20 random bookmarks

Bookmarks and whatnot. Закладки и всякое.

2025-12-14

2044.

Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2001

www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2001/popular-information

George Akerlof, Michael Spence and Joseph Stiglitz. Market for lemons and whatnot.

2025-04-01

1852.

SvarDOS

svardos.org

A maintained rolling release DOS distribution with a package manager. What an incredible technology

2025-02-02

1747.

RAVR Lab

ravrlab.ru

У автора умер сайт на Нотионе, и он сделал вот эту прекрасную вещь.

2025-01-03

1698.

Funding for Free and Open Source projects - FLOSS/fund

floss.fund

2025-01-01

1675.

Ошибки в Go: проблема и элегантное решение с библиотекой try

habr.com/ru/articles/850464

Исключения для бедных

2024-12-22

1639.

Short URLs: why and how | Derek Sivers

sive.rs/su

Instead of:
yoursite.com/blog/2022/05/08/short-urls-why-and-how.html
… consider just:
yoursite.com/short

2024-11-07

Reposted 1590.

Монитор для чувствительных глаз — алгоритм подбора и один параметр, о котором Вы уже скорее всего забыли

habr.com/ru/articles/855812

2024-10-12

Reposted 1557.

zakirullin/cognitive-load: 🧠 Cognitive Load is what matters

github.com/zakirullin/cognitive-load

2024-06-13

1317.

Виндоус и Мак в руках пожилого человека

ilyabirman.ru/meanwhile/2012/03/19/1

Дико интересно. Пожилой человек, который всю жизнь пользовался Виндоусом, пытается освоить Виндоус-8

2024-03-11

1194.

Ultimate Writer: an Open Digital Typewriter

alternativebit.fr/posts/ultimate-writer

A digital typewriter based on a Raspberry Pi and an E-Ink screen.

2024-01-31

1084.

Some activities are harder than others

alexschroeder.ch/view/2024-01-31-activities

Alex tells us that, for him, baking and cooking are easier than programming and soldering, because the errors there average out. As for me, this is completely inverse.

In programming, an error never fixes itself. You can observe it and fix it, you can write tests. You can run the program multiple times. It's you who fixes it, and you can understand how it's done. It's measurable!

Meanwhile, cooking is a nightmare. Burning something is routine for me. Is that too much or too little oil? For how long do I fry? What do I do with these spices? Do they really affect the taste? And to observe something, I can't rely on symbolic things like text. No, I have to look (is this color good? No idea!), smell (as if I know the difference) and taste (nothing more inaccurate).

I'm happy when something can be cooked with a timer. 15 min for buckwheat? I'm in. I'm more happy when the time is short. 4 min for this thin kind of spaghetti? Already boiling water!

I mean, even boiling water is not simple. My parents told me to wait until the correct bubbles appear. I'm waiting for the scary ones. Also, salt is supposed to make it boil faster. How much salt do I add?

And I didn't even talk about plants, which Alex also considers easy. They're not 😭

2024-01-19

1059.

A small ActivityPub debugging server on Glitch

tinysubversions.com/notes/activitypub-tool

An ActivityPub debugging instance? Gotta take a look, probably.

2024-01-08

1021.

The beauty of finished software

josem.co/the-beauty-of-finished-software

All these retrogrades usually forget about Unicode updates! If your finished software does not support the newest writing system, then something is wrong. Well, I'm just saying. Actually, I like finished software! One day, I'll write one.

2023-11-28

929.

Таблица «безопасных» цветов

www.artlebedev.ru/colors

Цвета из нашей палитры везде будут отображаться правильным образом и без искажений. Любой из 216 цветов «безопасной» палитры может быть использован для графики, текста и фонов.

Ограниченный список цветов. Поможет, когда важна совместимость с плохими экранами. Почти всегда, то есть.

2023-11-25

917.

davidfstr/webcrystal

github.com/davidfstr/webcrystal

An archiving HTTP proxy and on-disk archival format for websites.

2023-10-15

755.

The Line of Death

textslashplain.com/2017/01/14/the-line-of-death

When building applications that display untrusted content, security designers have a major problem— if an attacker has full control of a block of pixels, he can make those pixels look like anything

2023-10-13

743.

XXIIVV — solresol

wiki.xxiivv.com/site/solresol.html

A good overview of Solresol.

2023-07-14

451.

Computers are an inherently oppressive technology

www.devever.net/~hl/ruthlessness

This may seem a strange heading for someone whose career is in computers, yet I feel that this article has been a lifetime in the making. It is the product of intuitive observations and things that have stood out to me, even as a child, who even then could sense the sinister side of the most banal of technologies.

2023-02-19

51.

Blushy-Crushy Fediverse Idol: A Chat with Lain about Pleroma | by Sean Tilley

medium.com/we-distribute/blushy-crushy-fediverse-idol-a-chat-with-lain-about-pleroma-4ff578b99752

2023-01-22

15.

SCIM

git.sr.ht/~rostiger/scim

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