🔗 Link Stash | 21 December 2025

2025-12-21 07:34

Fresh dump of interesting and/or useful web links I've found recently. Full link stash here.

This week: Can't believe it's been 6 months since I've posted one of these. Thought I'd clear the decks before it gets out of hand. With my recent GTD revamp project underway, I've been thinking about how I bookmark and share bookmarks, and I've decided to stick with buku to bookmark, and these link-stash posts for sharing. I will probably stop sharing them in my Weeknotes to keep Weeknotes a bit more confined to my actual week of living, not reading. The experience of curating and sharing these links is quite different to experience of writing my weeknotes... I like doing them both, but separating them out will make those experiences more focused and enjoyable. Anyway, these are my latest bookmarked links.


Free 128 MB encrypted email account compatible with email clients. I'm finding the Proton subscription ads a bit annoying lately, and I'd love to read and write my emails in a client like Thunderbird. I'll update my website email links at some point. Service also includes XMPP instant messaging, but I don't particularly have a use-case for that just yet.
TAGS: email, service, xmpp

Buy coffee via ssh. `ssh terminal.shop` Would totally do this if I was in the US. Now dangerously searching for other terminal shops.
TAGS: coffee, tui

Easy to understand descriptions of the different RAIDZ levels with useful tables and graphs. Site includes a calculator.
TAGS: data-storage, nas, raid, raidz, zfs

I love the idea of a dedicated machine for writing, and this looks like a great option. Operating system with nothing but a text editor that loads straight in the console. Awesome for old, slow devices.
TAGS: operating-system, smol, writing

A tiny new social media community with built in journal, IRC and mail. Beautifully simplistic web interface with keyboard navigation. Full-screen is a nice experience. CLI/TUI in the pipeline. It's modern, yet nostalgic. Amazing project by @genghis_khan.
TAGS: community, cyberpunk, social-media

Very cyber-culture-styled online radio of "Dubstep, DnB, Synthwave, Chillsynth, Datawave, Darksynth, Cyberpunk, Midtempo, EBSM, Industrial, Dark Techno genres and much more".
TAGS: chat, radio

I don't normally read this stuff, but there is a lot of forward linking to interesting specifics that grabbed my attention.
TAGS: relationships

Community driven index of evaluations of whether software truely is FOSS, and if not, how much or how little. Hosted on Codeberg, anyone can contribute.
TAGS: foss, tools

293. wiby
Old-school type search engine. I like to use this one when I'm looking for how-to's on a personal website or blog.
TAGS: search-engine

Fantastic blog with a focus on VPN, router and network security.
TAGS: blog, networking, sysadmin, tech

Index of tools and services that we all use, and how to harden their security.
TAGS: security, sysadmin

TAGS: networking, routers, sysadmin, to-read

A dark counterculture collection of writers. Great content.
TAGS: counterculture, magazine, zines

I wanted my todo.txt to integrate better with my notes system, in particular internal linking to other notes, so found Ellane's process which is a good start for the direction I want to go. I like her utilisation of queries in Obsidian, removing the need for any plugins. Regarding the internal linking, being able to link to Project Initiation Documents (PIDs) where I keep project specific notes is a huge plus.
TAGS: blog, note-taking, task-management, todotxt

A dive into some tricks and tips for using the sort command in helix. Found via a search looking for a way to sort my traditional todotxt file, which I'm migrating to my own hybrid version as a todo.md file so I can utilise internal linking in my note-taking system.
TAGS: helix, how-to, todotxt

A good partner with todo.txt. You really can do so much with a simple text file.
TAGS: task-management, tool

Community forum for TrueNAS.
TAGS: forum, truenas

284. nethtop
Quick visual of LAN activity from a TUI. Extra commands if run as sudo. Inspired by htop.
TAGS: networks, sysadmin, tool, tui

Many many curated links to small websites around the web. A lot of techy stuff to sink your teeth into. I spent way too long clicking through to strange rabbit-holes.
TAGS: directory, smolweb, text

A few guides on computer networks. Lots of a terminology explained. Smol hacker-esque site.
TAGS: how-to, networks, sysadmin

Simple smol site on how to run some techy things. Mainly web dev, and system and network administration.
TAGS: how-to, networks, servers, sysadmin, web-development

What it sounds like. Easy-listening, bit of white-noisey type stuff.
TAGS: radio

A nice little re-introduction to IRC. Some encouraging forward-links on setting up a server, how to find clients and channels. I haven't been on IRC since fserving WAREZ on dalnet through mIRC on a 56k modem. Jeez those were the days.
TAGS: blog, irc

Big list of web tools including site generators, hosting, search engines, directories, guestbook tools, guides, yada yada.
TAGS: resources, smallweb, tools

So many tools. Neat website too.
TAGS: cli, tools, tui

Easy to understand guide on how to use keypairs for encrypting emails, sign messages and check authenticity of other people's signatures.
TAGS: infosec

A curation of links to websites hosted on old, small and sometimes solar powered hardware. I've come across a few of these before. Good to see them come together in this list. Reckon they're getting some traffic now with all this exposure.
TAGS: hardware, permacomputing, server

A personal write-up of a home lab server setup with all the modifications along the way. Good insight into the decisions behind all the pieces. Helpful plain English for beginners like the title suggests. Given me some things to think about as I step into this space.
TAGS: blog-post, hardware, home-lab, networks, servers

Go-to for torrents. Ad-blockers needed.
TAGS: torrents

272. ELPiS
A smoll zine about the old web. Retro feels. Small group of writers sometimes taken on solely by downgrade when there aren't enough submissions, but I really dig the articles. Usually learn a thing or two about protocols or old hardware that I've never heard of.
TAGS: tech, zine

I keep seeing Derek Sivers books recommended from people I read, so bookmarking to purchase in near future.
TAGS: reading

Full link stash here.