20 random bookmarks

Bookmarks and whatnot. Закладки и всякое.

2025-05-29

1924.

How to make Windows 11 more usable, less annoying

www.dedoimedo.com/computers/windows-11-usability-guide.html

Very long, detailed, thorough guide on how to make Windows 11 less annoying, more productive and more ergonomic, with numerous changes and tweaks focused on privacy, security and usability, including reasons not to use Windows 11, pros and cons compared to earlier versions of Windows, tools needed before installation, USB media creation, how to skip online account creation, post-install questions, autoplay configuration, personalization, Firefox as default browser, app startup, offline maps, account sign-in options, time and language, gaming, entire privacy & security section in Settings - general, diagnostics and feedback, inking and typing, activity history, search permissions, and resource access, unnecessary services, cloud search, use of Winaero Tweaker to remove various options and features, Copilot, unnecessary apps, use of winget and Powershell to remove apps, Microsoft Edge removal, Open-Shell start menu alternative, autostart entries via Autoruns, optional removal of Windows Defender, optional configuration of Windows Update, Windows Explorer and taskbar tweaks, some other recommendations, and more

If I ever end up using Windows on a personal machine, I'll follow this guide

2025-03-21

1836.

10x more selective

yosefk.com/blog/10x-more-selective.html

If you choose tasks properly, you'll be perceived as productive. I'm not in the position of being very selective at my job, but I think I'll be there. Quite unlike my open source projects!

2025-03-06

1794.

If it is worth keeping, save it in Markdown - Piotr Migdał

p.migdal.pl/blog/2025/02/markdown-saves#user-content-fnref-pinboard

Why and how to preserve digital content in plaintext format for long-term accessibility and reuse

The author actually doesn't think Markdown is the only correct storage format. All lightweight markup languages will do. They just use Markdown themselves. It's good they allow Mycomarkup, I'd've written a remarque here otherwise.

I myself am not sure if it's the right way. Maybe the websites should be preserved closer to the way they were made? I'll now archive this page, in HTML.

2025-01-03

1693.

Deconstructing digital gardens

vivqu.com/blog/2020/10/18/digital-gardens

Bad reader experience, no proper subscription.

2024-09-11

1510.

How to Lose Time and Money

paulgraham.com/selfindulgence.html

2024-09-06

1495.

Mastogram - Bridge your Telegram and Mastodon

mastogr.am

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

2024-07-19

1395.

How to Make a Progressive Web App From Your Existing Website

blog.heroku.com/how-to-make-progressive-web-app

How to convert your existing website into a progressive web app.

2024-07-14

1379.

An API is a user interface

www.arp242.net/api-ux.html

2024-02-03

1092.

MVC vs. OOP

www.yegor256.com/2016/12/13/mvc-vs-oop.html

MVC is a very popular architectural design pattern that goes absolutely against the spirit of object-oriented programming.

Teehee.

2024-01-06

1014.

Иероглифы — хаос или система? Разбираемся из чего они состоят, как работают и в чём их сила

habr.com/ru/articles/781798

Хорошее введение в иероглифы. Я это всё знал, что показывает совсем уж входной уровень материала, но интересно всё равно.

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.

2023-11-28

933.

Tootfinder

tootfinder.ch

Opt-in Fediverse search. Users individually can join too.

2023-10-18

778.

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.

2023-08-27

603.

A Lasting Legacy: Thoughts on COBOL

www.datagubbe.se/cobol

2023-07-25

509.

Alpine Linux does not make the news

drewdevault.com/2023/07/25/Alpine-does-not-make-news.html#fnref:1

TL;DR: Alpine is boring, this is good.

Recently I've had an issue with Alpine, which I had to resolve with some workaround from GitHub issues. But otherwise it's boring yeah. Cool. One day I'll use it on all of my servers! For now, I only use it on CI.

2023-07-09

439.

Save Your Threads

social.perma.cc

Save birdsite threads to PDF:s. I wonder if it still works.

2023-06-11

314.

Closed Registration for a Small Web

alex.flounder.online/gemlog/2023-05-20.gmi

TL;DR: Closed registrations solve problems.

2023-06-05

282.

Using computers more freely and safely

akkartik.name/freewheeling

Kartik rocking.

2023-04-30

183.

ChronoZoom

www.chronozoom.com

A collection of zoomable demos working in browser. It is not smooth.

2023-01-19

3.

Mushroom color atlas

mushroomcoloratlas.com

Many cool colors