Rubenerd Bookmarks 2025

2025-12

• Raspberry Pi 4 UEFI Firmware v1.50

• Tindie: PC-JOY Joystick for IBM-PC Gameport

• Tindie: Micro 8088 - IBM XT Compatible Processor Board Kit

• Ben Werdmuller: Why RSS matters

• Holo Taco: Seek Kelp

2025-11

• Eskild Hustvedt - The joy of rediscovering Perl

• calcurse: a text-based calendar and scheduling application

2025-10

• ISA MUNANG PATALASTAS: fascinating look into classic Filipino food and ads.

• Paragon Films: For window tinting, etc.

• Robert Birming: The feeling of not having

• Titanic: Adventure Out of Time Soundtrack: Still gets me all these years later

• Mavericks Forever

• TidBits: How to Turn Liquid Glass into a Solid Interface: This is one of the worst things I've ever seen!

• I am sorry, but everyone is getting syntax highlighting wrong @ tonsky.me

• StarBook

• 512 Pixels: On the Blue and White Power Mac G3

• VGA Legacy MKIII: SGI XZ (GR-3)

• Obsolyte: SGI Indigo2 / Silicon Graphics R4400 Architecture

• sgistuff.net: Indigo 2

• Ian's SGI Depot

• Ordi-Spare: SGI

• Radicale: Free and Open-Source CalDAV and CardDAV Server

• 2025 Steam Giants 50c Coloured Uncirculated Seven-Coin Collection: Wow, almost all the greats here!

• Jason Hickel: A letter to Steven Pinker (and Bill Gates, for that matter) about global poverty

• The KDL Document Language

• Metacritic: Digimon Story Time Stranger

• Daniel Wayne Armstrong: NetBSD Installation with Disk Encryption

• Sanyo MBC-880 Series System Disk

2025-09

• @Artisanbricks: Singapore's Comcentre

• Lego Brick Instructions: Monorail Transport Base

• Jemena: Residential Gas Connections, for disconnections

• mach-virt - VirtIO guest (graphical console), example of config files in QEMU now

• Wikipedia: 2025 in Aviation

• Hi-Fi News & Record Review: George Benson Breezin’

• #SciArtSeptember

2025-08

• Vanta Compliance Platform

• Splitbrain.org: Mastodon to GoToSocial migration

• Hold Onto Your Butts

• Jake's SF Coffee Guide

• Innocence Project - Description of Bite Mark Exonerations: "Bite mark comparisons pose an acute threat to the reliability and fairness of the criminal justice system." (!!)

• Seton - Bicycle Sign, Give Way

• Intel Overdrive Processors

• Kirby CMS

• Killbot2000: Corsair Nautilus 240 RS Short Cover

• PCjs Machines: COMPAQ Diagnostics 5.08

2025-07

• The Pragmatic Engineer: Stack overflow is almost dead

• Wikipedia: Touken Ranbu

• IRENA: 91% of New Renewable Projects Now Cheaper Than Fossil Fuels Alternatives

• Davide Aversa - In Memory of Lotus Organizer: Another person who loved this as a kid!

• IBM 16/4 Token-Ring PCI Adapter II Package - Servers

• Australian Transport Safety Bureau: Runaway and derailment of TasRail freight train no. 604

• Dell 1440p monitor

• Excite: Japan, where Western brands go to retire!

• Wikipedia: AI Cleanup

• Beautiful Soup: a Python library for pulling data out of HTML and XML files.

• The FreeBSD Forums: conflict with pf and wireguard: can confirm this worked!

2025-06

• Mr M History: Interesting gent covering modern Australian political history

• Sovol SV06 ACE: Friends recommend this for a beginner, smaller 3D printer

• kintone（キントーン）とは - サイボウズ公式: ads for this were everywhere in Japan, looked kinda cool

• PDP-8 on a chip: the INTERSIL IM6100 and HARRIS HD6120

• postmarketos: The Linux distribution for mobile devices and beyond

• FS.com: 2m (7ft) HPE Compatible 10G SFP+ Passive Direct Attach Copper Twinax Cable

• Wikipedia: Ikigai

• TechPundit: IT services in Brisbane and Adelaide

• McSweeney’s: I, Saruman, Have Ended My Alliance with the Dark Lord Sauron

2025-05

• CameraWiki - Pentax MV1: One of the cameras I got at HARDOFF in Japan.

