Amazing article from Gustavo Pezzi about the history of the vi editor up to vim. Did you know that vim was first developed for the Amiga? That and lots of other interesting tidbits.

This video blew me away. Not because of a deep dive into the Apple II from any technical standpoint, but instead because it instead takes a broader look from a cultural perspective of the history around the late 70's and early 80's computer industry, and puts it in terms of the software and people who used them. It's a long listen (about an hour,) but includes gems such as:

"The history of early Apple is antithetical to the Apple we understand today. I mean it came out of a supreme love of tinkering, of engineering, and a believe that people should be empowered to understand how their own systems worked." - Laine Nooney

Finally got around to play around with Greaseweazle, and wish I had done it a long time ago! Greaseweazle is a tool to read and write raw data from many different systems. Want to read a CoCo disk, or write a new Amiga disk? I haven't tried it, but it supposedly can even deal with 8" disks (if you have the drive and interface) as well. My hardware setup was kind of a mess (as you can see from the picture!) but I'll be cleaning that up over time with a smaller power supply and some kind of enclosure. Below are some pictures of it in use:

I used it to archive my first piece of software, one I had posted about earlier - a Star Trek themed organizer software named Stardate. Find it over at the Internet Archive.

If you have been on the fence about getting a Greaseweazle, I'd highly recommend it. I feel like the ability to read and write disks from many different retro systems will be very valuable going forward, not to mention the ability to perform real preservation.

Fantastic article about setting up 2FA using a Commodore 64. I'd love to see people port this to more platforms as well.