Another use-case of GitHub is not mentioned: to get publicity, i.e. to gather stars.

If a website uses fancy new browser features and works for 98% of the population, that means that it won’t work for ~150 million people. If a website makes a change and that works for 98% of their visitors, they’re basically kicking out 2% of their audience. Can you imagine a venue refusing entry to former clients 2% of the time just because they’ve “improved their experience”?

Cool-looking 3D visualizer of the Fediverse graph. Seems vibe-coded...

Don’t avoid writing something down just because you think it’s obvious. The thing you think is obvious now might recede into your subconscious in an hour; get it written down while you can! And don’t avoid writing something down because you think it’s dangerous to say and everyone already knows it. For people new to the area, reading your words can help them feel like they’re not losing their minds. Finally, once you write down the obvious thing, it allows you to go on and draw out the parts that are less obvious, in a way that you couldn’t do if you try to just skip straight to the subtleties.

Epic spec for a REPL for GUIs with tight shell integration. AFAIK there's no implementation yet. Interested in trying it out.

I use a computer for hours and hours a day, partly because I love it, and partly to compensate for my disability. But how much is too much?

kdl is a document language, mostly based on SDLang, with xml-like semantics that looks like you're invoking a bunch of CLI commands!

Semantics similar to XML!

package {
  name my-pkg
  version "1.2.3"

  dependencies {
    // Nodes can have standalone values as well as
    // key/value pairs.
    lodash "^3.2.1" optional=#true alias=underscore
  }

  scripts {
    // "Raw" and dedented multi-line strings are supported.
    message """
      hello
      world
      """
    build #"""
      echo "foo"
      node -c "console.log('hello, world!');"
      echo "foo" > some-file.txt
      """#
  }

  // `\` breaks up a single node across multiple lines.
  the-matrix 1 2 3 \
             4 5 6 \
             7 8 9

  // "Slashdash" comments operate at the node level,
  // with just `/-`.
  /-this-is-commented {
    this entire node {
      is gone
    }
  }
}

Also reminds of QML, nginx config and of course Mycomarkup.

Minimal container images often ship without curl, wget, or any HTTP client at all. Bash can open a TCP socket through /dev/tcp, which is enough to write a tiny HTTP/1.1 request by hand for quick checks.

Jimmy is tool to convert your notes from various formats to Markdown. This can be used to import to note applications such as Joplin and Obsidian.

Tool that deletes all your messages from a chat, channel, or conversation on Telegram without requiring admin privileges - en9inerd/go-tgeraser

Will try. There's also a Python version by the same author with many more stars, but I trust Go code more.

less net work for networks

IP addresses break, dial keys instead

I remember coming across a project that used iroh a few years back. I wonder how are they doing now.

A hobby operating system for vintage 16-bit PCs, built for tinkering with old hardware on the bare metal.

Soul of a tiny new machine. More thorough tests → More comprehensible and rewrite-friendly software → More resilient society. - akkartik/mu

Quite unlike uxn!

On designing finger-friendly interactions

A tracker for Nintendo DS (with DSi mode!). Looks cool and not scary.

Jeremy Maluf is that New Yorker who has all his possessions in one bag that he carries with him all the time. He approaches his file and data management similarly. Recently his bag was stolen, but then he bought new devices and recovered all data in 15 minutes. That involves over-reliance on Google and Apple services. Not a lifestyle I want to chase, but something to learn here.

Даня показывает, как правильно называть файлы — писать в начало дату в формате ISO.

2026-04-29 Фото из Хабаровска.jpg
2025-07-12 Билет в музей.pdf

Давно так делаю и вам рекомендую.

Даня также показывает, как удобно на маке добавлять такой префикс к файлам. Взял на вооружение.

One-megabyte better calculator widget for the menu bar.

Epic long text on history of Arabic script printing, calligraphy intro, font rendering intro, bidi intro.

As an Emacs user, few things are as delightful as catching my favorite text editor out in the wild. It doesn’t happen often though – Emacs is niche, and pop culture rarely gives it a nod. This post tracks down every one I know of (as of June 2026), and I’ll keep adding to it as I stumble across more.

