There was a long write-up in this note, but then I removed it. Read the bookmarked article with an open heart.

Reflections on using Rust professionally for two years.

Other dip pens need to be re-inked every few words, but we wrote an entire 5" x 7" notebook page on a single dip in Kakimori Pigment Ink.

Как в России летают на воздушных шарах. Фестиваль в Переславле-Залесском

Vita3K is an experimental open-source Sony PlayStation Vita emulator for Windows, macOS, Linux and Android written in C++.

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.

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

Basically, we are standing at a very bad point regarding the climate. I expect regions with acceptable air and temperature to become very luxurious. Better be there when the time comes. But what are such regions?

I think I've accepted the doom of the burning world. It will happen and I am witnessing it already. A fact.

A simple but satisfying design. 5 min video.

Let's look at Indie Search Engines and what they build themselves with

Xah dislikes Clojure for the reasons listed.

Version 2.0 specification defines a set of files required to describe an API. These files can then be used by the Swagger-UI project and Swagger-Codegen. Learn more.

It might be worth to prepare your data for a big electric spark. The spark is unlikely, but still. Your safest bets are discs and paper, the two optical storage media.

A computer manufactured by a craftsman.

Japan operates with an Island metaphysic, where resources are finite in space (Japan is an island nation) but infinite in time (by virtue of natural regeneration). The West operates with a Faustian metaphysic, where resources are infinite in space (by virtue of conquest) and infinite in time. It's interesting to see these metaphysical realities manifest in something as ordinary as tool manufacture.

Our motto, ARMA ACRI FACIENDA VIRO, comes from Book VIII of The Aeneid when Vulcan commands the cyclopes to "Forge arms fit for a hero".

Rule of thumb: use POSIX shell.