A census for computer nerds!
Listen now (21 min) | The Lunduke Journal of Technology Podcast - Jan 23rd, 20223 ⌘ Read more
JMP: Threads, Thumbnails, XMR, ETH
Hi everyone!
Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly JMP update!
In case it’s been a while since you checked out JMP, here’s a refresher: JMP lets you send and receive text and picture messages (and calls) through a real phone number right from your computer, tablet, phone, or anything else that has a Jabber client. Among other things, JMP has these features: Your phone number on every device; Multiple phone numbers, one app; Free as in Freedom; Shar … ⌘ Read more
Digital Prepping, Part 1 - Off-Line Websites & Maps
The first step in making your computer usable when the Internet goes away. Because it will. ⌘ Read more
The Great Lunduke Journal Computer Nerd Survey of 2023
It’s sort of like a census… except just for Computer Nerds. And also not all that much like a census. ⌘ Read more
Two Wild Soviet Personal Computers of the 1980s
The Agat 4 and the Iskra 1256. The height of Soviet-styled, Sci-Fi inspired personal computers. ⌘ Read more
BREAKING: Gizmodo stuns world by publishing Tech article
“We won’t let computers distract us from our core mission…complaining about Elon Musk” ⌘ Read more
Commodore SX-64 – The first color, portable computer
Bonus: The (real) story of the portable Amiga! ⌘ Read more
** I read some books in 2022, and have some thoughts about computer science writing **
At the start of this year I set out to revive my long dead reading habit. After having kids it fell by the wayside. I’ve read 41 books so far this year. Mostly a mix of science fiction and nonfiction computer science books. Here’s the complete list of everything I’ve read. I’ve got mixed feelings about keeping track and sharing cou … ⌘ 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
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
What do Computer Scientists Read? - Computerphile ⌘ Read more
JMP: Newsletter: Busy Year in 2022
Hi everyone!
Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly JMP update!
In case it’s been a while since you checked out JMP, here’s a refresher: JMP lets you send and receive text and picture messages (and calls) through a real phone number right from your computer, tablet, phone, or anything else that has a Jabber client. Among other things, JMP has these features: Your phone number on every device; Multiple phone numbers, one app; Free as in Freedom; Sha … ⌘ Read more
JMP: Newsletter: Busy Year in 2022
Hi everyone!
Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly JMP update!
In case it’s been a while since you checked out JMP, here’s a refresher: JMP lets you send and receive text and picture messages (and calls) through a real phone number right from your computer, tablet, phone, or anything else that has a Jabber client. Among other things, JMP has these features: Your phone number on every device; Multiple phone numbers, one app; Free as in Freedom; Sha … ⌘ Read more
🌠 Obsidian October Winners & AI Integrations
A guide for using Readwise with Obsidian, a demo vault for computer engineering students, & the first Canvas plugins. ⌘ 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
** Thoughts on accessibility in smol computing **
What follows is my attempt to spark a conversation in a few converging, but separate communities I lurk in.
I’ve already had a bunch of amazing conversations around this topic with a lot of people. Those conversations helped to shape what follows. Thanks to everyone who was willing to think this stuff through with me.
Before I get into it I want to say at the top this isn’t meant as an accusation against anyone in these communities, nor the goals of t … ⌘ Read more
Should I sell my PC?
I’m not sure yet what I’m going to do with my desktop computer (ASRock Deskmini A300), which I don’t really use anymore since I got my new laptop. ⌘ Read more
Experiment: The hidden costs of waiting on slow build times
How much does it really cost to buy more powerful cloud compute resources for development work? A lot less than you think. ⌘ 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
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
Lunduke’s Normal Computing News - Nov 9, 2022
Listen now (35 min) | Apple worth more than Google + Facebook + Amazon, Microsoft sued for GitHub Copilot, Canonical shows future of Ubuntu ⌘ Read more
of course the Soviet Union failed—they didn’t have computers yet!
computational complexity theory of self-modifying code. probably not good for execution speed, but great for code size.
Lunduke’s Weird Computing News - Nov 6, 2022
Listen now (30 min) | Haiku Beta 4 inches closer, Ladybird web browser can run Linux, GNU Make drops OS/2, Amiga, Cray, & Xenix. ⌘ Read more
Lunduke’s Normal Computing News - Nov 2, 2022
Listen now (48 min) | EU tells Apple how to make iPhones, Chromebook sales crash, & Ubuntu’s Lunar Lobster. ⌘ Read more
JMP: Newsletter: New Cheogram Android Release, Chatwoot Instance
Hi everyone!
Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly JMP update!
In case it’s been a while since you checked out JMP, here’s a refresher: JMP lets you send and receive text and picture messages (and calls) through a real phone number right from your computer, tablet, phone, or anything else that has a Jabber client. Among other things, JMP has these features: Your phone number on every device; Multiple phone numbers, one … ⌘ Read more
RT @joinmastodon@joinmastodon
Some people ask us why Mastodon isn’t a single website. A single website that can serve the whole world requires so much computing power, infrastructure, and engineering, that it is practically impossible to do without big capital and monetization.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/joinmastodon/status/1586886721706262530 ⌘ Read more
Lunduke’s Weird Computing News - Oct 30, 2022
Listen now (29 min) | Haiku Week is coming, FreeBSD 12.4 & financial woes, Ladybird browser improvements, and running classic Mac Software… without MacOS. ⌘ Read more
Lunduke’s Normal Computing News - October 26, 2022
Listen now (43 min) | macOS Ventura, Ubuntu 22.10, Microsoft looking to control how Linux boots, Windows ARM dev box, and… Linux dropping 486 support? ⌘ Read more
Paul Schaub: Implementing Packet Sequence Validation using Pushdown Automata
This is part 2 of a small series on verifying the validity of packet sequences using tools from theoretical computer science. Read part 1 here.
