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January
- https://www.overleaf.com/ - proprietary (but highly-recommended) WYSIWYM LaTeX editor web service (free for single user)
- https://www.reddit.com/r/bullcity/comments/ejxh2i/old_wimpys_grill_in_durham_is_reopening_with_a/
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-doomed-mouse-utopia-that-inspired-the-rats-of-nimh
- Why can't I remember the name of the Dunning-Kruger effect half the time??
- https://www.3dbuzz.com/ - lots of free video courses for download (paid site has shut down), don't know how long they'll be available
- https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/ - this article has some value, but also is questionable in places
- https://github.com/synesthesiam/rhasspy "an offline, multilingual voice assistant toolkit inspired by Jasper that works well with Home Assistant, Hass.io, and Node-RED."
- https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted - self-hosted software - list of what's available in many categories
- https://www.quora.com/I-was-at-McDonald-s-and-I-noticed-that-customers-were-choosing-to-wait-in-line-to-order-with-the-cashier-instead-of-using-the-available-kiosks-Why-do-you-think-that-is - bad retail-automation design
- https://means.tv/
- https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50841104 - hydrogen power for transportation
- https://www.bbc.com/news/business-51014148 - Greenland
- http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/ -- online SF/F mag
- https://www.popsbackdoorsouth.com/
- https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/09/zipcar-into-the-wilderness/597217/
- https://social.bau-ha.us/@aurora/103467073698637618 - deleted eastern bloc TLDs
- http://www.whatisemerging.com/
- https://github.com/tycrek/degoogle
- YouTube alternatives:
- Durham intentional community:
- https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/01/linus-torvalds-zfs-statements-arent-right-heres-the-straight-dope/
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/is-lab-grown-meat-really-meat - cultured meat
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-america-s-new-apartment-buildings-all-look-the-same - five-over-one construction
- https://icosahedron.website/@bstacey/103495577870332223 - ethics of data-scraping and Mastodon/federation
- https://www.technologyreview.com/f/615059/these-living-bricks-use-bacteria-to-build-themselves/
- https://venmo.com/about/product/ - like PayPal but maybe less evil? Nope, it's owned by them.
- https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-51014028 - active recruitment of neurodiverse individuals
- https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/12/10/emily-dickinson-love-letters-susan-gilbert/ (via) - another true love example
- Pixelfed
- https://social.tchncs.de/@jookia/103322629792648647 "So in conclusion: Don't use Pixelfed, the main developer refuses to investigate or fix bugs and will close and lock issues without explanation."
- https://hackaday.com/2020/01/19/trs-80-clone-uses-modern-parts/ - TRS-80
- https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/01/frontier-an-isp-in-29-states-plans-to-file-for-bankruptcy/
- https://mydeveloperplanet.com/2018/10/31/git-lfs-why-and-how-to-use/ - Git LFS
- https://store.pine64.org/
- https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/
- https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/design-and-ux/responsive
- https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/access-intimacy-the-missing-link/
- https://www.wired.com/story/behind-the-scenes-rotten-tomatoes/ - might offer some thoughts on crowdsourcing of value-judgement
- https://sentient-lang.org/library/array - AI language for solving math/logic problems
- https://www.imperial.co.uk/about-us/# - company that handles parking tickets in some areas of UK, as well as school truancy fees
- https://www.apollo.io/companies/Imperial-Civil-Enforcement-Solutions-Limited/54a1357d69702d36c9eed900%3F__cf_chl_jschl_tk__=98444309c62f7c23033f4dc2ac4894ce63b6c0c6-1580140428-0-AY07pLPOris5xmIBYwTHJbFE-wUxM5T2ohUFo8pcZYrbnTYxgXbb0UeuPqVOGbAunj8ax3beU3jax0BdR5ovgFMhUh8xJ5NrLBCM-EdWCzbkruHaKyQRvUiyqtk0dqqgQrNAXq_xR3W8vdlQQdZ1RR8zU7dNAA5eMzvKj15-_kyJ2smCCx9KrswUi5mJKLdkvvnJMMwL6C1fy3oe6x7dg16gHWEupz_t18CTfIMRZXN8MhAV6OaRdtxxcsH601k3wEQCeMnzSSnrVvr4KJYviLGrrqrjpc303Lk6wdaSZLBOLUgQ-bdm3bW-1hqdtMCJQLi0HSfjtUHcEC51nwvmxKQQBvvL6w_5L616a2QGiVS8WlaoL8gjtU0LIIsdX9gMlni3NT9NpN3vnFai3mMjMC9mIxC-94oXhsTIryLLdh6e?chart=count
- https://www.localgov.co.uk/Imperial-Civil-Enforcement-Solutions-Limited/48663
- https://geo.coop/articles/why-we-dont-need-cooperative-uber
- http://www.openculture.com/2011/12/neil_degrasse_tyson_8_books_every_intelligent_person_should_read.html - free ebooks
- https://askubuntu.com/questions/789465/generate-white-noise-to-calm-a-baby - SoX formula
- https://www.madinamerica.com/2020/01/transgender-children-development-consistent-current-gender-not-sex-assigned-birth/ "These findings, therefore, provide preliminary evidence that neither sex assignment at birth nor direct or indirect sex-specific socialization and expectations (e.g., rewarding masculine things and punishing feminine ones for assigned males) in alignment with early assignment necessarily define how a child later identifies or expresses their gender," the authors write.
