A vector graphics workstation from the 70s – jaeblog jaeblog
In my mind, Tektronix is a brand that makes electronics lab equipment like oscilloscopes and logic analyzers. Turns out, they made quite a few terminals and a couple of computers! A good friend saw this one for sale local to him, and I poked him till he agreed on picking it up for me.
Dieter Rams and the 10 principles for a good design – Domus
Ken uw klassiekers! De principes van Braun die ze bij Apple in de tijd gecopypasted hadden.
What Are Next? (2025 Edition)
Mike and Jay are excited to talk about all the hot news relating to movie sequels, remakes, reboots, prequels, TV series based on movies or preexisting shows or IPs! When the idea well dries up, we just get more of the same, and let me tell you – that's a comfort! What a time to be alive! So sit back and enjoy listening to all the stuff that's coming out soon (probably)!
The making of Dark Castle: An excerpt from The Secret History of Mac Gaming
Gamasutra contributor Richard Moss tells the story of how seminal Mac game Dark Castle was made (including how the devs basically invented voice acting) in this chapter from his new book.
LOAD ZX Spectrum – World's first Museum dedicated to our first personal computer
Museum LOAD ZX Spectrum is the result of a collaboration between the Municipality of Cantanhede and the Associação Geração SPECTRUM (SPECTRUM Generation Association) that explores João Diogo Ramos’s collection, one of the biggest international collectors within this field and that was born in Cantanhede.
Django 6.0 released | Weblog | Django
A few highlights are: Template Partials: modularize templates using small, named fragments for cleaner, more maintainable code. (GSoC project by Farhan Ali Raza, mentored by Carlton Gibson) Background Tasks: run code outside the HTTP request-response cycle with a built-in, flexible task framework. (Jake Howard) Content Security Policy (CSP): easily configure and enforce browser-level security policies to protect against content injection. (Rob Hudson) Modernized Email API: compose and send emails with Python's EmailMessage class for a cleaner, Unicode-friendly interface. (Mike Edmunds)
FXRant: The "Mad Men" in 4K on HBO Max Debacle
The highly anticipated 4K debut of the show was to be one of HBO Max' crown jewels of television history. It looks like it might initially serve as a cautionary tale of quality control when it comes to restorations and the technical process of bringing shows to streaming.
A lost Amazon world just reappeared in Bolivia | ScienceDaily
Researchers exploring Bolivia’s Great Tectonic Lakes discovered a landscape transformed over centuries by sophisticated engineering and diverse agricultural traditions. Excavations show how Indigenous societies adapted to dynamic wetlands through raised fields, canals, and mixed livelihoods. Today’s local communities preserve this biocultural continuity, guiding research and conservation.
In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet – Ars Technica
Thirty years ago today, Netscape Communications and Sun Microsystems issued a joint press release announcing JavaScript, an object scripting language designed for creating interactive web applications. The language emerged from a frantic 10-day sprint at pioneering browser company Netscape, where engineer Brendan Eich hacked together a working internal prototype during May 1995.
About Microlandia – Microlandia
You are the new mayor of a thriving new town in this game with cozy voxel-based graphics inspired by classics like the original SimCity, but with a brutally detailed simulation under the hood. Life of your virtual citizens is simulated in deep detail and based on real-life statistics and studies.
From the pseudo to the forger: the value of faked philosophy | Aeon Essays
A 17th-century classic of Ethiopian philosophy might be a fake. Does it matter, or is that just how philosophy works?
The Forgotten Roman Ruins of the ‘Pompeii of the Middle East’
When the German explorer Ulrich Jasper Seetzen stumbled upon a set of ruins near the Jordanian capital of Amman in 1806, little did he know that he had just discovered one of the largest and best-preserved ancient cities in the world. Today, this city, called Jerash, is often described as the “Pompeii of the Middle East.” It also ranks as the country’s second most popular tourist destination after Petra.
Why I have been writing a niche history blog for 15 years
That whole world of blogging (exploratory, low-stakes, conversational, and assuming a readership of people who had bookmarked your URL and who read it on a desktop or laptop computer) is almost entirely gone now.
After 40 years of adventure games, Ron Gilbert pivots to outrunning Death – Ars Technica
If you know the name Ron Gilbert, it’s probably for his decades of work on classic point-and-click adventure games like Maniac Mansion, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, the Monkey Island series, and Thimbleweed Park. Given that pedigree, October’s release of the Gilbert-designed Death by Scrolling—a rogue-lite action-survival pseudo-shoot-em-up—might have come as a bit of a surprise.
New 3D scan reveals a hidden network of moai carvers on Easter Island | ScienceDaily
A detailed 3D model reveals that Rapa Nui’s famous moai were created by many separate carving groups working across the quarry.
"if" | Can I use… Support tables for HTML5, CSS3, etc
Whatever the fuck next? "The if() CSS function allows different values to be set for a property depending on the result of a conditional test. The test can be based on a style query, a media query, or a feature query."
Landscapes that remember: clues show Indigenous Peoples have thrived in the southwestern Amazon for more than 1,000 years
The landscape, like many across the Llanos de Moxos, is marked by geometrically shaped relief that resolves, upon examination, into circular and quadrangular ditches, drainage canals, raised fields, and clusters of mounds form an intricate system of water control and cultivation. These earthworks were carefully engineered to manage floods, channel water, and create habitable and cultivable spaces within a seasonally inundated environment. Their variety, from geometric enclosures to elongated cultivation platforms, suggests not a single plan but centuries of local experimentation and adaptation to changing ecological and social conditions. Together, they reflect the cultural diversity and long-term resilience of the peoples who shaped them.
Screenshots from developers: 2002 vs. 2015
In 2002 I asked a number of developers/Unix people for screenshots of their desktops. I recently republished them, and, seeing the interest this generated, I thought it’d be fun to ask the same people* again 13 years later. To my delight I managed to reach many of them.