Posts in category "Bookmarks"

Introduction¶

An occasional collection of things I've recently found on the Internet and added to my bookmarks.

Weird little guys of FOSS¶

As the name says: a collection of "weird little guys" of the FOSS and adjacent worlds. Massively subjective, of course, but I don't think I've seen one (that I know of) that I disagree with yet.

Ball Splitter¶

The sort of thing that's fun to run up, muted, during boring meetings.

Deadpan Photography: Enjoying the Pretence¶

I love this style of photography, but I don't think I've ever seen an actual name for the style before. Now I have.

Stargate Worlds — Fan-Made Private Server¶

I don't need another game to invest all my time in at the moment. But if I did, I think it could be this. I love all things Stargate.

Geminispace topology¶

A map of Geminispace.

Kepler protocol specification¶

Yet another smolweb protocol, and yet another derived from or related to Gemini. I doubt I'll do anything with this one (Rogallo supports enough as it is for now), but it's worth keeping a link to it.

GitHub star history¶

A GitHub star history that doesn't need access tokens and the like.

Everybody's Lost Their Minds¶

A pretty great rant about all things AI.

Flet¶

I build enough applications using Textual; it might be interesting to play with a framework that works on all sorts of platforms (as opposed to just in the terminal).

Great on Frame¶

Games that are verified to work standalone on the Steam Frame.

Leaving DigitalOcean, one site at a time¶

I've not used DO for a while now, but I have been thinking about setting up a small host again so I can play with Gemini and Gopher. Having used DO in the past, they were at the top of my list.

Now I'm not so sure I need them there.

endoflife.date¶

End-of-life dates for... so many things!

Team Fortress 2: VR Mod¶

I used to have so much fun with TF2. The idea of TF2 in VR... hell yes please!

Introduction¶

An occasional collection of things I've recently found on the Internet and added to my bookmarks.

Mechboards¶

I've enjoyed using the odd mechanical keyboard for a few years now. Nothing too fancy. Every once in a while I get the urge to really get into the mechanical keyboard world. Knowing that this shop exists might make it harder to resist falling down that hole.

Finger: the 1971 social network that never died¶

Great little blog post that is a good introduction to Finger, for those who might be too young to know about it.

Felony Bench¶

Site that tracks questionable behaviour, or at least claims of questionable behaviour, by LLMs/agents.

Stop Using Conventional Commits¶

Even though I use emoji-based prefixes for commits on my personal projects (mostly just for the shits and giggles of it), I detest the "Conventional Commits" thing. I sense this post captures some of why I don't like it.

Thinking in Python¶

There's a lot I see in this book that I like. I feel this is a good book to point folk at, either people who have never worked with Python before, or people who want to get better with it.

Configuring Emacs Eglot for Better Performance and Latency¶

I use Eglot lots, every day, and have been for quite a while now (even since before it was part of Emacs itself). However, I've never really paid too much attention to its performance or how it can be improved. This is a useful read.

What's New in Emacs 31.1?¶

Everything new in Emacs 31.1 that's worth knowing about.

DHH¶

An excellent lesson in how not to handle feedback and how to make yourself look like you align with the worst of the worst.

An unofficial guide to markdown-ts-mode on Emacs 31¶

I've had good experiences with various tree-sitter modes in Emacs and I use the Markdown mode in Emacs a lot. So this feels like something I need to try out.

termframe¶

I feel like this is begging to be wrapped up in a Textual widget...

Gerbil Scheme¶

This looks like a fun Scheme to play with at some point.

Introduction¶

An occasional collection of things I've recently found on the Internet and added to my bookmarks.

The Nex Protocol standard¶

The specification for the Nex protocol, another "small web" protocol. Having discovered this, I added support for it to Rogallo.

The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was, in Fact, a Correct Rejection¶

It's got everything: claims of unfair treatment, claims of unfair portrayal of an application, claims of copying by AI, tarot nonsense, astrology nonsense, the works. Well worth a read.

Stowaway¶

See what's above you, in the sky, and hop on board and see how the world looks to them.

GEBible¶

The author does seem to fully admit that the whole thing is vibe-coded, but... it is a pretty handy resource for cross-checking various Bible translations. Useful for those times you want to find some vile nonsense, or cross-reference issues.

On AI Coding and Its Discontents¶

I'm still trying to decide if this is a totally made-up story or not. The whole thing about "there was a bug in production so I was told I might get fired" sounds so damn toxic... On the other hand, even if it's 100% fake, I get the concern that is likely being spun here.

