“The Frustration Loop”
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Spammers and their spam are annoying.
🔗 Links: XXXX-XX-27
This is a collection of links I stumbled across and found worth sharing. Also see the blogroll for links to blogs I regularly read.
DeepL Write
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I’m a big fan of DeepL for translations. Before trying to write more blog posts directly in English to improve my skills, I wrote many blog posts in German and then translated them. The texts were probably better than my non-native English.
“Bloggers, Dump Your Twitter Card Tags”
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It’s crazy to think how much bandwidth is being used by metadata tags. Every company wants to invent it’s own new system. Wouter Groeneveld gives a brief overview and recommends getting rid of them (for the most part). I agree with him completely. The only one of these systems that my blog supports is Microformats, which is quite popular among the IndieWeb community.
sqlite3 fiddle
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With all my SQL and SQLite posts, this link is probably also quite interesting: sqlite3 fiddle.
“Can YOU Fix Climate Change?”
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I just stumbled upon this video by “Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell”. It’s about the climate crisis and that the only solution might be a systemic change and I absolutely agree.
Yayagram
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This is a Twitter thread (that would have made a great blog post) where Manuel Lucio Dallo builds a Telegram client for his grandmother (“Yaya”). But this isn’t a typical app, it’s an entire device. The “Yayagram” allows messages to be sent as voice messages via Telegram, and received replies are printed directly on thermal paper.
“The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML”
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Terence Eden has written memorably why it is important to write simple HTML. Especially for pages that might be important to some people.
“Hunting the Nearly-Invisible Personal Website”
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This is probably one of the coolest articles I have read in a long time. “Hunting the Nearly-Invisible Personal Website” is absolutely worth a read!
TinyPilot
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Michael Lynch is someone who, when he has an idea or a problem, spares no effort to get to the bottom of it and develop a solution, usually with a combination of hardware and software. Recently he developed a project that allows him to remote control a server just by connecting a Raspberry Pi via USB and HDMI. The Pi runs a program with a web interface that forwards the keyboard input to the server via USB and sends the HDMI output back to the browser. This allows it to control the BIOS and even install a new operating system.
Annoying Technology
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Annoying Technology is a site by Manuel Grabowski and Philipp Defner, where they share typical annoyances with technology. Situations that probably everyone knows: annoying software download pages, dark UI patterns while shopping at Amazon or design flaws.