privacy
https://code.whatever.social/ Private proxy to browse stackoverflow
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.00885 paper proving that gdpr is not stopping the data harvesters. as someone that maintains hope that regulation can make a difference, its good to see we can at least get evidence on the law breakers.
fediverse
programming
R T Feldman - Elm book
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34862000
https://makefiletutorial.com/ Seems like a nice reference for makefiles.
teaching
https://pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/agre/how-to-help.html how to help people use the computer
ideas
https://tomcritchlow.com/2023/01/27/small-databases/
https://jeffhuang.com/designed_to_last/
https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI urls shouldn’t change
https://www.wired.com/story/how-wired-will-use-generative-ai-tools/ Interesting, a news outlet guidelines on ai. i think big companies can afford to do diligence that individuals shouldn’t bother with
big ideas
https://ajroach42.com/the-small-things-manifesto/
https://limited.systems/articles/frugal-computing/
other
http://www.codersnotes.com/notes/a-constructive-look-at-templeos/ Templeos is famous as a kooky mental illness / programming story but it’s nice to see someone sit down and genuinely engage with it.
https://signal.org/blog/signal-is-for-everyone/ I don’t really get signal and this reads like PR but it is a quick rundown of global different texting norms
https://www.airza.net/2020/11/09/everyone-talks-about-insecure-randomness-but-nobody-does-anything-about-it.html Nicely written article by someone who used ML to predict the output of Xorshift128+ (a ubiquitous random number generator, for example, it’s typically how math.random is implemented in javascript).
https://talonvoice.com/ Fine grained voice to text software designed for programmers
https://grifel.dev/decentralization/
https://blog.noredink.com/post/142283641812/designing-meetups-to-build-better-communities
https://prog21.dadgum.com/ Blog about programming, defunct but full of interesting takes.
https://regexle.ithea.de/ regex game
https://qr.blinry.org/ how to decode QR codes