Weekly Tech Thread - ~2024.9.18

Something Old:

• The Bell System Technical Journal Archive
  

  
  

Something New:

• Farmer & Meyer, “Geometric Search Trees”
  

  
  

Something Borrowed:

• The Dune Shell (h/t Hacker News)
  

  
  

Something Blue:

• https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/quasiblog/findloop/
  

  
  

The Markdown parser libary used by the forum, by ~wispem-wantex, has been updated. We are also preparing a bounty for genericization of the platform (host-your-own-forum), to be sponsored by the Urbit Foundation.

If you are interested in acquiring a USTJ vinyl sticker, we'll have some on hand at Subassembly.