Home page of Sean Barrett, dysfunctional programmer.

Personal site of Richard P. Gabriel^{^}

Neat UI to see what the time is or will be in other timezones.

List of all video recordings from FOSDEM 2024.
I have watched:

• Building Cross-platform GUI apps with ease (and Go) - desktop, mobile and beyond!^{^}
• The Art of Concurrent Scripting with Raku^{^}
• Debug your stage-1 systemd with GDB and the NixOS test framework^{^}
• So you think you know Git^{^}

the standard git workflow

Prof. Stewart Weiss’s lecture to get started with GTK+2 is great.

free pdf zine, very cool.

Archive of ~2002 linux wallpapers. Mostly gnome, but others as well. SOVL

excellent collection of linux screenshots

classic GTK issue opened in 2004, halfassed implemented in 2022 only for GTK4 .

Blog hosting large collection of monstrous imagery.

This has been my hifi setup for the last 10 years, it sounds great.

redbeanin a αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε^{^} .

Great site with lots of links and guides on programming (check out the gamedev page^{^} ) and

A stupid little javascript thing that emulates winamp on your webpag. I think I will add this to the guestbook and have it play my Udio masterpieces.

https://skins.webamp.org/^{^}

Legal Lullabies

Small and tasty bitmap fonts.

Vim is, without question, the worst C codebase I have seen.

main reason I added this link was so I could post the quote above 8).

Series of 8 articles on how to create Pixel art by Pedro Medeiros.

Alternative (not bloated) frontend for medium.

jwz is angry because big OSS projects (gnomo, cinnamon, mate) made a less secure fork of XscreenSaver AND relicensed and removed his name from the credits. Gnome is evil, their software is insecure. listen y’all it’s SABOTAGE.

Websites that look like desktops

I was """inspired""" by this CSS for some of the UI on the site.

Massive personal wiki. I think he has built the wiki platform him self. Looks cool. I was worried he was using the same background color as I, but it is slightly off.

166 bytes in total. Zero dependencies. Zero JS bundles to load. Not even a backend is required. Just an inline HTML snippet.

Foreverlikethis linked me this article of his, i read. It was good. Sometimes the cow milks you.

Creator of the movie: The Wizard of Speed and Time (1988)

youtube: The Wizard of Speed and Time (1988) HD Remastered

Generate AI music from prompts. You need botnet account, but damn this shit is fun.

some person of no importance or significance who roams on the internet.

Some examples of software that have “”"progressed""" in the wrong direction.

Mid 90’s hardware spyware. Never forget.

The Clipper chip was a chipset that was developed and promoted by the United States National Security Agency[1] (NSA) as an encryption device that secured “voice and data messages”[2] with a built-in backdoor that was intended to “allow Federal, State, and local law enforcement officials the ability to decode intercepted voice and data transmissions."[2]

Operating system designed to be easy to implement if(when) society collapse.

Comfy page about ricing good old TWM, with lots of screenshots and links.

GTK from bash?

Very personal, very bookmarks . Great inspiration!

well curated webgarden

New from scratch minimal search engine.

gnomo devs are clueless to why their users don’t want padding, rounded corners and flatshit that makes their desktop programs look like broken mobile apps.

It would be fun with a counter campaign, we could call it: “stopthemingMY.app” .

Andrew Tridgell^{^} , legendary programmer, author of samba and rsync, has lots of fun stuff in his junkcode/ directory. For instance this webserver that supports server-rendered HTML via bash powered templates!

Great article about software hype-cycles

First with RSS feed

Personal website of creator of the IRC protocol.
hasn’t been updated since the 90’s, in a good way.

sonic is blue, the least thing we can do is taking the blue pill. commodorian logic.

I don’t know who this is but his site is blessed

I will always remember Luke as the one who fell for every /g/ meme, but also for getting us hooked on selfhosting webservers. landchad.net is based.

by Jarkko Oikarinen^{^} , inventor of the IRC protocoll

youtube: HTMX Web Apps with Carson Gross

[Syntax.fm] interview with Carsson Gross, creator of HTMX^{^} . Carson seems like a great down to earth guy.

Highlight: the microsoft story^{^}

Dr. Cozy has mapped “spectrum” personalities.
which fren are you?

t.Savant-tard

comment section is kind of wild, especially this one from Linus himself:

I wrote it from scratch, but with plenty of comments and whitespace to keep everything straight in my poor head. =)

Excellent blog, dude and friend

Current www record holder in webring

likeable gyros expert

Plot of internet land owned by RisingThumb. Powered by werc^{^}

African cyber scientist. Dreams in gyro.

Found this rare youtube video^{^} , showing how to play, Pax Pamir^{^} the board game, in the browser. Maybe one day I will.

