Saturday, 5. December 12020
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ArchiveBox – The open source self-hosted web archive.

You feed it URLs of pages you want to archive, and it saves them to disk in a varitety of formats depending on the configuration and the content it detects.

More than 25 years later and still standing.

10 Usability Heuristics for User Interface Design.

Jakob Nielsen's 10 general principles for interaction design. They are called "heuristics" because they are broad rules of thumb and not specific usability guidelines.

Hardly understand a thing but the title is just too amazing.

Weird Machines, Exploitability, and Provable Unexploitability (via googleprojectzero.blogspot.com).

The concept of exploit is central to computer security, particularly in the context of memory corruptions. Yet, in spite of the centrality of the concept and voluminous descriptions of various exploitation techniques or countermeasures, a good theoretical framework for describing and reasoning about exploitation has not yet been put forward.

Exploring How Computers Work.

A little exploration of some of the fundamentals of how computers work. Logic gates, binary, two's complement; all that good stuff!

Relevant: Digital Logic Sim.

Old title, brand-new content.

Command Line Interface Guidelines.

An open-source guide to help you write better command-line programs, taking traditional UNIX principles and updating them for the modern day.

I see what you did there with the font

You won’t believe what the answer to number 16 is…

Common misconceptions about UN Goals.

What share of the world population are refugees?

There is no such thing as comfortable security.

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Online Anonymity.

Home is a place where the sun shines.

Why Do We Call it a Homepage? – The History of the Web.

One of the greatest moments of Arrested Development for me: the Bluths’ chicken dances.

The Material Conditions of Platforms: Monopolization Through Decentralization.

This article will argue that this shift in the formation of platform monopolies is being brought about by the decentralization of these services, leading to an overall technical integration of the largest digital platform such as Facebook and Google into the source code of almost all apps.