retro If you have a Mac, use this retro Terminal to play games like it's 1982 Mark Frauenfelder

security Computer historians crack passwords of Unix's early pioneers Cory Doctorow

happy mutants An illustrated tour of Unix history Cory Doctorow

unix How to fix common mistakes in Git Jason Weisberger

art Beautiful artwork plays the UNIX timestamp on cymbals David Pescovitz

Technology A virtual museum runs 570 operating systems in your browser Ellsworth Toohey

Boing Boing Gadgets Hack your Mac & unearth thousands of features for $28 Boing Boing's Shop

language The semicolon defended by its advocates Rob Beschizza

Technology Punk programmers and queer hackers expose Reagan-era tech corruption in Cory Doctorow's new novel, on Kickstarter now Mark Frauenfelder

security Here is the latest list of passwords you should never use Allan Rose Hill

law Vermont man charged with drunk driving in Canada thought he was in U.S. Rob Beschizza

gadgets Kitten-shaped mechanical keyboard with kitten-shaped keycaps Rob Beschizza

software A refined 90s-style operating system you can actually use Rob Beschizza

encryption Signal's response to Homeland Security's grand jury subpoena for user data is basically "You get nothing. You lose. Good day, sir" Mark Frauenfelder

windows Ditching a MacBook for OpenBSD on a Thinkpad Mark Frauenfelder

tools Great deal on Unix! Rob Beschizza

linux A nice video introduction to the Linux terminal Mark Frauenfelder

books A profile of Cliff "Cuckoo's Egg" Stoll, a pioneering "hacker hunter" Cory Doctorow