All Full Pint Bookmarks

2023-11-29

• Eternal Sunset - View a live sunset happening right now. - fun
• Ldial - Listen to the best independent and community radio stations in the US. - radio
• FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE Now Available - freebsd bsd unix
• sites with a /now page - So many interesting people, blogs and websites. The idea is that you have not just an about page, but a now page which you keep updated on what is happening now in your life. - blogs links
• Bookmarks @ marginalia.nu - A list of bookmarks/links that I have been exploring and I thought others might enjoy some old fashioned web surfing as well. I am thinking about putting a links page of frequently visited or valuable links that are separate from my Full Pint posts. - links bookmarks
• Countdown to Unix Time 1,700,000,000 - Unix Time reaches 1.7 billion and now past. - unix epoch time
• The Best Timed Shot in TV History (Probably) - I love me some Voyager news. Very well timed shot of Voyager 2 lifting off. - voyager liftoff
• Rust without crates.io - rust programming
• NaNoWriMo - I participated in this yearly event in the early aughts. I completed it twice I believe, and I have a print book of one of my novels on a book shelf somewhere in the house. - writing novel nanowrimo.
• F* Paywalls - news paywalls ad_blocker app tools via:popular
• Internet Artifacts - history internet web
• Retrotechtacular: The $175,000 Laser Printer | Hackaday - I operated a whole slew of these printers in the early 1990s. - 3800 IBM laser printer
• HATs | Raspberry Pi PCIe Database - pi5 HATs
• Dracula — Dark theme for 300+ apps - theme apps
• Beej's Guides - programming tutorials
• Kagi Small Web - Fun webring like random search at Kagi. - search surfing
• 100+ lesser known but useful websites - web resources
• Modern Linux Tools vs Unix Classics: Which would I choose? – The Personal Website of Ryan Flowers - My solutions to getting work done is still primarily done with the Unix classics. - unix cli
• Ecosia - the search engine that plants trees - Uses Bing results, which is not optimum. But if you want Bing results it gives you some privacy and helps the environment. - search privacy
• Computer Science from the Bottom Up - education computer science
• Beer is great for your gut health and probably better than probiotics • Earth.com - beer
• DOS GAME CLUB - games retro
• Google’s Surveillance: The Shocking Truth – Simplified Privacy - privacy google evil
• Sun Ray Thin Clients Pt2: Actually Using Them - YouTube - sun unix retro
• ProtonMail Complied with 5,957 Data Requests in 2022 – Still Secure and Private? | Hacker News - If you read the article and the comments, you can see that once again ProtonMail is the best thing out there doing the best they can to protect privacy. And as these cases prove, your emails are safe on their servers. Additionally, all the uninformed critics who do not read their terms of service and the article are informed by ProtonMail in the comments. The poor information that gets spouted in Hacker News comments are just as bad as any web forum on the internet. - protonmail privacy hackernews
• Hacker News Recap - AI generated daily podcast. - AI podcast Hacker News
• How NASA Nearly Lost the Voyager 2 Spacecraft Forever | WIRED - I grew up with these space craft. I am only 6 years older than they are and I vividly remember seeing the images of the planets they sent back to Earth when I was in grade school. - voyager
• Internet Speed Test - Measure Network Performance | Cloudflare - This might be the coolest internet speed test I have seen. - internet networking performance
• The Fear Of AI Just Killed A Very Useful Tool | Techdirt - Shame on the authors who screamed about something they apparently could not understand. - ai tools
• Rest in peace Bram Moolenaar, author of Vim and hero of many developers | Ars Technica - My editor of choice. - vim
• Happy 30th, FreeBSD! Why The FreeBSD Open Source Project Has Endured - aster.cloud - freebsd
• Voyager 2: Communication Reestablished With One Big Shout | Hackaday - nasa deep space probe
• Netscape Meteors - history web
• Voyager Command Glitch Causes Unplanned Pause In Communications | Hackaday - deep space probe nasa voyager
• Techdirt Has Been Deleted From Bing And DuckDuckGo | Techdirt - This is all fine that a large website can generate news when this happens. But this happens to random websites all the time, my blog disappeared for 10 months and I did not have HackerNews clout to get help. Bing support is awful. Do not use DuckDuckGo, they are entirely dependent on Bing. - bing search duckduckgo censorship
• /death/null - Digital graveyard for your files that you want gone but not forgotten. - humor
