NIX, a 64-bit Plan 9 kernel with some new ideas. HPC could be Plan 9’s new home.
Announcing Inferno for Android phones, “The Hellaphone runs Inferno directly on top of the basic Linux layer provided by Android. We do not even allow the Java system to start.” Video and screenshots.
diod is an I/O forwarding server that implements a variant of the 9P protocol from the Plan 9 operating system. When paired with a modern version of the v9fs Linux 9P client, diod allows a file system to be exported over a TCP/IP network in a manner similar to NFS.
VirtFS is 9P support for QEMU.
dunst, a dmenu-ish notification system. Awesome, finally!
Buxton Collection, “Explore his collection of input and interactive devices that he found interesting, useful, or important in the history of pen computing, pointing devices, and touch technologies.”
iOS is anti-UNIX and anti-programmer, (aren’t most GUIs?).
Guilt Through Algorithmic Association
“Don’t Talk to the Police”, by Professor James Duane.
Amanda told me this, rest of blog NSFW but recommended too.
The most expensive shot in silent film history