Articles by ecliptik
49

How the Creator Economy Destroyed the Internet (theverge.com)

2

How to Create an ALT Newsgroup (2005) (nylon.net)

2

The PicoGUS, a Modern ISA Sound Card (brainbaking.com)

2

ArcaOS (wikipedia.org)

2

Loki – The Games That Linux People Play (lokigames.com)

3

LOPSA board votes to unanimously dissolve (lopsa.org)

5

Anonymity is dead and we're all content now (theverge.com)

6

FreeBSD Jails Are Simple and Easy (freebsdfoundation.org)

1

Why do Waymos keep loitering in front of my house? (theverge.com)

3

The Open Internet Is Closed for Business (slate.com)

1

Time is a Flat Circle (2015) (thecritique.com)

1

I ditched my smartphone for a cellular smart watch (theverge.com)

3

Recording vintage CRTs with a modern Sony mirrorless camera (jeffgeerling.com)

2

Spending Time With The Casio F-91W (2024) (fratellowatches.com)

35

NINA: Rebuilding the original AIM, AOL Desktop, Yahoo and ICQ platforms (nina.chat)

1

How to Read a Whole Damn Book Every Week (2017) (gq.com)

2

Arguing About Woodworking More Popular Hobby Than Woodworking (2013) (closegrain.com)

2

How Kyoto, Japan Became the World's Loveliest Tourist-Trap (nymag.com)

1

All Hail the Slop Bowl, Lunch of Our Ancestors (atlasobscura.com)

1

I See Your Smartphone-Addicted Life (theatlantic.com)

13

The Computer-Science Bubble Is Bursting (theatlantic.com)

2

The Promised LAN (pault.ag)

3

Good Taste Is More Important Than Ever (theatlantic.com)

7

How MiniDisc Worked (obsoletesony.substack.com)

29

The Logistics of Road War in the Wasteland (acoup.blog)

40

The world of Japan's PC-98 computer (strangecomforts.com)

2

GhostBSD: From Usability to Struggle and Renewal (freebsdfoundation.org)

64

The Lost Japanese ROM of the Macintosh Plus (journaldulapin.com)

3

MSG Is (Once Again) Back on the Table (wired.com)

12

Carmakers Are Embracing Physical Buttons Again (wired.com)

3

What would an Aqua UI look like in 2025? (lowendmac.com)

75

OpenBSD 7.7 Released (openbsd.org)

19

The Passing of Ucbvax (1994) (ucbvax.berkeley.edu)

1

For Scale (theverge.com)

1

Faceball 2000 DX (github.com/zarithya)

6

Best printer 2025: just buy a Brother laser printer, the winner is clear (theverge.com)

6

Why You Should Work Like It’s the ’90s (theatlantic.com)

14

RISC architecture did change everything (wired.com)

3

Infinite Mac OS X (persistent.info)

44

The Cult of the American Lawn (noemamag.com)

2

New OS X headlines Jobs keynote (2000) (zdnet.com)

2

Chinese Room (wikipedia.org)

1

AppleLink (wikipedia.org)

1

Getting Serious about Permissions (dillernet.com)

3

Scale Down to Scale Up (hazelweakly.me)

1

A Maze of Murderscapes: Metroid II (2015) (gamedeveloper.com)

4

100 Years of Kewpie: How the Mayonnaise Became a Japanese Icon (tokyoweekender.com)

2

Studio 5, The Stars: The 1961 short story that anticipated the issue of Gen AI (aroundscifi.us)

3

Plotter Notebook System (arslan.io)

1

Way to Play PSP Games in 2025 (wavelengths.online)

2

BOOT2KIER (pault.ag)

2

Mac-minivnc – A VNC remote desktop server for vintage Macintosh computers (github.com/marciot)

1

Because buying new running shoes is more fun than actually running (2005) (43folders.com)

3

What Makes for a Good Blog? (2008) (43folders.com)

101

I will never need to buy a new computer again (82mhz.net)

94

Before Squid Game, there was Battle Royale (tokyoweekender.com)

2

The Great Decentralization (noemamag.com)

2

Cruising a VPS at OpenBSD Amsterdam (tumfatig.net)

41

Fixing America's elevators is becoming a heavy lift (axios.com)

50

Welcome to the Public Domain in 2025 (archive.org)

7

Rod Serling on Doomsday (mubi.com)

216

What happened to the world's largest tube TV? [video] (youtube.com)

1

BBC Domesday Project (wikipedia.org)

1

The Rise and Fall of the Sony Playstation Vita (obsoletesony.substack.com)

2

Dusting off Dreamcast Linux (2023) (oldvcr.blogspot.com)

2

Jeff Bezos is no longer relentlessly focused on customer satisfaction (theverge.com)

6

Photos of the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair (theatlantic.com)

2

Gateway Country (2019) (tedium.co)

1

Family Mart to Shut Down Eat-In Spaces (tokyoweekender.com)

1

Gopher: Underground Technology (2004) (wired.com)

1

Gopher on the Palm Pilot and the pitfalls of PalmOS connectivity (2022) (oldvcr.blogspot.com)

1

XDC – X.org Developer's Conference 2024 (freedesktop.org)

4

The Perfect Watch Costs $20 (theatlantic.com)

1

The Humane Environment Project (2002) (archive.org)

2

Small Internet Protocol Roundup (dbohdan.sdf.org)

2

Are Paper Mate Flair Pens Drying Out More Quickly? (nytimes.com)

2

The Early Years of Sony MiniDisc (obsoletesony.substack.com)

2

Kid Pix – The Early Years (2013) (red-green-blue.com)

1

A2Pico - Apple II peripheral cards based on the Raspberry Pi Pico (github.com/oliverschmidt)

1

PhoneBoy Does Telecommuting (1999) (archive.org)

2

Connecting a Macintosh SE to the Internet with a Raspberry Pi (2020) (metalbabble.wordpress.com)

1

Looking for Gopher Clients? (happymacs.wordpress.com)

20

Soup Dumpling Index: How prices compare around the world (axios.com)

1

Notes on Designing a TCP/IP for Mac 128K and 512K (2020) (macgui.com)

1

Programming Starter Kit for Macintosh (1995) [pdf] (preterhuman.net)

143

Jeff Bezos' management rules are slowly unraveling inside Amazon (fortune.com)

1

Soup Dumpling Index: How prices compare around the world (axios.com)

2

USB4VC: USB Inputs on Retro Computers (github.com/dekunukem)

36

Before LA became Tinseltown, it was an oil town (noemamag.com)

21

Java 21 Virtual Threads – Dude, Where's My Lock? (netflixtechblog.com)

7

Happy Macs Gopher Site Back Online (happymacs.wordpress.com)

12

OpenBSD IPv6 Home Internet Gateway with AT&T Fibre (jgoguen.ca)

1

"Shanghai" and "The Turtle" (2001) (archive.org)

1

OpenBSD Workstation for the People (tumfatig.net)

3

He created Oculus headsets, now he makes AI weapons for Ukraine (npr.org)

31

OpenBSD added initial support for Qualcomm Snapdragon Elite X after 1 day (undeadly.org)

33

The short, happy reign of CD-ROM (fastcompany.com)

45

Restaurants Place Big Bets on Cooking Robots (axios.com)

2

Andy and Bill's Law (wikipedia.org)

1

Results from the 2024 FreeBSD Community Survey Report (freebsdfoundation.org)