• GitHub - Swordfish90/cool-retro-term: A good looking terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display... - retro terminal
• Retro TV: Live 24/7 Vintage Cable TV Network on Raspberry Pi - YouTube - The most amazing recreation of Vintage TV I have ever seen. I can only imagine the time and effort used to create this. The programming of the channels is perfect! - vintage retro projects TV
• Anchor Brewing in San Francisco to cease operations after 127 years | CNN Business - Very sad, their Christmas beer has been something I have looked forward to when I could get it. - beer craft
• Your private and anonymous search engine Swisscows - Another privacy focused search engine. I will be giving this a go to see how it works for me. - search
• LEGO Building Instructions : Free Texts - Instructions for every Lego set ever. - lego archive
• Advanced macOS Commands - cli mac macos tools
• How Google Reader died — and why the web misses it more than ever - The Verge - This is when I quit Google. Seriously, I blogged about it before. I need to update that post. I stopped using everything Google in 2013. - atom rss google reader
• Collection - Van Gogh Museum - art "van Gogh"
• 2,200 Forgotten Vintage Computers Are Being Liberated From a Barn in Massachusetts - vintage history
• Plain Text Journaling with VIM - vim text
• Can SGI’s Enthusiast Community Bring IRIX Back to Life? - history unix irix sgi
• MAMMOTION - robot mower
• Plain Text Accounting portal - plaintextaccounting.org - cli finance
• Diving into a secret macOS tool - networkQuality - networkQuality -v - cli macos networking
• Revive Machines Atari 800XL - retro atari 800XL
• NewsNotFound: An AI-Powered, Unbiased News Website | NewsNotFound - news ai unbiased
• Bing Jail – Dariusz Więckiewicz 🇬🇧 - This same thing happened to my blog in late 2021 and I did all the similar troubleshooting. Found nothing and I eventually gave up. Then suddenly in the Fall of 2022 my site was indexed again. There is a serious bug in Bing that causes this and I fully expect my website to disappear from Bing and DuckDuckGo again. This is why I stopped using DuckDuckGo. - bing search microsoft
• Pluto Time | Pluto – NASA Solar System Exploration - pluto nasa
• 2023-03-18 - BRYCE JORDAN CENTER, PENN STATE UNIVERSITY, UNIVERSITY PARK, PA - Springsteen Setlist - Springsteen PSU setlist
• "MuffinTerm": A Great New Terminal App for BBSing on iPhone, iPad, and Mac - Byte Cellar - BBS retro
• FrogFind! - A search engine for vintage computers. Good if you like minimalism as well. - minimalism search web
• jwz: mozilla.org's 25th anniversary - mozilla history opensource
• Apple launches new Mac mini with M2 and M2 Pro chip, lower $599 starting price - 9to5Mac - mac mini computer hardware
• IP Chicken - What is my IP address? Free public IP lookup. - computer internet
• Epochalypse - fun interesting unix
• Field Notes | 5E Gaming Journals D&D - Honestly I feel like the prices for these journals for DND are very reasonable. - dnd rpg journal
• The mass extinction of UNIX workstations – OSnews - I have always wanted a SGI or Sun workstation at home. I worked a lot of years on HP-UX and AIX and I can tell you that it seemed like it was always difficult to find patches and documentation on HP-UX, at least it was in the 2000s. Like the author, I do not want to pay thousands of dollars for a paperweight. - unix workstations
• awesome-macos-command-line - Use your macOS terminal shell to do awesome things. - shell cli macos
• Release v2022.12.02 · vimwiki/vimwiki - vim vimwiki todo
• ooh.directory - A directory that is slowly but surely categorizing blogs. Love seeing, blogs and RSS getting lots of mentions. - blog directory web
• A.N. Lucas's 88x31 button Collection - Nice collection of retro web buttons. - history retro web webdesign
• The Fediverse Could Be Awesome (if we don’t screw it up) | Electronic Frontier Foundation - mastodon fediverse
• GitHub - s-macke/FSHistory: Play and Enjoy the History of Microsoft Flight Simulator - emulation games history retro
• irongeek/Pomodoro: A command line Python Pomodoro timer with seasonal emoji counters. - Pomodoro - Codeberg.org - A pomodoro timer I coded in Python. I have been using the Pomodoro Technique and grew frustrated that the App store applications that were free had nagging messages to buy in app purchases and most of the applications wanted a monthly fee. Ridiculous, so I coded my own for the command line. - pomodoro python
• martpie/museeks: 🎵 A simple, clean and cross-platform music player - music opensource
• 10 years of FTL: The making of an enduring spaceship simulator | Ars Technica - Absolute great game. If you have never played it, what are you waiting for? - FTL indiegame gaming
