These are some sites, webpages, talks, etc. I found interesting.
Blogs
All of the people of whom I list the blog here have one thing in common: they can get you interested in a subject you initially don’t care about just by writing about it.
This section is sorted alphabetically.
Ali Reza Hayati ~> Not a browser war but a Web war
Arne Bahlo ~> We Need to Bring Back Webrings
Benedict Evans ~> Generative AI and intellectual property
Brain Baking ~> Is Your Website Training AI?, ChatGPT Is Worse For Students Than Stack Overflow, Smartphone Pervasiveness
But she’s a girl… ~> Emacs and Vim, Split keyboards, Linux… Bsag has greatly participated in my interest for split keyboards (after it started).
Drew Devault: ~> maintainer of Sway, Sourcehut, Aerc (which I use), and others.
Edwin Wenink ~> Web Paleontology: An Ode to the Hyperlink
Fabien Sanglard ~> USB Cheat Sheet
Fredrb’s Blog ~> Solving the same problem multiple times
Geoffrey Huntley ~> Computers Notes, /new convention: think of it as “dotfiles” but “for computers”, Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture
Ham Vocke ~> Remote Pair Programming Made Easy with SSH and tmux, Using ‘make’ to Make Your Code Easy to Work With · Ham Vocke, Distraction-free writing with vim
Jacob ~> My Philosophy on Software
Julia Evans ~> Monitoring Small Web Services
Martin Tournoij: Vim, software freedom ~> The Art of Unix Programming
Michał Sapka: ~> Charybdis, Mastodon Has Already Won, Mastodon and ActivityPub, Reddit and the centralized Web
Ploum ~> Splitting the Web, How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse), Une bulle d’intelligence artificielle et de stupidité naturelle, Keynote Touraine Tech 2023 : Pourquoi ?, Gemini, le protocole du slow web, A Society That Lost Focus
Scott Jenson ~> The invisible problem, The future needs files, Small is Beautiful: Why Desktop UX still has something to teach Mobile
Solène: ~> OpenBSD, Qubes OS, git-annex, NixOS, and I won’t list all subjects.
Stefan Zweifel ~> An Opinionated Personal Folder Structure, Things 3 Setup
Thib ~> My server can burn, my services will run, Syncing Notes with Obsidian, I don’t want to host services (but I do)
Vivek Haldar ~> Productivity porn, GUI vs CLI: Operation vs Expression
bt ~> My coffe maker just makes coffee, Switching to suckless software, Do you have an extra $10?, Stop using custom webfonts
mntn ~> Backbone surveillance and the future of privacy
mrus ~> Gemini is Solutionism at its Worst, Git on Roids, MailMan3 on OpenBSD 7.1, Linux on the Phone: Part One, How Do You Trust That Your Personal Machine Is Not Compromised? nerdypepper: I love how minimal this site looks. If you are into split keyboards like me (and maybe also otherwise), you’ll have to check out his post programming on 34 keys.
Articles / wikis / papers / fun stuff
Index 1,600,000,000 Keys with Automata and Rust: A great article from Andrew Gallant, the developer of ripgrep, about “using finite state machines as a data structure, which enable storing a large number of keys in a small amount of space while remaining easily searchable.”
Paul Ford - I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 nerds: how the tildeverse started
SDF Tutorials: emails, website hosting and much more
All escape sequences (okay, this one is just funny)
Internet statistics (written in 1996)
“Here is what you do:
- Visit an article, blog post, or Russian-hosted text-file e-book site that you’d like to read.
- Click at the beginning of the headline, scroll to the bottom without clicking, and shift-click the end.
- Command-C.
- Paste into Your Friend the Text Editor.
- Print. Keep the lovely Monospace font. Print 4 pages per sheet, so it is small enough but still big enough.
- Fold your pages up. Take them to the park. Take them to work. Scribble all over everything. Make notes. Plan tweets about notes.
- Find your pages years later, under the desk. Wonder how you could have ever been so wrong, so very wrong.”
xkcd 1205: is it worth the time?
oldweb.today: browse the web with old browsers like NetScape
I believe Google Adwords killed the web. Google Adwords incentivized sites to peddle SEO optimized garbage. Sites who aren’t are forced to optimize for email capture so they can market directly to you. Search results now show “news”, ads, and SEO spam instead of surfacing information.
You ought to be able to search something on Google and get an answer to your question without signing up for some newsletter. This is why I created 12ft.io.
The Missing Semester Of Your CS Education is one of the only places where SSH port forwarding is explained well. The first google result for this is cryptic.
Let’s Design A Keyboard With Ergogen v4
Energy Conservation with Open Source Ad Blockers
Generative AI like Midjourney creates images full of stereotypes - Rest of World
The role of keyboard design in advanced shell programs
FediPrimer - Chatty, Basic, Easy To Understand Explanations Of Fediverse Concepts
Talks / Videos
Glenn Greenwald - Why Privacy Matters
Mattia Dal Ben - 34 Keys Is All You Need
Ultimateeick - Why Calvin and Hobbes is the Greatest Comic Strip Ever Made
Useful tools
explainshell.com - match command-line arguments to their help text