Love the aesthetic. There was another ezine like this years ago focused on cybersecurity, I’ve forgotten its name now but the ASCII art involved was top notch.
Does anyone have any idea? It was definitely when Twitter was still Twitter as I remember reaching out to them about their ASCII art.
Maybe you're thinking of Phrack [1]?
I wonder if there'll be another edition of it, and if yes what it would look like, now that the AIpocalypse seems to have reached security research...
Agreed. Though apparently you're being downvoted for a legitimate issue. I'm laying down using my phone and it's not particularly enjoyable to read.
It's 2026 - the site can look like an old-skool zine being displayed with monospace fonts on a computer monitor and easily still have alternate formats for mobile devices. Not having it is just pure laziness.
I wouldn't mind if Reader Mode could deal with the text, but it can't. Oh well.
It would be great if you hacked your website to be better usable on a smaller mobile device! I need to zoom in to read, but then I also need to scroll sideways because of fixed layout.
You can do both, achieve a cool retro style and publish in a more modern format that supports multiple output devices.
…Or use a non-modern format and serve it as .txt, which supports all devices. The only downside is you’ll lose colors, but they are not strictly required.
We do, but as you say, they're often debugged into existence rather than cleanly designed into existence. ```
Good to have a reminder that it’s software engineering that has changed, not me.
An unreadable fantasy font logo at the top, multiple concentric frames, dot lines, l33t speech etc.
And I absolutely remember people complaining about slop in such intros even in the 90s, they just didn’t use that term.
https://soundcloud.com/blotter1/blotter_tmp0ut_2026
Also, the text mentions CDC 1620. I don't think this existed. Either it was IBM 1620 or CDC something else.
I'd be just as happy with clear readable type, but the content is the thing.
> Welcome to tmp.0ut Volume 5!
They are kinda inconsistent about it, looking at the social media handles, ascii logos, etc.
Interview: Doug McIlroy: https://tmpout.sh/5/2.html
- can we get a whole magazine that explains ideas like this? https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/
Does anyone have any idea? It was definitely when Twitter was still Twitter as I remember reaching out to them about their ASCII art.
[1]: https://phrack.org
https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/170/
(and interactions like these are part of the reason why I <3 HN)
[1]: https://thugcrowd.com/archive.html
Edit to add, apparently one of the ThugCrowd people is part of tmp.0ut so that would explain why my mind immediately went there.
I prefer to use a PC but that kind of articles are perfect to read when commuting.
You could just use <br> instead of fixed length words per line.
It's 2026 - the site can look like an old-skool zine being displayed with monospace fonts on a computer monitor and easily still have alternate formats for mobile devices. Not having it is just pure laziness.
I wouldn't mind if Reader Mode could deal with the text, but it can't. Oh well.
You can do both, achieve a cool retro style and publish in a more modern format that supports multiple output devices.