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libeleon Kernighan and Pike were right: Do one thing, and do it well

the "purple card" of myth and legend!? please take a picture.

libeleon Medieval Table Manners: The Messiest Myth?

the gallery on this website has over 100 illustrations of apes... some from the 12th century.

libeleon A look inside the SNES, PS5, and Xbox controllers with CT scans

kitsch bent makes a very good (injection molded, i believe) clone of the whole assembly. the controllers i did a few years ago actually only needed the bowl replaced. with a bit of silicone lubricant dabbed onto the places where plastic grinds together, they feel practically new again.

worlds apart from those awful gamecube style sticks that make playing quite a few games impossible.

libeleon I didn’t learn Unix by reading all the manpages (2022)

the openbsd manuals usually have examples. you can see how compact https://man.openbsd.org/grep.1 is compared to the gnu grep manual.

i've been using https://git.causal.agency/exman/about/ to compare linux and bsd manpages, and it has saved me an incredible amount of time looking things up.

libeleon How to identify and misidentify a brown recluse spider (2005)

NOT RECLUSE

  Numerous  
  Occurrence  
  Timing

  Red center  
  Elevated  
  Chronic  
  Large  
  Ulcerates too early  
  Swelling  
  Exudative

https://spiders.ucr.edu/what-not-recluse-bite

https://entomology.ucr.edu/news/2017/02/15/no-thats-not-brow...

libeleon Neko: A history of a software pet

i <3 neko!

libeleon Inform 7 v10.1.0 is now open-source

assuming you're talking about z-machines, the only functioning way i've seen to get data out is to use savefiles. there is an editor written in inform that does this. otherwise the interpreter has to be modified, see multizork for example.

https://multizork.icculus.org/

libeleon Show HN: HN Avatars in 357 bytes

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libeleon Show HN: HN Avatars in 357 bytes

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libeleon Show HN: HN Avatars in 357 bytes

beetle warrior fuck yea

libeleon Ask Slashdot: How Powerful Is Your Computer? (1999)

"I brake for unix.boys, Windows just breaks."

ahaha love this <3

libeleon A Wordle clone in 50 lines of Bash

finally the words file has a purpose again

libeleon Canyon.mid

it's incredible the number of things you can do with eggs

libeleon OpenMoji: Open-source emojis

the hacker news effect!