Links — #fun

• Advanced Mac Substitute (Apr 26, 2026)
  An API-level reimplementation of 1980s-era Mac OS that runs classic Mac binaries on modern systems without emulation.
  #fun #systems
• BYTE Magazine, issue #1, September 1975 (Apr 26, 2026)
  The full BYTE Magazine archive on the Internet Archive, starting with the very first issue. A time machine for early personal computing.
  #blogs #fun
• endless-toil: hear your agent suffer through your code (Apr 26, 2026)
  A tiny tool that streams text-to-speech narration of your coding agent's output. Mostly a joke, partially genuine ergonomics.
  #ai #fun
• The Free Universal Construction Kit (Apr 26, 2026)
  Eighty 3D-printable adapter pieces for full interoperability between Lego, Lincoln Logs, K'Nex, Tinkertoys, and seven other construction toys.
  #fun
• The Listening Museum — 36 keyboards, sound-mapped (Apr 26, 2026)
  An interactive page that plays your typing on 36 mechanical keyboards, from the IBM Model M to modern thocky customs.
  #fun
• They're made out of meat (1991) (Apr 26, 2026)
  Terry Bisson's classic two-page short. The single best fictional reaction to the question of biological intelligence, and it's just dialogue.
  #essays #fun
• Treetops glowing during storms, captured on film for the first time (Apr 26, 2026)
  Penn State researchers capture corona discharge in tree canopies on camera — tiny ultraviolet pulses dancing at leaf tips during thunderstorms.
  #essays #fun
• Optimal strategy for Connect 4 (Apr 26, 2026)
  An interactive site that plays optimal Connect 4 against you, with a written explanation of the search strategy that makes it work.
  #compsci #fun #math
• Datahäxan (Apr 4, 2026)
  Digital witchcraft art gallery from 0dd Company.
  #fun
• Voyager 1 Runs on 69 KB of Memory (Apr 4, 2026)
  A 1977 time capsule: Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder.
  #fun
• Baochip-1x (Apr 4, 2026)
  An open hardware chip project — what it is, why now, and how it came about.
  #fun
• Georgian Wine: 8,000 Years of Uninterrupted Culture (Apr 4, 2026)
  The world’s oldest wine tradition, stretching back approximately eight thousand years.
  #fun
• Timeframe (Apr 4, 2026)
  Building a family e-paper dashboard — a maker project from design to daily use.
  #fun
• ISBN Visualization (Apr 4, 2026)
  A visual exploration of the structure and distribution of ISBN numbers.
  #fun
• Building a TB-303 from Scratch (Apr 4, 2026)
  A detailed tutorial on building the legendary acid house synthesizer from components.
  #fun
• Memo (Apr 4, 2026)
  An esoteric programming language that only remembers the last 12 lines of code.
  #fun
• Payphone Go (Apr 4, 2026)
  A game about finding and visiting real payphones in the wild.
  #fun
• “Billy Bookshelves as a Retro Motherboard Rack” (Apr 4, 2026)
  “Using IKEA BILLY shelves to rack vintage motherboards — form following function.”
  #fun
• Treasure hunter freed from jail after refusing to turn over shipwreck gold (Apr 4, 2026)
  A treasure hunter spent years in jail for contempt rather than reveal the location of shipwreck gold.
  #fun
• What's the best way to learn a new language? (Apr 4, 2026)
  BBC on the science of language acquisition — immersion, apps, and what actually works.
  #fun
• The Day the Telnet Died (Mar 8, 2026)
  GreyNoise documents the decline of telnet traffic — internet infrastructure history in real time.
  #fun #essays
• Lessons From Living in a Very Snowy Place (Mar 8, 2026)
  Eukaryote Writes Blog on the practical wisdom of deep winter.
  #essays #fun
• Clinejection (Mar 8, 2026)
  How a GitHub issue title led to prompt injection that compromised 4,000 developer machines via AI coding tools.
  #fun #essays
• Aesthetics of Single Threading (Mar 8, 2026)
  Why single-threaded designs have genuine aesthetic and practical appeal.
  #essays #fun
• nCPU (Mar 8, 2026)
  A CPU that runs entirely on a GPU. Deeply weird and genuinely educational systems hack.
  #fun #essays
• Good Software Knows When to Stop (Mar 8, 2026)
  On the discipline of knowing when a feature set is complete.
  #essays #fun
• I'm Reluctant to Verify My Identity for Any Online Service (Mar 8, 2026)
  A privacy-first take on why age and identity verification is a bad default.
  #fun #essays
• The Windows 95 UI: A Usability Case Study (1996) (Mar 8, 2026)
  A detailed ACM case study on the usability engineering behind Windows 95's interface.
  #fun #essays
• Loon (Mar 8, 2026)
  A functional language with invisible types, safe ownership, and algebraic effects.
  #fun #essays
• No Coding Before 10am (Mar 8, 2026)
  On structuring creative work around your actual productive hours.
  #essays #fun
• 406.fail (Mar 8, 2026)
  A protocol spec for rejecting AI-generated pull requests. The RFC parody format is half the fun.
  #fun #essays
• Spying Chrome Extensions (Mar 8, 2026)
  Research uncovering 287 Chrome extensions silently tracking 37 million users.
  #fun #essays
• The Eternal Promise: Attempts to Eliminate Programmers (Mar 8, 2026)
  From COBOL to AI — the recurring cycle of promising that programmers are about to become obsolete.
  #essays #fun
• Those Who Can, Teach History (Mar 8, 2026)
  A defense of teaching as intellectual work, not a fallback career.
  #essays #fun
• On the Design of Programming Languages (1974) (Mar 8, 2026)
  A 1974 paper on what makes a programming language well-designed. Still relevant.
  #fun #essays
• What Not to Write on Your Security Clearance Form (Mar 8, 2026)
  Real answers from security clearance forms, collected in 1988. An internet classic.
  #fun #essays
• Why C Has the Best File API (Mar 8, 2026)
  A case for C's file I/O design being more thoughtful than its successors.
  #essays #fun
• Why Vampires Live Forever (Mar 8, 2026)
  Approaching vampire mythology through biology and evolutionary logic.
  #essays #fun
• Claude's Cycles (Mar 8, 2026)
  A Knuth paper on mathematical cycles. The naming coincidence with the AI is a bonus.
  #fun #essays
• “An Introduction to the Codex Seraphinianus” (Mar 1, 2026)
  “Introduction to the strangest book ever published -- an encyclopedia of an imaginary world.”
  #fun
• “The Hunt for Dark Breakfast” (Mar 1, 2026)
  “A mathematical exploration treating breakfast as a simplex of milk, eggs, and flour ratios.”
  #fun #math
• Nullboard (Feb 7, 2026)
  Minimalist kanban board in a single HTML file. Focused on compactness and readability.
  #fun #tools
• pseudo3d (Feb 7, 2026)
  A raycaster in bash. Because why not.
  #fun
• bash-dungeon (Feb 7, 2026)
  An educational dungeon crawler written entirely in bash.
  #fun
• shell.how (Feb 7, 2026)
  Paste a shell command, get a plain-English breakdown of what it does.
  #fun #tools

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