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Re:Nixpkgs for the Front End Impaired on Thursday October 29, 2026 @01:27AM (#50284890)
nix.dev is generally pretty solid. Check out their tutorial for the Nix lang: https://nix.dev/tutorials/nix-language
Re:It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis on Sunday September 06, 2026 @07:26PM (#49591949)
Privacy Pass does something similar to what you describe: https://developers.cloudflare.com/waf/tools/privacy-pass/
KOReader (https://koreader.rocks/) is supported on many e-readers and has a news downloader that can do this: https://github.com/koreader/koreader/wiki/News-downloader

(n.b. haven't tried it, but I'm a happy user of KOReader for a couple of years now.)

Re:Ntfy – open-source Push to Mobile on Friday August 14, 2026 @04:39PM (#49304283)
Love ntfy. I've used it for a lot of things, but probably the most esoteric would be sending a notification from Minecraft via ComputerCraft 1.58 when my BuildCraft Quarry finishes: https://pastebin.com/n2PRwW0E
You could digitize them if you think you (or your family/friends/etc.) would read them: https://www.diybookscanner.org/

(If any are public domain, consider scanning them and uploading to archive.org!)

To those asking about the reference to Nebraska, I'm pretty sure it's a reference to XKCD 2347 "Dependency": https://xkcd.com/2347/
Re:Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @05:59PM (#48376912)
Unfortunately, this also turns off the Primary/Promotions/Social/Updates categorization.
Re:I’ve banned query strings on Saturday May 09, 2026 @10:16PM (#48080367)
Newer versions of Firefox also have a "Copy Clean Link" option in the right-click menu.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enhanced-tracking-prote...

Re:Eightyeightthirtyone on Saturday March 29, 2025 @02:15AM (#43513221)
(Click "What is this?" on the lower right for more information.)
Re:CollectionBuilder on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @12:14AM (#43408217)
This collection of things built with CollectionBuilder (CB) might also be interesting, both for seeing how this works and practice and for finding interesting collections built with this: https://collectionbuilder.github.io/cb-examples/
Re:Minecraft Wiki has forked from Fandom on Monday September 25, 2023 @12:51PM (#37646889)
The Feed The Beast Wiki (https://ftb.fandom.com), a general-purpose modded Minecraft wiki, is also planning to move away in the next month or two.

https://ftb.fandom.com/wiki/Project:CD#Forking_from_Fandom

(n.b. I'm an admin there.)

(n.b. 2, we've collaborated with MCW on several occasions)

Re:ForgeFed on Saturday September 02, 2023 @01:54PM (#37363820)
Looks like GitLab is working on a compatible implementation!! https://writing.exchange/@erlend/110949168258462158
Re:Doug Lenat has died on Friday September 01, 2023 @03:35PM (#37355258)
So basically a multi-person Zettelkasten? The idea with a Zettelkasten (zk for short) is that each note is a singular idea, concept, or argument that is all linked together. Arguments can link to their evidence, concepts can link to other related concepts, and so on.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettelkasten

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