11.14.25

Goodbye Spotify. Liz Pelly: Mood Machine at Wheeler Centre / Thank you Deerhoof for making waves and moves and Joyful Noise for supporting it / Thank you to The Necks and Northern Spy Records and to everyone else who will follow this trend.

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Collections. Order Up / David Walker's Paper Clip Collection / Dad's oil can collection / Security envelopes [Thank you Jaime] / Security Envelope Pattern Swap

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A Halt and Catch Fire rabbit hole.

A syllabus formed around the series, rabbit holes galore // Joe MacMillan, the antihero (spoiler warning) // Joe MacMillan’s Shrines and Relics (spoiler warning) // Ryan Ray’s note // Comet // The Howe Of It All // Rover

Associated topics

Calculator Spelling // Construct the computer from your childhood or build an entire computer museum at home with these paper models // Floppy Disks and Diskettes // Douglas Engelbart, “The Mother of All Demos” 1968 // Secrets of the Little Blue Box, 1971 // UNIX: Making Computers Easier To Use : Bell Laboratories, 1982 // A computing legend speaks, Ken Thompson, full transcript // Steve Jobs 1981 interview, 1985 Playboy interview // Andy Hertzfeld’s Folklore, anecdotes about the development of Apple's original Macintosh, and the people who made it