Computer Stuff

• Textcasting: applying the philosophy of podcasting to text (Dave Winer of ThinkTank and XML-RPC fame)
• Invisible text that AI chatbots understand and humans can’t: hacking chatbots with unicode

Retro Computing History

• Memory: the forgotten history: ↑1-↑4 computer memory implementations
• Two Stop Bits: hackernews clone for retro computing
• stenzek/duckstation: Fast PlayStation 1 emulator
  
• Cassette software for the IBM PC: ↑3 computer history
• PiDP-11: modern replica of the PDP-11/70.

Actual Software

• xwmx/nb: command line and local web plain text note-taking, bookmarking, archiving, and knowledge base
• Szymon Kaliski — Cartographist experimental web browser optimized for rabbit-holing
• Huly - All-in-One Project Management Platform: alternative to Linear, Jira, Slack, Notion, Motion
• Stengo/DeskPad: A virtual monitor for screen sharing: macOS utility
• cthulahoops/tfa: CLI tool for managing two-factor authentication (2FA) TOTP codes
• TabFS: mount browser tabs as filesystem using FUSE

Software Dev

• Croquet Project - Wikipedia: collaboration engine smalltalk/squeak (2004)
• Feldera - DBSP Incremental Computation: streaming database theory
• benbjohnson/litestream: streaming replication for sqlite
• Byte Order Marks Must Die: do not use BOM characters in UTF-8
• CRLF Is Obsolete And Should Be Abolished: another windmill to tilt at
• Are You Sure You Want to Use MMAP in Your Database Management System?: don’t do it (2022)
• LocalStorage vs. IndexedDB vs. Cookies vs. OPFS vs. WASM-SQLite: comparing browser data storage options
• Guide to writing FUSE filesystems in Python: work in progress, useful start
• cwal: interpreter engine in c
• CINT: C Interpreter from CERN

Essays

• Sometimes the product innovation is the distribution product
• It made me $500k but I think content is a bad business: against being a professional content creator
• Ironies of Automation: complex cognition systems (1983)

Product

• Guinness World Record for Fastest DNA Sequencing: 5 hours for human genome (NVIDIA 2022)

Mewanty

• Meow Wolf | Immersive Art Experiences & Interactive Exhibits: glitch escape room in 6 US cities (this 1 minute video might be more illustrative than the website)
• FuriPhone FLX1 Linux Phone: one of the few workable phones with headphone jack and microSD

Human Stuff

• Falling Down? - The Radar: Amazon is at Day 3
• We only learnt of our son’s secret online life after he died at 25: disabled WoW player makes friends
• Solving the Maker-Taker problem drupal contributor credit system