In the previous blog post I discussed how a formal grammar can be transformed into a pushdown automaton in order to check if a sequence of packets or token … ⌘ Read more
The Lunduke Journal Video Interview Series!
Lunduke talks to someone interesting in the world of computing… every week. ⌘ Read more
Lunduke’s Weird Computing News - Oct 23, 2022
Listen now (34 min) | Z80 Computer, Solitaire via Gopher, OpenBSD, PumpkinOS file browser, and Ladybird Web browser. What a week! ⌘ Read more
There’s only one major regret I have about switching from Windows to Linux for my personal computers, and that regret is that I no longer have Winamp.
Lunduke’s Normal Computing News - Oct 19, 2022
Listen now (40 min) | Microsoft kills “Office”, iPads get USB-C, and Firefox wants to know your feelings. ⌘ Read more
Linux, Alternative OS, & Retro Computing News - Oct 16, 2022
Listen now (32 min) | Haiku Beta 4, Serenity’s 4th Birthday… and a new AmigaOS SDK release! ⌘ Read more
Linux, Alternative OS, & Retro Computing News - Oct 9, 2022
Listen now (30 min) | Happy birthday, Free Software! + A hard drive noise maker & Ubuntu Pro ⌘ Read more
Gajim: Gajim 1.5.2
Gajim 1.5.2 brings another performance boost, better emojis, improvements for group chat moderators, and many bug fixes. Thank you for all your contributions!
Generating performance profiles for Gajim revealed some bottlenecks in Gajim’s code. After fixing these, switching chats should now feel snappier than before.
Did you know that you can use shortcodes for typing emojis? Typing :+1 for example will ope … ⌘ Read more
The History of the First Computer Shell
BASH? PowerShell? It all traces back to 1963. And the work of an amazing Frenchman, CTTS, and Multics. ⌘ Read more
Linux, Alternative OS, & Retro Computing News - Oct 2, 2022
Listen now (47 min) | The Article & The Podcast – all in one place! Fancy! ⌘ Read more
I heard COBOL devs get paid a ton…
You probably want to share this with everyone you know. Because, you know, you’re a nice person. The Lunduke Journal Community — About the Lunduke Journal — Subscriber Perks The Lunduke Journal Weekly Schedule: Monday - Computer History Tuesday - Computer & Linux Satire ⌘ Read more
Video: C Programming on System 6 - VCF Midwest, Wikipedia Reader, and Subterm
I attended the Vintage Computer Festival Midwest 17 and wrote two new programs. ⌘ Read more
JMP: Newsletter: Voicemail Changes, Opt-in Jabber ID Discoverability
Hi everyone!
Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly JMP update!
In case it’s been a while since you checked out JMP, here’s a refresher: JMP lets you send and receive text and picture messages (and calls) through a real phone number right from your computer, tablet, phone, or anything else that has a Jabber client. Among other things, JMP has these features: Your phone number on every device; Multiple phone number … ⌘ Read more
MORE truly epic BYTE magazine covers by Robert Tinney
Time to admire some of the greatest, illustrated computer magazine covers of all time. ⌘ Read more
Linux, Alternative OS, & Retro Computing News - September 25, 2022
Listen now (26 min) | The Lunduke Journal Podcast - September 25, 2022 ⌘ Read more
Linux, Alternative OS, & Retro Computing News - Sep 24, 2022
New Virtual Boy game, Arch drops Python2, TRS-80 Model 100 retrofit, & Firefox and GNOME get big version numbers ⌘ Read more
Funny Programming Pictures Part XVI
It’s Friday! Let’s have some fun and look at some funny pictures about programming and Linux and stuff! The Lunduke Journal Community — About the Lunduke Journal — Subscriber Perks The Lunduke Journal Weekly Schedule: Monday - Computer History Tuesday ⌘ Read more
Tillitis Key 1
The secret project I’ve been mentioning in my gemlog is out!
This week we presented the Tillitis Key 1 at the Open Source Firmware\
Conference (OSFC). What we unveiled is a new kind of USB security
stick and a new company, a sister company to Mullvad VPN: Tillitis.
The stick is a small computer that can load and run small programs
uploded to it from a host computer. It always measures … ⌘ Read more
Linux, Alternative OS, & Retro Computing News - September 18, 2022
Listen now (33 min) | The Lunduke Journal Podcast - September 18, 2022 ⌘ Read more
Linux, Alternative OS, & Retro Computing News - Sep 17, 2022
KDE on your TV, Godot Engine news, & SerenityOS browser officially becomes own project ⌘ Read more
Quick and Dirty: The story of 86-DOS & MS-DOS
How a Seattle computer company made the DOS that would become MS-DOS. ⌘ Read more