1641 bookmarks

Bookmarks and whatnot. Закладки и всякое.

2024-01-01

1003.

How bad are search results? Let's compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT

danluu.com/seo-spam

Are search results getting worse? Yes, they are. Also, Marginalia is quite nice. Maybe I should give it a go as my main search engine?

1002.

TrueBrain/TrueWiki: A wikiserver alternative to mediawiki and gollum

github.com/TrueBrain/TrueWiki

I have been responsible for the MediaWiki installation on https://wiki.openttd.org/ from ~2005 till 2020. One thing became clear: it is very difficult to keep it up-to-date and to find quality extensions that live for more than a few years.

So, we set out to find an alternative. With the experience we have had with for example BaNaNaS we ideally would like to store all the data in git. This is mostly as data in git is easier for more people to maintain, then a database where very few people have access to. Also, the wiki of OpenTTD was not big enough (~5000 pages) to really need a database to support it. As extra bonus, we would favour any system that could easily be cached.

The software closest to this is gollum. Although gollum appears to do exactly what we want, especially as wikitext is supported via WikiCloth, reality turned out to be something else. Although it does support wikitext, or a subset thereof, it does not support templates. This is a huge issue for any real wiki, as templates make a wiki of any decent size possible. Initially we did hack in support for templates, but as it is written in Ruby, not a language any of the people involved knew sufficiently to make any decent contribution, it only added more issues than it resolved. In the end, it was decided this was not a road to go.

1001.

💡 The big idea

www.unison-lang.org/docs/the-big-idea#structured-refactoring

A friendly programming language from the future.

The big idea behind Unison is that its functions are hashed and content-addressed.

2023-12-28

1000.

Truly Forever Computers

sebastian.graphics/blog/truly-forever-computers.html

Semiconductors are not sustainable, we need mechanical relays for a truly sustainable computer.

999.

Мысли о продлении жизни

grishka.me/blog/life-extension-thoughts

Здесь я решил собрать свои свежие мысли о продлении жизни, подходах к нему, перспективных с моей точки зрения направлениях исследований, и всяких смежных темах.

Гришка отказывается умирать.

998.

Misty Programming Language

www.crockford.com/misty

A programming language by Douglas Crockford

2023-12-23

Reposted 997.

Standard Ebooks

standardebooks.org

Standard Ebooks is a volunteer-driven project that produces new editions of public domain ebooks that are lovingly formatted, open source, free of U.S. copyright restrictions, and free of cost.

2023-12-22

996.

Ностальгии пост: j2me, Gravity Defied, 64kb

habr.com/ru/articles/504682

Автор разбирается в устройстве Gravity Defied и запускает её на своём компьютере, дописав несколько системных классов, всё-таки Ява. Прикольно.

2023-12-21

995.

А мне летать охота!

ahitech.livejournal.com/276449.html

Алекс Хайтек пишет про дирижабли. Хороший экскурс.

994.

[tz] Antarctic research base Vostok local time

mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2023-December/033317.html

Лидер арктической станции поменял на ней часовой пояс и просит tzdb обновить информацию за несколько часов до смены пояса. Выясняется, что там десять лет неправильная информация была до этого. Также он говорит, почему они не перешли на московское время: новости во время обеда не будут стримить.

2023-12-20

993.

Towards a folk computer

folk.computer/notes/tableshots

The coolest thing I've seen today!

992.

Умные карманные помощники. Часть I – мобильные операционные системы

hpc.ru/lib/arts/2472/2.shtml

Краткое сравнение операционных систем для мобильных устройств. Основные различия, особенности.

Прикольно такое читать. Статья старая, если что. Говорят про Пальм и Симбиан, а айфон там новинка.

2023-12-19

991.

Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis (@siderea@universeodon.com)

universeodon.com/@siderea/111531371535487323

In the early days of Android, a friend of mine got an Android phone & was showing it off to me. He showed me Google Calendar, very proud.

"Oh. Huh. Does it support screening?"

"Screening? Probably – what is that?"

So I showed him what my Palm Pilot's calendar can do: with a single click, all of my calendar entries are converted to textless color-coded blocks, so I can literally hand my device to someone else so they can look at my calendar and see my schedule, but not be privy to any of the confidential information specific to events on it.

🧵

987.

Who gets to survive and 'rewild' themselves? — Beth Winegarner

www.bethwinegarner.com/bite-sized-blog/2023/9/26/who-gets-to-survive-and-rewild-themselves

A beautiful life in a remote cabin in a forest is a luxury, not available to everyone. We can't just return to the past.

986.

Release Cling version 1.0 · vgvassilev/cling

github.com/vgvassilev/cling

Introduction
This document contains the release notes for the interactive C++ interpreter Cling, release 1.0. Cling is built on top of Clang and LLVM compiler infrastructure. Here we describe the s...

985.

Zeal - Offline Documentation Browser

zealdocs.org

2023-12-17

984.

Internet Artifacts

neal.fun/internet-artifacts
983.

Stunning Codex Documenting Aztec Culture Now Fully Digitized

hyperallergic.com/855683/stunning-florentine-codex-documenting-aztec-culture-now-fully-digitized

The 16th-century “Florentine Codex” offers a Mexican Indigenous perspective that is often missing from historical accounts of the period.

Reposted 981.

Banish state-mutating methods from data classes

rednafi.com/python/dataclasses_and_methods

Data classes are containers for your data—not behavior

2023-12-16

980.

Go Developer Survey 2023 H2 Results - The Go Programming Language

go.dev/blog/survey2023-h2-results#sentiment

What we learned from our 2023 H2 developer survey

979.

Against SQL

www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/against-sql
978.

Jamie Brandon

www.scattered-thoughts.net
976.

About | #Seppo! Personal Social Media

seppo.social/en/about
975.

