Notes

So we're just going to skip right to Web4, right?

Anytime someone leaves a bad review for @PushoverApp@twitter.com complaining it doesn't have a particular feature, I remind myself that Instagram was bought a decade ago for a billion dollars and they still don't have an iPad app and the iPad still doesn't have a calculator

canadians what is wrong with you

When Christmas is over, the kid is asleep, the house is finally quiet, and you can work on your pet project while listening to @awesomekling@twitter.com work on his

While my latest video was on the orange site yesterday, I looked for a CDN to mirror my videos to the EU and found @BunnyCDN@twitter.com. I signed up for a free trial and they were mirroring within minutes, serving 190GB of videos yesterday for free. I was happy to become a paying customer.

Implementing multi-user chat

https://jcs.org/2021/12/18/chat

Is it weird to get mad at my MacBook Air for not getting hot during a video transcoding because I think that means it could be doing this faster?

Well at least one of the things I pre-ordered in 2020 arrived by the end of 2021...

For my fellow OpenBSD ACPI hackers

Reviewing user authentication and telnet negotiation, and implementing a half-assed ordinal suffix function

https://jcs.org/2021/12/10/userauth

TIL that Xsnow by @rckjnsn@twitter.com started out as a desk accessory for Macs and was later ported to X11, and Rick still maintains a version for modern macOS

I dug this System 6-compatible version out of a Usenet archive, though snow doesn't accumulate on top of windows like Xsnow

I don't think in my decades of using Unix that I've ever needed to look up a file's atime, and most of my machines now have all partitions mounted `noatime`. Is there any practical need for file access times, especially one worth the overhead incurred updating them?

I’m working on a new System 6 C programming project and I needed a cooperative threading mechanism which didn’t exist in System 6, so I created one

https://jcs.org/2021/12/01/uthread

The VAIO SX12 "All Black Edition" was offered with an optional blank keyboard, but only in Japan

https://news.vaio.com/sx12_propj_20190709/