amason - Network

Just learnt about `ksmbd`, a Linux kernel SMB server introduced in 5.15 and stable since 6.6—perfect for Raspberry Pi OS on 6.6. It...

Just learnt about `ksmbd`, a Linux kernel SMB server introduced in 5.15 and stable since 6.6—perfect for Raspberry Pi OS on 6.6. It enables faster Samba SMB file shares without needing `samba` and its heavy dependencies. Simple, efficient, and high-performance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KSMBD

Enjoying the TUI inspired Discord theme "system24" with custom mono-space font. Gives me IRC...

Enjoying the TUI inspired Discord theme "system24" with custom mono-space font. Gives me IRC vibes.

https://github.com/refact0r/system24

#discord #tui #theme

I feel there's a lot of fatalism around browser market share and Chrome's dominance, but looking at Cloudflare's CDN report...

I feel there's a lot of fatalism around browser market share and Chrome's dominance, but looking at Cloudflare's CDN report shows Chrome losing market share and Firefox desktop growing. Here's hoping Google's push to restrict ad blocking functionality may push more users over to Firefox.

https://radar.cloudflare.com/reports/browser-market-share-2024-q2

#firefox #browser #chrome #webdev

Back in the day I'd check how web crawlers viewed my HTML pages by using the Lynx text browser. Now I use `pdftotext` to check how...

Back in the day I'd check how web crawlers viewed my HTML pages by using the Lynx text browser. Now I use `pdftotext` to check how Applicant Tracking Platforms view my PDF CV.

https://man.archlinux.org/man/extra/poppler/pdftotext.1.en

#PDF #Linux #plaintext

My most used note file is full of Podman (Docker) commands and tips.There's something about container commands that never sticks in my...

My most used note file is full of Podman (Docker) commands and tips.

There's something about container commands that never sticks in my memory. Throw in two OS's interacting with permission boundaries and SELinux and my mind starts to melt.

#Linux #Podman #Docker

I love me a TUI resource monitor such as `htop` and `nvtop`, but I did miss Windows Task Manager. Well, now there's...

I love me a TUI resource monitor such as `htop` and `nvtop`, but I did miss Windows Task Manager. Well, now there's "Resources" for Gnome. It has all the nice visual graphs I like and is written in Rust.

https://github.com/nokyan/resources

#Linux #gnome #gui #monitor

Whilst messing around with local LLMs I needed a quick way to grab the content of a webpage and convert it into Markdown. There's some...

Whilst messing around with local LLMs I needed a quick way to grab the content of a webpage and convert it into Markdown. There's some great browser plugins and services, but I thought it'd be a good opportunity to learn some Deno.

The result is a TypeScript edge function that scrapes a URL, extracts the main text and converts it into lovely Markdown.

Might be useful to others too.

https://url-to-markdown.deno.dev/

#typescript #deno #markdown

Writing an article about how the old web used to be while being published on a site that has cookie banners, notification consent pop-ups,...

Writing an article about how the old web used to be while being published on a site that has cookie banners, notification consent pop-ups, auto playing videos and MPUs that cover the entire article text is something special.

I don't know if it's performance art or just a dark look into modern web journalism.

@ann3nova

#html #web

Just found `kalc`, a terminal based calculator that supports real-time output and graphing via `gnuplot`. What's lovely is you can...

Just found `kalc`, a terminal based calculator that supports real-time output and graphing via `gnuplot`. What's lovely is you can configure `gnuplot` to draw directly to the terminal using its sixelgd mode (if your terminal emulator supports it).

I like the quick feed back for experimenting with different formula values and seeing the results in real-time.

https://github.com/bgkillas/kalc

#linux #calculator #graph

Oh, it's interesting to read that Three.js is adding its own shader language to simplify GLSL shader code! It looks promising, with the...

Oh, it's interesting to read that Three.js is adding its own shader language to simplify GLSL shader code! It looks promising, with the potential to make development easier and transpile to multiple targets.

https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/wiki/Three.js-Shading-Language

#Threejs #WebGL #WebDev

I knew Amazon was using AI for review summaries but it seems the advertising department is now using it to generate overly smooth babies...

I knew Amazon was using AI for review summaries but it seems the advertising department is now using it to generate overly smooth babies with mangled hands.

#ai #amazon

Like many web developers, I've often been disappointed by the slow adoption of JPEG XL. Despite its unfortunate name, it's an...

Like many web developers, I've often been disappointed by the slow adoption of JPEG XL. Despite its unfortunate name, it's an excellent successor to the venerable JPEG. However, goodwill alone doesn't win format wars. I'm thrilled to see AVIF now supported by all major web browsers. This move allows us to finally adopt a more modern image compression format, alongside JPEG fallbacks.

https://caniuse.com/avif

#webdev #browser #compression

I've known about Preact Signals for a while but, I took the time to read the source code and I'm very impressed. Preact, and by...

I've known about Preact Signals for a while but, I took the time to read the source code and I'm very impressed. Preact, and by extension Signals, feels a lot like backbone.js, clean, elegant and clearly written by people who understand the problem they're trying to solve.

https://github.com/preactjs/signals/blob/main/packages/core/src/index.ts

#webdev #programming #react #preact

I'm constantly impressed how good the open source font Source Serif looks on my Kindle. The ligatures and italic glyphs are just...

I'm constantly impressed how good the open source font Source Serif looks on my Kindle. The ligatures and italic glyphs are just beautiful.

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

As a web geek and Firefox advocate, I love poking around in the source code of websites to figure out what technologies they're using....

As a web geek and Firefox advocate, I love poking around in the source code of websites to figure out what technologies they're using. Long live the open web.

Prefixing the URL with `view-source:` gets you access but Firefox Android also has a handy extension https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/android/addon/view-source-code/

Geek discovery of the week, `tsx` a replacement for `ts-node` based on `esbuild` for easy running Typescript code on LTS node....

Geek discovery of the week, `tsx` a replacement for `ts-node` based on `esbuild` for easy running Typescript code on LTS node.

https://github.com/privatenumber/tsx?tab=readme-ov-file

There's something about the overlay smooth nature of Dall-E ML images that make that stick out like early CGI in movies

There's something about the overlay smooth nature of Dall-E ML images that make that stick out like early CGI in movies

It'd be nice if more long form articles used CSS hyphens. Traditional print use hyphens all the time in column layout, which is...

It'd be nice if more long form articles used CSS hyphens. Traditional print use hyphens all the time in column layout, which is basically what portrait mobile layout is.

Bonus points if it's spiral bound.

Bonus points if it's spiral bound.

I've just realised that the open-source note-taking app, Joplin, can sync with Fastmail via WebDAV. It's the mobile note-taking...

I've just realised that the open-source note-taking app, Joplin, can sync with Fastmail via WebDAV. It's the mobile note-taking solution I've been looking for: open-source, seamless syncing, and using a plain-text open format.

For reference, see the Fastmail WebDAV documentation: https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/1500000278342#files

#opensource #notes