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Programming: The Medium of Creative Coding

According to this TechCrunch article, a Fediverse-powered successor to del.icio.us is now available. Back in the olden days of the web, I regularly posted links there to articles that I wanted to share or read later. I moved on from del.icio.us to Instapaper, and used it a ton (and actually read more of the content

Piper is billed as a fast, local neural text to speech system. It's free and open source software written in C++ and Python.

Free and open-source cloud-native database gateway and framework for building data-driven applications

The iMac recently had its 25 year anniversary. In 1998, the Iconfactory was still a toddler. Our first website launched just two years prior, but by the time the iMac appeared, we were on our third iteration. And that was enough time to figure out that folks loved customizing their computers. Especially the hard drive […]

In today’s modern world, smart technology is revolutionizing the way we interact with our surroundings. From managing our home’s energy consumption to controlling appliances remotely — such as washing machines, fans, coffee makers, and even air conditioners. Smart devices offer us a level of convenience and control that was once unimaginable. However, dealing with multiple […]

Bitwarden, the maker of the popular open-source password manager tool, has released 'Secrets Manager,' an end-to-end encrypted secrets manager for IT professionals, software development teams, and the DevOps industry.

End-to-end encrypted secrets management for development, DevOps, and IT teams.

Ruffle is a Flash Player emulator written in Rust. Ruffle targets both desktop and the web using WebAssembly.

ErsatzTV is beta software for configuring and streaming custom live channels using your media library. The software may be unstable and is under active development.

Software engineern Piotr Sarna always wondered how hard it would be to implement a disposable email server —He found that implementing such a server using Rustlang is a surprisingly smooth and gratifying experience. Follow along!

Free online tool for HMAC computation and calculation with cryptographic hash function such as SHA-256 and SHA-512 with UTF-8 and ASCII encoding.

This most user-friendly online tool enables you to interactively and secretly query XML/HTML documents using XPath 2.0. It can generate queries for you too!

$x('//div//p//*') == $('div p *'), $x('//[@id="item"]') == $('#item'), and many other Xpath examples. · One-page guide to Xpath

A series of rabbit holes, some of which led to unshaved yaks, recently landed me on a book called Mastering Emacs. Given that I have been using Emacs "professionally" for more than 16 years—and first looked into it a good ways into the previous century—I should probably be pretty well-versed in that editor-cum-operating-system. Sadly, for a variety of reasons, that is not really true, but the book and some concerted effort have been helping me down a path toward Emacs-ian enlightenment. Mastering Emacs may also help others who are struggling in the frothy sea that makes up Emacs documentation.

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Eleventy, a simpler static site generator.

My opinion is that Home Manager provides a radically better way to manage a user’s environment for both packages and dotfiles, effectively allowing you to take a configuration as code approach. The goal of this post is to show you how to get started with Home Manager from scratch, install packages, port over some existing configuration and explore more advanced features.

Discover classic consoles and cartridges, modern titles and never-before-seen art and gameplay from Atari.

The main purpose of Pine Store creation is servicing PINE64 community.

Quadratic is an infinite canvas spreadsheet with AI, Python, and SQL - all running in your web browser.

Stikked is a lightweight yet powerful online paste manager for Linux. Learn how you can host your own Pastebin through this simple service.

UPDATED 2/22/2023: It looks like Cloudflare may be preventing users from getting Let’s Encrypt certificates using domains that end in cf, .ga, .gq, .ml or .tk. In order to continue with a completely free solution, you may need to implement your own DNS server as described by the EFF (organization that created LE). Due to the complexity required, a new help document will need to be created and will likely be beyond the skills of the novice home user. I’m brand new to Home Assistant and was goi...

Tip!: Webhooks are a premium feature and require an active subscription for the Plex Media Server account. Introduction Webhooks are...

Old games don't work in modern OS because their codes are obsolete and no longer supported. Here are the tricks to play old games on Windows.