Log December 2022

Mixed topics #

Jugaad takes agile to the extreme
- Indian-style "agile" sounds pretty based. Use whatever works without prejudice, keep your options open ,small expenses keep regrets small
This Page is Under Construction!
- For all your "under construction" gif needs.
The Dymaxion Bathroom | Buckminster Fuller and The Dymaxion House
DIY box fan filters – Corsi-Rosenthal box - Clean Air Crew
Profoto Blog Series: How to Produce a Commercial Photoshoot, from Request to Post-Production
How Aphex Twin made Selected Ambient Works 85-92
The best science images of 2022
I Don't Want to Be an Internet Person
Riddles in the Dark - the Lost Version
- Comparing how Tolkien changed Gollum in The Hobbit after he wrote Lotr.
Cameron's World
"Security in the Void": Rereading Ernst Jünger
Aristocrat Inc. - Believer Magazine

Software articles #

Coping strategies for the serial project hoarder
We're breaking up with JavaScript frontends
CLODO Speaks
- Interview with the Committee for Liquidation or Subversion of Computers (CLODO)
anti software software club
Paying Maintainers isn't a Magic Bullet
- Interesting take on open source monetization and sustainability.
Where Did Software Go Wrong?
- Software and capitalism
Fastest Frontend Tooling in 2022
The death of the line of death
FAQ about passkeys
Building a website like it's 1999... in 2022
Things I want as SRE/DevOps from Devs
Password requirements: myths and madness
Go and SQLite in the Cloud
Not Getting Hacked
General guidance when working as a cloud engineer
Use LibreOffice Base as a GUI for an SQLite database in OS X
An Introduction to Monitoring Microservices with Prometheus and Grafana
RFC 6919: Further Key Words for Use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
BishopFox/unredacter: Never ever ever use pixelation as a redaction technique
Zuwendungsdatenbank - Berlin.de
SimpleSearch API – Imperia Support Wiki
- Berlin APIs, I want to collect all of them, could not find a comprehensive overview yet
HN Stats
My HN badge
Example how the military runs meetings
The ‘Shamanification' of the Tech CEO
Too big to live, too loved to die: Big Tech's billion dollar curse of the free
Password Manager Comparison
State of PostgreSQL: How to Contribute to PostgreSQL and the Community

Software tools #

Dioxus | An elegant GUI library for Rust
Forgejo – Beyond coding. We forge.
- Gitea got forked by codeberg now that it's controlled by a for-profit company.
Ghostfolio – Open Source Wealth Management Software
bramses/bramses-highly-opinionated-vault-2023: A highly opinionated, fully featured Obsidian vault that can get you from Zero to Zettelkasten lickety split!
bvschaik/julius: An open source re-implementation of Caesar III
crisdosyago/DiskerNet: 💾 DiskerNet - An internet on yer disk.
gildas-lormeau/SingleFile: Web Extension and CLI tool for saving a faithful copy of an entire web page in a single HTML file
microfeed/microfeed: a lightweight cms
whisper.cpp/yt-wsp.sh
- shell script to automatically download and transcribe live stream VODs (haven't tested yet)
whisper.cpp/examples/stream
- example of real-time inference on audio from your microphone (not tested either)
React Admin - Open-Source Framework for B2B applications
Hyperview - Native mobile apps
impress.js | presentation tool based on the power of CSS3 transforms and transitions in modern browsers
Fun Javascript Mouse Clock example
Tauri web frontend

Our new AI overlords #

Aligning Language Models to Follow Instructions
How to use the GPT-3 language model
A Datasette tutorial written by GPT-3
Never write a Bash command again (with the help of GPT-3)
Stable Diffusion - InstallGentoo Wiki
Machine Learning | Coursera
- Free machine learning intro course
Tutorials | Haystack

AI tools #