Quicknote capture Wednesday 25 June 2025
Wednesday, 25 June 2025Fonts, OpenBSD, networking, AI, Obsidian, Emacs, note-taking, uv, org-mode - it’s all there, baby.
- Linux, Bitcoin: When Tech Projects Become “Too Popular…” Don’t forget the goal.
- TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks
- AI Code Reviews | CodeRabbit | Try for Free
- CSS Zen Garden: The Beauty of CSS Design
- Valheim - Wikipedia
- Reinvent the Wheel / Matthias Endler
- Productivity in plaintext
- You Have Installed OpenBSD. Now For The Daily Tasks.
- Yes, You Too Can Be An Evil Network Overlord - On The Cheap With OpenBSD, pflow And nfsen
- What every IT person needs to know about OpenBSD Part 1: How it all started | APNIC Blog
- A few of my favourite things about the OpenBSD Packet Filter tools | APNIC Blog
- Rubenerd: A List Apart’s tips for writing the Living Web
- The Perfect Commit
- GitHub - zombor/hledger-envelope-budget: A description for YNAB-like envelope budgeting with hledger
- GitHub - awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted: A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers
- Budgeting - hledger
- Bring your story to life | Music & SFX for videos | Epidemic Sound
- hledger examples: hledger/examples/budgeting/envelope-budget-manual-1.journal at master · simonmichael/hledger · GitHub
- CSS Zen Garden: The Beauty of CSS Design
- Web Developer's Guide to Midjourney
- Why GUIs are built at least 2.5 times | Patricia Aas
- Some truth here, in what is behind choosing tools that are outside of the current zeitgeist: You Can Choose Tools That Make You Happy
- Some interesting ideas about taking notes as a developer here: Toggle dark/light mode
- Toggle dark/light mode
- Raycasting in Javascript: Home · vinibiavatti1/RayCastingTutorial Wiki · GitHub
- Strengths and weaknesses of coding AIs: Why Your AI Coding Assistant Keeps Doing It Wrong, and How To Fix It
- I do not need this: How to fix email encryption
- This is a fucking stupid idea: The case for using a web browser as your terminal - Pomdtr’s blog
- I’m lazy so I’ll let this guy do some evalutation work for me - I was already looking at Elixir: Which New Language Should I Learn for Web Development?
- Building Industrial Strength Software without Unit Tests
- I Think I’m Done Thinking About genAI For Now
- Is GenAI Digital Cocaine?
- We share the same equipment, but not the same romanticism: The bliss of good enough— an ode to my moka pot
- Tools for Thought as Cultural Practices, not Computational Objects
- Must read when I have a spare couple of big ones: The Yesterweb - Reclaiming the Internet
- Project Xanadu®
- Justin’s Links from the Underground
- Wise words and clippoids about writing: 28 slightly rude notes on writing
- Moving from Notion to Obsidian - daverupert.com
- Obsidian Miscellany – Tyler Sticka
- Intro & Overview of Pillars, Pipelines & Vaults – Notion Life OS - YouTube
- Essays/Incunabulum - J Wiki
- This is pretty inspiring. How small can programs and languages get? Recommends Javascript, Lisp, Lua and C as small programs. Also Forth.Small Programs and Languages - ratfactor
- Tiny Things and Why We Love Them (and what they do to us…) | Fifteen Eighty Four | Cambridge University Press
- Should I learn Zig?: I think Zig is hard…but worth it - ratfactor
- More on Zig: The Zig Programming Language - ratfactor
- Dave’s htmx Live Reference - ratfactor
- A guy’s OpenBSD page: OpenBSD - ratfactor
- Designing in the Browser: Five Tips for Beginners – Cloud Four
- I guess I need to learn this: Eloquent JavaScript
- The canonical source for all Javascript stuff?: Learn web development | MDN
- This is really good and has a great section on the browser elements you need to know about: Modern Javascript
- I may have already bookmarked this: Learn Zig (zig web site)
- For different take on generative AI in software development, read this. It admits to the similar affects on the industry caused by “open source” and addresses a number of the arguments posed by the greybeard AI sceptics which can be so influential. My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts · The Fly Blog
- matthewsinclair.com · Intelligence. Innovation. Leadership. Influence.
