Link Stash

This is an ever-growing list of interesting and/or useful web links I have found, exported from my active buku bookmark manager. Hopefully you find something useful. I lost a few descriptions in the migration so working on pulling them back in.

No fancy searching here, though I'm trying to add appropriate tags. Ctrl-F is your friend (or whatever "find on page" function your device uses).

Recent additions

195. On Creativity: My modest guide to being more creative | Jeff Zych

Great list of ways to build and maintain creativity. Quantity over quality, bookmark stuff, surround yourself with inspirational others, breathe, reset, start and stop, share and review.

TAGS: creativity, inspo

194. Mythical Type | Kali

Enjoying reading about Kali's zine-making, appreciating her little tidbits in each post. Fantastic inspiration for a zine noob like me.

TAGS: blog, inspo, zines

193. Zines Are Not Blogs | Barnard Zine Library

An interesting look at similiarities between zines and blogs. I'm personally wanting to interweave the two. Watch this space.

TAGS: blogging, zines

192. SomaFM

A good bunch of community supported radio stations. Something for all occasions.

TAGS: radio

191. Chilltrax

An easy-listening community supported online radio. Perfect background music while working away on the computer, or chilling at home.

TAGS: radio

Previously added

190. neomutt

Email client for the terminal.

TAGS: cli, email

189. No CSS Club

More minimalist reading delight.

TAGS: clubweb, smallweb, smolweb, webring

188. lmno.lol

As simplistic a blogging platform as you can get. Takes two seconds to get started. VERY impressive.

TAGS: blogging-platform

187. mdsite

Simplistic static site generator with command line capability for builds.

TAGS: cli, ssg

186. Low Tech Webring Directory

TAGS: retro, webring

185. Email in the Terminal: Configuring Neomutt | Gideon Wolfe

How Gideon uses the email terminal client neomutt. He shares his configuration and reasoning. As I've started moving most my things to the command line I'll definitely give this one a go for email.

TAGS: blog-post, cli, neomutt

184. vgmi

Another Gemini client with vim-like keybindings. Looks similar to amfora, but has had an update recently. Would like to give a go for comparison.

TAGS: cli, gemini

183. Designing Friction | Luna Maurer and Roel Wouters | Emotions Don't Have Wrinkles Zine

"The more we move and act, the more friction we encounter. The more friction there is, the more we engage and care. Friction drives our engagement." I needed to hear this! My computer methods are definitely friction-FULL, and I was beginning to wonder if I was making things worse for myself. Case in point, I bookmarked this exact post by sharing the link from my phone to a note, imported it to buku using a bash script, opened the link, re-read it again, and jotted my notes and tags down. I'll soon run another script to post to my website. I re-engaged by reading it a second time, and loved it even more.

TAGS: creativity, friction, inspo, zine

182. A Soft Manifesto | Cortney Cassidy

About having and maintaining your own creative voice in a world which may be pulling you away from it. Cortney shares a bit of her journey through email blogs and physical zines. The "soft" part is about softening her's and her reader's expectations to land her in a spot where she "can expand and build her definition of what it means to be an artist and where she can be an artist". She provides a list of principles at the end to "act as a soft manifesto for myself, and for anyone else who wants to be an artist practicing for softer reasons at softer paces in softer spaces".

TAGS: art, blog-post, creativity, inspo, productivity, rejection

181. Awesome Gemini | Krispin Schulz

Massive list of everything Gemini.

TAGS: gemini, resources

180. What is this Gemini thing anyway, and why am I excited about it? | Drew DeVault

Pros and info about Gemini.

TAGS: blog-post, gemini

179. Alpine Linux does not make the news | Drew DeVault

Another reason why I'm giving the Alpine distro a go on my old device. I like the "quiet achiever" feel that Drew is indicating in this post.

TAGS: blog-post, distros, linux

178. Drew DeVault's blog

Good posts on tech related things, some of which I can understand and are relatable. Nice mix of reasoning behind his choices.

TAGS: blog, personal, tech

177. How to Create and Use Alias Command in Linux | GeeksforGeeks

Basics.

