Drew has learned of the pleasures of public bookmarking. Sadly, through linkhut; I don't like its design. I ought to tell him about the wonders of Betula immediately!

This specification defines a new HTTP method, QUERY, as a safe,
idempotent request method that can carry request content.

Stamen's toner map style is lovingly crafted and free for the taking.

An experiment in javascript-free syntax highlighting, made possible by opentype contextual alternates and COLR table

Why you should use and write man pages.

Local documentation that is easy to find is so much better. And man pages are powerful.

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

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.

The Go standard library is full of bad design choices from the perspective of safety of use.

I guess the point I'm trying to convey is that I do the same things with my computers today that I did one or even two decades ago. The hardware has become monumentally more powerful, but my user experience hasn't really changed a bit. And most of all my level of productivity and enjoyment from my devices stays the same.

Too big of a screen might end up with unproductivity.

The text of Moby-Dick. I take lorem-ipsum-level texts from here. Also, a good book!

Mini computer easel is complete. I will continue to think about how to make it more stable/solid, but seems quite workable for my purposes.

Decker is a multimedia platform for creating and sharing interactive documents, with sound, images, hypertext, and scripted behavior. It draws strong influence from HyperCard, as well as more modern codeless or “low-code” creative tools like Twine and Bitsy. If Jupyter Notebooks are a digital lab notebook, think of Decker as a stack of sticky notes for spatially organizing your thoughts and making quick prototypes.

It's fun and look pretty. Exports to HTML and to a custom format.

There are many alternatives to C strings. Here we explore the design space.

1 isn't much of a prime, nor of a number.

First found in an article with Perl code.