Links for Dec 22-28, 2024
Interesting links and articles I’ve found for the week of December 22-28, 2024.
Culture
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Graham
“…While at BYU, Crump successfully bypassed BYU’s prohibition on women wearing jeans to its Testing Center by wearing no pants at all…”
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/essays/casual-viewing/
Why Netflix is dumping ground of formulaic content. (via)
Classic devices, like iPods, Polaroid cameras, and flip-clocks, refurbished to better than new, atsky-high prices.
Technology
A not-free but excellent iOS/iPadOS app for SSH terminal and SFTP file management. Integrates nicely into the iOS Files app.
https://www.neoevolutions.com/post/bearblogr-a-static-site-blogging-tool-for-bear
An interesting Idea for using YAML front-matter conventions in Bear markdown documents to drive a static site generator. I might adapt this idea.
Simple, free/low-cost, privacy respecting analytics. (Trialing it on this site).
https://osamuaoki.github.io/en/2024/03/13/lxc-7/
Tutorial on using Incus to manage VMs under Linux (which seems similar to managing VMs under FreeBSD with vm.
Ham Radio
Open source, open protocol digital communication software for HF.
Open source Python-based ham radio software and libraries.