“We were wizards” - Larry Wall’s foreword to Learning Perl from 1993.

A portable microkernel-based multiserver operating system written from scratch. Actively developed, looks super comfy.

Cozy article and video review of the Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE).

Russ Cox with a 2012 introduction to the Acme editor from plan9

Neat way to specify and visualize a OKLCH color space.

I don’t know who Iris Lightshard is, and I don’t think we would get along, but they have lots of interesting projects, links and articles.

Free book by Christopher Okhravi, a senior lecturer at Uppsala University. About mastering OOP in C#.

researchers in the US and UK found that countries with an existing culture of gender equality have an even smaller proportion of women taking degrees in science, technology and mathematics (STEM)

Very cool site. I found it after some git drama^{^} that happened to i3wm back in 2019. Caveman has a patch for i3wm that supplies the same functionality as budlabs i3wizvis^{^} , but with essentially one line of C code instead of buds insane ~2000 lines of AWK|bash spaghetti. Cavemans patch was rejected because he didn’t behave on IRC..

I believe Caveman to be savant-stooge^{^} btw.

Rant about tailwind css, a bad idea based upon a misunderstanding.

Until they sort their s**t out, which is unlikely, since there’s been very little progress over the last decade, just keep it disabled. For the Flatpaks, users can re-enable it with flatseal if they really want the crappy experience

Tip check out the archive link.

1D pacman

tomscii author of the [terminal emulator zutty] andμMon - minimal host monitoring^{^} , ditches GitHub and migrates his repositories to a selfhosted (Gitweb) solution with a email-based git workflow^{^} .

Linus tried GNOME3 back in 2011, and didn’t like it. No one did.

youtube: Conway's Game Of Life in APL

Game of life, in one line of APL from scratch, in 7 minutes. Impessive, very nice.

KDE list of reasons they can’t recommend wayland as the default yet.

Edit: maybe they do recommend it now, i don’t know, and they have renamed the page, still a good summary on what is broken in this episode.

Classic GNOME/GTK.

What makes you think that sharpness is a metric?

Great summary of the infamous “Thumbnail support in GTK filepicker” issue.

I don’t think we want to follow a protocol that lets the server dictate ssd.

Top-shelf rant in lobste.rs comments from maintainer of Arcan^{^}

A archive.org project where all animated gifs from geocities pages has been archived and made searchable.

Nice project, that breaks down and rates Terms of Service (TOS) agreements.

photorealistic xeyes^{^}

random “sexy” stallman photos

A little less russian-roulette about:config for Firefox.

edgy site with good original content.

silly webapp lets you larp as a hollywood hacker.

personal website by the author of a popular emacs fork.

collection of screenshots of desktop graphical computer environments, with detailed comments about what is pictured.

git can be difficult to grasp at first, maybe this open source game built in godot can help.

cute list of more or less useful and more or less free software, presented in a neat UI I believe is generated from a google docs spreadsheet?

collection of all the rants from Linus Torvalds on the kernel mailing list from 2012 to 2015 classified by the amount of hate and sorted by it.

Search engine for websites containing minimal CSS and little or no JavaScript.

Simple and perfect temporary file hosting.

Legendary ricer and mpv contributor: dudemanguy, writes about his journey from wayland believer, working hard to make mpv more wayland compliant, to non-believer.

presentation with lots of videos, photos and screenshots of the evolution of graphical software. Timeline starts at 1959.

The page fetches it self byte-by-byte and is a good way to see what a TLS handshake does.

Anon made a comprehensive comparison of privacy focused VPS providers to find which ones are the most tollerant when it comes to “free speech”.

Good introduction on how to use SPDX.
tl;dr SPDX is a standard for including license headers in source code, which is much terser (2 lines), than including the massive block of text that the actual license requires.

This article is praise for a “new” webtechnology, that aims to make development for web, be more like it used to (before javascript). HTMX can replace bloated javascript frameworks, and lets you use any language for both “frontend” and “backend”. And it is almost completely server-side rendered.

I think there are some good ideas and insights in this article:

• bookmarks can and should be local.
• 3388 bookmarks is only 4.7GB
• browsers built in bookmarking is bad

They also mention the web extension: SingleFile^{^} , which I started using myself just a week ago. This made me thinking that a browser extension that combines SingleFile and somehting along the lines of this article would be really nice to have/create ;)

SingleFile is a tool for saving a faithful copy of an entire web page in a single HTML file.

[T]TOML .. I never understood how this mess of a config format ever became a thing outside of Tom’s obviously dirty basement.

Low level underground music.
There is also this awk version: https://maximullaris.com/bytebeat_gawk.html^{^}