Laptops Powered by AA Batteries (Seriously)
And some of them run an impressively long time on a single set of Double-A’s. ⌘ Read more

The History of the Graphical User Interface – 1945 to 1980
A visual, historical tour of the early years of computer GUI’s… starting in 1945. ⌘ Read more

The CDE-look-a-like desktop gets a 2.0 release
The Not so Common Desktop Environment (NsCDE) has old-school looks… and it is gorgeous. ⌘ Read more

NFTs, Net Neutrality, & Emotional Reactions to Technology
A few years back I came under fire for expressing a viewpoint so controversial, so repugnant, so… so… evil that I received, quite literally, thousands of angry messages. That viewpoint: “Net Neutrality: Not that big of a deal” I didn’t advocate for, ⌘ Read more

Lunduke’s Dad Jokes About Computers, vol. 1
Comic strips. Containing dad jokes. Very, very nerdy dad jokes. ⌘ Read more

Make the Linux shell look like DOS.
Why would you want to make your Linux terminal look like DOS. Well. Why not? ⌘ Read more

Why is “Spaghetti Code” called “Spaghetti Code”?
The answer will shock you. ⌘ Read more

First NFT sold for “Tux on Tour”? The Amiga one. Naturally.
%5 of every “Tux on Tour” transaction (sales and re-sales) is donated to Open Source projects. ⌘ Read more

“Operating System Not Found” - a nerdy Choose Your Own Adventure
The story of a man, his newly built PC, and… FroYo. ⌘ Read more

Tux on Tour - Raising money for Open Source projects using nerdy NFTs
A percentage of all sales (and re-sells) goes directly to Haiku and PCLinuxOS. ⌘ Read more

Christmas Demos of the 1980s (for C64, Atari, Apple II, DOS, & Amiga)
Christmas demos were a staple of 1980s computer culture. Here are some of the best. ⌘ Read more

10 Stories that Rocked the Tech Industry in 2021
From the Apple App Store to Bill Gates’ poop, it’s been a pretty nutty year. ⌘ Read more

The 10 Awesomest Linux stories of 2021
These Linux news stories from 2021 will, like, totally make your head explode. ⌘ Read more

“Road-Sign Hank & The Aliens” available for free to all Lunduke Journal subscribers
Family friendly, Sci-Fi adventure comic book series… with some nerdy jokes mixed in. ⌘ Read more

Linux Foundation releases Linux as NFT
Each Linux kernel source code file will be auctioned off as an NFT on the Etherium blockchain. ⌘ Read more

Creator of Javascript apologizes for “screwing up a good thing and ruining, like, basically everything”
“Yeah. That’s my bad.” ⌘ Read more

Local man switches to Arch, tells no one
Yesterday, at approximately 5:05pm, a Seattle area man installed Arch Linux on his home computer and has yet to tell anyone. “This appears to be the first occurrence of failing to tell someone that you run Arch,” stated a representative of the Seattle Sheriff’s Department. “We are actively investigating whether or not this is a crime. It definitely is a violation of norms.” ⌘ Read more

Binary 101
I only know 10 binary jokes. Here’s half of them. ⌘ Read more

My thoughts on log4j summed up in one picture…
(One very snarky picture.) ⌘ Read more

50% off Lunduke Journal subscriptions until the 26th
Because it’s December. And why not. ⌘ Read more

FreeDOS 1.3, the first major release in 5 years, edges closer to a full release
The last major FreeDOS version (1.2) was released in December of 2016… five years ago. ⌘ Read more

Man. Life on the Oregon Trail was rough!
So many ways to die. ⌘ Read more

Linux Foundation spends just 3.4% of its money on Linux
Where does the Linux Foundation spend the rest of its $177 Million in revenue? Let’s take a look. ⌘ Read more

Sonic the Hedgehog for the C64
Seriously. ⌘ Read more

I have no idea what I’m doing… let’s sell some NFTs!
Time to see what this NFT fuss is all about. ⌘ Read more