- https://twitter.com/jxxf/status/1219009308438024200 - earliest known y2038 problem incident, in 2018; also, how complex financial calculations are done
- https://www.netmeister.org/blog/ops-lessons.html
- https://floss.social/@Valenoern/103566381531722185 - the secret knowledge of making .deb files
- https://reclaimthenet.org/nextcloud-hub/
- https://turn-me-into-a-girl.com/ - self-affirmation tools for egg trans girls
- https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/30/linux_5_6_2038/ - Y2038
- http://www.drellenlittman.com/pb/wp_b4f2c210/wp_b4f2c210.html - ADHD articles
February
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0925492716301561 - ADHD and trauma/PTSD
- https://gizmodo.com/do-you-think-in-words-1841390135
- https://social.antefriguserat.de/index.php/Main_Page - the Plexodus Wiki (G+ migration wiki)
- https://aeon.co/essays/simone-de-beauvoirs-authentic-love-is-a-project-of-equals - philosophy of love; also cultural sexism in the 20th century
- https://www.opensource-socialnetwork.org/
- written in PHP
- downside: asks for gender, offers only binary options
- https://www.gq.com/story/greenland-food-in-face-of-climate-change - Greenland
- https://phys.org/news/2013-09-scientists-never-before-seen.html - photonic molecule
- https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/f0orf3/considering_the_absolute_state_of_this_app_right/ - Discord app going downhill
- https://twitter.com/commaficionado/status/1225138645839073286?s=19 - "Autism and the eternal feeling that you're letting everyone down": a thread
- https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/no-one-can-explain-why-planes-stay-in-the-air/
- http://adhd-alien.com/ - cartoons about ADHD
- https://blog.revolut.com/swift-sepa-how-international-money-transfers-actually-work/
- https://developer.squareup.com/reference/square/catalog-api - Square/API
- https://opensource.com/article/20/2/why-developers-code-night - focus-work and interruptions
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/top-10-myths-about-bedbugs
- https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/29608/why-is-it-better-to-use-usr-bin-env-name-instead-of-path-to-name-as-my - shebang usage and env
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyTqo4mCUUY - how to build a wood gasifier to fuel a generator (presumably propane)
- https://www.armakuni.com/ak-thinking/2020/1/27/how-to-spend-1000-in-2-days-using-aws-lambda
- https://ethicalsource.dev/licenses/ -- a collection of source-code licenses requiring ethical use
- https://social.sunshinegardens.org/objects/b70551bc-72d4-4235-b17f-bb8e5e6a8977 - video about NDN
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KyL1-0A0Gw - $50 DIY water turbine
- https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-lost-notebook/
- https://twobithistory.org/2018/08/18/ada-lovelace-note-g.html
- https://torrentfreak.com/dont-use-the-word-did-or-a-dumb-anti-piracy-company-will-delete-you-from-google-200216/ - this article apparently matches some takedown-bot's algorithm for infringement
- https://bittersoutherner.com/southern-perspective/2020/charles-bess-greensboro-woolworth-sit-ins-civil-rights - history, civil rights, US/NC/Greensboro
- https://www.npr.org/2020/02/10/803011944/preparing-for-the-end-of-the-world-on-a-budget
- https://twitter.com/saraislet/status/1229562901347762177 - public key infrastructure (PKI)
- https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/01/how-sustainable-is-a-solar-powered-website.html - site is actually solar-powered and sometimes goes down, so archive.org
- https://blocktogether.org/ - another crowdsourced blocklist like Shinigami
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-talented-people-don-t-use-their-strengths - seems accurate
- https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/cd-vinyl-distribution-crisis-950327/
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-underground-inferno-that-created-a-ghost-town - US/PA/Centralia, coal fire, mandatory evacuation
- https://www.unix.com/man-page/Linux/1/mmv/ - mmv: recursive mv, kinda
