16 bookmarks for 2023-10-18

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mobydick.txt

gist.github.com/StevenClontz/4445774

Plain text Moby-dick.

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The Case of the Top Secret iPod - TidBITS

tidbits.com/2020/08/17/the-case-of-the-top-secret-ipod

15 years ago, Apple helped the US government develop a custom iPod for clandestine missions. Of course, neither Apple nor the US government will admit this ever happened. Former Apple engineer and inadvertent intelligence operative David Shayer tells the story of the iPod that never existed.

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Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG) 1.0

w3c.github.io/sustyweb

Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG) 1.0 covers a wide range of recommendations for making websites and products more sustainable. Following these guidelines which utilize environment, social, and governance (ESG) principles throughout the decision-making processes, you can minimize your environmental impact through a mixture of user-centered design, performant web development, renewable infrastructure, sustainable business strategy, and (with metrics) various combinations of those mentioned. It should be noted that these guidelines will not address every possible mechanism or strategy to become sustainable, as such, these guidelines (which are notably Web orientated and focused) should be seen as a starting point in a sustainability journey (coverage does not extend for example to manufacturing or shipping of physical products). Following these guidelines will often make Web content more accessible, usable, and performant as a by-product.

Big text!

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Brooks, Wirth and Go. | Fredrik Holmqvist

www.fredrikholmqvist.com/posts/articles/brooks-wirth-go

Author says Go is good because it's stuck in the 70s. Also tells a bit how the 70s were like. Mentions IBM 360, Oberon and whatnot.

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Cat Trap Game

llerrah.com/cattrap.htm

Try to out smart the cat! Don't let him escape. This game is addicting, be forewarned!

Simple but fun game. I want to port it to uxn or something someday...

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Zim - a desktop wiki

www.zim-wiki.org

Zim is a notepad like desktop application that is inspired by the way people use wikis.

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(t,i,x,y) => "creative code golfing"

tixy.land

A minimalist coding environment. Control 16x16 points with a single JavaScript function.

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Cool, but obscure X11 tools

cyber.dabamos.de/unix/x11
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Optional HTML: Everything You Need to Know · Jens Oliver Meiert

meiert.com/en/blog/optional-html#toc-quotes

What can be left out.

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Write HTML, the HTML Way (Not the XHTML Way) | CSS-Tricks

css-tricks.com/write-html-the-html-way-not-the-xhtml-way

You may not use XHTML (anymore), but when you write HTML, you may be more influenced by XHTML than you think. You are very likely writing HTML, the XHTML way.

I never really used XHTML, but this article lists some useful tricks with HTML.

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Pulse Codex EP by nonmateria

nonmateria.itch.io/pulse-codex-ep

esoteric videogame

Decode the control glyph and challenge strange entities in a short audiovisual composition / videogame hybrid.

Wanna play.

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Flus, plateforme de veille tout-en-un

flus.fr

Flus est une plateforme pour agréger, stocker et partager votre veille autour de vous.

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Public Domain Day 2023

web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2023

These works became public domain in 2023. There are good works I've read/watched and enjoyed too!

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Maisons-ponts

www.altaplana.be/fr/dictionary/bridgehouses

Les maisons-ponts ont été très populaires à Venise, Florence et Bath, mais désormais aussi en Suisse. Après avoir échoué pour la quatrième fois dans sa tentative de rejoindre l'Union européenne, la Suisse se concentre sur sa position géographique stratégique.

Мосты-дома!

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In France, workers build a castle from scratch the 13th century way

www.npr.org/2023/10/01/1200546214/france-medieval-guedelon-castle-burgundy

Deep in a forest in the Burgundy region, a group of enthusiasts is building a castle the medieval way — no motorized machines included.

Very cool! I wanna see it.

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Gallery software replaced

alexschroeder.ch/view/2023-10-17-gallery

Schroeder finds out he doesn't need Sitelen Mute, his custom gallery static site generator, anymore, since his wiki can host images just fine. It just shows how universal wikis are again!