Week 18 - 2023
grow⌗
The web’s most important decision - The History of the Web (thehistoryoftheweb.com) | [💬 discussion] - Thirty years ago, Tim Berners-Lee and CERN gave the world a gift. After some internal discussions, CERN stamped (quite literally) its approval on a document, relinquishing all intellectual property rights to the World Wide Web and entering it into the public domain. { #web #learn }
🎬 watch video | [📝 text-summary] (youtu.be) - Kevin Kelly — Excellent Advice for Living | The Tim Ferriss Show { #ai #wisdom }
Anthropologist pair solve the mystery of Mayan 819-day count (phys.org) | [💬 discussion] - The Mayan calendar might represent a longer timescale than previously considered { #ancient }
Explained from First Principles (explained-from-first-principles.com) - Welcome to Explained from First Principles, a technology, science, and philosophy blog for curious people who want to understand and change the world. In order to make you feel at home here as quickly as possible, here is what you should know about this blog. { #learning }
Feynman’s Maze-Running Story · Gwern.net (gwern.net) | [💬 discussion] - Richard Feynman recounts an amazing anecdote about philosophy of science; we trace it to a forgotten University of Michigan research programme into ‘floor cues’. { #feynman }
How companies use dark patterns to keep you subscribed (pudding.cool) | [💬 discussion] - I unsubscribed from 16 online services and documented the ways companies made it, knowingly (or unknowingly), challenging. { #dark-pattern }
macOS Internals · GitHub (gist.github.com) | [💬 discussion] - Understand your Mac and iPhone more deeply by tracing the evolution of Mac OS X from prelease to Swift. John Siracusa delivers the details. { #mac }
tech⌗
Google Cache Search: View Cached Pages & Websites (clickminded.com) - The Google cache search tool will let you easily view cached pages and websites in Google’s search index. You’ll be able to view the content of the page as it was last cached. This is great for a number of things, like checking when Google last indexed a page you’ve recently updated, or finding old content that you might need. { #tool }
GitHub - Textualize/frogmouth: A Markdown browser for your terminal (github.com) | [💬 discussion] - A Markdown browser for your terminal { #tool }
switching.software | Ethical, easy-to-use and privacy-conscious alternatives to well-known software (switching.software) - Ethical, easy-to-use and privacy-conscious alternatives to well-known software { #oss }
Opt out of global data surveillance programs like PRISM, XKeyscore, and Tempora - PRISM Break - PRISM Break (prism-break.org) | [💬 discussion] - Help make mass surveillance of entire populations uneconomical! We all have a right to privacy, which you can exercise today by encrypting your communications and ending your reliance on proprietary services. { #privacy #tool }
Privacy Guides: Your Independent Privacy and Security Resource (privacyguides.org) | [💬 discussion] - The guide to restoring your online privacy. Massive organizations are monitoring your online activities. Privacy Guides is your central privacy and security resource to protect yourself online. { #privacy }
Free for Developers (free-for.dev) - Developers and Open Source authors now have a massive amount of services offering free tiers, but it can be hard to find them all to make informed decisions. This is a list of software (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, etc.) and other offerings that have free tiers for developers. { #tool #free }
Passkeys: What they are and how to use them (blog.google) | [💬 discussion] - For the first time, we’ve begun rolling out passkeys, the easiest and most secure way to sign in to apps and websites and a major step toward a “passwordless future.” { #password }
Argus (release-argus.io) | [💬 discussion] - Argus provides a way for you to monitor the versions of software and trigger alerts when a new release is been found. { #tool #monitoring }
Grasp | New kind of search engine (usegrasp.com) | [💬 discussion] - Grasp is a search engine for your personal network of high-quality websites. { #tool #search }
GitHub - ellie/atuin: 🐢 Magical shell history (github.com) | [💬 discussion] - 🐢 Magical shell history { #tool #cli }
misc⌗
Ten classic fountain pens for the personal touch | Wallpaper (wallpaper.com) | [💬 discussion] - Ten fountain pens, from timeless designs to sleekly machined modern writing tools, prove that perfect penmanship is just a gold nib away { #writing #pen }
Eyecandy - Visual Technique Library (eycndy.com) | [💬 discussion] - a visual technique library for visual technique lovers { #gif }
it’s a(door)able (ncase.me) | [💬 discussion] - fun game { #game }
TV series about startup failures, portraying their greedy founders, and the damages of the current startup ecosystem | 1984.design (1984.design) | [💬 discussion] - TV series about startup failures, portraying their greedy founders, and the damages of the current startup ecosystem { #tv #startup }
Anonymous Tor Phone (0ut3r.space) | [💬 discussion] - I was always curious about all that bad guys (criminals, drug dealers, hitman’s, thief’s etc.) using not very good and secure communication channels. Forgetting about whole OPSEC stuff. { #privacy #tor }