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# Recommendations
Here is unordered list of blogs, articles and pages in general that I found worth reading. It does not mean that I approve or agree everything posted by these authors, just that I found it interesting.
## Blogs
Blog of Ali Grudi, author of fbpdf.
=> http://litcave.rudi.ir
Blog of Chris Wellons, author of enchive, with interesting musing on emacs and gpg.
=> https://nullprogram.com
Diary of man, looking to change his habits to improve his productivity. Interesting articles, terrible web-design. Open in lynx(1).
=> https://alifeofproductivity.com
Bash programming wiki. Not that you should program in bash, but sometimes you are forced (e.g. Nix, Gentoo).
=> http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BASH
Blog of Natasha Layla Marchant, with convincing critics of FSF work and good article on why javascript should die.
=> https://onpon4.github.io/articles/actions.html
=> https://onpon4.github.io/articles/kill-js.html
Github-book about internals of linux kernel
=> https://0xax.gitbook.io/linux-insides/
Exceptionally detailed and in-depth discussion of various computer security topics.
=> https://www.netmeister.org/blog/
=> https://www.imperialviolet.org
=> https://eklitzke.org
=> https://idea.popcount.org/
=> https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/category/linux/
=> https://leahneukirchen.org/
=> https://www.japh.se/2011/07/17/dotshare.html
=> https://justine.lol/
=> https://viewsourcecode.org/snaptoken/kilo/
=> gopher://thelambdalab.xyz/1/phlog/
=> https://tildeverse.org/members/
=> https://mkorostoff.github.io/
=> https://www.agner.org/optimize/instruction_tables.pdf
=> https://ldpreload.com/blog/names-to-reserve
=> http://habitatchronicles.com/2016/10/
=> https://github.com/skeeto/growable-buf/
=> https://ldpreload.com/blog/per-computer-colored-prompts-in-bash
=> https://postgrest.org
=> https://www.agwa.name/blog/post/how_to_crash_systemd_in_one_tweet
=> http://libdill.org/tutorial.html
=> http://ngnghm.github.io
Unicode in any control data -- urls, usernames, domain names -- is severe and dangerous mistake.
=> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIebelIpdYk
## Individual articles
Series of articles, evaluating different, free and proprietary, software to what degree it is spyware.
=> https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/index.html
Nice article about behaviour of different file systems on crashes
=> https://danluu.com/deconstruct-files
Brilliant article "Web Obesity"[^7]
=> https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm
Your Big data is not big, by Adam Drake
=> https://adamdrake.com/command-line-tools-can-be-235x-faster-than-your-hadoop-cluster.html
Ingenious observation that "chmod 555 ~" can prevent poorly-written software from polluting home directory.
=> https://zdsfa.com/insert/blog/a-guide-to-home-protection
Nothing is new, and everything I feel most likely was already put into words by somebody else.
=> https://datagubbe.se/stubborn/
Nice article that covers decline of UX quality. Not that woes of floating window managers actually impact me.
=> https://datagubbe.se/decusab The Decline of Usability
## Videos
Usually I strongly prefer text, with pictures as necessary, but sometimes message is so good and well-researched, yet not available in any other format that I have no choice to recommend it.
=> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g16heGLKlTA What went wrong with gaming by Josh Strife Hayes
## Projects
Weather forecast with curl. It is awesome.
=> https://github.com/chubin/wttr.in
A curated list of awesome command-line frameworks, toolkits, guides and gizmos. It has much better signal/noise rate than random web search.
=> https://github.com/alebcay/awesome-shell
=> https://github.com/tweag/gomod2nix
=> https://www.borgbackup.org/support/commercial.html
=> https://gcc.godbolt.org/
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