Visi On : The failed 1983 GUI that came before Windows or Macintosh
The legendary company behind VisiCalc produced a graphical desktop for PCs that shipped before Windows or the first Macintosh. ⌘ Read more

“Small Team Closed Source” vs “Large Team Open Source”
Which is better? ⌘ Read more

GitHub is the hub of the entire Open Source world?
… ⌘ Read more

Give your programming career a boost by moving to Mexico
You’re welcome. Hey, want to support The Lunduke Journal? There are ways. Oh, yes. There are ways. ⌘ Read more

How to support The Lunduke Journal (& where to buy Lunduke’s books)
Multiple ways to support this nerdy publication and become part of the community. ⌘ Read more

Turbo Rascal : Pascal Compiler & IDE for tons of classic systems
One language for: C64, VIC-20, NES, Gameboy, ZX Spectrum, Atari 2600, 8086AT, Amiga 500, Atari 800, BBC Micro, SNES, Apple II & Atari ST + MORE ⌘ Read more

The last programming project from Bill Gates: Microsoft BASIC for TRS-80 Model 100
This Operating System was the last project that Bill Gates played a major role in programming… and it’s actually pretty amazing. ⌘ Read more

Space Quest: The Movie
The original, EGA adventure game from Sierra… turned into a movie. Seriously. This is worth checking out. ⌘ Read more

The amazing, fake Macintoshes of NanoRaptor
None of these are real… but if they were… I would buy each and every one of them. ⌘ Read more

Microsoft Windows 1.0 : Not as bad as you’d think
Multitasking. Virtual Memory. Tiled window manager. Turns out the very first version of Windows (from 1985) actually has some good points. ⌘ Read more

DESQview/X : The forgotten mid-1990s OS from the future
X11 client and server. DOS. Windows 3.1. All with preemptive multitasking. ⌘ Read more

A brand-spanking-new Windows 3.1 mouse driver. Seriously.
It’s for use in VMWare. You know. So you don’t need to grab and ungrab the mouse. ⌘ Read more

DevOps thrown out in favor of DevTesJanOps.
DevOps takes ultimate form as “Developer + Tester + Janitor + Operations”. ⌘ Read more

Using Perl and RegEx is like riding a bike…
THE COMIC ⌘ Read more

Tigers and Bears and Programmers.
That’s a comic strip. You like it very much. You probably want to send it to everyone you know. If you aren’t currently a subscriber to The Lunduke Journal, I highly recommend it. It is so choice. The free edition is great. If you pitch in a few bucks you get ⌘ Read more

Linus Sebastian attempts to install Linux video editor, entire universe implodes
“We kind of all saw it coming, you know?” says one fellow YouTuber. ⌘ Read more

Germany planning to start using Linux, then stop using Linux again. Again.
Linux users applaud the move… until Germany switches back to Windows in a few months. ⌘ Read more

Man charged with “telling people he uses Arch across state lines”
Prosecution makes case that Seattle area man travelled between states with clear intention to “tell people he uses Arch”. ⌘ Read more

Ada Lovelace accused of not collaborating well with GNOME Project
Lovelace has not submitted a single line of code to the GNOME project. ⌘ Read more

The Lunduke Journal Podcast - #12 - Lunduke & Friends
Listen now (59 min) | Lunduke & Hartley talk about happy nerdy things for a full hour. ⌘ Read more

The Lunduke Journal Podcast - #11 - GEM was cool
Listen now (16 min) | ⌘ Read more

Who is this computer comic strip cartoonist from the 1980s?
An artist named “Bush” drew some adorable computer comic strips in the 80s. But who was “Bush”? ⌘ Read more

A 286, EGA PC from 1987.
As advertised in the May, 1987 issue of “Puget Sound Computer User”. ⌘ Read more

Connecting to Telnet BBSes the most awesome way: Via Telemate in DOSBox
Use the exact same software to dial BBSes at 28.8 in 1995… and to telnet to BBSes in 2021. ⌘ Read more

Looking at 1980’s GEM in 2021
The desktop environment from Gary Kildall’s Digital Research is worth admiring… even more than 30 years later. ⌘ Read more