Do not talk to me about AI¶

A PDF with the design of cards you can give out, asking people not to talk to you about AI.

Introduction¶

An occasional collection of things I've recently found on the Internet and added to my bookmarks.

Airwave - an ATC Sim-Game¶

Flight sims have been my thing for decades. It might be fun to play at being the voice on the other end at some point.

CrashAtlas - Aviation Accident Database & Crash Map¶

I didn't know I needed an atlas of aircraft accidents. I'm not sure I do, but now I know there is one.

Snowflow¶

Someone's vibe-coded gaming experiment which, weirdly, is kind of satisfying to mess with.

Terminal graphics protocol¶

I should really get this into my Textual applications; there's a couple where this could work well.

Losing my heart to the rogallo smolnet browser¶

Someone had nice things to say about Rogallo.

The team is the product¶

A good take on something I've thought for a long time, and which is more important now than ever. The idea that a team of people is an unfortunate requirement to get stuff done is wild and short-sighted.

Whitby's Whale Bone Arch to be replaced by bronze replica¶

It turns out that I've walked through two different sets of whale bones at Whitby, and some time soon I'll encounter my third (albeit replicas this time).

Apple brings AppleCare One to the UK¶

I'm going to have to look into this, this might save me a couple of quid.

Don't be a meat proxy¶

I'm going to remember the phrase "meat proxy". In fact, I'm tempted to ask the question "Are you being a meat proxy?" the next time someone sends me something, a question or a reply, that is so obviously just a copy/paste from their chatbot.

LLMs reward expertise¶

Too many people who are pushing for LLMs and agents in a business environment seem to fail to understand that you can't replace expertise with them.

I feel many organisations will find this out too late.

AI is a bubble, just like dot-com¶

I do believe that AI is a bubble. I guess the question is: is it a crypto/NFT kind of bubble, or a dot-com kind of bubble?

Grid Bike¶

The first game I ever wrote, and the first bit of code I ever got paid for, listed on some random Vic20-oriented website!

Introduction¶

An occasional collection of things I've recently found on the Internet and added to my bookmarks.

This blog is written in English¶

Yeah, it's okay to write in your own voice, and for yourself. Weird, huh?

GitFut¶

Got to love a stupid GitHub-based profile rating tool.

Lisp hax¶

Lots of really useful Lisp code. Hours of great reading.

Very Average Prototypes¶

Interesting article about some of the downsides of working with AI to create code. Says a few things I've also been saying about my journey with BlogMore.

GTA2js¶

GTA2. On the web.

Half-Life 2 on the web¶

Half-Life 2. With follow-ups. On the web.

The AI Hype Reckoning Is Upon Us¶

Good article about the gulf that does seem to exist between the hype around AI in business, and the actual benefits.

Mastodon, The Only Good Choice¶

Good article about what Mastodon delivers if you enjoy social media.

Please delete your repository¶

If you had never opened this repository, there is a 21% chance that we would have already cured cancer. Let that sink in.

I don't care if it's totally made up, it made me chuckle.

CSS-DOS¶

An entire PC built in CSS.

Human Emacs¶

I feel like this project is jumping the gun quite a bit, but I also appreciate that it exists. I did also see someone say the other day that it was worth running with anyway to "get away from RMS". Which is fair I guess.

Mastodon Most Followed¶

Because it's all about being popular...

Web Flight¶

A flight simulator, on the web. What's not to like?

Perfect to mess with during those boring Teams calls...

A Road to Lisp: Which Lisp¶

Good review of all the Lisp options you have available to you today.

Backrooms copyright strikes¶

A24 got embroiled in copyright strikes against online creations related to the Backrooms. People, unsurprisingly, got very angry. The issue seems solved, for the moment, but it says a lot about capitalist appropriation of mass-created popular culture.

ZeroVer¶

Fantastic list of well-known and popular applications that seem too afraid to ever evolve beyond v0.x.

AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making¶

I feel this so much. I wish the people who need to read this would read this.

Introduction¶

An occasional collection of things I've recently found on the Internet and added to my bookmarks.

JSON-LD Explained for Personal Websites¶

Handy guide to how JSON-LD can be useful for personal websites.

TownSquare¶

On the one hand, this looks like a fun idea: sort of a Second Life for websites. On the other hand, it's the worst of the Internet, which is no surprise.