TAGS: aliases, cli, how-to

176. Anchors | Clemens Scott

Very cool dark style personal website.

TAGS: blog, inspo, personal, personal-website, style

175. Low Tech Magazine

Sites down. Must be overcast.

TAGS: inspo, magazine, permacomputing, retro, style

174. BUKMARK.CLUB

A fun rabbit-hole. Guess I am eligible now.

TAGS: webring

173. The maps we are, the maps we make | Adam Steer

A great read on our internal, interconnected, evolving maps. I love maps and systems thinking so this was a treat.

TAGS: evolution, humanity, maps, systems-thinking

172. I Built My Own Content Delivery Network | Michael Burkhardt

Sounds hard. Bookmarked for future me.

TAGS: self-hosting

171. My solar-powered and self-hosted website | Dries Buytaert

Very good write-up of Dries' setup.

TAGS: self-hosting, server

170. Helix as a notes tool | Tim Hårek

I've started adopting this terminal alternative to note-taking. The combo of the marksman markdown LSP and helix's ability to run custom bash scripts/sh commands is looking very powerful.

TAGS: cli, helix, markdown, marksman, note-taking

169. SSH Essentials: Working with SSH Servers, Clients, and Keys | DigitalOcean

Good intro to SSH.

TAGS: cli, server, ssh

168. On using Alpine Linux as a Desktop | Bobby Hiltz

Good summary for the Alpine Linux distro. I'll try this next. It's called Alpine afterall.

TAGS: blog-post, distros, linux

167. The New Internet | Tailscale

I'm starting to play around with Tailscale and Taildrop. This is a bit of a history of the internet and vision for Tailscale.

TAGS: network, self-hosting, server

166. Web Radio | 998bg

List of 94 web radio stations playable from the browser.

TAGS: radio

165. Colophon | Matt Webb

A detailed colophon on Matt's website Interconnected. A lot of reasoning behind the path he's taken.

TAGS: blog-post, web-development

164. Helix yank to system clipboard fix

TLDR Just install xsel

TAGS: helix, how-to

163. Reading and writing notes with yazi and helix

Article has some good little workflow pointers.

TAGS: cli, helix, how-to, yazi

162. cli.club

Command-line Interface Tools and Alternatives

TAGS: cli, software

161. tty1 articles

A bunch of well-written articles by Benjamin Hollon on Linux tools and use cases. Lots of useful tips and tricks.

TAGS: blog, cli, linux

160. Make Your Internet Better Today | Lou Plummer

An alternative to uBlock Origin which seems to be losing its affect across some browsers.

TAGS: blog-post, how-to, infosec

159. Rishikesh Sreehari

A nice personal blog.

TAGS: blog, personal

158. x-log | Andreas Jaggi

Bunch of tech related articles.

TAGS: blog, tech

157. Ramen with chicken bone broth, pork shoulder, soft-boiled egg and greens

After a cracker ramen meal at Tanoshi, I want to give this a go.

TAGS: recipe

156. Best Sleep Trackers of 2024: Data That Matters

Looking for a non-obtrusive sleep tracker for dad.

TAGS: devices

155. The bash book to rule them all

Sounds like a good read and reference book for my early stages of learning bash.

TAGS: bash, books, cli

154. Why you need a WTF notebook

Maybe a bit overkill for the new job I'm about to start, but a good reminder to start capturing notes to line up questions for my boss and colleagues.

TAGS: blog-post, note-taking

153. gemtext

Intro to gemtext

TAGS: gemini

152. Dmitri Vassilenko

Nice style and content

TAGS: blog, inspo, personal, tech

151. Cool stuff on the Internet | Andrei

What the title says

TAGS: links

150. Mega pricing

A NZ cloud storage service that offers 20gb on the free account. They also have a MEGA CMD tool to operate through the command line.

TAGS: cli, cloud-storage

149. The Modern CLI Renaissance | Gabe Venberg

A good background to modern CLI use and a bit of history, written September 2024.

TAGS: cli

148. Datagubbe | Carl Svensson

TAGS: blog, personal, tech

147. Ruben.Coffee | Ruben Schade

List of Ruben's favourite coffee shops in Sydney and around the world, and a bunch of other coffee-related favs.