MRo Blog

blog.mro.name
974.

Implementing Federation, Part I | MRo Blog

blog.mro.name/2023/12/implementing-federation-i

Another unfortunate Fediverse developer shares their woes.

971.

The Decline of Usability: Revisited

www.datagubbe.se/usab2
970.

The Social Consumer

denshi.org/blog/the-social-consumer/the-social-consumer

2023-12-15

969.

The Decline of Usability

www.datagubbe.se/decusab

The author doesn't like how modern UI:s are designed. Gives good examples.

968.

Nomad [e] - WORK LOUDER™

worklouder.cc/nomad-e

A funky keyboard with literal knobs and whistles. Comes with whopping 16 MB of on-board memory, which is thousand times more than on a Pro Micro.

2023-12-14

967.

Laurence Tratt: hk

tratt.net/laurie/src/hk

hk allows temporary X11 hotkeys to be set

2023-12-13

966.

~mgorny

mgorny.pl

This site is best viewed in Lynx. In other browsers, it tries its best to simulate that experience.

2023-12-10

965.

~flber/mervmap - sourcehut git

git.sr.ht/~flber/mervmap

This is a small website for inhabitants of the Town of Merveilles to share their locations with each other, to help with organizing events and such. It's built with Go, and uses a very simple database (read: a csv file) to store locations.

2023-12-07

962.

Laurence Tratt: How Often Should We Sharpen Our Tools?

tratt.net/laurie/blog/2023/how_often_should_we_sharpen_our_tools.html

In favor of endless configuration.

2023-12-06

961.

Craig Comstock / gesture

gitlab.com/unrznbl/gesture

gesture - handwriting algorithm with implementation for linux touchscreens injecting keys into a tty.

960.

Project CETI

www.projectceti.org

CETI is a nonprofit organization applying advanced machine learning and state-of-the-art robotics to listen to and translate the communication of sperm whales.

2023-12-05

959.

Java — Гришаев

grishaev.me/java

Гришаев завёл себе пет-проект на Яве и отчитывается, что современная Ява вообще-то классная! Я тоже это подозревал, поэтому решил попробовать её в Бетулоптиконе.

958.

stephank/castling.club: Challenge someone to a game of chess using toots!

github.com/stephank/castling.club

This is the codebase for castling.club, an ActivityPub server with a single
hardcoded 'King' service actor that acts as a chess arbiter.

957.

Generating income from open source

vadimdemedes.com/posts/generating-income-from-open-source

To my projects only paid hosting seems applicable.

2023-12-04

956.

Научная фантастика у Куприна

bolknote.ru/all/nauchnaya-fantastika-u-kuprina

У Куприна в «Молохе» есть превосходный, пророческий отрывок. Я выделил одну фразу, но он хорош целиком, особенно про всё растущую стоимость времени

2023-12-02

955.

hardware - projects - mitxela.com

mitxela.com/projects/hardware

Hardware electronics projects.

954.

POV Candle - mitxela.com

mitxela.com/projects/candle

A tiny volumetric display!

See 953 for a video.

953.

Tiny volumetric display

www.youtube.com

A simple but satisfying design. 5 min video.

952.

The reckless, infinite scope of web browsers

drewdevault.com/2020/03/18/Reckless-limitless-scope.html

I conclude that it is impossible to build a new web browser. The complexity of the web is obscene. The creation of a new web browser would be comparable in effort to the Apollo program or the Manhattan project.

A classic read.

951.

Breaking the web forward

www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2021/08/breaking_the_we.html

Safari is holding back the web. It is the new IE, after all. In contrast, Chrome is pushing the web forward so hard that it’s starting to break. Meanwhile web developers do nothing except moan and complain. The only thing left to do is to pick our poison.

This is actually why I prefer Safari.

949.

Block Comments are a Bad Idea

futhark-lang.org/blog/2017-10-10-block-comments-are-a-bad-idea.html

Be they nestable or not nestable, they fail.

948.

Scientific Open Source Meetup №5

aim.club/publications/scientific-open-source-meetup-5

Айтишники и учёные соберутся в баре и будут обсуждать опен-сорс. А знаете, кто там будет?! Там будет Данила! А знаете, про что он будет там говорить??? Про Бетулу!!! Питерские, давайте быстренько записывайтесь.

947.

Confessions of an Abstraction Hater

250bpm.com/blog:144

Somehow, longer functions are good.

946.

Documents Are the Wrong Metaphor

screensresearchhypertext.com?stackedPages=/Documents-Are-the-Wrong-Metaphor

So the author says. They say, the right metaphor is songs! This is non-sensical, documents are the right metaphor, and we should do our best to preserve it.

The author of the website claims to know a bit about hypertext, and they do, but look at this URL! How to fix it? UPD. From the computer I managed to close the extra tabs on the page which were not visible on the phone and fix the URL.

944.

Screens, Research and Hypertext

screensresearchhypertext.com
943.

Convivial Tools

conviviality.ouvaton.org

Illich’s fundamental thesis in these three books - and throughout all of his work - is that the institutionalisation of competencies diminishes the individual’s ability to acquire them. Thus the institutionalisation of school diminishes our ability to learn, the institutionalisation of technology diminishes our ability to master tools, and the institutionalisation of medicine diminishes our ability to heal and to care for ourselves and others.

942.

A Wheelchair is a Small Gundam by anna anthropy

w.itch.io/a-wheelchair-is-a-small-gundam

Wheelchairs are beautiful, a marvel of technology. They are mech suits, cybernetic enhancements, they are machines that we join with in a nourishing symbiotic relationship. They are not prisons; wheelchairs are liberation. They are freedom, they are a walk in the park, they are the sunlight on my face after years in dark tunnels.

A short text zine.

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