November 2022
58 bytes of css to look great nearly everywhere
A little bit of CSS joy for your web site
The Walt List.xlsx - Google Sheets
Excellent list of all sorts of people and their Mastodon link
Wrapping Your Head Around Mastodon - K²R
More introduction to Mastodon. Of course, if you are reading this then you are already on there! "I've been on Mastodon for several years now, and it's almost completely replaced Twitter for me.It is a shift in perspective on how social media works, so here are a few tips to help wrap your head around it."
Mastodon - Decentralized social media
Learn more about Mastodon, the radically different, free and open-source decentralized social media platform.
How to Post to Mastodon From Anything Using IFTTT - K²R
I am using this article to test post from IFTTT to Mastodon. I will clean up my random posts once I get this to work. The author says: "I finally managed to hook up IFTTT to Mastodon to auto-post from another site! I use IFTTT as glue for linking several services together including sharing interesting links from Pocket when I’m offline: I can add a tag in the app on my tablet, and then when it syncs that tag up to the cloud"
October 2022
Modern Alternatives to Some of the Classic Linux Commands - It's FOSS
Here are some faster, better and feature rich alternative command line tools to replace the decades old legacy Linux commands.
Shell Script Best Practices — The Sharat's
This article is about a few quick thumb rules I use when writing shell scripts that I’ve come to appreciate over the years. Very opinionated....
Reinvent the Wheel
About the virtue of building things, even if you can get them iff the shelf. By building, and maybe only by building, do you really learn and understand how it works. AWM #97: There's really no other option 🛞
GitHub Copilot investigation · Joseph Saveri Law Firm & Matthew Butterick
Very interesting review of github copilot, open source and the law. The
Welcome to Hypothesis! — Hypothesis 6.56.3 documentation
Welcome to Hypothesis! — Hypothesis 6.56.3 documentation URL: https://hypothesis.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html Type: link Domain: hypothesis.readthedocs.io
Rosetta Code
Rosetta Code is a programming chrestomathy site. The idea is to present solutions to the same task in as many different languages as possible, to demonstrate how...
Home - Meet Edgar
Social Media automatic posting tool. Seems popular with the cognizenti
Building a Rails CI pipeline with GitHub Actions
GitHub Actions is an automation platform that you run directly from inside a repository. We can use it as a testing CI/CD pipeline and keep everything close to the code.
Heroku Alternatives for Python-based Applications
In this article, you'll learn what the best Heroku alternatives (and their pros and cons) are.
Learn SQL: How to Write a Complex SELECT Query
Do you need to write a complex SELECT query? In this article, we’ve tried to create a recipe for you.
Learn SQL: Aggregate Functions
Aggregate functions are a very powerful tool in databases. They serve the same purpose as their equivalents in MS Excel
A Nibble of Content-Defined Chunking
A great explanation of a really cool algorithm. “How de-duplicated, incremental file transfer works “