TAGS: coffee, coffee-shops, places

146. Using CSS selectors in FreshRSS to automatically retrieve the full text of partial text RSS feeds

TAGS: how-to, rss

145. Low-Quality Image Placeholders with Cecil | Arnaud

How to embed placeholders under images so pages load to their full length on load quicker while images are loading. I have created a couple of img classes that define the width, which supposedly achieves a similar thing, but I will research this when I fix my image workflow.

TAGS: blog-post, how-to, images, web-development

144. Gemini Quickstart!

An introduction to Gemini for the beginner. I found this a good starting ground. Links to a bunch of resources, though some towards the end are broken.

TAGS: cli, gemini

143. yazi Docs

A quick guide on the basic usage of Yazi.

TAGS: cli, docs

142. The Neon Kiosk

TAGS: blog, blog-aggregator

141. AlternativeTo

Search alternatives to applications or tools.

TAGS: search, software

140. Awesome Linux Software

Massive list of linux software separated by categories.

TAGS: linux, list, software

139. Loris Cro

Personal website, creator of Zine SSG.

TAGS: blog, zine

138. Newsboat

An RSS/Atom feed reader for text terminals. Contribute to newsboat/newsboat development by creating an account on GitHub.

TAGS: cli, newsboat, rss

137. tut Docs

TAGS: cli, docs, mastodon

136. Re: To Blogroll, or to Not? | Steve

TAGS: blogging, blogroll, thoughts

135. When the World Went Quiet | Andreas

TAGS: covid, quiet, reflection

134. A Reminder to Take a Walk and Breathe | JCProbably

TAGS: breathing, mindfulness, walk

133. Upleveling Freedom | Matias

TAGS: freedom, growth, self-expression

132. Gora Bobash-Ata | Sean O'Rourke

TAGS: adventure, kyrgyzstan, peak-bagging

131. Blogroll Network Map | Robert Alexander

TAGS: blogroll, network, rss

130. The Power of Environment | The Path Less Travelled

TAGS: environment, inner-world, personal-growth

129. The Importance of Following Smolweb Guidelines | Adële

TAGS: guidelines, minimalism, smolweb

128. Stumbled into Linux | spelk

TAGS: experience, linux, old-computer-challenge

127. Best Ways to Watch YouTube Videos | Nguyễn Gia Phong

TAGS: ad-blocking, tools, youtube

126. Advice for People Who Want to Learn Linux | Ramin Honary

TAGS: advice, learning, linux

125. GNU Recutils | GNU

TAGS: cli, database, recfiles

124. Tara Tama Traverse | Caroline Bellamy

Found this blog and vlog while planning a mission in the same area. I’ve had two missions out this way and it is tough going. The scrub bashing and creek crossings shown in the video felt familiar. Alastair McDowell, one of NZ’s most accomplished mountaineers, was part of this party so you know it’ll be a good one.

TAGS: hiking, nz, routes

123. Enchaining NZ's 3000m Peaks in 31 Days | Alastair McDowell

"It’s hard to describe the emotions on that final summit, because there were none. Despite the glorious, windless evening, I felt devoid of any feeling. I was simply too tired. We were also confused. Jetlagged. Aoraki was just over there, we could see it clearly. Two days ago, we were there. Now we were here. Everything had worked. Feelings would come later." Alastair McDowell’s writeup of his epic mission with mate Hamish Fleming. Accompanying interview with author Ray Salisbury which includes some footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RW4Jp9Jh84k.

TAGS: alpine, challenge, mountains, nz

122. Eyre Peak 30 October - 1 November 2017 | Neil Sloan

Another well captioned photography blog I found while planning another mission. I find these writeups so useful!

TAGS: peak, photography, travel

121. Losing Interest in Organizing Things | Jack Baty

I concur. For my main note-taking app, Obsidian, files and folders once had their specific place, but as I lost interest in the time spent managing a filing system and I just wanted to get on capturing and moving on, I moved towards simply relying on searching and tags. This page itself is stored in the main folder amongst 100s of other notes. I just hit CTRL-SHIFT-F, start typing “Junited” and there it is. I can feel my other files and folders getting a bit like this too. OneCommander is a great file explorer that I find enhances the navigation experience.

TAGS: notes, productivity

120. Elizabeth Way Roundabout: Brutality | Mr. H

TAGS: development, public-space, urban

119. Incandescence | balfarg

TAGS: archaeology, sky, stone-circles

118. It's a Dream World | Kelson

TAGS: dream, observation, time

117. 32bit.cafe Community Code Jam #4 | 32bit.cafe

TAGS: code, jam, location

116. Images of the Road | David Johnson

TAGS: road, time, travel

115. The Heavyweight Client in Public Space | CPG

TAGS: architecture, cities, public-space

114. Create a Space for Your Keys | Nathaniel

TAGS: gtd, home, organization

113. Disposing of a Dead Body | lordmatt

TAGS: crime, guide, writing

112. TransAmerica Bike Tour 09 | Chris Nadovich

TAGS: cycling, transamerica, travel

111. 23/06/2024 | Colin Walker

TAGS: daily, personal, reflection

110. Sending a Flag to Alaska | Nathan

TAGS: alaska, geocaching, travel

109. Teejay's Blog | Teejay

TAGS: buildings, photography, stories

108. Pub Crawling as Psychogeography | Boak & Bailey

TAGS: psychogeography, pubs, travel

107. An Adventure in Space and Time | Eoghan Walsh

TAGS: brussels, space, travel

106. Spring Tune-up + Ride | Rachel J. Kwon

After giving her bike some TLC Rachel takes it out for a spin. Just a fun write up with cool snaps along the way. Also accompanied by a map 👌

TAGS: blog-post, cycling

105. Third Places and Meetups | Juha-Matti Santala

On “third places”. Juhis talks about meetups as third places. Might be a stretch, but the mountains are my third place. I read this not long after I was thinking about how when I run the local trails I regularly end up having a good yarn with someone. I feel like its a social outing even though I run solo. A bit like going to the pub without announcing it, knowing you’ll run into someone.

TAGS: meetups, social, third-places

104. Peaks and Pass's, the Alps of Kyrgystan | Nathan Dahlberg

Just a cool bunch of photos bike-packing through Kyrgystan mountains.

TAGS: bike-packing, kyrgystan, places

103. Web Manifesto | Daryl Sun

"It is my hope that someday, once my bones have turned to dust, someone in the future will find archives of this blog, and have glimpses of this time, this place, this life that I have lived." I like this idea of leaving a breadcrumb of existence on the web. How cool to know your ancestors 100 years from now can get to know the you by reading through your blog.

TAGS: death, manifesto, web

102. Springtime in Alpine Meadows | Franz Graf

I enjoy Franz’s write ups and the photography. Makes we want to visit Germany. That shot of the Karwendel range in the backdrop 👌 It’s nice to see opposite seasons at the other end of the world.

TAGS: germany, photography, places

101. Emoji Copy

TAGS: copy, emoji, tools

100. SCSS Hover and Navigation

TAGS: hover, navigation, scss

99. Script to Generate RSS Feed

TAGS: rss, script, xml

98. MDN Flexbox Guide

TAGS: css, flexbox, guide

97. CSS Grid and Flexbox

TAGS: css, flexbox, grid

96. Common Flexbox Patterns

TAGS: css, flexbox, patterns

95. CSS Flexbox Guide

TAGS: css, flexbox, guide

94. Sass Basics Guide

TAGS: css, guide, sass

93. CSS Bed

TAGS: css, design, styling

92. Concrete Style

TAGS: css, design, inspo, styling

91. Emile GitHub Repository

TAGS: emile, workflow, zola

90. Emile Workflow for Zola

TAGS: mastodon, workflow, zola

89. Zine Static Site Generator

Zine: Fast, Scalable and Flexible Static Site Generator

TAGS: ssg, web-development

88. Zoner Static Site Generator

Really simple static site generator.

