Boy, I really love Unix command line. The whole concept of it is so powerful yet so simple. Each time I need to do something I choose shell to make it work. EVERY TIME.
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I really miss Monkey Radio (https://web.archive.org/web/20080222143759/http://www.monkeyradio.org/).
Is there anything like this anymore?
It was somewhere around 2005 when I listened to it for the first time. I was using beloved Real Player to stream it.
I’ve learned about so many great artists over that time. I still listen to them almost every day. I guess this radio has shaped my music taste. I’m very gratful for that.
I wish someday someone would bring it back to life in one form or another.
Just finished “The Making of Prince of Persia” and unfortunately must say that the book/journal is unnecessarily too long. The first part (about Prince 1) was cool and insightful, but the rest was pretty much about nothing really interesting…
Found a very interesting album yesterday:
LUM — Homo Infinitus
![A cover of album Homo Infinitus by LUM](/thoughts/2022-09-08--17-54-32/homo-infinitus_hu868c67d0e95dd34b4261a8ba9e72a7cd_187548_640x0_resize_q75_h2_catmullrom.3e78d92f7ab9258befbb55b5a7c054cb8b143dbf61acd7f31fa44c783cf51c9b.webp)
I feel inspired reading books about “old times” in the programming world. It’s so refreshing to have a chance to take a look behind the scenes of such legendary creations as UNIX, Doom, Quake or Prince of Persia.
Here are the books I’m talking about:
- “UNIX: A History and a Memoir” by Brian W. Kernighan
- “The Making of Prince of Persia: Journals 1985-1993” by Jordan Mechner
- “Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture” by David Kushner