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/anna-dostoyevskaya-on-the-secret-to-a-happy-marriage - Anna Dostoyevskaya: love, partnership, happiness
- https://mastodon.xyz/@douginamug/103704710344914802 - looking for an open-source quadratic voting app
- https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/02/gopher-when-adversarial-interoperability-burrowed-under-gatekeepers-fortresses
- https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/feb/17/james-taylor-i-was-a-bad-influence-on-the-beatles-lennon-love-and-a-life-in-song -- James Taylor, addiction, parenting
- https://www.wired.co.uk/article/airbnb-scam-london - Airbnb
- https://vaneyckt.io/posts/safer_bash_scripts_with_set_euxo_pipefail/ - bash
- https://www.canada.ca/en/government/system/digital-government/open-source-software/guide-for-publishing-open-source-code.html - open source licenses and Canada
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Manifest
- File:Emmengards Suicide Scale.jpg
- https://wheretofind.me/
- That other way of doing databases in PHP: PDO
- Nextcloud stuff:
- https://worxprinting.coop/ - union print shop - t-shirts etc.
- https://morethanone.info/ - plurality
- http://www.openculture.com/?p=1050885 - Feynman lectures on physics now available online (free)
- https://www.technologyreview.com/s/615226/were-not-prepared-for-the-end-of-moores-law/ - Moore's law
- https://opencollective.com/create - fundraising site (somewhat like Patreon), not sure what the ups & downs are except that their login system is annoying
- https://data.melbourne.vic.gov.au/
- https://jshint.com/ - JavaScript code-quality checker tool
- https://www.elle.com/culture/music/a29683686/lady-gaga-haus-laboratories-elle-interview/ - Lady Gaga, mental health, kindness punk
- Fiat Fiendum should have a page here, since we don't seem to have a web site anymore
- https://www.muckrock.com/organization/fiat-fiendum/
- https://www.patreon.com/fiatfiendum
- https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.profile&ein=611686259
- https://medium.com/through-the-courts/robert-mueller-report-the-department-of-justice-broke-law-in-reply-to-freedom-of-information-act-bc5c9b477239 - cites Sai (but misgenders them) and Fiat Fiendum
March
- https://www.facebook.com/430719097107277/posts/1392387474273763/ - Jillian Johnson's FB page
- https://wrongplanet.net/forums/ - autism/neurodiversity forum
- https://it-kollektiv.com/wrong-signal-das-falsche-signal-engl/ - problems with Signal
- https://ianring.com/musictheory/scales/finder.php (via)
- https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge - provides an RSS feed for sites missing one; written in PHP
- https://www.polygon.com/comics/2020/3/6/21166717/noelle-stevenson-fire-never-goes-out-book-review-nimona-lumberjanes-comics-memoir-she-ra - Noelle Stevenson
- mail server things to avoid having outgoing messages spammed: SPF, DKIM, ARC (openarc)
- https://thunderboltsortofapenny.tumblr.com/post/190543643374/god-i-found-another-article-about-why-adhd-kids - ADHD, alexithymia
- https://www.quora.com/How-does-being-very-strict-on-your-children-affect-them/answer/Mark-Mostow - anecdote: effects of disciplinarian/authoritarian parenting
- https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/mar/05/invisible-city-how-homeless-man-built-life-underground-bunker-hampstead-heath - homelessness in UK
- https://www.reddit.com/r/DrWillPowers/comments/fcxboa/the_story_of_how_i_screwed_up_a_dose_calculation/ - cis dude doctor experiences dysphoria
- https://cybre.space/@astraluma/103794630616589641
- https://archive.ph/T2SNX - some analysis and critical appraisal of Powers's work
- https://weirder.earth/@raye/103794913046260636 - how to distinguish Coronavirus from other ailments with similar symptoms
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/let-s-colonize-titan
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/gentle-parenting-explainer-no-rewards-no-punishments-no-misbehaving-kids - parenting
- NPC International: LinkedIn corporate site employment site
- Radiohead
