Reflections on using Rust professionally for two years.

This is a tarpit intended to catch web crawlers. Specifically, it's targetting crawlers that scrape data for LLM's - but really, like the plants it is named after, it'll eat just about anything that finds it's way inside.

It works by generating an endless sequences of pages, each of which with dozens of links, that simply go back into a the tarpit. Pages are randomly generated, but in a deterministic way, causing them to appear to be flat files that never change. Intentional delay is added to prevent crawlers from bogging down your server, in addition to wasting their time. Lastly, optional Markov-babble can be added to the pages, to give the crawlers something to scrape up and train their LLMs on, hopefully accelerating model collapse.

THIS IS DELIBERATELY MALICIOUS SOFTWARE INTENDED TO CAUSE HARMFUL ACTIVITY. DO NOT DEPLOY IF YOU AREN'T FULLY COMFORTABLE WITH WHAT YOU ARE DOING.

Static keyboard layouts are boring and predictable. Let's spice up the whole idea of keyboard layouts by having the layout CHANGE WHILE YOU ARE TYPING!

A deep dive into the text mode editors we had and how they compare to today's

Unexpectedly good.

TIGR - the TIny GRaphics library for Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS and Android. - erkkah/tigr

Anvil is a graphical, multi-pane tiling editor that makes bold use of the mouse and integrates closely with the shell. It supports syntax highlighting, multiple cursors and selections, remote file editing, and contains a powerful text manipulation language.

Alternative Go (Golang) Playground with syntax highlighting, turtle graphics and more

It's 2024 - do you know where your post-quantum cryptography is?

Q-day is in 10 years max.

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

A beautiful life in a remote cabin in a forest is a luxury, not available to everyone. We can't just return to the past.

In favor of endless configuration.

A fresh take on typesetting

Durden is a program that identifies, counts and, optionally, marks and/or cuts out and saves unique tiles in a given image file.