• Mastodon - social mastodon alternative free twitter via:popular
• Hacker Stations - WFH setups from around the world. - wfh workstations desks
• WelCOM to UNIX 50! - history unix
• GitHub - Wamphyre/BSD-XFCE: Turn your FreeBSD system in a complete and reliable workstation and creative studio with no hassle in minutes! Feel the daemon inside! - desktop bsdfreebsd
• GROGNARDIA: Retrospective: Adventure - retro atari games
• Doc Searls Weblog · The most important standard in development today - privacy
• Iomega Zip Drive Web Server - Server and web page running from a Iomega Zip Drive - retro hardware iomega
• Tech Flashback: iomega SCSI ZIP 100 Drive Internals | Gough's Tech Zone - Since I have been playing around with my parallel port Zip Drive, I found this blog post from 2013 an interesting read. - zip drive retro iomega
• The Debian Administrator's Handbook - linux sysadmin debian
• The Floppotron 3.0 » Silent's Homepage - Here it is! The bigger and better Floppotron 3.0. 512 floppy disk drives, 4 scanners and 16 hard disk drives. - hardware ochestra
• Miniflux - Minimalist and Opinionated Feed Reader - aggregator rss atom feedreader
• RSS Club: When Hot Takes are Too Hot - ratfactor - I agree with the initial frustration. Personally I find wikipedia a decent source for general school work, certainly better than a Google search. I would never use a Google search. - education history source encyclopedia
• How To Download All of Wikipedia onto a USB Flash Drive in 2022 - wikipedia
• Cover Your Tracks - tracker testing browser privacy
• IBM AIX for IA64 (Itanium) aka Project Monterey runs again! | Fun with virtualization - AIX UNIX
• Corrupted photos - Google Photos Community - People realizing the free service they put all their hope in, which was really not free is also not dependable. They want your data, they do not care whether your photos are corrupted or not. - google bitrot
• Quintessential_Dungeon.jpg (JPEG Image, 1400 × 1082 pixels) - d&d
• Nightdrive - Not the same thing, but reminds me a little of Drivey by Mark Pursey. - javascript
• Learn VIM while playing a game - VIM Adventures - game tutorial vim
• dato.rss - RSS search engine - search
• Happy 30th anniversary to 'Sneakers,' a cult classic that was far ahead of its time - I have always thought Sneakers and War Games were two of the best old school hacker movies. - history movies hackers
• COBOL's youth culture | TechBeacon - COBOL
• Photopea | Online Photo Editor - editor photo
• Cloud Storage for Offsite Backup - This would support my back strategy. Price is not bad and storage on ZFS is a plus. - linux ssh unix zfs
• GitHub - leon-ai/leon: 🧠 Leon is your open-source personal assistant. - opensource ai
• My surreal experience with COBOL - Mutt0-ds Notes - I briefly programmed in COBOL in the mid 1990s. At the time I worked for an insurance company which had a system completely coded in COBOL. - programming
• Please, Lego, let this engineer bring your computer brick to life - The Verge - hardware
• Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers - The Old New Thing - computing hardware history music physics
• jwz: XScreenSaver was released 30 years ago - screensaver history
• ravynOS – Finesse of macOS. Freedom of FreeBSD. - freebsd os osx
• Newsboat, an RSS reader - Love text? I do and Newsboat is an RSS/Atom feed reader for the text console. - reader terminal rss atom xml
• 5x5 Hexagonal Pipes Puzzle #352 - Time waster game - games
• Cameron's World - A love letter to Geocities - geocities history internet web
• ‘Voyager on steroids.’ Mission would probe mysterious region beyond our Solar System | Science | AAAS - science space
• Sears 1982 Christmas Holiday Season - YouTube - classic computer retro
• The Inspiration Behind Mattel’s Handheld D&D Game – Pad and Pixel - I received this game for Christmas in the early 80s and I loved it. Played it and killed the dragon many times. - classic mattel d&d handheld
• Microsoft's Windows OS loses 17% of its market share in the last 10 years - StockApps - I see this trend continuing, all four of my kids use Macs and have been exposed to Linux desktops. My younger daughters have only used Linux and MacOS and iPads in school. Older users like my retired neighbor and business is who keeps going back to Windows. My son and I each have Windows gaming computers, but that is all we use them for. - os trend
• Search My Site - Open source search engine and search as a service for personal and independent websites - I am directing my blog search link to searchmysite.net now. I do not recall ever adding my website, but it is there and appears to be fully crawled. I like the vibe and the reference to indieweb and I love that it crawls regularly and does not get results from the big corporations. Using a simple link like I did to others in the past but might play with the API down the road. - blogs indieweb search
