In 2015 I got rid of everything I owned that didn’t fit in a laptop backpack, and I’ve been living at this level of minimalism since. The idea is to only own what I need, which allows me to focus more, spend less, travel spontaneously and simplify my life.

An exciting journey with Forth. Read this. The author gave up in the end, by the way.

Proof of work instead of captcha

Author proposes to replace modern browsers with the following architecture. You make HTTP requests, server return you WASM blobs, they get executed. No built-in DOM.

DOM and its three languages are among the best technologies ever made, despite being so misused. It not being the default way will probably be disastrous. Think about accessibility!

But the idea is cool 🤔

Вебдевер. В момент сохранения этой закладки он ведёт у меня семинар в компании про интернет и вёрстку. Видать толковый человек.

UPD. Рассказывает совсем базовые вещи про типографику. Что такое неразрывный пробел, что такое тире, когда что писать надо. Мне это всё знакомо с 14 лет, но для большинства людей это в самом деле полезно будет узнать на старости лет!

Конечно же не обошлось без типографа Лебедева и нелепой типографской раскладки Бирмана. Я уж надеялся без них обойдётся. А про главред расскажут?

UPD. Узнал про text-wrap: balance и pretty! hyphens: auto. line-clamp, clamp. cqi, cap.

Alex reminds us to keep our own archives of stuff we like. I remember how we had a discussion about that last November.

Yume Nikki and related games wiki

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

Somebody proposes something like a federated wiki. I'm skeptical.

Agora is mentioned in the thread!

Numen is Free Software voice control that gives people with strain or limited
use of their hands full control of their Linux machine. The philosophy is
to keep it simple with phrases that work universally.

feediverse will read RSS/Atom feeds and send the messages as Mastodon posts. It's meant to add a little bit of spice to your timeline from other places. Please use it responsibly.

Bitters is an open-source text editor. It's heavily inspired by the Canon Cat computer: it builds on the Cat's novel ideas, and adds some of it's own to the mix!