Оказывается, у некоторых мембранных клавиатур на мембране есть секретные клавиши для других регионов! То есть, у них есть скрытый потенциал. Дополнительные клавиши!! Обалдеть.

A deep dive into the text mode editors we had and how they compare to today's

Unexpectedly good.

NT is often touted as a "very advanced" operating system. Why is that? What made NT better than Unix, if anything? And is that still the case?

The Cutting Room Floor is a site dedicated to unearthing and researching unused and cut content from video games. From debug menus, to unused music, graphics, enemies, or levels, many games have content never meant to be seen by anybody but the developers — or even meant for everybody, but cut due to time/budget constraints.

Stamen's toner map style is lovingly crafted and free for the taking.

A collection of filetypes and airports with identical names.

Reproxy is a simple edge HTTP(s) server / reverse proxy supporting various providers (docker, static, file, consul catalog).

gwit is a minimalist system for a Web of replicated, host-neutral, lightweight sites backed by Git.

Interesting system. However, this system is designed around the notion of keeping the history by default, which is wrong. History is to be thrown away by default, that's what the modern Web gets right.

cute pixtures

cute pixtures

Конвертор в дореволюционную ортографию.

On communication on sea with flags

Из гречки можно чай делать...

This guide covers the ins and outs of FFmpeg starting with fundamental concepts and moving to media transcoding and video and audio processing providing practical examples along the way.

Идемпотентность — звучит сложно, говорят о ней редко, но это касается всех приложений, использующих API в своей работе. Меня зовут Денис Исаев, и я руковожу одной из бэкенд групп в Яндекс Такси. Сегодня я поделюсь с читателями описанием проблем, которые могут возникнуть, если не учитывать идемпотентность распределенных систем в своем проекте.

There's a graphics trick that used to be widely known that has now probably almost vanished from the graphics consciousness - you can do rotations by applying three shears in a row. This should surprise you! It surprised me. And it re-surprises me every time I remember it.

The complete guide to modding your Nintendo DSi

Vita3K is an experimental open-source Sony PlayStation Vita emulator for Windows, macOS, Linux and Android written in C++.

Documentation of the Modern XMPP project, an independent project launched to improve the quality of user-to-user messaging applications that use XMPP

A project exploring better search and discovery on the Fediverse as an optional, decentralized and pluggable service.

Accents is an app that lets you use the 2021 iMac's accent colors on any Mac.

a room, a scrapbook, a laboratory...

Generate an RSS feed from Telegram chats. You digital minimalism friend. - aigoncharov/telegram-to-rss

Giving write access to your contributors might motivate them to do more. Super cool!

Computers are amazing. So why is software so terrible?

A monospaced programming font inspired by the Minecraft typeface - IdreesInc/Monocraft

A simple Minecraft clone written in C using modern OpenGL (shaders). - fogleman/Craft

wind chimes in your UNIX environments. Contribute to drybjed/chimed development by creating an account on GitHub.

I think sound is a dramatically underutilized way to communicate with the user in modern software tools. Using sound for a notification is just annoying, but using other properties (pitch, timbre, length, etc) or producing varying drone sounds across time presents new ways to passively inform users of things. A classic example of this is fan sounds alerting users that their computer is under heavy load, and perhaps something is going wrong. As modern fans get quieter, computer programs should offer similar interfaces to provide all kinds of information.

Artifacts is an image + link organizer app for macOS and iOS. A
completely native, local first way to save all that stuff you find
across the web.

yarr (yet another rss reader) is a web-based feed aggregator which can be used both
as a desktop application and a personal self-hosted server.

The app is a single binary with an embedded database (SQLite).

A paper about the old NoteCards program. I printed it out on an office printer and read it, unlike most other papers I saved in this Betula.

Organizing data in notecards, linking them. Notecards are not scrollable. Fileboxes and Browsers, special notecards. They state the system is programmable, but no detailed description of programmability is given. Interface is not really detailed.

Overall, this paper is not enough. I shall look for more.

Wikipedia ruined the spirit.

Yurt don't fit every climate.

Applying The Blue Angel Criteria To Free Software

A good snippet. I used it at work.

func track(name string) func() {
    start := time.Now()
    return func() {
        log.Printf("%s, execution time %s\n", name, time.Since(start))
    }
}

func main() {
    defer track("main")() // do not forget about the second parentheses
    time.Sleep(2 * time.Second)
}

Lentils и lenses родственные слова. В русском когда-то линзы чечевицами называли.

Finally, somebody said this.

Throughout history, people have bathed in public rather than in private. Should we bring back the public bathhouse for the sake of sustainability?

I can hardly imagine myself using one daily. I'm late for work every day,having to go to a yet another place just to clean my meat case sounds ridiculous. Also, I wouldn't particularly enjoy bathing in public. And let's not forget about hygiene. Modern people barely manage using public toilets, and you expect them to manage something even more complex?

But energy-wise, communal bathing is indeed effective.

We're a friendly community creating a digital corner pub.

Our goal is to enable more people to use free software, have secure digital communications, and to take control over their private data.

We host online services for you and all the people you love. We do this transparently and democratically.

Fabric mod to connect to EVERY Minecraft server version (Release, Beta, Alpha, Classic, Snapshots, Bedrock) with QoL fixes to the gameplay - ViaVersion/ViaFabricPlus

A 16 color palette for dichromats and trichromats

Ametameric is as a system palette that provides the standard CGA/ANSI colors accomodating various forms of human color blindness/color vision deficiencies. 16 colors (including white, black and two grays) that all provide sufficient contrast for all common types of color vision. When working as intended, TUIs made to work well with the system colors (rather than 256/true color) should become accesible for color vision deficient users without further tweaks needed.

BPM Analyzer - A simple tool for scanning audio files and managing your music library

The main reason nerds are unpopular is that they have other things
to think about. Their attention is drawn to books or the natural
world, not fashions and parties. They're like someone trying to
play soccer while balancing a glass of water on his head. Other
players who can focus their whole attention on the game beat them
effortlessly, and wonder why they seem so incapable.

Back in 2008, I wrote some software for fun to generate various optimized walking mechanisms. And when I also picked up some electronics and wood working skills in more recent years, I was able to turn one of these mechanisms into an actual wireless walking wooden coffee table: the Carpentopod. This post briefly covers this project from start to end.

The 1OPS principle is the single principle that had the biggest impact in my entire coding career. I gave some hints about it in a previous post, but I was suggested that it might warrant a post on its own to go more in depth.

There is a single advice I would give to anyone writing software, and specially to great devs : Always optimize your code for your most junior developers. I agree that it is not a very popular advice, but it is the one that, in my experience, give the biggest bang for the buck.

A project to review and talk about the essential games you should play on Game Boy to understand its appeal and its success.