20 random bookmarks

Bookmarks and whatnot. Закладки и всякое.

2025-10-27

2027.

Compy

compy.aldum.pw/readme.html

An interesting environment and editing model.

2025-09-07

2008.

DIY Soft Drinks Like Cola, Fanta and Sprite (Part 1)

karl-voit.at/2022/01/23/DIY-Soft-Drinks

2025-07-04

1971.

Some relations between Markov algorithms and formal languages - Calcolo

link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02576816

Markov algorithms have received very little attention in the studies about formal languages, so the purpose of the present paper is twofold: i) to characterize languages in terms of Markov algorithms, and ii) to produce automatically Markov algorithms accepting or parsing languages generated by given grammars.

We use a particular, although universal, subclass of Markov algorithms, which we call “pointer Markov algorithms»; we obtain a characterization of: i) regular, ii) deterministic context-free, and iii) type O languages, which is quite «natural» in terms of these algorithms. Furthermore, we show that, given a right linear or a strongLL(k) grammar, it is possible to produce automatically a pointer Markov algorithm parsing the language generated by the grammar. These constructions are particularly interesting because pointer Markov algorithms can be compiled conveniently into machine code programs.

2025-06-29

1964.

I Deleted My Second Brain

www.joanwestenberg.com/p/i-deleted-my-second-brain

Why I Erased 10,000 Notes, 7 Years of Ideas, and Every Thought I Tried to Save

Insightful

2025-04-27

1873.

There’s a trick to help you hear better. It may surprise you

www.ctvnews.ca/health/article/have-trouble-hearing-a-conversation-try-tapping-your-fingers

In a noisy environment, you can simply tap your finger before someone speaks to hear better,

Gotta try it!

2024-08-12

1444.

Willow Specifications - Specifications

willowprotocol.org/specs/index.html#specifications

Protocols for synchronisable data stores. The best parts? Fine-grained permissions, a keen approach to privacy, destructive edits, and a dainty bandwidth and memory footprint.

2024-07-26

1408.

Saildocs Info File

www.saildocs.com/info

Request web pages and other documents through email. They get turned into plain text, sadly, and Unicode gets removed.

via Devine in this cool Merveilles thread by Luci who thought of something similar:

2024-06-15

1323.

Refurb weekend: Canon Cat

oldvcr.blogspot.com/2024/05/refurb-weekend-canon-cat.html

A look into the history of Canon Cat, deeper than most, and then a demonstration of hardware maintenance. I didn't care much about the second part, but the first part interested me. For example, I didn't know about SwyftCard before!

2023-11-29

Reposted 935.

My note-taking process

rubber-duck-typing.com/posts/2023-01-19-note-taking.html

Игорь рассказывает, как делает заметки.

Вложенные теги не нужны

Do not try to create a hierarchy (taxonomy) for your notes. It is not scalable and only works for narrow domain. Prefer tags.

Не понимал, зачем раскрашивать буквы в книжках, но Игорь пишет, что это полезно, когда есть комментарии

It is not useful to highlight without commenting. Writing summary is mandatory, highlighting is optional 1.

2023-11-19

872.

Productivity vs Insight, Tools for Reflection, and Other Questions Answered

pketh.org/kinopio-qa.html

An interview with Kinopio's creator.

2023-10-08

681.

HTML subset for smolweb

smolweb.org/subset.html

No div!

2023-09-24

641.

Bye, Gemini

www.makeworld.space/2023/08/bye_gemini.html

The Gemini protocol was a big part of my COVID-19 lockdown experience. Discovering this underground, small protocol, having long discussions on the mailing list, and most importantly for me, developing software. My terminal Gemini browser, Amfora, was my first public FOSS project, something actually intended for a wider audience to use. It succeeded beyond my expectations (but within my hopes), and I’m proud to say it now has thousands of downloads.

2023-07-23

488.

Thinking about switching away from Oddmuse

alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2023-07-11_Thinking_about_switching_away_from_Oddmuse

Alex Schroeder, one of wiki legends (he created OddMuse), thinks about moving away from OddMuse for his website and moving to a static site! What he needs, is a different wiki engine, though. A single user wiki engine is not a wiki engine really though.

But I've been thinking about that too to be honest. Trust brings problems. Accounts bring problems. Betula works fine being single user. Would the same work for Mycorrhiza? Most installations are single user after all. We're living in the age of individual+personal websites.

2023-07-14

447.

CC0 1.0 text as plain text

creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode.txt

For some reason it took me some time to find it. Saving here so it is easier next time.

2023-06-18

372.

Confessions

www.marginalia.nu/log/81-confessions

A collection of bad practices. Some of them I like!

2023-06-13

336.

Lonely

tsk.bearblog.dev/lonely

When you are publishing your blog posts, there's almost little to no feedback whatsoever: You don't get the engagement from the audience in the comments, or the nice sweet email. Your audience and "fans" are hidden behind analytics numbers. And then, there's you and your Markdown editor.

Yes indeed, next no to no feedback is a norm. Relatable, except for the Markdown editor.

2023-05-09

221.

web archiving

agnessa.pp.ru/computer/20210731230816-web_archiving.html

2023-04-30

180.

The Internet Changed My Life

pointersgonewild.com/2022/01/19/the-internet-changed-my-life

I’ve seen multiple discussions online as to the negative effects of the internet on society. There’s definitely harmful content online. It makes me sad to see the internet being used as a tool to s…

Via https://t.me/memory_heap/351

2023-03-31

140.

Origins — Mythic Computer

www.mythic.computer/essays/origins

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".

2023-03-02

80.

Building a Minimalistic Virtual Machine

pointersgonewild.com/2023/02/24/building-a-minimalistic-virtual-machine