Yulqen

Quicknote capture Monday 7 September 2026

It has been too long!

• Something for all of us to consider: AskHN:How do you handle skill atrophy from using coding agents? | Hacker News
• Yasumi Matsuno
• Tactics Ogre
• I used to absolutely love this program. I couldn’t afford it when I first bought it in the late nineties. This and Terragen: E-on Vue
• Terragen
• This is a good and detailed account of many of the traditional software engineering ideas and concepts that should still be being deployed in the era of LLMs. Stuff like cacheing and memoisation. Linear Thinking, Nonlinear Costs
• South Korea’s adoption of AI is an andedote to much of he AI scepticism you feel in the west, in UK and in Europe. It’s all or nothing for the South Koreans: Why do South Koreans love AI so much?
• Early Web Links
• Some interesting details about OAuth: CLI Authentication, the Right Way :: ABGEO’s Personal website
• Local Qwen isn't a worse Opus, it's a different tool
• Deploying Ring App on Ubuntu 26.04 - Clojure Diary
• Advanced Python Development Workflow in Emacs | Serghei's Blog
• ddavis.io | Python & Emacs, 2025
• Clay Maths Institute - Clay Mathematics Institute
• This is an important list if you’re interested in C programming and its applications: GitHub - SWPFlow/C-Project-Based-Tutorials: A curated list of project-based tutorials in C · GitHub
• Do this, this is pretty good: How Does a Database Work? | Let’s Build a Simple Database
• Motorola Moto G06 - Full phone specifications
• Inivitable?: Client Challenge
• AI Tools Leaderboard — Best of AI
• All the UK PM Resignations in Recent Years
• Effective use-cases for LLMs - Aggressively Paraphrasing Me
• Awesome Go - A curated list of awesome Go frameworks, libraries and software
• BoxyBSD - Free VPS Instances based on the BSD family!
• I knew Burnham would be Left-wing. I didn’t expect this ‘bright, hygienic hell’
• Trojaned OpenSSH
• Not Acceptable!
• Down to the core …
• Explanations
• Explanations
• Clipboard mechanisms in xorg: ICCCM - Peer-to-Peer Communication by Means of Selections
• The xlib manual
• Alphabet Learning
• GitHub - colbymchenry/codegraph: Pre-indexed code knowledge graph, auto syncs on code changes, for Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Cursor, OpenCode, AntiGravity, Kiro, and Hermes Agent — fewer tokens, fewer tool calls, 100% local · GitHub
• Why don't people use git properly? | deadSimpleTech
• Installing OpenBSD on OVHCloud: Installing OpenBSD on OVHcloud VPS
• Use this for finding Ports that need working on in OpenBSD: portroach - new distfile scanner
• Tools for working with OpenBSD ports: GitHub - danieljakots/obsd-ports-tools: Scripts I wrote to ease OpenBSD ports maintainance · GitHub
• The advantages of an email-driven git workflow
• Presentation about working as a ports maintainer for OpenBSD: Care and Feeding of Ports Maintainers or something
• AI Detector – Free AI Checker: Fast, Accurate & No Sign-Up
• Tsoding beat-boxes with these: KAOSS PAD KP3+ - Dynamic Effect/Sampler | KORG (USA)
• AI Detector - AI Checker for text, image, music & video
• Rarely visited places in the UK worth a visit according to the Telegraph
• Postgres Is Enough
• Scary: Google’s exponential path to climate-wrecking digital bloat – Ketan Joshi
• Why the Linux project does not use Github
• マリウス . The Day WhatsApp Goes Dark
• Torvalds on LLMs in the Linux kernel: linux-media.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
• The best short poems to read on your coffee break
• Dollar Street - photos as data to kill country stereotypes
• How I use HTMX with Go– Alex Edwards
• Poetry Daily
• yulqen is in there: IN THE WEIGHTS
• Fakes of the Future | Los Angeles Review of Books
