20 random bookmarks

Bookmarks and whatnot. Закладки и всякое.

2026-01-09

2069.

Britannia (atlas) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britannia_(atlas)

There used to be atlases of so-called “strip maps”, which are in a way precursors to modern navigators and metro line maps. The artist put less emphasis on legibility than modern designers do; they cared more about decorations. Beautiful!

2025-02-16

1772.

Удивительный и забытый Palm: что предшествовало компании, сформировавшей индустрию смартфонов

trashbox.ru/link/udivitelnyj-i-zabytyj-palm-chast-1

От 19 века до начала 80-х. Как человечество придумывало сенсорные экраны и рукописный ввод

2025-01-03

1694.

Book Review: From Bauhaus To Our House

www.astralcodexten.com/p/book-review-from-bauhaus-to-our-house

2024-12-22

1638.

Derek Sivers

sive.rs

Introduced by Artyom.

I visit Derek Sivers' website from time to time. Every time I do, I discover he had

  • written some half a hundred new blog posts,

  • moved to another place,

  • and started a new diet/philosophy/routine/book.

He's too productive for a human, but that's a topic for a different time.

2024-07-26

1405.

ACME Labs Software

www.acme.com/software

ACME Labs is proud to make available a variety of software,
all free, some trivial, some massive, all high-quality.

vintage!

2024-07-09

1366.

google/capslock

github.com/google/capslock

Capslock is a capability analysis CLI for Go packages that informs users of which privileged operations a given package can access. This works by classifying the capabilities of Go packages by following transitive calls to privileged standard library operations.

The recent increase in supply chain attacks targeting open source software has highlighted that third party dependencies should not be inherently trusted. Capabilities indicate what permissions a package has access to, and can be used in conjunction with other security signals to indicate which code requires additional scrutiny before it can be considered trusted.

2024-06-27

Reposted 1347.

Microfeatures I Love in Blogs and Personal Websites

danilafe.com/blog/blog_microfeatures

In this post, I talk about pleasant but seemingly minor features in personal sites

2024-06-09

1306.

Как Роберт Пропст повышал продуктивность работников за счет изменения офисного пространства

habr.com/ru/companies/first/articles/820265

В 1964 году Роберт Пропст представил публике революционную идею организации рабочего места «Action Office». Отдельные зоны, отгороженные друг от друга мебелью, стали прототипом будущей разработки...

2024-06-06

Reposted 1293.

Load Balancing

samwho.dev/load-balancing

A bottom-up, animated guide to HTTP load balancing algorithms.

2024-03-15

Reposted 1198.

Notes Against Note-Taking Systems

sashachapin.substack.com/p/notes-against-note-taking-systems

Kind of controversial take on note taking systems. I can relate though, because i was lost in a burden of creating perfect knowledge management system for a long time without creating any knowledge. Simplest approach with commonplace notebook is what working for me now.
Comments are also useful.

Getting lost in your knowledge management system is a fantastic way to avoid creating things.
Most heart-stopping writing comes from synthesizing the previously unarticulated in the moment. Rather than reaching for your database, try channeling what’s in the air at this very second. These read/write errors are what we call originality.
Leonardo da Vinci kept all of his notes in one big book. If he liked something he put it down. This is known as a commonplace book, and it is about how detailed your note-taking system should be unless you plan on thinking more elaborately than Leonardo da Vinci.
Shun the useless adoption of the aesthetic of the useful. When something can be like work or like play, never make it work.

2024-03-07

1182.

ActivityPub | Pixelfed Docs

docs.pixelfed.org/spec/ActivityPub.html

ActivityPub in PixelFed.

2024-02-08

1133.

Alternatives numériques

alternatives-numeriques.fr

Un média pour explorer des alternatives numériques qui vous respectent !

2024-01-20

1064.

Topic Challenge: The Social Lives of Bees - Björn Wärmedal

warmedal.se/~bjorn/posts/2021-10-06-topic-challenge-the-social-lives-of-bees.html

bees

2023-12-19

985.

Zeal - Offline Documentation Browser

zealdocs.org

2023-12-02

949.

Block Comments are a Bad Idea

futhark-lang.org/blog/2017-10-10-block-comments-are-a-bad-idea.html

Be they nestable or not nestable, they fail.

2023-08-11

558.

The Great Archives

thegreatarchives.com

A different Bionicle story reference. I like the name.

2023-07-12

446.

Shrinking Bee Populations Are Being Replaced by Human Pollinators

www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/life-without-bees-hand-human-pollination-rural-chi

Paying human pollinators is cheaper than renting bees in areas with no bees.

2023-06-05

286.

A Quarter Century of Web Coding | datagubbe.se

www.datagubbe.se/25years

I both pity and admire beginner web coders of today. Unlike me, they've not been able to accumulate gradual knowledge of HTTP, HTML, REST, JavaScript, the DOM, CSS, AJAX, JSON, asynchronous execution and event driven object oriented programming over a period of decades. They haven't walked the long path from CGI scripts to modern server side tomfoolery via PHP, ASP and various MVC frameworks. They're just brutally thrust into a complex world of Gulp, Grunt, TypeScript, React Hooks and MobX-State-Tree and it's assumed they somehow already know about all that other stuff. Computer Science has moved into the frontend in earnest and yet it still seems as if many view "web development" as "making homepages", and that it's something you can learn over a period of weeks, not years.

In retrospect, web development has always been a bit of a struggle against the powers that be.
Some things that were pretty bad for quite a long time have gotten better. But, on the whole, I dare say it's much worse now than when I started. Much like how Commodore 64 programmers could keep a map of the entire computer in their head, a moderately competent developer could churn out an acceptable web site in a matter of weeks, understand every single aspect of it and get paid in the process. If I, a quarter century ago, had possessed the experience and knowledge I do now, the simplicity of those early web pages would've felt surreal. And yet, we apparently provided a service that was of some value to some people. A digital commodity, nothing more, nothing less. Actually useful software.

2023-04-11

155.

Canadian Wetland Classification System — Wetland Policy

www.wetlandpolicy.ca/canadian-wetland-classification-system

The Canadian Wetland Classification System (National Wetlands Working Group 1997) is based on a hierarchical system, which includes (1) wetland class, (2) wetland form and (3) wetland type. The five wetland "classes" are differentiated by their developmental characteristics and the environment in which they exist. The five classes are: bog, fen, marsh, swamp, and shallow water. Some wetlands accumulate peat (partially-decomposed organic matter) and are called peatlands. Bogs and fens are the dominant peatland classes in Alberta, although some swamps and marshes can also accumulate peat. In contrast, shallow open water wetlands and many marshes and swamps do not accumulate peat.

2023-01-20

11.

Fun with text user interfaces

felix.plesoianu.ro/blog/tui-fun.html

The venerable Dialog utility (based on ncurses, and maintained by the same person for the past couple of decades) is one option: a small program that can handle a variety of common interactions like choosing a file to open, or entering dates, while looking good and being easy enough to use.

The utility is as at https://invisible-island.net/dialog/dialog.html.