TAGS: cli, ssg, zoner

87. Tera Templates for Zola

TAGS: templates, tera, zola

86. Zola Static Site Generator

TAGS: cli, ssg, zola

85. Neocities CLI

TAGS: cli, hosting

84. pages.casa

TAGS: hosting, smol, web

83. The Art of Unix Programming

TAGS: book, programming, unix

82. ctrl-c.club

TAGS: community, retro, ssh

81. tilde.town

TAGS: community, retro, tilde

80. Linux Beginner Tutorials

TAGS: beginners, linux, tutorials

79. newsboat Docs

TAGS: cli, documentation, newsboat, rss

78. Why Tiling Window Manager Sucks

TAGS: linux, tiling, xmonad

77. ImageMagick Thumbnails

TAGS: imagick, thumbnails

76. ALL About RSS

TAGS: guide, rss

75. toot

TAGS: cli, mastodon

74. tut

TAGS: cli, mastodon

73. yazi

Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O

TAGS: cli

72. Miniflux - Minimalist and Opinionated Feed Reader

Has content manipulation like a regex filter to block articles.

TAGS: feeds, rss

71. Lazybear

TAGS: blog, tech

70. SOFA

Start Often Finish rArely or Start Often Fuck Achievements. "The point of SOFA club is to start as many things as possible as you have the ability, interest, and capacity to, with no regard or goal whatsoever for finishing those projects." Love it!

TAGS: blog-post, productivity

69. In the Beginning... Was the Command Line

In the Beginning... Was the Command Line is an essay by Neal Stephenson which was originally published online in 1999 and later made available in book form: November 1999, ISBN 978-0380815937. The essay is a commentary on why the proprietary operating systems business is unlikely to remain profitable in the future because of competition from free software. It also analyzes the corporate/collective culture of the Microsoft, Apple Computer, and free software communities. wikipedia

TAGS: article, cli

68. An Interactive Guide to Flexbox in CSS • Josh W. Comeau

Really good interactive and visual beginners tutorial on flexbox.

TAGS: flexbox, how-to, web-development

67. helix GitHub

The text editor I use in the terminal. It is based off vim and kakoune, both of which I haven't used, but the built-in tutor and good documentation got me up and running pretty quickly. I use this for writing my website, note-taking, scripts, you name it. Combine language server protocols like marksman for markdown enhances the experience.

TAGS: cli, github, text-editor

66. helix Docs

TAGS: cli, docs

65. Writing My Own HTML

TAGS: blog, html, personal

64. Random Blogging Prompts

TAGS: blogging, prompts

63. Install Linux Distros on Android

TAGS: android, linux, termux

62. Notes vs Blog Styling

TAGS: blog, notes, styling

61. Wandering Thoughts

TAGS: blog, notes, tech

60. Tabletop Whale - Digital Maps

TAGS: digital, illustrations, maps

59. Command-Line Cartography Part 1

TAGS: cartography, cli

58. ~pgadey's blog

Random microblogging with a heaps of links thrown in. Good for a random scroll.

TAGS: blog, inspo, links, micro-blog, style

57. Flexbox HTML CSS Tutorial

TAGS: css, flexbox, html

56. Danny van Kooten Blog

TAGS: blog, creator, gozer

55. Gozer Static Site Generator

TAGS: gozer, ssg

54. Dark Orange Style Blog

TAGS: blog, dark, inspo, style

53. Tiny Tools Directory

TAGS: tiny, tools, utilities

52. Pandoc for Text-to-HTML

TAGS: html, pandoc, unix

51. GNU Recutils Blog Post

TAGS: blog, gnu, recutils

50. Digital Record Collection

TAGS: collection, music, records

49. Flex Froggy Game

TAGS: css, flexbox, game

48. Typeracer Game

TAGS: game, typing

47. Plantay.me Blog

TAGS: blog, inspo, personal, style

46. How I Stay Sharp and Motivated

TAGS: learning, motivation, self-improvement

45. Blain Smith Blog

TAGS: blog, personal, tech

44. Hamster CMS Hosting

TAGS: cms, hosting

43. Hamster CMS - Retro Web Creator

TAGS: cms, retro, web-development

42. helix

A post-modern text editor. Similar to Vim, inspired by Kakoune.