• advanced-intro-gnupg : Neal Walfield : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
• Some sort of DNS check tool: intoDNS: checks DNS and mail servers health
• This is where I saw the link to the thing above: Returning to the Original Social Network | begriffs.com
• PDF’s Printed, Bound, and Shipped in One Easy Upload | printMe1.com
• Setup a Simple, Self-Hosted Web Server with OpenBSD
• Oh dear, Opencode…: Stop Using OpenCode
• AI’s taken my job | The Spectator
• Get decent arms with these exercises
• Another idea for a cheap VPS in the face of Hetzner raising their prices by 300%: Your partner for web hosting, servers, domains | netcup
• And another VPS provider: Homepage | AVORO - a spirit of dataforest GmbH
• Another VPS - which is pretty cheap: Another VPS
• Hardware server auctions on Hetzner: Refurbished server for sale in Hetzner Server Auction
• Hatchet · The startup’s Postgres survival guide
• GNOME 50 doesn't feel like Linux anymore, and that's exactly why I use it
• Create a bootable USB stick - Ubuntu Desktop documentation
• The AI productivity gap | Bjorg
• Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code — Ankur Sethi's Lab Notebook
• What DMARC Actually Protects You From, and What It Does Not - SenderLedger
• Rust: Don’t Panic
• Don’t be a meat proxy
• What have note-taking PKMs accomplished, really? · brennan.day
• Response to the above: Note-Taking and Personal Knowledge Management — Unattributed
• Wow: Oxford-Trained Philosopher Turned Hermit: Inside His Library - YouTube
• Brings back very fond memories: Giving the ZX Spectrum a Fair Shake | Bumbershoot Software
• Adam Ramsay-Peaty and the ungrateful generation
• LLMs reward domain expertise
• I ♥ RSS
• Read this one: The Prototype Isn't the Product | Anuradha Weeraman
• TechAscent - DuckDB - Data power tools for your laptop, now in Clojure
• John Overdurf - Leading Coaching Training - John Overdurf
• Another warning: Eat like the French - non-processed
• Endless execution
• Attention Required! | Cloudflare
• Self-hosting Logseq Sync locally using Docker & tailscale – Adrienne Teicher
• Grok
• Free AI Video Generator: Create High-Quality Videos with AI
• Warrant | AI Marketing Compliance & Employee Advocacy Platform
• Sarah Chieng on X: "https://t.co/u1dA1swNqF" / X
• Brand Butler — We turn your brand into a brain
• Man put partner’s life in danger when he squeezed her throat | East Lothian Courier
• This is great!: Energy generation sources in the UK
• Radiocentre | See radio differently
• How I browse the Web with uBlock (Hard Mode)
• Maybe I’ll use helix now?: Helix & marksman! (why I don't use Obsidian) - YouTube
• Just a moment…
• Top notch sound for C++ and games: ERROR: The request could not be satisfied
• C++ Is An Absolute Blast
• Recommended by tokyospliff: Not Acceptable!
• HTML Can Do That · Chris Burnell
• forbes.com
• Can’t remember
• This should be a good directory of photographers websites. Just have to enable Javascript and loosen the grip of Ublock to see them. Fuck Ublock? Photography Newsletter Directory — 977 Publications
• This is important for OpenBSD usage: Run OpenBSD on DigitalOcean for $4/month - Nil
• Migrating from Codeberg Pages to an OpenBSD VPS - Nemin’s Blog
• Clojure Fandango — learn Clojure
• Microns - A Free Icon Font by Stephen Hutchings
• Our AI started a café in Stockholm | Andon Labs
• Just a moment…
• Having a /disability page on your web site is now a thing, FFS: Disability · brennan.day
• Minimal computing which I like, but like many of them, the fascist overtones and ridiculous non-binary overtones is offputting: 100R — about
• permacomputing
• Why I Like NetBSD, or Why Portability Matters