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.

how user agents became a lying mess

Coop in Basque Country.

Mastogram helps you to keep your audience in Telegram, and your profile in Mastodon, thus boosting your capabilities.

Dear ImGui frontend for the Ladybird browser engine from SerenityOS.

База.

Slash pages are common pages you can add to your website, usually with a standard, root-level slug like /now, /about, or /uses. They tend to describe the individual behind the site and are distinguishing characteristics of the IndieWeb.

An Awesome List for getting started with web archiving - iipc/awesome-web-archiving

Something like make, but magefiles are written in Go instead. Pretty funny.

• Embeds all resources (e.g. CSS, image, JavaScript, etc) producing a single HTML5 document that is easy to store and share.

• In case the submitted URL is not HTML (for example a PDF page), Obelisk will still save it as it is.

• Downloading each assets are done concurrently, which make the archival process for a web page is quite fast.

• Accepts cookies, useful for pages that need login or article behind paywall.

Might actually be a good choice for Betula archival. Might need to fork it, though.

Every website and app these days relies on so-called “social markup,” metadata for a richer and prettier display in social media and messaging tools. On the absolute minimum you may need.

Realtime personal pages

Сравнение частых паттернов в си и ди. Ди получше получается.

Explore the open social web through the lens of ActivityPub and the fediverse.

TIGR - the TIny GRaphics library for Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS and Android. - erkkah/tigr

Commercial projects are often more accessible, and relying people get trapped.

Работаем.

Convert a public Tweet into embedded semantic HTML - edent/Tweet2Embed

QRSVG is a small JavaScript project to render a two-dimensional bitmask (mostly assumed to be a QR code) to an SVG element as a collection of SVG paths with defined purposes.

You can pick funky logos like the ones of the Fediverse or RSS.

There's a concept that I've heard called by a lot of different names, but my favorite name for it is …

A work-in-progress to explore the principles of mycelial networks applied in socio-technical systems.

BlueMap is a program that reads your Minecraft world files and generates not only a map, but also 3D-models of the whole surface.
With the web-app you then can look at those in your browser and basically view the world as if you were ingame!
Or just look at it from far away to get an overview.

The mighty, self-hostable Git server for the command line