• Down the memory lane with OS/2 - Julio Merino (jmmv.dev) - For a year or two in the early to mid 90s my work PC ran OS/2. I do not remember the exact version, but I so fell in love with the Model M keyboard connected to it, that I asked to keep it when getting a new PC and I still own that Model M Keyboard to this day. - OS/2 IBM retro computing
• The Home Computer Generation | datagubbe.se - I fully agree with everything written in this post. I also think for a while, particularly Windows computers lacked the ability to write programs without purchasing additional software. There was a period and maybe still so, that a computer is just Office and a web browser to most users. - generational computing retro
• Scoop: VW turns to electric Scout brand to win back Americans - Interesting, wonder if my 2014 Toyota Tacoma can last until this vehicle comes to market? - VW EV truck
• irongeek - Codeberg.org - Actually going to start putting some of my code online, but at codeberg instead of github. - git codeberg
• 1MB Club: A collection of websites weighing in less than 1MB - Want to find some really great we content. Spend some time just surfing to the sites listed in the 1MB Club. - blogs small
• prose.sh -- a blog platform for hackers - Setup your own blog with some ssh. - blog ssh
• Your Adventure Ends Here - Blogging playthroughs of choose your own adventure books. This is the kind of gold that is fun to find on the web. - playthrough reading books classic
• Releases · jeena/TextEd.app - mac text editor
• Opinion | What's in the James Webb space telescope photos? We can explain. - The Washington Post - science space jwst
• It's 1997 and you want to build a website - The History of the Web - history web internet
• jaromaz/MacintoshPi: A small project that allows running full-screen versions of Apple's Mac OS 7, Mac OS 8 and Mac OS 9 with sound, active online connection and modem emulation under Raspberry Pi. - mac emulation pi
• wibyweb/wiby: Wiby Search Engine - Install your own Wiby Search Engine with your own crawler. - search opensource
• MWMBL - Search - Donation model search engine. Tried their Firefox plugin to help their crawler, an absolute network and CPU pig, uninstalled. Also will not use a search engine that does not list irongeek.net in it's results. I will check in with them in the future. - search web free
• Git from the Bottom Up - free git tutorial
• Wesley’s Notebook - I have been enjoying reading some of the blog posts here. - blog
• Vim 9.0 - New version of Vim released. - text editor
• [TUHS] Re: forgotten versions - TUHS - www.tuhs.org - AT&T lawyer stopped Plan 9 release CD with songs by Lou Reed, Debbie Harry - unix history
• Record-Breaking Voyager Spacecraft Begin to Power Down - Scientific American - history scient space
• Firefox Rolls Out Total Cookie Protection By Default To All Users - Stop using Chrome. - firefox privacy cookies web browser
• flarum/flarum: Simple forum software for building great communities. - Love the user interface to this forum. I used to run several forums with various software. - forum community software
• About this book - Learn Haskell by building a blog generator - blog learning programming coding
• EndBASIC - BASIC reimagined - basic coding programming
• Apple announces new flagship M2 processor - When the M2 is added to the Mac Mini I will upgrade. I am still blown away with what I can do with this Mac Mini M1 with no slowdown. - M2 mac apple
• Gloucester cheese rolling returns after pandemic - BBC News - After a two-year pandemic pause, competitors from around the world once again hurled themselves down a hill for the glory of becoming the cheese champion by capturing the cheese wheel, which can roll at speeds up to 70 mph. - cheese race
• Code bloat has become astronomical – Cliffski's Blog - I started complaining about this 20 years ago. It is part of the reason I write my own blogging software. I recently toyed with Wordpress, which the author uses, I get it, there can be nothing to maintain. But Wordpress is a bloated ugly piece of software. - software bloat
• Drivey.js - GL on Wheels - Based on Mark Pursey's drivey. I have a photo of my son playing it when he was 3 or 4 years old on a square monitor. My son is 20 now. No idea if Mark has a blog anymore, I used to enjoy reading his posts and messing with his software. JujuEdit anyone? - drivey juju
• Finger: The First Social Software - Inspired one of the titles I used on a early blog. I called it my dot plan. - finger history unix
