20 random bookmarks

Bookmarks and whatnot. Закладки и всякое.

2025-10-15

2020.

It's OK to hardcode feature flags

code.mendhak.com/hardcode-feature-flags

The safest and most reliable way to deal with feature flags is to hardcode them

2025-08-06

1992.

Технологии древних: WAP-сайт своими руками

habr.com/ru/companies/ru_mts/articles/934072

Прошло более 20 лет с того момента, когда тарифы на мобильную связь указывались в у.е., а GPRS трафик подразделялся на GPRS-Internet и GPRS-WAP. Последний был довольно дорогим способом почитать...

2025-06-07

1932.

Common Lisp is a dumpster

nondv.wtf/blog/posts/common-lisp-is-a-dumpster.html

Common Lisp has a LOT of stuff in it. Some of it is charming. Some of it is plain weird

2025-05-11

1900.

Software: betula | FediIndex

fedi.wrm.sr/software/betula

FediIndex data on Betula. Very interesting! 1.3.0 is still used by some, 1.2.0 has ceased to exist. Third of all instances are hosted in Russia.

I wish it knew more Betula instances though.

2025-03-20

1825.

Colonist: Play Settlers of Catan Alternative - Free Online Game

colonist.io

Played it with Optozorax. Works well!

2024-12-31

1671.

ActivityPub - Final thoughts, one year later. - Dennis Schubert

overengineer.dev/blog/2019/01/13/activitypub-final-thoughts-one-year-later

A more social look on the spec by diaspora*'s developer. Just as profound.

2024-11-23

1601.

Thousand Cycles

167.235.19.20/thousand-cycles

2024-09-28

Reposted 1533.

Artifacts: Image + Link Organizer app for macOS/iOS

artifacts.app

Artifacts is an image + link organizer app for macOS and iOS. A
completely native, local first way to save all that stuff you find
across the web.

2024-06-18

1334.

Your brain does not process information and it is not a computer | Aeon Essays

aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does-not-process-information-and-it-is-not-a-computer

Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain is not a computer

2024-06-07

1300.

monocles search

monocles.eu

monocles is a project founded to move to a more secure, ecofriendly, privacy respecting, fair and open source technical and digital life for everyone. monocles search is the most privacy-respecting, secure and ethical public search engine due to a open source meta-search engine combined with open source peer-to-peer search engines, aggregating the results of other search engines while not storing information about its users and directly powered with renewable energy.

running searx

1296.

XMPP: Myths & Legends

xmpp.org/about/myths

2024-01-11

1037.

Tunguska / Documentation

tunguska.sourceforge.net/docs.html

Introduction into ternary logic.

2024-01-02

1008.

Web CGI programs aren't particularly slow these days

utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/CGINotSlow

2023-10-18

783.

mobydick.txt

gist.github.com/StevenClontz/4445774

Plain text Moby-dick.

2023-10-13

741.

Is HTML-formatted e-mail still bad netiquette?

ask.metafilter.com/159162/Is-HTMLformatted-email-still-bad-netiquette

2010-era discussion. They generally agree it's a bad netiquette. Here in 2020-era I agree.

2023-07-12

444.

research!rsc: Storing Data in Control Flow

research.swtch.com/pcdata

Oh, that's how I should refactor Mycomarkup. Perfect.

2023-06-16

349.

A meditation on correctness in software @ marginalia.nu

www.marginalia.nu/log/50-meditation-on-software-correctness

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

230.

OpenBSD is fantastic

unixsheikh.com/articles/openbsd-is-fantastic.html

I have been using OpenBSD, a FREE, multi-platform 4.4BSD-based Unix-like operating system, both professionally and privately since about 2004, and today I'm going to share some of my experiences.

226.

One Letter Programming Languages

beza1e1.tuxen.de/one_letter_proglangs.html

If you are looking for a free name, there is none.