robocord

I can see it just fine. (and I also use newsblur).

A bunch of random feeds, some of which may be dead:

http://chainsawsuit.com/feed/
http://feeds2.feedburner.com/motherjones/BlogsAndArticles
http://feeds.feedburner.com/AtlanticBusinessChannel?format=xml
http://feeds.feedburner.com/Brentevans?format=xml
http://feeds.feedburner.com/EconomistsView
http://feeds.feedburner.com/seriouseats/recipes
http://feeds.feedburner.com/SeriousEats-thefoodlab?format=xml
http://feeds.feedburner.com/tapestrypearls
http://feeds.highgearmedia.com/?sites=GreenCarReports
http://phantomnitpicker.blogspot.com/atom.xml
http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotLinux
https://archive.nytimes.com/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/category/the-conversation/feed/
https://blog.xkcd.com/feed/
https://feeds2.feedburner.com/AtlanticPoliticsChannel
https://feeds.feedburner.com/Inthedrops
https://feeds.feedburner.com/TheWirecutter?format=xml
https://feeds.npr.org/1001/rss.xml
https://feeds.washingtonpost.com/rss/linksets/opinions/editorials
https://fivethirtyeight.com/all/feed
https://hothardware.com/mobile/articles.aspx
https://insideevs.com/rss/articles/all/
https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/feed/
https://longform.org/feed.rss
https://nautil.us/rss/all
https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
https://pearlswine.livejournal.com/data/rss/
https://poorlydrawnlines.com/feed/
https://priceonomics.com/latest.rss
https://revealnews.org/feed/
https://rss.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/EnergyEnvironment.xml
https://rss.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/US.xml
https://rss.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/World.xml
https://taskandpurpose.com/feeds/feed.rss
https://theconversation.com/us/articles.atom
https://theoatmeal.com/feed/rss
https://thisisindexed.com/feed/
https://tinyhouseblog.com/feed/
https://twitrss.me/twitter_user_to_rss/
https://velo.outsideonline.com/feed/?scope=anon
https://warontherocks.com/feed/
https://what-if.xkcd.com/feed.atom
https://wordpress.aje.aj-harbinger.com/feed
https://www.anandtech.com/rss/
https://www.badscience.net/feed/
https://www.military.com/rss-feeds/content?keyword=headlines&channel=news&type=news
https://www.nytimes.com/svc/collections/v1/publish/www.nytimes.com/column/david-brooks/rss.xml
https://www.nytimes.com/svc/collections/v1/publish/www.nytimes.com/column/paul-krugman/rss.xml
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/feeds/rss/headlines
https://www.propublica.org/feeds/propublica/main
https://www.snopes.com/feed/
https://www.theverge.com/rss/index.xml
https://www.tomshardware.com/feeds/all
https://www.vox.com/rss/index.xml
https://xkcd.com/rss.xml

I miss Byte magazine so much. Now you’ve made me sad. I hope you’re happy! (jk)

MicroVAX-II was the first “real” computer I ever used, professionally. It started me down the VMS road in the late 1980s. I didn’t pick up the One True Religion of Unix until 1998.

Finally had to take VMS (and COBOL) off my resume about 15 years ago to stop all the calls from desperate headhunters trying to keep ancient systems on life support.

Back in middle school my friends and I bought an ancient computer from a bank, a Singer 5800, IIRC. It ran on 240v so we had to unplug the dryer to use it. It had a built-in seat, with the tty, processor, memory, paper tape reader, and printer kinda wrapping around the operator’s seat. It even had a little section you could flip down to bridge the last gap, leaving you totally surrounded. It was a hoot and a half going through the 5’ higher stack of manuals and learning how to use and program it. Inside the memory cabinet, where the 4K of core memory lived, someone had velcroed a horseshoe magnet to the door, with “delete utility” written on it.

Good times.