• The Murena One shows how hard it is to de-Google your smartphone - The Verge - This is why I just use an iPhone. Apple is not perfect and neither is the iPhone, but it is the best thing available that respects some privacy. - privacy de-google phone
• Open Source Alternatives to Proprietary Software - opensource
• explainshell.com - match command-line arguments to their help text - bash linux shell
• Calendar.txt - I like the idea, I already do something similar with my vimwiki and text file method. This might work for others looking to use text files. - interesting text
• The Yesterweb - Reclaiming the Internet - Browsing the Link Directory is like a fun trip back in time, but it is just indieweb goodness. - retro internet geek web indieweb
• CBS Evening News on the Pioneer 10 ( 6-10-1983) : space - You’re an interesting species, an interesting mix. You’re capable of such beautiful dreams and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, and so alone. - pioneer space science
• firefly-iii/firefly-iii: Firefly III: a personal finances manager - opensource finance manager
• 10 Networking Technologies That You Probably Aren’t Using - I remember wrestling with token ring on AIX. If memory serves I had to make the token ring emulate Ethernet so it could talk on the dated network we had. - history networking
• MemLink - Easily create a link of info - link memlink
• Mojeek - True search engine, looks promising as well. - privacy search
• DuckDuckGo Browser Allows Microsoft to Track Users Thanks to Confidential Agreement | RestorePrivacy - Sharing this link again from my blog post. I have removed the DuckDuckGo browser from my iPhone. - privacy trust browser duckduckgo
• Kagi Search - Private search and an Orion browser too. I pay for private email, I would pay for privacy with search as well. - search privacy
• 09/01/21 – dailywebthing daily pointers - Thank you for the webmention! - indieweb webmention
• Lotus 1-2-3 For Linux - linux history Programming lotus lotus123 via:popular
• 512KB Club | A showcase of lightweight websites. - Irongeek qualifies, I think it always will, as I am unsure whether the scanner is grabbing every post. I guess if it is, someday we might not. But each of our pages are well below 512kb. - blog minimalism indieweb webdesign
• Mac Open Web - Collection of Mac software - apple web mac open
• GitHub - penk/MainboardTerminal - A Retro-style Computer with a Modern Core - diy retro terminal
• Framework Laptop - hardware laptop open
• NetNewsWire: Free and Open Source RSS Reader for Mac and iOS - Amazing feed reader. Exciting to see such good software for consuming feeds. - reader rss free amazing
• Daring Fireball: Nicholas Weaver: 'Cryptocurrency Should "Die in a Fire"' - cryptocurrency
• What is a feed? (a.k.a. RSS) | About Feeds - If you care about the open and/or indie web, you should link to this website. - tutorial web feeds rss
• Increasing the surface area of blogging - Love feeds and always will. - RSS blog blogs
• Retrotechtacular: The IBM System/360 Remembered | Hackaday - I began my career on a mainframe. - IBM mainframe System/360
• Code the Classics - Volume 1 – Raspberry Pi Press - books games programming coding classics
• John Allbritten / cbonsai · GitLab - cbonsai is a bonsai tree generator, written in C using ncurses. - shell terminal bonsai
• Repo Lookout - A bot that looks for exposed source code on the internet. - git bot cyber security
• Please, stop disabling zoom - Agreed, I hate when apps that have photos do not allow zoom as well. - zoom accessibility
• Neocities: Create your own free website! - blog free retro geocities
• UTM | Virtual machines for Mac - mac virtualization
• I've Used All The Notebooks - Tyler Cipriani - I have always been a big fan of notebooks, I have two on my desk right now and one is always open. - notes todo notebook
• The Technium: 103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known - Always worth sharing advice. - wisdom
• sgi.neocities.org - I am a unix geek and always wanted and SGI workstation. - irix mame sgi unix
• Marginalia Search - A search engine that rewards websites that are not bloated. A cool Indie Web project. - search research text
• BLOG.TXT - I have written many times about my love of text. I do not hate html though, but I do hate bloat. I used to publish a dot plan on one of my old websites, which was of course all text. - txt blog text
• .plan - unix interesting
• Open Scrobbler - lastfm scrobble
• Break Message - Meeting return zoom teams
• Last.fm stats - Amazing compilation of LastFM scrobble stats. - music scrobble lastfm
• Single-file PHP file manager, browser and photo gallery | Files - php web gallery
• NASM Assembly Language Tutorials - asmtutor.com - tutorial assembly programming asm gdb via:popular
• 12ft Ladder - paywall news articles newspapers google via:popular
