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Quicknote capture Thursday 16 April 2026

Mixed bag. Just doing this to clear the decks - nothing more. Enjoy this compendium!

• TuM’Fatig - TuM’Fatig
• illumos
• Cruising a VPS at OpenBSD Amsterdam - EggFlix
• Mastodon instances
• OpenBSD.app
• When AI remembers everything and organisations forget how to choose
• TuM’Fatig - Using OpenBSD relayd(8) as an Application Layer Gateway
• HTTP Header Security Test - HTTP Observatory | MDN
• Against generative AI: Generative AI vegetarianism | Sean Boots
• Age-verification in Operating Systems and the Internet by Alcides Fonseca
• Rebasing in Magit
• Lots of OpenBSD blog posts by a very prolific blogger and OpenBSD user: Index of /~peter/blogposts/
• This is a good article on running Go apps on an OpenBSD server: How to Host Multiple Go Lang Web Apps on a VPS - Technotes.xyz
• Age-verification for installing operating systems is a fucking stupid idea
• Computer Science from the Bottom Up
• GitHub - gurugio/lowlevelprogramming-university: How to be low-level programmer · GitHub
• ByteByteGo - systems learning
• kagi
• Computer Science from the Bottom Up
• Golf simulator software used by Henry’s system: GSPro
• Steganography with Clojure - Hiding Text in Images
• Have a Fucking Website - Other Strangeness — merritt k
• Beyond Hypermodern: Python is easy now - Chris Arderne
• FreeBSD: After the First Boot ☯ Daniel Wayne Armstrong
• FreeBSD on a Laptop ☯ Daniel Wayne Armstrong
• Good laptop: Rubenerd: Initial thoughts about the ThinkPad E14: wow!
• No systemd - Resources against systemd and alternatives
• This is the result of the Online Safety Act - closing down hamster forums, although I noticed later that the site still seems to be up and running?: Big sad forum news - Online Safety Act | The Hamster Forum
• I didn’t know it was this bad: Hundreds of websites to shut down under UK’s ‘chilling’ internet laws
• Age Gates Are A Windfall for Big Tech—And A Death Sentence For Smaller Platforms | Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Ageless Linux — Software for Humans of Indeterminate Age
• Good description of using OpenBSD to route and restrict traffing on a home LAN: My home network observes bedtime with OpenBSD and pf - ratfactor
• This is interesting. Which would I choose? Probably Zig: So Many New Systems Programming Languages II
• I agree with the contention that local and private has to be the way to settle the AI thing: Is the Future of AI Local?
• Interesting low-level explanation for how a CSV parser works - in Rust: Let’s see Paul Allen’s SIMD CSV parser | chunkofcoal.com
• Apt quote from here: ‘When a developer explains that their productivity is being measured against colleagues who use LLM coding
• Why craft-lovers are losing their craft — Hong Minhee on Things
• Rich Hickey on AI: Thanks AI! · GitHub
• Mapping the Hanover underground in Perl: Mapping the Hanover Underground in Perl
• System monitoring: Easy, proactive monitoring of processes, programs, files, directories, filesystems and hosts | Monit
• Incident Timeline // TeamPCP Supply Chain Campaign
• LiteLLM backdoor
• Written by the developer of the AI agent tool - pi: Thoughts on slowing the fuck down
• Developing mods for Minecraft: Develop - OrnitheMC
• Just a moment…
• NAS system used by Mahybe on Twitch: UNAS Pro by Unifi
• Home server ecosystem used by Mahybe on Twitch: Dream Machine Pro by Unifi
• Thoroughly depressing. I’m seriously thinking about what life might be like if my hobby wasn’t computing. It’s getting there: Hold on to your Hardware
• Easily deploy a Go app in Google Cloud Platform using Cloud Run: Deploying Go Apps to Google Cloud Run | Joseph Spurrier
• Never Forgive Them
• The Disconnected Git Workflow
• Minimal phone: Mudita Phones - eInk phones de-Googled
• Some kind of free software-supporting radio service: // aNONradio // – [LIVE]: Synth Battle Royale Reveue with sbr
• Easy way to create jails in FreeBSD: Vercel Security Checkpoint
• Postgres is your friend - ORM is not
• Opinionated web hosting - not a VPS: NearlyFreeSpeech.NET Web Hosting
• VPS: RAM Host - Premium Linux KVM VPS & Shared cPanel Web Hosting
• Another VPS: Tiny KVM Linux and BSD VPS hosting.