- Choose Boring Technology
- Example Dataview queries for Obsidian: obsidian_dataview_example_vault/20 Dataview Queries at main · s-blu/obsidian_dataview_example_vault · GitHub
- Getting started with QT, without the nonsense | Sebastiano Tronto
- Field Notes From Shipping Real Code With Claude - diwank’s space
- For the hipster: William Hannah Limited
- Note-taking techniques I: The index card method – Raul Pacheco-Vega, PhD
- My Everything Notebook – planning my research and writing output – Raul Pacheco-Vega, PhD
- Lab Notebooks | Sam Bleckley
- More hipster notebooks, when a Pukka would probably do: Vela Lab Notebooks
- AI in 2024: What Good is Bullshit? | Sam Bleckley
- Use a Work Journal to Recover Focus Faster and Clarify Your Thoughts
- Discussion on HN regarding the article above on the Work Journal: Use a work journal | Hacker News
- My daily workflow: Budgeting time and scheduling projects – Raul Pacheco-Vega, PhD
- Carwow / The free, easy way to change your car online
- Reddit - The heart of the internet
- Smart People Don't Chase Goals; They Create Limits
- Optimizing Django Docker Builds with Astral’s
uv| Rob's Cogitations - org-roam is absolutely fantastic! : r/emacs
- Agentic Coding Recommendations | Armin Ronacher’s Thoughts and Writings
- Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Aviation
- Middleware Do You Go? · Matt Layman
- Playing with fonts again - anarcat
- Dev Fonts
- Free Fonts! Legit Free & Quality | Font Squirrel
- Programming Fonts - Test Drive
- Coding Font
- Commit Mono. Neutral programming typeface.
- todo.txt tasks in my TRMNL
- 12 Open Source Tools Every Developer Should Know🔥 - DEV Community
- I probably need to get into Javascript: Storybook: Frontend workshop for UI development
- LLMs are cheap
- Just fucking code.
- Thibault Lestang - Keeping track of tasks and projects with GNU Emacs and Org Mode
- Light mode
- Code music in the browser: Strudel REPL
- This is an important take on setting up OpenBSD as a daily driver: OpenBASED - Setup OpenBSD as a daily driver using only the included, base programs
- TuM’Fatig - Customizing OpenBSD xenodm
- About the VPS in Amsterdam that I procrastinate about buying from: TuM’Fatig - Cruising a VPS at OpenBSD Amsterdam
- Video of someone setting up an OpenBSD VM at openbsd.amsterdam: Cruising a VPS at OpenBSD Amsterdam - EggFlix
- why vi rocks
- This is a really simple guide to configuring relayd on OpenBSD: TuM’Fatig - Using OpenBSD relayd(8) as an Application Layer Gateway
- Test security of a server: HTTP Header Security Test - HTTP Observatory | MDN
- Email on OpenBSD: TuM’Fatig - Self-Hosted Email services on OpenBSD
- Adblocking with OpenBSD: TuM’Fatig - Ads blocking with OpenBSD unbound(8)
- Docker on OpenBSD (via Alpine Linux): TuM’Fatig - Running a Docker Host under OpenBSD using vmd(8)
- Wireguard VPN on OpenBSD: TuM’Fatig - A mesh VPN using OpenBSD and WireGuard
- Full Disk Encryption on openbsd.amsterdam: TuM’Fatig - FDE on OpenBSD.Amsterdam opinionated VM
- Replicant — Simpler, more testable UIs with pure functions and data
- Nice font, used by Andrews and Arnold on their account view page (for broadband users): Raleway - Google Fonts
- Big emacs list: GitHub - emacs-tw/awesome-emacs: A community driven list of useful Emacs packages, libraries and other items.
- CVS Repository
- A Daily Journal in Org Mode
- Take Control of Your Photos – Self-Host Immich on Your Server | Techno Tim
- Box-drawing characters - Wikipedia
- Dr. Neckbeard, or how I learned to stop worrying and love Emacs
- The Emacs For Writers handbook is available now (and ever) - The Daily Macro
- Stuff I need to understand and do better with Tailscale: Your Phoenix application, directly on your Tailnet · GitHub
- The Case for Software Craftsmanship in the Era of Vibes — Zed's Blog
- The Art of Lisp & Writing
- Well, good for you…: Agentultra - Why I Won’t Use AI
- The Art of Lisp & Writing
- Selfish reasons for building accessible UIs | Read the Tea Leaves
- Is it really foss?
- This is important: What I Wish Someone Told Me When I Was Getting Into ARIA — Smashing Magazine
- Agree: Moving on from Nix
- Artanis web framework manual (Scheme web framework)
- Going from Python to Guile Scheme
- The Adventures of a Pythonista in Schemeland — The Adventures of a Pythonista in Schemeland v0.1 documentation
- More frontend web tricks
- The 50 best horror films of all time – ranked
- Are macros really useful? — The Adventures of a Pythonista in Schemeland v0.1 documentation
- Grammarly Home
- Common Lisp in production - big time. This company is apparently used by the London Underground: SISCOG | 35 years of Lisping at SISCOG - A trip down memory lane | Blog
- More of the same from above: Kvardek Du: Interview about Lisp at SISCOG
- Do You Know Where Lisp Is Used Nowadays?
- Just a moment…
- Backquotes - Lisp
- The Common Lisp Cookbook
- GitHub - CodyReichert/awesome-cl: A curated list of awesome Common Lisp frameworks, libraries and other shiny stuff.
- Why I Chose Common Lisp — Dan's Musings
- Practical: A Simple Database
- Common Lisp Tutorial 6a: Macros Part 1 - YouTube
- Planet Lisp
- Raytracing in One Weekend Book
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