• How I built a WFH Shed - building diy shed hardware bricolage via:popular
• A Project of One's Own - projects
• Perl / Unix One-liner Cage Match, Part 2 - programming one-liner
• Perl / Unix One-liner Cage Match, Part 1 - programming one-liner
• Cryptocurrency is an abject disaster - cryptocurrency
• Unix Magic Poster - Gary Overcare (1).png (PNG Image, 3675 × 5475 pixels) - High quality image - unix history poster
• PSPad - free unicode developer editor, handles near any syntax like HTML, PHP, XHTML, R, JavaScript, ASP, Perl, C and many other languages with HEX editor, multilanguage interface - Code and text editor for Windows - editor freeware programming
• Discover The Best Books To Read 📚 - Shepherd - Interesting take on the online bookstore. - books
• » Transylvania The Digital Antiquarian - Transylvania - I thought of this game often over the years and could never remember it's name. I played it on my brother's Apple as a kid in the early 1980s. - 80s retro games Apple
• GitHub - aristocratos/bpytop: Linux/OSX/FreeBSD resource monitor - Resource monitor that shows usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network and processes. Python port of bashtop. - linux shell osx cmdlineporn
• Python books free to read online or download - books free python
• Diablo II - Holy Grail - I have been playing Diablo 2 on and off since it was originally released, I took part in the original beta. I am sure I have found every item in the game, and I am positive I found even Tyrael's might in my last go around in 2012. Regardless, I am trying to record it this time. I also only play Battle Net and hardcore only. Currently doing Pit runs with Zealer/Smiter Paladin, as well as Chaos and World Stone runs. - diablo diablo2 holy grail
• Titanium Software | Operating system utilities for Mac - OnyX - OnyX is a reliable application which provides a clean interface to many tasks that would otherwise require complex commands to be typed using a command-line interface. - free mac
• PC-BASIC - programming basic opensource
• The Kilobyte’s Gambit ♟️💾 1k chess game - a 1k JS chess game. - retro javascript chess
• Diablo® II: Resurrected - It's back. This game has had so much added since most of the world stopped playing, like uber bosses. I went back and beat them all in hardcore with a Paladin. The Nite clan will soon return. - D2 DII Diablo Gaming
• tree.fm – Tune Into Forests From Around The World - Listen to a random forest. - nature relax calm
• Iconduck - 104,808 free open source icons - icons opensource
• vim.so - Learn and Master Vim faster with interactive exercises - learning tools vim
• Red Hat introduces free RHEL for small production workloads and development teams | ZDNet - OS CentOS RHEL
• Computer System Engineering | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | MIT OpenCourseWare - course
• Pinboard is Eleven (Pinboard Blog) - I really like Pinboard, it is the basis for my monthly dump of links I find interesting, which I call the Full Pint - linkdump links
• PSX Party - Play PS1 with your friends in a browser via the webarchive. - games classic multiplayer
• Built to Last - When overwhelmed unemployment insurance systems malfunctioned during the pandemic, governments blamed the sixty-year-old programming language COBOL. But what really failed? - COBOL history programming
• TermRSS: A CLI RSS Reader/Notifier in Python with notification support using FeedParser. - https://old.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/klggu1/termrssaclirssreader/ - python shell rss news aggregator simplicity minimalism opensource learning toolkit interesting via:tdjones
• Adobe Flash Player is finally laid to rest - BBC News - flash retro
• QBASIC Programming for Kids - programming retro vintage
• Internet Mainframes Project - mainframe z/os
• GitHub - BlueM/cliclick: macOS CLI tool for emulating mouse and keyboard events - mac automation
• Messengers of hope | Nature Biotechnology - two mRNA COVID-19 vaccines represent a turning point in the pandemic - COVID science mRNA
• Web Desktops - vintage web
• The Lost World of Soviet PCs - A rare peek at personal computing behind the Iron Curtain. - vintage pc computing
• Cassette sales double in a year with Lady Gaga best-selling album on tape - vintage music
• Doom - Kill active processes while playing Doom. - sysadmin games UI via:procesd
• Urban Dead - A Massively Multi-Player Web-Based Zombie Apocalypse. Running for 15 years. - games web rpg mmorpg
• How an obscure British PC maker invented ARM and changed the world - 1987's Acorn Archimedes was the first production RISC-based personal computer. - RISC hardware
• Why is Apple’s M1 Chip So Fast?. Real world experience with the new M1… | by Erik Engheim | Nov, 2020 | Medium - apple hardware mac cpu arm