• Using httpd in Openbsd - a Guide: httpd.rocks - Setup an HTTPS-enabled webserver with httpd on OpenBSD
• OpenBASED | Setup OpenBSD as a daily driver using only the included, core programs
• Motherfucking Website
• How Github monopoly is destroying the open source ecosystem
• How the Bitcoin protocol actually works – DDI
• Developing tools for thought
• Developing creative identity
• Discovery fiction
• Light web sites: 512KB Club | A showcase of lightweight websites.
• Projects
• The small web is beautiful
• 403 Forbidden
• CSS Editor - Style in Real-Time - Playcode
• tar: a slop-free alternative to rsync
• Designing Beautiful Shadows in CSS • Josh W. Comeau
• FreeBSD and OpenZFS in the Quest for Technical Independence
• MOS - Modular Operating System based on Devuan
• Not great, but a thing: Why I Like Perl's OO // David Raab
• Claude Code source code review
• I believe this. Writing reports and essays using LLMs it total madness. Same with emails. Shameful behaviour - I see it a lot at work: Don't Let AI Write For You
• SQLite DB: simple, in-process, reliable, fast
• A good VPS option: Cloud Computing & Web Hosting | OVHcloud UK
• backups and openbsd: 『 0x61 』
• Solid from the Dundonian: Django Sessions - Introduction to Session Data and Cookies - YouTube
• I Traced My Traffic Through a Home Tailscale Exit Node | Stonecharioteer on Tech
• I Traced My Traffic Through a Home Tailscale Exit Node | Stonecharioteer on Tech
• I Rebuilt Traceroute in Rust and It Was Simpler Than I Expected | Stonecharioteer on Tech
• Mental health labels like ADHD are becoming ‘meaningless’ and unhelpful
• Decent tips on using ssh properly here: Jan-Piet Mens :: SSH certificates: the better SSH experience
• Steam Community :: Guide :: The Beginner’s Guide to Traffic
• Steam Community :: Guide :: HOW TO TRAFFIC
• Reddit - Please wait for verification
• Starting a NEW City In Cities 1! All DLC + Realism Mods / Illium
• Steam Workshop::Illium Mod List
• Steam Community :: Guide :: Cities Skylines | A Beginner’s Guide To Using Mods & Custom Content
• How To Break Your Protagonist
• The Java Version Almanac - javaalmanac.io
• JAVAPRO / Magazine for professional Java development in practical use
• Vaadin: Java Framework for Enterprise Web Applications
• Good article on what emacs is capable of: My Emacs and Org-mode Workshops at the GLT26
• A 1977 Time Capsule, Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder
• Hooray for France: Some of France’s Government moving to Linux
• The Business Case for Vanilla JS
• Bring Back Idiomatic Design
• This is an intesting take: some local LLM use, a VPS, Go for web services - all this makes sense. How I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack | Steve Hanov's Blog
• - Openbox
• Reddit - Please wait for verification
• Securely Generating TOTP tokens with Emacs - Mastering Emacs
• What are the best private browsers in 2025?
• Reddit - Please wait for verification
• Just a moment…
• Blocking mode: medium mode · gorhill/uBlock Wiki · GitHub
• More privacy tools for browsers: Browserleaks - Check your browser for privacy leaks
• Useful tools for various things like colour palettes, QR codes, etc: delphitools
• This is a good take on the Anthropic Claude Code leak. Rightly pessimistic: Claude Code’s Source
• Good list of books and low level stuff by yaspr from Twitch here.: Down to the core …
• Bit Twiddling Hacks
• x86 and amd64 instruction reference
• This has been on my mind for quite a long time: UK told its Big Tech habit is now a national security risk
• I don’t understand what this is all about but I think Common Lisp is cool: Top (Modern Common Lisp with FSet)
• View the OpenGraph link: Vercel Security Checkpoint
• Orbit Viewer