TAGS: cli, text-editor

41. Open Source Android Apps List

TAGS: android, open source

40. IT Tavern - Linux Tips

TAGS: linux, tips, websites

39. Fantastic Bookmarks Layout

TAGS: blog, bookmarks, layout

38. Nazhamid Blog

TAGS: blog, personal, tech

37. Full Archive RSS and Atom Feeds

TAGS: atom, feeds, rss

36. Cursor Party

TAGS: cursor, fun, party

35. Graph Game

TAGS: game, graph

34. Blogging Journey from Geocities to Self-Hosting

TAGS: blogging, geocities, self-hosting

33. PostmarketOS - Linux for Mobile

TAGS: distro, linux, mobile

32. Personal Websites Article

TAGS: personal, websites

31. Kayser Serif Coffee Chat Links

TAGS: chat, coffee, links

30. Daily Tech Link Drops

TAGS: links, tech

29. Spencer Chang Blog

TAGS: blog, personal, tech

28. Roy Tang Links and Blog

TAGS: blog, links

27. Building CLI Tools

TAGS: cli, programming, tools

26. Gutter Mag 20th Edition

TAGS: art, zine

25. Pyratebeard Hacker Blog

TAGS: blog, hacker

24. Personal Tech Blog by Thorsten Zöller

TAGS: blog, personal, tech

23. Neon Kiosk - HTML Journal

TAGS: blog, html, journal

22. Smol Blog by ttt

TAGS: blog, midnight-pub

21. Small Server Software

TAGS: server, software

20. Small PHP Blog Utility

TAGS: blog, php, utility

19. Websites on Web1.0 Hosting

TAGS: hosting, web1.0

18. Ctrl-C Club Zine Issue 16

TAGS: community, ctrl-c, zine

17. Grow Your Own Services

TAGS: self-hosting, server

16. Computing with Sustainability in Mind

Good starting point for sustainable computing.

TAGS: permacomputing, sustainability

15. Plain Vanilla Web Development

An explainer for doing web development using only vanilla techniques. No tools, no frameworks — just HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

TAGS: css, html, javascript, learning, web-development

14. The Odin Project Foundations Course

I found this an incredibly useful intro to HTML, CSS and git. I didn't get through the javascript module, but I constantly go back to a lot of these pages for reference. My number 1 recommendation for anyone wanting to learn a bit about web development for the first time.

TAGS: css, html, javascript, learning, web-development

13. Hug Your Server Admins

Let's thank our admins for keeping the wheels in motion. grubz is always a pleasure to read.

TAGS: admin, appreciation, server

12. Infosec Tools

A whole bunch of clever tools. Fun to just browse around.

TAGS: infosec, tools

11. Getting into Information Security

Amazing list of resources to start diving into Infomation Security. Not all infosec-specific. There's a bunch of links to other related topics (but definitely linked to the infosec industry) like coding, operating systems, networks. This would be my starting point if I ever get the time to take a deep dive.

TAGS: infosec, learning

10. Clew Search Results for SSH

TAGS: search, ssh

9. Markdown Viewers for Linux Command Line

TAGS: cli, linux, markdown

8. Frugal Computing

TAGS: frugal computing, sustainability

7. Sam Harris Meditation

I don't really meditate, but this was recommended to me by my therapist at the time, knowing that I don't really meditate, so there's probably some stuff that works for me. Haven't checked it out yet.

TAGS: meditation, sam-harris

6. Clew

Search engine of independent sites.

TAGS: search-engine

5. How to Run a Simple Web Server on iPad or iPhone

Includes details on terminal tools to use. Another way to set up a storage device?

TAGS: iphone, server, terminal

4. thoth

Scratchpad for the terminal. Capture notes as you're working.

TAGS: cli

3. Newspaper styling

Ideas for styling my website as a newspaper.

TAGS: inspo, style

2. Set $EDITOR environment variable

Specific to Nano, but can be adjusted for any editor.

TAGS: how-to, linux

1. buku

Bookmark manager.

TAGS: cli