20 random bookmarks

Bookmarks and whatnot. Закладки и всякое.

2025-06-27

1963.

remove(42) vs. find(42).remove()

www.yegor256.com/2025/06/22/retrieve-or-remove.html

Delegating behavior to objects rather than invoking utility methods leads to cleaner, more extensible, and properly encapsulated object-oriented design.

2025-05-09

1892.

branchless development

flak.tedunangst.com/post/branchless-development

2025-03-01

1784.

SvgPathEditor

yqnn.github.io/svg-path-editor

I used it to create the Betula logo.

2024-09-27

1531.

NoteCards in a Nutshell

dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/29933.30859

A paper about the old NoteCards program. I printed it out on an office printer and read it, unlike most other papers I saved in this Betula.

Organizing data in notecards, linking them. Notecards are not scrollable. Fileboxes and Browsers, special notecards. They state the system is programmable, but no detailed description of programmability is given. Interface is not really detailed.

Overall, this paper is not enough. I shall look for more.

2024-09-08

1502.

Game Boy Camera

gameboyessentials.com/articles/mgb-006

2024-07-14

1374.

Self-care checklist – Thomas Baart's Microblog

micro.thomasbaart.nl/2024/07/13/self-care-checklist

2024-06-28

1355.

Programming language notes

felix.plesoianu.ro/languages/notes.html#Intro

Felix on Vala, Zig, C++, Fortran, Ada, Scheme and Common Lisp.

Is this site running Feather Wiki? Seems so.

2024-06-16

1327.

~faen/aika (main): README.md - sourcehut git

git.sr.ht/~faen/aika/tree/main/item/README.md

Aika is a repository of mine dedicated to Arvelie and Neralie utilities, in an effort to make these time systems more accessible.

2024-03-11

1196.

Choose Boring Technology

boringtechnology.club

Innovation tokens and whatnot.

2024-02-26

1154.

Красные пики про трёхглазую игуану

t.me/red_spades/1114

Есть игуана с глазом на затылке! А это, оказывается, тема распространённая так-то. Называется теменной глаз.

2023-10-18

768.

Pulse Codex EP by nonmateria

nonmateria.itch.io/pulse-codex-ep

esoteric videogame

Decode the control glyph and challenge strange entities in a short audiovisual composition / videogame hybrid.

Wanna play.

2023-10-13

742.

The format=flowed FAQ (Joe Clark)

joeclark.org/ffaq.html

Overcoming limitations of text email.

2023-07-07

431.

Roguelike и Древняя История

nethack-rutext.info/doku.php/wiki/roguelike_ancient_history

2023-06-18

373.

Vimm's Lair: Preserving the Classics

vimm.net

2023-06-16

350.

I have no capslock and I must scream @ marginalia.nu

www.marginalia.nu/log/48-i-have-no-capslock

2023-06-07

300.

go-lemmy

gitea.elara.ws/Elara6331/go-lemmy

Go bindings to the Lemmy API, automatically generated directly from Lemmy's source code using the generator in cmd/gen.

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.

2023-05-31

265.

Feeds, updates, 200s, 304s, and now 429s

rachelbythebay.com/w/2023/01/18/http

Some people pull feeds way too often. Sometimes they do not get what they want.

2023-04-19

168.

77 Hardcore Polish Churches

www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/77-hardcore-polish-churches

2023-01-19

3.

Mushroom color atlas

mushroomcoloratlas.com

Many cool colors