👾 Atari at 50, Dungeon Master shortage, and MFA on your C64 - This Geek in Review for 2022-11-18
By goz
Internet Travels
Geek
- GitHub - timhutton/twitter-archive-parser: Python code to parse a Twitter archive and output in various ways
- Modder makes an Apple M1-powered Wii for retro gaming | Ars Technica
- Kevin Conroy, the iconic voice of Batman, has died - The Verge
- Building an e-ink weather display for our home - kimmo.blog
- It's Not Just You: NYC Has a Serious Dungeon Master Shortage - Hell Gate
- The long, solder-heavy way to get root access to a Starlink terminal | Ars Technica
- GEOS has been ported to the Atari 8-bit – Vintage is The New Old
- The World's Thinnest Boombox | Grand Idea Studio
Retro
- Old Vintage Computing Research: Meet your new two-factor authenticator: your Commodore 64
- Hobbyist adds a hinge to the Game Boy Pocket, delighting everyone | Ars Technica
- The Inside Story of Texas Instruments’ Biggest Blunder: The TMS9900 Microprocessor - IEEE Spectrum
Videogames
- Ryan Reynolds Reveals New Details on Dragon’s Lair Netflix Adaptation
- Atari 50 review: an incredible playable tour through video game history - The Verge
- Atari 50th Anniversary Celebration: First Look
Technology
- Here’s how a Twitter engineer says it will break in the coming weeks | MIT Technology Review
- emuStudio - Computer emulation platform & framework
- Raspberry Pi CEO Talks Pi Inventory, Next-Gen Boards | Tom’s Hardware
- The IndieWeb for Everyone | Max Böck
- Microsoft has a new idea to make meetings a little more awful | ZDNET
- Time is an illusion, Unix time doubly so…
- Making a Go program 42% faster with a one character change • Harry Marr
- Twitter’s “Load Bearing Mac Mini”
- “Project Volterra” review: Microsoft’s $600 Arm PC that almost doesn’t suck | Ars Technica
- Is the fediverse about to get Fryed? (Or, “Why every toot is also a potential denial of service attack”) – Aral Balkan
- Giving Members Additional Control Over Their Account - About Netflix
Science
- Take that! Octopuses caught on camera vigorously throwing debris at each other | Ars Technica
- Divers uncover wreckage from destroyed Challenger space shuttle, NASA says - National | Globalnews.ca
- Unmanned, solar-powered US space plane back after 908 days
- Why you can’t talk about the Moon landing without mentioning cigarettes
Pop Culture
- In 2012, The Avengers Was a Huge Risk. In 2022, It's a Relic of a Lost Era.
- Detroit RoboCop statue close to permanent location | Crain's Detroit Business - Non-paywall link
- Who Said It: Elon Musk or Mr. Burns? | The New Republic
- Nearly 1 in 5 Americans listen to a podcast every day - The Verge
Pot Pourri
- Paul G. Allen’s Art at Christie’s Tops $1.5 Billion, Cracking Records - The New York Times
- Having a coffee break in 1993 at Starbucks - YouTube
- How to get Boomers to stop staring at their phones - The Washington Post
- How “Wordle editor” became a real job at The New York Times | Ars Technica
- World’s Population Reaches 8 Billion—Here’s What You Need To Know
- A List Of People I Am Mad At, 11/11/22 - by scaachi
- Chinese man runs a 3:28 marathon while chain-smoking - Canadian Running Magazine