destroyed Chaplet Halikan LA-30A. This was a big one 😅. Enjoy! youtu.be/BilLgXkR_Kw

You told me you got a raspberry pie and I show up and it's little fucking computer?

remember freshmeat\.net? web.archive.org/web/20040610...

Macintosh Plus Mini

Progman is a very cool Windows 3.1 style window manager by @jcs.org github.com/jcs/progman Simple, familiar, no bloat and lightweight

Is there a more anachronistic yet somehow still plausible sentence in 2025 than "please fax a copy of the check"

Made a cool rug

Hey look it's my boxed Macintosh software at 17:08

OpenBSD 7.8 released marc.info?l=openbsd-an... www.openbsd.org/78.html

I saw a commercial today that had only "us.hisamitsu" at the bottom and it took me a minute to realize that was actually their website address because they have their own TLD

how things are going in linuxland

The original "OpenBSD developer laptop" before ThinkPads

This level of llvm support for the Z80 would be nifty www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejbT...

Boards of Canada's "Olson" on a 1959 PDP-1 youtube.com/watch?v=wubk...

Things you miss out on buying at VCF Midwest because you were stuck at your table :/ www.reddit.com/r/VintageApp...

godspeed you! black emperor in a cemetery

Ah yes, the situation every OS developer fears: Microsoft taking your MIT-licensed software and... completely abandoning their massive OS that underwent decades of refinement to rebrand your little hobby OS as their own news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4538...

maybe they're depressed because you're calling them a dummy

I got my VCFMW stickers from makestickers.com and really liked them. And for Chicago people, they're in Tinley Park so they arrived very fast.

macOS Tahoe is ugly but it does have one redeeming new feature: when FileVault is enabled, the pre-boot environment now has an SSH server running so you can SSH in and it will unlock the disk to continue booting

lol www.theverge.com/news/780757/...

What are some other apps you're still using after 13 years?

I just watched Sneakers last night :( RIP Bishop www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/m...

A great name for a battery company

Aside from a boxed copy of @ericsedge.com's game, the only thing I bought at #VCFMW was this mouse cover mouse crocheted by a nice lady She was excited to inform me that next year they will have little pink noses

Nice to meetcha.

I am at VCFMW, stop by and say hi

The next time you feel bad about adding a kludge to your iOS app, remember it's kludges all the way down

Rackintosh Plus Is the Form Factor Nobody Has Been Waiting For

When my wife shuts the lid of my OpenBSD ThinkPad

Are drafts on Truth Social called half-truths?