No Backup: The demise of physical media
From “Backup Floppies” to “No Physical Media” in 40 years. ⌘ Read more

Commodore SX-64 – The first color, portable computer
Bonus: The (real) story of the portable Amiga! ⌘ Read more

8-Bit Week – Days 3 & 4 Roundup
More 8-Bit fun than you can shake a stick at. ⌘ Read more

Intel 8008: The wild tale of the first 8-Bit CPU
Not technically the first… and not actually designed by Intel. ⌘ Read more

8-Bit Week – Day 1 & 2 Roundup
Listen now (27 min) | The Lunduke Journal Podcast - January 5th, 2023 ⌘ Read more

The 10 Best Commodore 64 Games… Ever.
(According to Lunduke) ⌘ Read more

8-Bit Week begins at The Lunduke Journal
Listen now (21 min) | Apple II. Commodore 64. Atari 400. NES. Sega Master System. And so many others… all week long! ⌘ Read more

Funny Programming Pictures Part XVIII
Because it’s the end of 2022, and we deserve a good laugh. ⌘ Read more

Lunduke’s Favorite Stories of 2022
Listen now (38 min) | News, history, & satire. The computer-y articles that Lunduke found the most interesting over the last year. ⌘ Read more

CIA & FBI can neither confirm nor deny they know about these Operating Systems
Gentoo Linux, OpenBSD, and even Windows Vista are hush-hush. ⌘ Read more

The CIA invests in these Tech companies
Video games. Search engines. Social Media. Open Source. Even SQL databases. Seriously. ⌘ Read more

The incredibly boring, totally reasonable finances of the GNOME Foundation
Frugal. Transparent. Focused on their core business. ⌘ Read more

The Lunduke Journal Predictions for 2023
Listen now (41 min) | The Lunduke Journal Podcast - December 27, 2022 ⌘ Read more

BREAKING: The Lunduke Journal predicts 37% more buzzwords in 2023
“Imagine a sharknado… but with buzzwords instead of sharks. Horrifying.” ⌘ Read more

Animated ASCII fireworks in your Terminal for New Years
Lunduke’s Holiday BASH Animations now has a “Fireworks” option. ⌘ Read more

Help The Lunduke Journal “Speak Truth to (Tech) Power”
This publication is unique, and needs your support. ⌘ Read more

The Fork Bomb: What it is, how it works, and where it originated
The idea started in 1969… and it’s been causing computers to crash ever since. ⌘ Read more

Haiku Beta 4 – The Definitive Review
With the latest Beta, the open source Haiku Operating System becomes viable for daily usage. ⌘ Read more

Report: Over 33 Million Desktop Linux users, worldwide
A detailed analysis of all available Desktop Linux market share metrics. ⌘ Read more

Firefox Money: Investigating the bizarre finances of Mozilla
Payments to nonexistent companies? Funding politics? Reliance on a single customer? And that’s just for starters. ⌘ Read more

Animated ASCII Christmas Tree and Hanukkah Menorah in your Shell
Because your Terminal deserves to feel festive during the holidays. ⌘ Read more

BREAKING: Red Hat CEO admits he “has no idea what Kubernetes is”
“Pretty sure it’s like, Rust, I think,” stated Canonical CEO. ⌘ Read more

Apple has changed… and not in a good way.
Apple of 2022 is not the same company it used to be. It has, to be frank, lost its way. ⌘ Read more

The Linux Foundation launches map foundation to compete with Google
And, you know what? It’s actually pretty well licensed! ⌘ Read more

Commercial Dev Tool vendor adds ARM64 and “Dark Mode” for Linux
The multi-platform Xojo IDE (Mac, Windows, iOS) keeps beefing up their Linux support. Which pleases Lunduke. ⌘ Read more

“The Sidecar” – Adding advanced networking, and a Linux shell, to a Psion palmtop
One of the coolest designs I’ve seen for extending older computers via the serial port. ⌘ Read more

BREAKING: EU orders Apple to add RS-232 port to iPhone
“We’re… super… excited to add a serial port to the iPhone,” stated Apple CEO Tim Cook, in a not at all forced tone of voice. ⌘ Read more

AltaVista Search Engine turns 27 years old
Before Google was even an idea… there was AltaVista. ⌘ Read more

PDA Week Wrap-up!
Spending a week reminiscing and marveling at the glory of the PDA. ⌘ Read more

What was the first PDA?
It wasn’t the Palm Pilot. Nor the Newton. Let’s keep going back to find the answer… ⌘ Read more

The Tech Bullies vs. Raspberry Pi
The mob of Tech Bullies has chosen a new target this week. ⌘ Read more

Haiku becomes viable for daily use (right on schedule)
Listen now (24 min) | The Lunduke Journal Podcast - December 9, 2022 ⌘ Read more

The Tandy Zoomer – The x86 PDA before the Palm Pilot
A 1992 handheld, with multitasking, that could access AOL. Wild. ⌘ Read more

Will A.I. like ChatGPT or GitHub Copilot replace human programmers?
An in-depth analysis. ⌘ Read more

PDA Week begins!
Listen now (20 min) | The Lunduke Journal Podcast - December 6, 2022 ⌘ Read more

Links to everywhere you can find Lunduke on the Internet
RSS feeds, social media, video sharing… all of it. ⌘ Read more

Evil A.I. made in evil ways: ChatGPT & GitHub Copilot
Listen now (26 min) | The Lunduke Journal Podcast - December 4, 2022 ⌘ Read more

Pondering on Mastodon and the Fediverse
Listen now (24 min) | The Lunduke Journal Podcast - December 3, 2022 ⌘ Read more

How to Pronounce Tech Words (part 2)
Watch now (6 min) | Some computer words are hard to say. Let Lunduke help you. ⌘ Read more

Sideloading is the most important feature of any SmartPhone
You heard me. Most important feature. By far. ⌘ Read more

The SCREAM Test
One of Lunduke’s Super-Amazing™ Programming Tips ⌘ Read more

TempleOS lives on… in a very weird way.
Watch now (20 min) | The new “ZealOS” looks to continue the work of Terry Davis. Sorta. ⌘ Read more

A Smalltalk SmartPhone: The “SqueakPhone”
Watch now (18 min) | An alternate universe of what a smartphone OS could be like. ⌘ Read more

BREAKING: Ubuntu expands in-Terminal advertising program
Users can now enjoy advertisements right from their Command Line. ⌘ Read more

How to pronounce Open Source & Linux words
Watch now (7 min) | Think you know how to say “GNOME” and “Ubuntu”? Think again. ⌘ Read more

Firefox version 107
Watch now (17 min) | The most boring Firefox… ever. ⌘ Read more

Unity 7.6… for Arch Linux!?
Watch now (16 min) | Because, why not? ⌘ Read more

LibreOffice going Blockchain?!
Watch now (16 min) | Seriously. LibreOffice met with Ethereum to talk about this. ⌘ Read more

Interview: Brian Hall (veteran PalmOS dev)
Watch now (63 min) | On: Newtons, Sony Clie PDAs, the end days of PalmOS, and emulating old consoles & computers. ⌘ Read more

Fedora Linux 37 released!
Watch now (25 min) | It may be late, but it’s sweet. ⌘ Read more