An article about the history of FreeDOS: How FreeDOS Grew Up and Became a Modern DOS.
Category Archives: Chatter
Big universe
Stumbled upon this homage to the old powers of ten video from the 70s: Our Universe is SO big, it’s mindblowing! 🤯 BBC.
ping!
Note to self: if you hear a computer go ‘ping’ and you’re not sure where it’s coming from, check the VMs on your Mac. End note.
Chomsky and Orwell
I was watching The YPU Debates Noam Chomsky — “Resolved: End the American Empire” and he mentioned Orwell’s proposed introduction to Animal Farm.
Recent articles
So via r/programming today: Modern storage is plenty fast. It is the APIs that are bad. and Anti-Patterns When Building Container Images.
And via lobsters: How Does NTP Work? and The curse of scalable technology.
MIT Has Predicted that Society Will Collapse in 2040
Slavoj Žižek
Today I learned of Slavoj Žižek while reading my MEAP copy of Street Coder.
goto conference talks
Some talks from the goto conference that came through recently:
Flash Fiction Stories: 25 Examples of Lighting-Fast Stories
Today I discovered: Flash Fiction Stories: 25 Examples of Lighting-Fast Stories. There’s some cool stories in there. I didn’t read all of them.
PHP DoH endpoint
This in the news today: A simple PHP script that can be used to add a DoH endpoint to a HTTPS server.