The Dustbin

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)

https://retrospekt.com/

Classic devices, like iPods, Polaroid cameras, and flip-clocks, refurbished to better than new, atsky-high prices.

Technology

https://secureshellfish.app/

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.

https://tinylytics.app/

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

https://freedata.app/

Open source, open protocol digital communication software for HF.

https://pyham.org/

Open source Python-based ham radio software and libraries.

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