- Discord alternative: Euphony protocol
- https://hbr.org/2018/07/5-mistakes-companies-make-about-growth-mindsets - growth mindset
- https://hbr.org/2020/03/stop-feeling-guilty-about-your-to-do-list
- https://www.reddit.com/r/ipv6/
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-problem-with-hey-guys
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/growing-up-with-steve-miller - Steve Miller
- https://alexgaynor.net/2020/feb/18/scaling-software-development/
- https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/why-victims-abuse-become-abusers
- https://social.wxcafe.net/@amphetamine/103828032929788266 - also part of the amygdala hijack thread
- https://www.programmableweb.com/category/grocery/api
- https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/03/23/fiona-apples-art-of-radical-sensitivity Fiona Apple
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-four-things-that-make-practically-everyone-feel-loved-according-to-a-new-survey
- Informix Wingz -- superior product with inferior marketing; possibly something like Wikcess?
- https://markfgriffin.com/2015/02/need-help-identifying-song/ - song identification, Discogs
- https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-firefox - for bypassing paywalls
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/details - potentially useful tag HTML/details
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/rebecca-solnit-on-hope-in-dark-times-resisting-the-defeatism-of-easy-despair-and-what-victory-really
- http://www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses
- https://michelf.ca/projects/php-markdown/ - Markdown library for PHP
- https://9thstreetjournal.org/
- http://www.openculture.com/2020/03/linked-jazz.html
- https://www.sparkleshare.org/ - self-hosted (serverless?) file-sharing
- https://getsession.org/ - appears to be a fork of Signal but without the phone number requirement
- https://libcom.org/
- https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/mar/17/real-estate-for-the-apocalypse-my-journey-into-a-survival-bunker
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/entertainment/sinead-oconnor-still-in-one-piece/ -- Sinead O'Connor
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-being-bullied-affects-your-adulthood
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-inner-voice - thinking in words
- https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/03/23/820274501/her-incredible-sense-of-smell-is-helping-scientists-find-new-ways-to-diagnose-di
- https://www.fastcompany.com/90479846/the-untold-origin-story-of-the-n95-mask
- https://monsterpit.net/@Brainship/103902068135322938 - about Autism Speaks
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-doomed-mouse-utopia-that-inspired-the-rats-of-nimh - Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH inspiration
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-most-common-type-of-incompetent-leader - experienced this at Pierce
- https://www.whatismystic.com/ - solar-powered distillery now producing hand sanitizer
- https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/06/arts/this-is-fine-meme-dog-fire.html - the this is fine meme
April
- https://cybre.space/@vantablack/103796094845930042 - visual guide to Nine Inch Nails
- Some of my anxious/depressed patients are feeling unexpectedly better than before (reacting to covid-19)
- https://www.cnn.com/style/article/lawns-american-yard-us/index.html - lawn alternatives
- https://grocy.info/ - home grocery tracker thingy
- https://tidbits.com/2020/04/03/every-zoom-security-and-privacy-flaw-so-far-and-what-you-can-do-to-protect-yourself/ - Zoom security holes, many of which have been fixed
- OpenELEC - open source entertainment center. There's also a fork for the Raspberry Pi, LibreELEC
- https://aeon.co/essays/marriage-is-dead-long-live-marriage-how-will-we-couple-up
- https://marker.medium.com/what-everyones-getting-wrong-about-the-toilet-paper-shortage-c812e1358fe0 - pretty much not hoarding; supply chain logistics, particularly production for commercial use vs. home use