Image board style fedi front end with a emphasis on gallery view

{
  header: "Welcome to my blog",
  post: "$1",
  footer: "Hope you like it"
}
/* $1 */
{
  content: "This is my article",
  comments: "$2"
}
/* $2 */
[
  "This is the first comment",
  "This is the second comment",
  "This is the third comment"
]

Federated forge.

Like RSS and Google Reader.

A spec for a web subset that's even simpler. Some questionable choices.

Came across this Betula. It's running some kind of cool fork with many additional features! I'm impressed, it's very fun. Couldn't find the source code though.

A flip phone with the apps you need: WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram. Music, podcasts, maps, rideshare, a camera for the moments worth keeping.

It will run Sailfish! A flip phone by Commodore! What a world.

• https://commodore.net/callback/

tags.pub is a global hashtag server for the Fediverse. You can follow an account like example@tags.pub and it will boost all the content tagged #example from across the Fediverse.

esolangs, esoplatforms, esosystems, and all that break from the norms of computing

Exploring cyberspace with a thumbstick.

Can we consider this to be a homepage of sorts for Acme?

People I work with recognize my computer easily:
it's the one with nothing but yellow windows and blue bars on the screen.
That's the text editor acme, written by Rob Pike for Plan 9 in the early 1990s.
Acme focuses entirely on the idea of text as user interface.
It's difficult to explain acme without seeing it, though, so I've put together
a screencast explaining the basics of acme and showing a brief programming session.

A nonograms/picross game for the Game Boy

Authentication is not specified by the ActivityPub standard. In practice, the fediverse mostly uses HTTP Message Signatures to authenticate server-to-server requests, using a relatively consistent profile. This document describes that profile and usage, recommends best practices, and evaluates their success so far.

(no)

An OpenType variable font that turns simple text expressions into inline charts. No JavaScript, no images — just type.

Writing clojure code by hand on a Remarkable, it gets executed

In short, a supporting component must always be strictly cooler than anything
it supports, or be at absolute zero conjointly with anything it supports.
Absolute zero means that a program is frozen, no further updates are
possible. If your versions don't track your
actual progress, you run out of integers.

1. A's version SHALL be a nonnegative integer.

2. A, at any specific version, MUST NOT be modified after release.

3. At version 0, new versions of A MUST NOT be released.

4. New releases of A MUST be assigned a new version, and this version MUST be strictly less than the previous one.

5. If A supports another component B that also follows kelvin versioning, then:

   • Either both A and B MUST be at version 0, or B's version MUST be

strictly greater than A's version.
If a new version of A is released and that version supports B, then a new
version of B MUST be released.

I love mesh networks, and love the 1999 WAP standard. After I started thinkering with MeshCore I realised text is fun but what about the internet? WAP 1.x was built to be sent over SMS... this might work. Taking my WAP-over-SMS project and two ESP32s and voila!

WAP internet (all you actually need) over a fully decentralized network!

Dan's Miniflux tool.

The 2009 Golang mailing list discussion on nilable pointers. They ended up having them.

Also this page has good examples of inferiority of hard-wrapped email messages.

The author is not blind, which seems to be the “default” disability in accessibility articles. They see fine but have troubles using their hands. There's cool software Talon that gives them back the ability to use computers (with voice, eye tracking, machine learning, custom scripts), but it is impossible to run it on Wayland.

TL;DR: totally not SSD nor flash. Maybe HDD if you migrate them in time. Some special discs are recommended. Optical... joyful.

История продвижения баточника Сникерс в России — каноничная с точки зрения создания новой ниши на новом рынке под существующий продукт

Это пост про то, как работает системная инженерия, на примере решения ситуации с рубашкой. Смешно? Это только пока лишь

The bird retina is one of the most energetically expensive tissues in the animal kingdom, yet it doesn’t use the energy advantage of oxygen. New research finally explains how this is possible.

Angelwood's strongest december adventures.

Karl Voit's dissertation on file management.

let-go is a Clojure dialect with a bytecode compiler and stack VM, written in Go. A single ~10MB binary, ~7ms cold start, no JVM. Roughly 95% Clojure-compatible on the jank-lang test suite.

A book that examines and explains the source code of Emerald, one of the most popular video games ever made, based on the decompilation work of PRET.

Demonstrating the basics of logic programming with data from the Pokémon games.