• envs.net | environments - envs.net is a minimalist, non-commercial shared linux system and will always be free to use. Has a free Tiny Tiny RSS install you can sign up to use. - web free linux
• Science Knowledge Quiz | Pew Research Center - I answered 11 of 11 questions correctly on the @pewresearch Science Knowledge Quiz - Seemed like common knowledge to me, worth taking to see the demographic breakdowns. - science pew research
• NsCDE/NsCDE: Modern and functional CDE desktop based on FVWM - unix cde desktop
• birch: An IRC client written in bash - IRC bash
• DuckDuckGo Tracker Radar Exposes Hidden Tracking - DuckDuckGo shares a big list of jerks - privacy browser
• microsoft/PowerToys: Windows system utilities to maximize productivity - I use Windows at my employer, how I recall using PowerToys with Windows 95. - microsoft tools windows powertoys
• Slower News | Trends, micro-trends & edge cases - A slowly updated news-aggregator curated by some guy and I like it. I check in once in a while and choose something to read. - news slow minimal simple
• Salt Tips - I am a huge fan of Salt-Stack. I was going to just follow the blog, but I get the impression the mailing list is where a lot of the meat is at. So I am giving that a shot. - salt salt-stack configuration sysadmin
• FreeNAS is now TrueNAS core - I have mentioned FreeNAS here many times. - freenas freebsd truenas network storage
• Mysterious Light Sources – Altair Space - light pollution
• Typora — a markdown editor, markdown reader. - This is the markdown editor I have been using since switching to a static site. Mac and Linux versions. Windows too if that is how you roll. - editor markdown
• Pi-hole®: A black hole for Internet advertisements – A black hole for Internet advertisements - Installed on a small virtual machine on my FreeNAS. Absolutely awesome. - privacy dns
• MSPaint in Javascript - Seems like a perfect rendering to me. - javascript fun paint
• The Bash Hackers Wiki [Bash Hackers Wiki] - I love bash, still my preferred shell. - programming bash wiki
• BBC Micro Bot - Run BBC Code through a twitter bot - programming history
• ongoing by Tim Bray · On Soaking the Rich - I have enjoyed Tim Bray for many years and posts like this keep me around. Even though he made it, he gets it. - economy
• A renderer for Diablo using ncurses - diablo game
• Bookshop - Support local book stores. Check Bookshop first before buying on Amazon. - books local
• Winamp for Windows, MacOS, Linux, and Android - I remember when Winamp was must have software and we anxiously awaited Nullsoft releases. It really whipped the llama's ass. - media player winamp llama
• Nasa 're-masters' classic 'Pale Blue Dot' image of Earth - BBC News - One of my favorite moments in space exploration history. - nasa history voyager
• Online bird guide, bird ID help, life history, bird sounds from Cornell All About Birds - Has a fantastic Instant ID tool that takes into account your location and time of year. Provides a list of possible birds with pictures and descriptions. - birds
• Vimwiki Cheat Sheet - vimwiki cheatsheet
• Typing practice - I am decent at typing, I would say better than most. I come from the generation that had a required typing class in high school. This is a fun tool to brush up on your typing skills. - typing learning tool
• Home Clear Linux* Project | Clear Linux* Project - Optimized for performance and security. - linux os performance
• Database of Free Online Computer Science and Programming Books, Textbooks, and Lecture Notes - books free tech
• The Unix Heritage Society - I am a long time Unix geek. A lot of cool Unix info. - unix history archive
• BlueMaxima's Flashpoint - The webgame preservation project. I was just having a conversation about the loss of Flash games. This is Windows only, but awesome to see these being archived. - archive games retro flash
• FuryBSD – Desktop powered by FreeBSD - Looking for an affordable laptop to load FreeBSD. - bsd freebsd laptop desktop
• FreeNAS 11.3-RELEASE - iXsystems, Inc. - Enterprise Storage & Servers - Been running FreeNAS on a HP ProLiant MicroServer N40L since 2012. I really should consider upgrading this hardware at some point. - nas freenas storage freebsd
• Ecovacs Deebot N79 Main Brush Error Fix - Four Beeps - YouTube - After over two years of use, my N79 Deebot was having a constant main brush malfunction. I followed this instructions to take the brush motor out and clean it. Also applied a bit of WD40 to motor. Works like a champ again. - Ecovac irobot robot vac
• Coyotes Poised to Infiltrate South America | At the Smithsonian | Smithsonian Magazine - environment
• 1,000 Free Audio Books: Download Great Books for Free | Open Culture - books audiobooks free audio literature