• Pentax Lens Reviews and Lens Database

2025-03

• Reebelo: refurbished electronics, worked great

• Hugo: Shortcodes

• Alpha-2 Code (ja) Search Result - Codes for the representation of names of languages (Library of Congress)

• W3C Language tags in HTML and XML

• W3C Choosing a Language Tag

• Nomura Investments

• GrapheneOS: Supporter Devices

• Truth in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Taggart Tech

• Wikipedia: The Phonautograph

• ComputerBase: AMD Radeon RX 9070 (XT) im Test: RDNA 4 und FSR 4 sind eine Revolution

2025-02

• Parliamentary Education Office: New Zealand is mentioned in the Australian constitution. Does that mean that New Zealanders have the legal authority to vote?

• Lord HardThrasher: an "aggressively British" YouTube history channel according to a colleague.

• Boucek: FreeBSD Jails with VNET and NAT

• Australian Geographic - Hornsby Heritage Steps to be Restored: And now they are, 15 years later!

• Spigot - MyWorlds Resource Discussion

• Whistleblowers - The Senate Democratic Caucus

• 34460A Digital Multimeter, 6 ½ Digit, Basic Truevolt

• Minecraft Chorus Fruit Farm - AFKable Design

• Melonbooks: 深井涼介デザインワークス

• Haraschak Blog - The journey from ezjail to jail.conf

• Golemi Mini PC, looks like a great media centre PC for the lounge!

• Rubenerd.com in 2016, via Archive.org, I miss this design.

• Melodrip, cool little water distribution tool for coffee.

• Orange Pi Neo, cool looking portable console.

• Fuck Fuckadblock

• Rastport KA59 – Mechanical keyboard for Amiga 1200

• TOS 2.06 Guide

• Like Nagoya - Best Coffee

• The Clockwork uConsole, looks amazing!

• This Does Not Compute - Sony MiniDisc: The (Not) Forgotten Audio Format That (Never) Failed

• Power of Vintage - Building a NEW Atari ST motherboard

• Baldur Bjarnason - "Autocomplete and overall touch keyboard reliability and responsiveness is much worse for both the iPhone and iPad."

• Feedtube

• Jensd's I/O buffer - Run Windows 98 SE on a modern Mac (with M1)

2025-01

• AmiAmi: KDcolle KONOSUBA-God's blessing on this wonderful world! Yunyun: Light Novel 10th Anniversary ver.: cute!

• OrangePi Neo: handheld gaming console

• VOGONS: NEC Multispin 2Vi Model CDR-250

• Flora4Fauna

• Tindie: VIC20digitizer

• Tindie: RGBtoHDMI Mono & LumaCode

• ZOX: Still I Rise

• M5Stack Cardputer: looks amazing!

• Microsoft SQL Server on Linux

• The Shovel: Mark Zuckerberg – Dead At 36 – Says Social Media Sites Should Not Fact Check Posts

• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

• IEEE Spectrum: This Year, RISC-V Laptops Really Arrive

• Malaysian Business by Amaniemedia Online

• Govt demands Apple R&D to end iPhone sales ban, but takes $1b investment - The Jakarta Post

• The Paul McCartney Project: Ou Est Le Soleil?

• The LRT Mutiara Line

• Nakivo: Back up and restore VMware ESXi host configuration guide

• Sony: How to update system software on a PS4 console

• Japan Towers

• Tetsu Testu Timetable Museum: because of course this exists in Japan!

• Sunny Days Pudding Cafe: in Tokyo. Looks gorgeous!

• Pompompurin Cafe: AAAAAAH!

• Hotel Metropolitan Tokyo Ikebukuro: can I get their interior designers for our place please?

• Subvert.fm: "The Collectively Owned Music Marketplace"

• Terence Eden: I was told QR codes would never succeed

• Kinesis mWave Mechanical Keyboard