Scratchpad for August 9 2020
- Installing FreeBSD on a Raspberry Pi
- Some basics of how to do this. Nothing particularly special but good to have it in one place.
- An Introduction to ZFS: A Place to Start
- Nice, simple explainer of what ZFS is and how it works.
- The Battle For The First Dune Game
- Lots of interesting stuff here. The first Dune game throws me back to when I was a kid. One night in particular, the night before my family and I went on a vacation in Austria and had to get up early. I couldn’t sleep and decided to check out that game I had lying around but never got to playing. That game was Dune. I played for hours on end and just absorbed the story. The whole vacation, I couldn’t wait to get back and finish the game.
- The UX of LEGO Interface Panels
- Fantastic introduction to the concepts of user interface and user experience design.
- Sen. Sanders proposes one-time tax that would cost Bezos $42.8 billion, Musk $27.5 billion
- Of course this is not going to happen. It is so fundamentally counter to the current system that you cannot simply flick a switch and redistribute wealth. It would be temporary relief at best. It’s also a simplistic answer to a major and complex issue of wealth inequality in late-stage capitalism. That being said, if the current trend continues, eventually there will be a redistribution of wealth. We have the choice if this change is going to happen peacefully — or by knife and gun.
- PHP - The Wrong Way
- Despite being about PHP, its main observations apply to most modern software development practices.
- Making Poverty Fashionable to Millennials
- About “alternative lifestyles” and how poverty is repackaged and marketed as freedom. In a way, it’s voluntary doublespeak as a reaction to circumstance.
- Proxyman
- Really good man-in-the-middle web debugging proxy and a fully native macOS implementation at that. Very smooth experience with network integration as well.
- SSH Tunnel - Local, Remote and Dynamic Port Forwarding
- Useful compilation of examples with comprehensive explanations.
- My Linux and Vim Notes
- Lots and lots to unpack here.
- Termshark
- Terminal UI for tshark. This is for you if you like Wireshark but like the terminal even more.
- Finding file duplicates with fdupes on FreeBSD
- Quick examples of an undervalued tool. Also available for macOS and can easily replace all the de-duplication software with fancy UIs.
- My FreeBSD Laptop Build
- The writing style leaves something to be desired but the overview of settings and commands are helpful. Also a reminder that this stuff should actually be automated by the OS installer.
- W3C gives up on Progressive Web App privacy
- Privacy is hard.
- Paradox of tolerance
- “Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance.”
- The Cookie Website
- Generate the recipe for your perfect cookie based on color, mouthfeel, surface texture, and thickness. You can adjust the recipe for the exact number of cookies you want to make.
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