• Professors Create Free Research-Backed Games to Train Your Brain - NYU Steinhardt Professor Jan L. Plass and his colleagues have created three digital games to help children and adults improve their cognitive skills. - games brain
• Pwning your (web)server and network the easy way - or why exposing ~/.ssh/ is a bad idea - Devops is why this type of dumb shit happens. - devops stupidity
• RIP Neil Peart - Dead at 67 - Perhaps the greatest drummer ever. - drummer rush
• Cutting Google out of your life - Great options for anything Google - google degoogle lifehack
• Caffeinated - PowerShell script to keep your Windows computer from locking or loading screen saver. Good for bypassing short corporate timeout settings. Presses your scroll lock key twice every 4 minutes and moves the mouse by a pixel. Works where Caffeine programs fail. - powershell windows caffeine
• Source for the latest in Prog Rock - prog rock music
• A thread about Internet Archive's "Silent Killer" - Donate to the Internet Archive - internet archive
• Browsh - Browsh is a fully-modern text-based browser. It renders anything that a modern browser can; HTML5, CSS3, JS, video and even WebGL. - text terminal browser web
• Project from Neal Agarwal, a constant source of joyful old-school internet - Just check it out. - weird web fun
• Another private search engine - Results were far better than Cliqz - search privacy
• Personal sites are awesome - Personal site web directory - directory blogs indieweb
• Cliqz - Secure browser with built-in quick search - A true search engine competitor. - privacy search web
• Home Assistant - Open source home automation I am considering implementing. - automation home python iot hardware
• What is Internet Time? - A converter to identify the standard time based on internet time on a specific date and time - time converter swatch "internet time"
• Situation Clock with Internet Time - Swatches Beats so you can collaborate without time zones. - time beats Swatch
• Windows Terminal Preview v0.7 Release | Windows Command Line - I will see how this compares to MobaXterm. I see some shortcomings right off for my work flow but will give it a shot. Why does Microsoft not just switch to Linux instead of pretending it's OS is Linux? - terminal microsoft
• NESert Golf - Like Desert Golf but for your NES with a bit more depth. - gaming NES
• Snake plus Tetris - This is frustratingly hard, but must be experienced. - game
• The History of Linux | Linux Distros - linux history
• Color Scheme for Gnome Terminal - terminal color theme
• UNIX: A History and a Memoir - New book by Brian W. Kernighan. - unix history
• Build it Yourself - A bunch of links to tutorials to help understand how things work. - tutorial programming
• How the U.S. betrayed the Marshall Islands, kindling the next nuclear disaster - Los Angeles Times - nuclear disaster
• Will The Real UNIX Please Stand Up? | Hackaday - I have been using UNIX and UNIX like operating systems since 1990 - unix linux
• Windows Update Marathon - Windows 1 to XP. Hoping this is a link that never disappears. I am a unix / linux guy but we all spent a lot of time on computers running windows. - retro computing windows microsoft geek
• Syncthing - Syncthing is a continuous file synchronization program. It synchronizes files between two or more computers and replaces proprietary sync and cloud services with something open, trustworthy and decentralized. My SpiderOak / Dropbox replacement. - dropbox sync cloudfree
• Dark mode in a website with CSS | Tom Brow - @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) - webdesign css dark darkmode
• Tiny Tiny RSS - Since I previously mentioned RSS this is my daily use RSS reader. - RSS
• DuckDuckGo — Privacy, simplified. - The search engine that doesn't track you. I have been using DuckDuckGo for years and it just keeps getting better. - search privacy
• Vim Colors - Cool site for finding additional vim color schemes. - vim colors theme
• One Page Dungeon by watabou - Very cool dungeon generator. - rpg generator dnd tool dungeon
• Vim Awesome - vim plugins dev plugin editor
• Secure Your Containers with this One Weird Trick – Red Hat Enterprise Linux Blog - docker security linux container capabilities
• awesome-courses/README.md at master · prakhar1989/awesome-courses - programming education learning course courses
• Learn C • Build Your Own Lisp - c lisp
• The Feynman Lectures on Physics - physics science education Feynman books
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Python! — The Hitchhiker's Guide to Python - python programming development documentation guide
• Tyblog | SSH Kung Fu - ssh linux unix
• vimwiki/vimwiki · GitHub - vim text wiki