I think about this article about mcbee quick sort cards a lot

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https://kk.org/thetechnium/one-dead-media/

Weekly Links, 03/13/2026

This is new: open source AI-powered military intelligence. Actuarial Warfare: How Seven Insurance Letters Closed the World’s Most Critical Chokepoint and Why Markets Are Mispricing Duration by 300%

The Technium

liberation toolbox is YK Hong’s (subscription based) resource for liberating your life from google and other big tech companies

https://www.liberationtoolbox.io/about/

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YK's Liberation Toolbox

You're here! We're here. Heya, my name is YK Hong. This resource site delves into my life's work around Liberatory Strategy + Tech Justice. I have spent the past couple of decades working with organizations and communities around how we dismantle systems of oppression, strategize for liberatory pathways, and because I

Liberation Toolbox by YK Hong

enjoy this game i made
(reskinned someone else’s existing code and made into a self contained html)

https://tools.yip.pe/blobees/

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Blobmojees

Pick colours, pick blending modes and patterns, download a smooth gradient image

https://photogradient.com

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Photo Gradient

Generate beautiful gradients from colors or from a photo

Photo Gradient
WareWare Tutorial (2026) – Make Cute 3D Games Free

YouTube

the #thirstyLinkSluts manifesto

1. search engines in 2026 suck, and not in the good way. We’re all thirsty for useful and relevant links

2. If you have a useful link, share it you slut

3. Rack up your <body> count

4. keep a “little black book” of your finest booty calls

When someone says
“does anyone have a good link for this?”

You open the book. Be a human search engine.

List of vintage Japanese pixel/dot art software  ⌘I  Get Info

For a while now I’ve been collecting references to old Japanese pixel/dot art software. My main sources of information are the treasure trove of scanned maga...

Diode — Build, program, and simulate hardware

Diode is a 3D hardware simulator capable of simulating arduinos, integrated circuits, capacitors, transistors and much more.

Diode

Links about russian computers from the earlly GUI era, courtesy this thread (most from @nina_kali_nina ) :

https://furry.engineer/@patcharcana/116194382032516507

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https://www.robotrontechnik.de/

>>> is a charmingly retro website about computing in the GDR, unfortunately mostly in German. The link section, it has some links to sites about soviet computing

home computers and micros, e.g. DVK
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B8%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D0%B2%D1%8B%D1%87%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81

>>> a good Wiki article on school computers from the 80s, too: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82_%D1%83%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%B1%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B9_%D0%B2%D1%8B%D1%87%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B9_%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%85%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8

Many are Western clones, but not all of them.

>>> here are some screenshots of soft for one Soviet PDP-11-on-a-chip home computer:
https://tech.lgbt/@nina_kali_nina/113676143680346758

>>> a windowed operating shell for PC-compatibles from 1986:
https://tech.lgbt/@nina_kali_nina/111670752278950938

>>> here's an overview of SM models - https://www.computer-museum.ru/articles/sm-evm/1026/

It barely talks about the software, though. It mentions that they often ran RAFOS (RT11 clone) and DEMOS (UNIX)

Patch Arcana (@[email protected])

I should know enough trans people, autists, and retrocomp geeks to get useful information out of this question. Tragically, with the current state of web search, this is less a matter of "lazy google" and more of an example of "We have unjustly slain the librarian." Does anyone have any good resources on computing in the soviet union in the 70s and 80s that *isn't* just Skala? I'm getting way too obsessive about a writing problem. I am especially interested in anything where a user interface becomes relevant: ICS workstations, desktop computers, the whole bit.

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The Quest to Resurrect Three of the 90s’ Most Important CD-ROM Games for Girls

Theresa Duncan's three CD-ROM games changed young girls' lives in the 1990s. Now they're impossible to find, let alone play. If we don't restore them, we may as well be burning books.

VICE