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The man who invented the interactive fiction genre talks about its past and future.
CCP Games, the Icelandic developer behind long-running MMO Eve Online, is gearing up to share the keys to its universe.…
Project's creator talks to Ars about where FreeDOS has been, where it's going.
A case for planting more trees in urban areas.
This must be what killed the old No Time To Play wiki. You can thank "progress".
The new Chinese owner of the popular Polyfill JS project injects malware into more than 100 thousand sites.
The one-page guide to Vim: usage, examples, links, snippets, and more.
Exploring vim's builtin easy mode
The EU Council and its participants have decided to withdraw the vote on the contentious Chat Control plan proposed by Belgium, the current EU President.
Leading games executives recall their E3 memories and discuss its life, death and future
The Arecibo Telescope in Purto Rico, used for SETI research until its collapse in 2020 (Source) Almost anyone with any interest in astronomy, space travel, astrophysics, or old-fashioned science fi…
The New Leaf Journal’s short introduction to and history of RSS and related feed specifications such as Atom feeds and JSON feeds.
Lisp is an ambiguous category. But Common Lisp isn't, right? It's a restricted self-sufficient language, after all.
While ncurses still has a place in the modern world, ANSI escape codes may be better in some situations:
- you can use (almost) any programming language, not just those that have a curses binding or a foreign function interface;
- you're literally just printing out some short codes: that's both efficient and liberating;
- you can use features that modern terminal emulators have, but (n)curses doesn't.
As for the downsides:
- ANSI escapes are like coding in machine language – you'll need a cheatsheet;
- some hardware videoterminals never supported the standard;
ncurses
does more useful work besides translating for those old things.
It's still good to have another tool in the toolbox, doubly so when it's easy and fun to tinker with.