Here lies a nearly-complete archive of Whole Earth publications, a series of journals and magazines descended from the Whole Earth Catalog, published by Stewart Brand and the POINT Foundation between 1968 and 2002. They are made available here for scholarship, education, and research purposes.

Или вот под Москвой какой-то ивент. Пишут, что не для новичков! Я ни разу вроде бы вслух на Эсперанто ни с кем не разговаривал, смешно будет. А может надо?

This article is part of the series Understanding ActivityPub, which takes a look at the ActivityPub protocol through the lens of real-world examples. The protocol exchanges are taken from ActivityPub.Academy, a modified Mastodon instance that shows ActivityPub messages in real time (see the announcement post).

Discover Middle Earth during Third Age with this interactive map.

In the early days of Android, a friend of mine got an Android phone & was showing it off to me. He showed me Google Calendar, very proud.

"Oh. Huh. Does it support screening?"

"Screening? Probably – what is that?"

So I showed him what my Palm Pilot's calendar can do: with a single click, all of my calendar entries are converted to textless color-coded blocks, so I can literally hand my device to someone else so they can look at my calendar and see my schedule, but not be privy to any of the confidential information specific to events on it.

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Input is a typeface for code, designed by David Jonathan Ross and released by Font Bureau.

Любопытно такое читать.

Gio is an open source library for creating portable, immediate mode GUI programs for Android, iOS, Linux, Windows, macOS.

A space exploration game with spaceships programmable in Tal. I follow the development but don't play. Looks cool.

2-dimensional string painter.

Goroutines are not coroutines! I thought it was a nice pun! It's not!

Russ walks us over the concept of coroutines in other languages and then implements them in Go using goroutines.

Gotta read more thoroughly. I don't really see why we need them.

P. S. Loving how coroutine is shortened to coro. It's how the Francophones shorten laboratorie or whatever to just labo. Adolescent becomes ado. Cool French style!

DiskerNet empowers you to be the master archivist of your own internet browsing. As a robust, lightweight tool, DiskerNet seamlessly connects to your browser, saving and organizing your online discoveries in real-time. With an option to archive everything or only bookmark-worthy content, DiskerNet places you in full control of your browsing history. No special plugins or extensions required.

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

It's fun and easy to express state machines in Rust, as this article clearly shows. Wouldn't be that much fun in Go, innit?

Using type system for ensuring correctness of the state machines is a good idea. I should do that...

This article has two sequels.

How to save links? Write hooks! Lion told me that and I accepted that. It really inspired Betula.

This is Greg's (also known as GreyCat's) wiki. It has some pages which may be of interest for people doing Unix shell scripting or system administration.

All Bash quirks are here.

SQL is not so good!

scim is a bash script to simplify scanning from the command line.