Pigshell: Unix the Web(pigshell.com)
63 points by pbohun | 18 comments
Pigshell 0.6.4 is a browser-based Unix-style shell that represents web resources and cloud data as files you can process with command pipelines.
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Variable-width Bézier curves (2025)(luthert.web.illinois.edu)
26 points by leduyquang753 | 7 comments
A blog post by Luther Tychonievich explaining how to draw variable-width (pressure-sensitive) Bézier curves with current 2D graphics APIs for board-work tablet apps.
Pliny – Letters – Book 7 Letter 27 (On Ghosts)(vroma.org)
8 points by yubblegum | 1 comments
English translation of Pliny the Younger's Letter 7.27 to Sura, recounting ghost stories including Athenodorus and the haunted house in Athens.
.name Grandfathered(neil.fraser.name)
902 points by p4bl0 | 196 comments
Neil Fraser's blog post announcing Verisign retracted its plan to terminate 22,000 .name domains and email redirects, grandfathering existing registrations.
OpenSSH 10.6p2 Critical workaround for alpine without PAM(openssh.org)
247 points by selckin | 12 comments
OpenSSH release notes for portable 10.6p2, which fixes a password authentication bypass in sshd on Linux systems using musl libc with PAM disabled.
Emacs in the Age of Magic(commandlinesystems.com)
289 points by ggcr | 131 comments
A plain-text essay reflecting on Emacs culture after AI coding tools like Claude Code, with case studies of AI-built packages excali-mode.el and cooked.el.
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56k.rip – the 1996 dial-up internet experience(56k.rip)
235 points by adunk | 97 comments
56k.rip is a website that recreates the 1996 dial-up internet experience; the capture shows only a solid teal screen.
I want to talk about WebGPU(cohost.org)
608 points by pjmlp | 221 comments
A cohost blog post by mcc (andi) discussing WebGPU, its history, and why it is a compelling graphics API for developers.
What Is PID 0?(blog.dave.tf)
344 points by todsacerdoti | 56 comments
Blog post by David Anderson explaining what PID 0 is in Unix/Linux, why it is hidden from userspace, and its role in booting and idle scheduling.
The Early History of Smalltalk (1993)(worrydream.com)
116 points by _reza | 69 comments
Alan Kay's 1993 HOPL-II paper recounting the origins and development of the Smalltalk programming language, hosted as HTML on worrydream.com.
Mickey, Disney, and the public domain: A 95-year love triangle(web.law.duke.edu)
330 points by mortenjorck | 180 comments
Duke Center for the Study of the Public Domain article by Jennifer Jenkins on Mickey Mouse, Disney, and the copyright history leading to Steamboat Willie entering the public domain.
The early days of Linux (2023)(lwn.net)
422 points by stmw | 125 comments
LWN article by Lars Wirzenius recalling his memories of the earliest days of Linux, its creation by Linus Torvalds at the University of Helsinki, and its early growth.