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Broken links are everywhere. Perma helps authors and journals create permanent links for citations in their published work.

If you had to store something for 100 years, how would you do it?

Given that events play such a central role in event-driven architecture, there’s an astonishing lack of agreement on what should be contained in an event. This may be rooted in the fact that, depending on your perspective, events fulfill different purposes.

Manage your photo library with Piwigo! Free and open source software to organize and share your photos and digital media on the web.

Self-hosted photo and video management solution

Gotta make an icon for Betula and request it to be added here...

Много крутых знаков. Мне особенно нравится раздел с тамгами.

I'm resisting my temptation towards digital hoarding and "save everything", and trying to be more selective about the data I'm keeping.

A difficult part of technology instruction is not that things are unknowable, but that no one is ever starting at the beginning, not in 2024.

I've been creating small, hand-written websites to organise my files. It's a lightweight, flexible approach that I hope will last a long time.

There's a screenshot there, take a look. What's surprising is that the author employs no static site generator. Huh?? I'd rather use one or come up with a cool CGI setup. I wonder if they still make these websites...

Maintained, extensible, comprehensible, popular, efficient, short config. Do not hoard.

Bad reader experience, no proper subscription.

How I ended up using a dumbphone as my main and only phone.

Multiplayer cursors

LDtk (Level Designer Toolkit) is an open-source 2D level editor for indie devs, with a strong focus on user-friendliness.

Isometric games are extremely popular. Let's learn the theory behind isometric projection and how it is used by gamedevs to write isometric-looking games.

As game developers, we can learn a lot from the past. Let's look at the history of game consoles to understand the driving forces that helped shape the modern gamedev technologies we use today.

The world sees Japan as a paragon of minimalism. But its hidden clutter culture shows that ‘more’ can be as magical as ‘less’

WebKit browser with proper extensions. Best of both worlds! Gotta try when I get back to my MacBook.

You cannot complain about Facebook collecting your life’s history, while at the same time complaining that diaspora* cannot find your former classmates. You cannot complain about WhatsApp collecting your address book, while at the same time stating you do not use eMail because exchanging addresses is too cumbersome. You either get a system that knows who you are or a system that does not. I do not get the impression that the majority of users who complain about “bad privacy practices” have understood that point yet.

Mastodon did a lot of things right in the beginning. Their interface looks a bit like Tweetdeck and Hootsuite, so everyone familiar with those tools felt right at home. They hit the perfect timing and launched just as a new privacy scandal was exposed, so it was easy for journalists to show off the new kid on the block. And, probably the most essential piece: They had tools available to cross-post from Twitter to Mastodon, basically on day zero. At first, this sounds like a minor thing, but a lot of people signed up on Mastodon and cross-posted their tweets to Mastodon. This means that there was a lot of content available on Mastodon from the beginning, and the users never stopped pouring material into Mastodon, even if they left and went back to using Twitter exclusively. Today, there still is a lot of traffic just from cross-posting tweets.

It feels like large portions of the “Federated Social Network” space, for the lack of a better term, are way too tech-focused, and completely lost track of what they once were claiming to do. We tend to be laser-focused on coming up with new technical challenges to solve, new bugs to fix, and new features to implement. But does it matter? What use is a social network with all the features imaginable, but no users to use them? What use is a perfectly abstracted and well-designed federation implementation, when there is no data to federate?

I wish that more people would consider the reason behind billions of users still using Facebook, instead of just going along their lives as a coder working on whatever their favorite project is. It is disappointing to see so many active people in this field to just say, “oh well, they simply did not learn from their mistakes”, and go on as if that was no big deal. In reality, most people are very unhappy with the current situation, and they would probably love to use alternatives that respect their privacy more. Still, they just cannot consider projects like Mastodon or diaspora* proper alternatives - for a good reason.

Thinking outside of your little technical bubble is hard and uncomfortable. Sometimes, it takes a lot of time and effort, and sometimes, you have to make decisions that violate your principles for the sake of actually helping people. I have seen too many individuals, projects, and organizations get busy petting themselves on their backs for fixing a bug nobody cares about, or for hosting a service nobody cares about, or for writing marketing material nobody reads. I have seen way too many instances of organizations being stuck in their ideology, to a point where they entirely stop fulfilling their original purpose: to bring people forward.

Исключения для бедных

Я Федор, ведущий разработчик 1С. На хакатоне компании команда под моим руководством перенесла игру «Герои меча и магии III» на платформу 1С. Расскажу, как устроена конфигурация «1С: Герои меча и магии» с технической точки зрения.

Consent based public domain federated communications server. Provides a feature rich ActivityPub and Nomad communication node.

A more social look on the spec by diaspora*'s developer. Just as profound.

Diaspora*'s developer's thoughts on ActivityPub soon after it was released. It's like he foresaw every issue there is, without even implementing the protocol. Such insight. He foresaw that C2S won't get much use, he foresaw reply forwarding problems, he foresaw everything!

An exploration of Gnome's many failings and how to fix it.

FixBrowser is a truly lightweight web browser created from scratch. It intentionally doesn't support JavaScript to make things faster and much less resource intensive. Instead it contains an updated set of scripts that fix and improve various websites.

It is designed from ground up with privacy as the major goal, using a whitelist approach for loading resources to avoid any unwanted tracking.

The browser is currently in Alpha stage, all the foundation blocks are there but needs more work. There is also FixProxy which is using the "backend" part of the browser (everything except the actual rendering) to be used with a regular web browser. It provides a safe way to browse the web and is more mature, I've been using it for multiple years as my primary means of browsing with good results.

Вот это браузеры пошли! Без яваскриптов, но с регексами и фикс-прокси. И стек смешной: свой язык какой-то. Внимательно буду смотреть.

These choices are trade-offs. If you want to write a quiet song, it won't be loud. If you are writing a software tool and you want to prioritize speed over simplicity, then it won't be as simple as if you'd prioritized simplicity over speed.

There are two main signs that you've succeeded at your goals. The first, and more pleasant, is that you get compliments about how your thing is like you wanted it to be. "I love that song, it's so quiet!" "Your tool is so fast!" Why thank you, that's exactly what I was going for.

The second sign, though, is that you will get complaints. Specifically, people will complain that your thing does not achieve the things you didn't set out to achieve. "I wish this song was louder", "this tool is so hard to use". That you are receiving complaints at all means that people are aware of your creation; that they are complaining about what you specifically set out to make a non-goal is a side-effect of the fact that you made that trade-off.

This forum is Mycomarkup-enabled now!

Converts a PNG to 2- or 4-colour uxntal data literals.

Cladosporium sphaerospermum is a remarkable species of radiotrophic fungus that is thriving in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and which scientists are studying to unlock applications in a wide range of fields.

Yet another technical wiki with good content. Sadly, it's running Gitit, thus being very poor to navigate.

Apertium is a rule-based machine translation platform. It is free software and released under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

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