The AI Resist List¶

Does what it says in the title, pretty much.

Rest of the World¶

A good reminder that tech stories come from places other than the "western" world.

smolweb¶

A handy guide to all things relating to the small web, and related concepts.

Gemtext Is Not Accessible¶

A good reminder that, as fun and neat as Gemtext is, it's not terribly accessible.

Honesty gets Emacs patch rejected¶

The FSF, in effect, does what the FSF is there to do: defend the copyright of GNU Emacs (among other projects). Meanwhile someone attempts to contribute a patch written by a large language model, and seemingly gets offended that it's rejected. I think the worst part about it is they seem to think that being honest about using an LLM should let their contribution in.

The UnOfficial History of Second Life!¶

A pretty fun Reddit post that contains a potted history of the evolution of Second Life. I've had an account for a good chunk of that time, and it all reads about right to me.

Radial¶

I've long been a fan of pie menus. I wish macOS had adopted and used pie menus. This looks like something I need to try out at some point.

The AI Compass¶

It's one of those "compass" type quizzes that works out where you stand on the whole issue of AI. I landed on "The Skeptic".

Introduction¶

An occasional collection of things I've recently found on the Internet and added to my bookmarks.

Gemini hypertext format specification¶

The specification for the hypertext format used by the Gemini protocol, also known as "gemtext". Currently I'm developing my own terminal-based Gemini client so this comes in very handy.

UK government's under-16s social-media ban¶

The press release from the UK government, covering the intended ban on social media for under-16s. Even if we were to assume this is a good thing (and I'm far from convinced it is), the proposal as it looks right now is hilariously bad and appears to be as ill-informed as any attempt to control the Internet that has gone before.

How to be mean to IIS-based servers¶

A funny, and kind of informative, post about how you can be mean to IIS servers. Not that I'd ever do that (no, really, I wouldn't, that's not my sort of thing), but it's fun to know that some folk actually do that.

NetNewsWire Status¶

I was very late coming to NetNewsWire, only discovering it in the last year; it's been one of my go-to RSS tools (along with OldNews, of course) on macOS and iOS ever since. Here the author talks about the progress made in the last year.

The LLMentalist Effect¶

An article in which the author talks about the con played by psychics, and how large language models pretty much do exactly the same thing.

Dialog attendance list¶

Does what it says on the tin: shows the list of people who were "leaked" on the Dialog website.

The Community is the Achievement; the Achievement is the Community¶

An article on how community is one of the important properties of where tech has taken us, and the threat that AI poses to this. As of the time of writing, this is still on my to-read list, but I strongly suspect it's going to be a good and useful read.

Introduction¶

An occasional collection of things I've recently found on the Internet and added to my bookmarks.

Tutti Space Program¶

Described as "A playful 2D space sandbox with flowing materials, heat, and gravity", it's exactly that. One of those things to mess with in the browser when you're either waiting for a boring meeting, or in a boring meeting, or just have time to kill. Or just because.

The Jqwik Anti-AI Affair¶

The Jqwik author's perspective on their Markdown-based "malware".

Finalist¶

Saw this go past in my Mastodon feed, although I lost track of who mentioned it. This app falls under the heading of "apps I really want to like because it seems to solve a problem I want solved but I don't like how it solves it". Mostly I do like how it solves it, but something is off about it; also it's laggy as hell on my iPhone 16 Pro, for some reason.

As such, I didn't stick with it for long, but I might revisit it at some point to see if the performance improves; hence saving it.

Modus Themes¶

In the past few days I've been toying with changing the look of my Emacs. This is where I landed. The documentation is excellent. I don't know why it took me so long to discover it.

LisaOS Emulator¶

An Apple Lisa. In the browser! I've never used a Lisa. I've never seen one in person. It's sort of wild to me that I now live at a moment in time where we can emulate, right in the browser, machines that date from my younger days.

Vintage Macworld Magazine Library¶

Never read it myself; I'm a late arrival to the world of the Mac (I've been a user just over a decade now). Should be fun reading some of the older copies.

Project Gemini¶

This is a new one on me; I just stumbled on it over the weekend. It is a now well-established protocol for a simple web of documents. I'm very tempted to have a play with this. I'm ever so slightly tempted to see if I can do something with BlogMore, such that I could target this approach in some way too.

Gemcities¶

Free hosting for Gemini-protocol sites.

flounder¶

Free hosting for Gemini-protocol sites.