A few weeks ago I gave myself permission to skip the intro of these posts if I can't think of anything interesting or clever to say, and I skipped it twice since then. Well, I've been informed that people miss the intro, so I'm going to do my best to bring it back ;)
There's just not a lot happening in my life currently, and I'm in a bit of a writing slump, so I struggle to come up with interesting or funny things to talk about. That's also why I haven't been blogging a lot recently. I guess that's part of a natural ebb and flow, sometimes you're very creative, sometimes you're not. But I know from experience that even when I'm in a slump, staying with it and not just giving up entirely can help me get out of it. So thank you to the people who told me that they enjoyed and miss the intros, I'll do my best to keep writing them.
Software/Services
- GitHub - ppaluchowski64/LibreConnect: An application for seamless communication and integration between computers and mobile devices, developed with a strong focus on user privacy. · GitHub
This app is still in it's early stages, but the feature list sounds really impressive and if all of that works the way it's intended, it might end up being even better than KDE connect, which is already pretty great. Here is the dev's announcement post. - GitHub - digital-grease/fauxx: Data poisoning for your everyday tracking · GitHub
This app seems to poison the advertising data that your phone collects about you to make it useless for the advertisers, and to protect your privacy. (via tootbrute) - Chip Player JS
An online chiptune player with tens of thousands of tracks readily available. Sounds great, and looks great, too! Here's a tune I remember from my childhood. (via Metin Seven)
Videos
- Something is jamming GPS over Europe. Here's what we found - YouTube
I guess after reading this headline you already suspect who might be behind it, and you're probably right. This video is a deep dive into how GPS signals across Europe are jammed and how they figured it out. It's like watching a spy thriller that's rooted in science. - MotoNoob707 - YouTube
Fratm, who I'm Fediverse friends with, has created a motorcycle channel where he films his rides around northern California. I watch these videos sometimes when I can't sleep at night, as they're very relaxing and the scenery is beautiful.
Around the Small Web
- Week Notes - w23
Clayton has a few nice links in his recent weeknotes, so I thought instead of stealing them here I'd just point you to his post instead. - The back cover of C++: The Programming Language also raises questions not answered by the front cover - The Old New Thing
Raymond Chen talks about a book publisher which uses the same nondescript blurb on the cover or every other book they released. - The Archivist In Me Turned This Blog Into a Book | Brain Baking
Wouter Groeneveld compiled ten years worth of blog posts into a book. I like the idea! - List of blog aggregators - bstn.info
Looking for new blogs to follow? Look no further! (Thanks, Matto!) - The decline of Google and rise of alternative searches as the source of traffic
STFN looks at his website analytics to figure out where the traffic on his blog is coming from. - How building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight
"This is a story of how building HTML-first doubled a company’s users literally overnight."
A great post, but with a disappointing ending... (via Tim Chase)
Misc
- Das Schulbuch zum Commodore 64 [PDF] – pagetable.com
My apologies, because this is in German, but it's really nice... a book from 1984 about using the Commodore 64 for solving maths and physics problems that you encounter in school. I went to school a decade later when computers were much more powerful, but we still weren't taught any of this.