New Blogpost: Flockingbird as your address-book
https://fediverse.blog/~/Flockingbird/flockingbird-as-your-address-book
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Writing manual pages
Intro to the troff typesetting language
Plan 9 Foundation
http://p9f.org/
What Are Capabilities?
Chip Morningstar
Habitat Chronicles
An comprehensive intro to #OCap theory with plenty of links.
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Awk in 20 Minutes
Learn the invaluable UNIX-standard text processing utility and DSL
Here is a thread of music sketches that I made with #TidalCycles, originally to post on Instagram (hence the 1-minute long format) ⤵️
To be truly countercultural today, in a time of tech hegemony, one has to, above all, betray the platform, which may come in the form of betraying or divesting from your public online self.
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#NestedText
A YAML-inspired file format. Safe, sensible, unambiguous, human readible, schema-less data serialisation.
https://nestedtext.org/
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ESOTERIC.CODES
Languages, platforms, and systems that break from the norms of computing
Our Webring now has its own unique search engine that crawls the ring's websites, and it's simply amazing. Lieu was built by @cblgh
We've been making enormous progress on the CapTP layer of Spritely Goblins, which lays the foundation for all the major distribued networked components of Spritely to come!
But... what exactly is CapTP, and what does it enable? https://spritelyproject.org/news/what-is-captp.html
I've made massive strides on CapTP for @spritelyproject and honestly, I think this is the most important work I've done in my life. But it's hard to explain *why* when few people even know what CapTP *is*.
So: CapTP explainer 🧵, right here (with blogpost to follow):
Google has suspended Element (@matrix) from the Play Store for "Sexual Content and Profanity". Basically same story as with Subway Tooter a while back. Element is to Matrix as Chrome is to the web. Curiously, Chrome is still on the Play Store.
I wrote a small, colourful fetch for MSYS2 on Windows. Written in hackable POSIX sh.
$ git clone https://git.sr.ht/~torresjrjr/fetch
Libre software engineer with physics background.
Maintainer for @hare date/time.
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\t <dl> agpl posix 9p