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

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A archive.org project where all animated gifs from geocities pages has been archived and made searchable.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

Lots of links, mostly (web)design related.

SVG can display text. Emoji is text. SVG is valid favicon.
<link rel="icon" href="data:image/svg+xml,<svg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 viewBox=%220 0 100 100%22><text y=%22.9em%22 font-size=%2290%22>🐈</text></svg>">

Kenney has thousands of completely free (CC0) game assets.

404PAGEFOUND is a gallery of web 1.0 sites.

Cool interface to publicly available FM-radio web transmissions all over the world.

Book describing how to make classic games in Python and Pygame Zero. Graphical assets by Dan Malone (pixel art master known for speedball 2). Available both as free pdf or hardcover, source code for the games on GitHub .

Great interview with Dan Malone who did the graphics on the classic speedball games for the Amiga.

An annotated digest of the top “Hacker” “News” .