Links — #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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