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Stories by kidon

I told you so, 2021 edition (jwz.org)
L 86 pts 60 comments by kidon Jan 16, 2021 linuxsecurity Systems / Low-Level / OSSecurity / Privacy thread
Winamp Skin Museum (skins.webamp.org)
L 60 pts 16 comments by kidon Sep 4, 2020 historical Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
alt.binaries.images.underwater.non-violent.moderated: A Deep Dive (waxy.org)
L 49 pts 5 comments by kidon Oct 31, 2020 historical Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
XMPP: The Forgotten Gem of Instant Messaging (adele.pages.casa)
L 48 pts 74 comments by kidon Nov 7, 2024 networking Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
The Sumerian Game: The most important video game you’ve never heard of (acriticalhit.com)
L 48 pts 8 comments by kidon Sep 12, 2021 gameshistorical Gaming / Retro ComputingCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
Simulating the PIN cracking scene in Terminator 2 (bert.org)
L 28 pts 0 comments by kidon Jan 5, 2021 arthistorical Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
39C3 Fahrplan 2025 (fahrplan.events.ccc.de)
L 27 pts 8 comments by kidon Dec 9, 2025 event thread
Fortran Programming Language (fortran-lang.org)
L 25 pts 20 comments by kidon May 28, 2020 fortran Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
XScreenSaver was released 30 years ago (jwz.org)
L 23 pts 0 comments by kidon Aug 20, 2022 arthistorical Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
Larry EllisonĘĽs Oracle started as a CIA project (2014) (paleofuture.gizmodo.com)
L 21 pts 7 comments by kidon Oct 20, 2020 historical Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
RPG Maker: History & Games (felipepepe.medium.com)
L 20 pts 2 comments by kidon Dec 27, 2021 games Gaming / Retro ComputingMaker / DIY / HardwareCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
“Myst” demake for Apple II (deater.net)
L 20 pts 4 comments by kidon Oct 3, 2020 gameshistorical Apple / macOS / iOSGaming / Retro ComputingCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
Video Game Preservation (github.com)
L 19 pts 1 comments by kidon Dec 27, 2021 gameshistorical Gaming / Retro ComputingCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
In Search of David Long’s 751-point “Adventure” (club.cc.cmu.edu)
L 19 pts 0 comments by kidon Sep 12, 2021 gameshistorical Gaming / Retro ComputingCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
Working in the software industry, circa 1989 (dev.jimgrey.net)
L 18 pts 2 comments by kidon Jul 11, 2022 culturehistorical Programming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
Instagram: How not to do messaging (jwz.org)
L 17 pts 8 comments by kidon Jan 22, 2022 rant thread
Schedule 37th Chaos Communication Congress (fahrplan.events.ccc.de)
L 15 pts 5 comments by kidon Dec 26, 2023 event thread
Museum of Obsolete Media (obsoletemedia.org)
L 15 pts 2 comments by kidon Nov 11, 2020 historical Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
Some sanity for C and C++ development on Windows (nullprogram.com)
L 14 pts 5 comments by kidon Dec 31, 2021 cc++windows Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
Interface Hall of Shame [2000] (web.archive.org)
L 13 pts 0 comments by kidon Dec 27, 2021 historicalpractices Productivity / Career / BusinessCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
FOSDEM 2021: more boring shit (n-gate.com)
L 11 pts 8 comments by kidon Feb 2, 2021 rantsatire thread
Tutorial sites treating FreeBSD like a Linux distro (rubenerd.com)
L 11 pts 4 comments by kidon Jul 13, 2020 freebsd Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
Games by Example (github.com)
L 10 pts 0 comments by kidon Sep 12, 2021 gamespython Programming (General)Gaming / Retro Computing thread
1993: CGI Scripts and Early Server-Side Web Programming (webdevelopmenthistory.com)
L 9 pts 12 comments by kidon Jul 26, 2022 historicalweb Web DevelopmentProgramming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
rC3 Fahrplan 2021 (rc3.world)
L 8 pts 1 comments by kidon Dec 27, 2021 event thread
FreeBSD has a(nother) new C compiler: Intel oneAPI DPC++/C++ (briancallahan.net)
L 7 pts 0 comments by kidon Mar 7, 2024 cc++freebsd Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
COCOMO II – Constructive Cost Model (softwarecost.org)
L 7 pts 0 comments by kidon Jan 17, 2023 financepractices Productivity / Career / Business thread
Software Library: Screensavers (archive.org)
L 7 pts 4 comments by kidon Jan 10, 2022 historical Programming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
Exciting recent developments for Fortran coders (digitalenvironment.org)
L 6 pts 0 comments by kidon Jan 7, 2022 fortran Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
FortranCon 2020 videos (youtube.com)
L 6 pts 0 comments by kidon Sep 4, 2020 fortranvideo Programming Languages / CS Theory thread