Windows 11 announced
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Microsoft announced Windows 11 today! The Verge gives an overview about it.
🔗 Links: 2021
This is a collection of links I stumbled across and found worth sharing. Also see the blogroll for links to blogs I regularly read.
Gemini
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Manuel Moreale puts my thoughts about Gemini into words:
“Building A Self-Hosted Journal”
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In addition to Colin Walker and myself, Kev Quirk now seems to be using blogging software for journaling as well. Wordpress, self-hosted on his NAS.
Organic Maps
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There is a new option for mobile offline maps: Organic Maps. This app is based on the source code of maps.me, before the acquisition last year.
Blogging as a by-product
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Zan in his recent article with tips on blogging:
Firefly III
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Some time ago, I tried keeping track of my subscriptions using a simple spreadsheet. But I still had no idea, how much I spent each month for various things not considered a subscription.
rakyll/hey
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If you need a simple tool, that sends some load to your web application or site, you can use hey. You can also use it to measure the performance. It provides a nice overview of the distribution of response times and shows how many requests per second your app served.
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Did you know that Windows has 52 000 different family emoji combinations? See Emojipedia for more details on family emojis.
“Native English speakers are the world’s worst communicators”
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English is my second language. My mother language is German, in school I had Latin for a while (but was rather bad at it) and in university I had one semester of Spanish.
URL Lengthener
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Some people come up with strange ideas when they are a bit too bored. Instead of URL shorteners (I wrote my own, btw.) they invent URL lengtheners. Probably of little practical use, but still a funny idea.