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A scratchpad of links.

Technology

• Keep a Changelog - Don’t let your friends dump git logs into changelogs.
• ChangeDetection.io - detect changes to websites
• ProtoSchool - Interactive tutorials on decentralized web protocols
• Tech recommendations - some great tech recommendations from PsychoLlama
• Yesterweb webring members - nostalgia-inducing webring
• Yesterweb Link Directory - a all-sorts collection of links
• Virtual Graph Paper - webapp for drawing accurately on digital graph paper
• Penpot - An excellent open-source alternative to Figma
• Podverse - Directory of podcasts
• Awesome Privacy - A curated list of privacy-focused apps & services
• Pinry - Open source alternative to Pinterest
• PDF Tool - PDF manipulation in the browser

Email

• Docker Mailserver - Easily self-host a fully-featured email server.

Development

• Flutter slivers demystified - getting my head around slivers in Flutter, by Emily Fortuna
• Soketi - Building resilient apps on Websockets.

Articles, websites, blogs, etc.

• Travel Is No Cure for the Mind - A great read. The grass is not always greener.
• nextcloud – A day in the rants - Collection of Nextcloud related articles by @gergolippai
• Raphael Sprenger’s garden - nice example of a digital garden
• PersonalSit.es - curating personal websites

Finance

• Invoice Dragon - Super quick and easy way for building invoices

Media

• 7Digital - Buy DRM-free music

Fun

• Cab Ride - A game in which you drive a train through a never-ending landscape.
• A Single Div - Artwork by applying advanced CSS to a single <div> element.
• Freesound - A collaborative database of Creative Commons Licensed sounds.

Social media

• quitfacebook.org - “Stop being a slave to your screen”.
• Dealgorithmizing my life [part 1] [part 2] [part 3] - Short blog posts on avoiding algorithms.
• “User Engagement” Is Code for “Addiction” - Ethics on building “engaging” experiences.

Over the past couple of years I have been intrigued (and sort of excited) about the ideas behind plain text accounting. To be excited about accounting is probably unusual but I love its simplicity and logic - and the power it gives you.

Plain text accounting is essentially the practice of keeping track of your finances, but in simple plain-text files. This is in contrast to other accounting/bookkeeping systems - such as Xero, Sage, Quickbooks, GnuCash, etc. - which can have proprietary/closed-source/software-specific formats. Plain text accounting provides a number of additional benefits: