Bonjour! Tuesday assorted links: Offline Kids – Screen-Free Activities for Kids Discover simple, screen-free activities to enjoy at home, outdoors, or on the move. 🔗

Offline Kids – Screen-Free Activities for Kids

--- Is it really foss? Where projects are evaluated to see if they're as free and open source as advertised 🔗

Is it really foss?

Dobrý ráno! Monday assorted links: Use Their ID \Tim Je\ made a website that uses AI to programmatically generate fake IDs of United Kingdom politicians. This was done to mock the United Kingdom Online Safety Act 🔗

Use Their ID

Good Morning! Sunday assorted links: Make any website load faster with 6 lines of HTML | DocuSeal Discover how to significantly boost your website's loading speed by adding just 6 lines of HTML. Simple steps for faster websites. 🔗

DocuSeal

Make any website load faster with 6 lines of HTML | DocuSeal

Discover how to significantly boost your website's loading speed by adding just 5 lines of HTML. Simple steps for faster websites.

--- Cheating on Quantum Computing Benchmarks - Schneier on Security Peter Gutmann and Stephan Neuhaus have a new paper that makes the argument that we shouldn’t trust any of the quantum factorization benchmarks, because everyone has been cooking the books. 🔗

Schneier on Security

Cheating on Quantum Computing Benchmarks - Schneier on Security

Peter Gutmann and Stephan Neuhaus have a new paper—I think it’s new, even though it has a March 2025 date—that makes the argument...

Nǐ hǎo! Thursday assorted links: Wicked Smart Bitcoin Bitcoin Visualizations Updated Daily 🔗

Wicked Smart Bitcoin

Bitcoin Visualizations Updated Hourly/Daily

--- Literature Map - The Tourist Map of Literature 🔗

Literature Map - The Tourist Map of Literature

--- GitHub - 9001/copyparty: Portable file server with accelerated resumable uploads, dedup, WebDAV, FTP, TFTP, zeroconf, media indexer, thumbnails++ all in one file, no deps Portable file server with accelerated resumable uploads, dedup, WebDAV, FTP, TFTP, zeroconf, media indexer, thumbnails++ all in one file, no deps - 9001/copyparty 🔗

GitHub

GitHub - 9001/copyparty: Portable file server with accelerated resumable uploads, dedup, WebDAV, SFTP, FTP, TFTP, zeroconf, media indexer, thumbnails++ all in one file

Portable file server with accelerated resumable uploads, dedup, WebDAV, SFTP, FTP, TFTP, zeroconf, media indexer, thumbnails++ all in one file - 90...

--- Dumb Pipe Iroh connections are dumb pipes: easy, direct connections that punch through NATs & stay connected as network conditions change. 🔗

Dumb Pipe

Iroh connections are dumb pipes: easy, direct connections that punch through NATs & stay connected as network conditions change.

Nǐ hǎo! Wednesday assorted links: Monochromate - Smart Greyscale Browser Extension | Reduce Screen Time & Stop Doomscrolling Transform your browsing with Monochromate, the smart greyscale browser extension designed for digital wellness. Reduce screen time, prevent doomscrolling, and boost productivity with customizable intensity, smart scheduling, and site exclusions. Built with WXT framework for Chrome & Firefox. 🔗

Monochromate - Smart Greyscale Extension | Reduce Screen Time & Stop Doomscrolling

Transform your browsing with Monochromate

--- maru - Your phone is your PC Maru is a context-aware, lightweight, and open operating system that unites mobile and desktop computing. 🔗

maru - Your phone is your PC

Maru is a context-aware, lightweight, and open operating system that unites mobile and desktop computing.

--- peer-observer: A tool and infrastructure for monitoring the Bitcoin P2P network for attacks and anomalies Over the past few years, I’ve been working on monitoring tools for the Bitcoin network. One of these projects is peer-observer: A tool and infrastructure for monitoring the Bitcoin P2P network for attacks and anomalies. This post describes the motivation for starting yet another Bitcoin network observer. It details how the tool works, what my honeypot infrastructure looks like, and finishes with an idea for a decentralized Bitcoin Network Operations Collective and incident response team. 🔗

b10c

peer-observer: A tool and infrastructure for monitoring the Bitcoin P2P network for attacks and anomalies

Over the past few years, I’ve been working on monitoring tools for the Bitcoin network. One of these projects is peer-observer: A tool and infras...

Ohayō gozaimasu! Tuesday assorted links: Explore Trusted Cashu Mints - Cashumints.space Find and compare trusted Cashu mints. View supported NUTs, user reviews, and wallet compatibility. Discover how to safely use Cashu. 🔗

CashuMints.space

Explore Trusted Cashu Mints - Cashumints.space

Find and compare trusted Cashu mints. View supported NUTs, user reviews, and wallet compatibility.

--- Bitcoin Mints 🔗

Bitcoin Mints

--- Mint Auditor A Cashu mint auditor 🔗

Mint Auditor

Namaste! Sunday assorted links: It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA - Jono Alderson Native CSS transitions have quietly killed the strongest argument for client-side routing. Yet people keep building terrible apps instead of performant websites. 🔗

Jono Alderson

It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA

Native CSS transitions have quietly killed the strongest argument for client-side routing. Yet people keep building terrible apps instead of perfor...

--- Book Saboteur Poetically sabotage your electronic books 🔗

Book Saboteur

Book Saboteur

Poetically sabotage your electronic books

--- Why Facts Don’t Change Minds in the Culture Wars—Structure Does Why do facts bounce off some people? It’s not about logic; it’s about structure. Your worldview isn’t a list of opinions—it's a living network. And right now, it's at war. 🔗

Vas Zayarskiy

Why Facts Don’t Change Minds in the Culture Wars—Structure Does

Why do facts bounce off some people? It’s not about logic; it’s about structure. Your worldview isn’t a list of opinions—it's a living netw...

Nǐ hǎo! Saturday assorted links: A valid HTML zip bomb - ache Many sites have been affected by the aggressiveness of web crawlers designed to improve LLMs. I’ve been relatively spared, but since the phenomenon started, I've been looking for a solution to implement.\r Today, I present a zip bomb gzip and brotli that is valid HTML. 🔗

A valid HTML zip bomb - ache

--- Google Spoofed Via DKIM Replay Attack | EasyDMARC Learn how a Google spoof used a DKIM replay attack to bypass email security and trick users with a fake subpoena in this real-world phishing case. 🔗

EasyDMARC

Google Spoofed Via DKIM Replay Attack: A Technical Breakdown

Learn how a Google spoof used a DKIM replay attack to bypass email security and trick users with a fake subpoena in this real-world phishing case.

Nǐ hǎo! Friday assorted links: 🦊 How to Firefox - Kaushik Gopal's Website Chrome finally pulled the trigger on the web’s best ad-blocker, uBlock Origin.\r \r Now that Chrome has hobbled uBO, Firefox—my beloved—1 is surging again. I want to do my part to convince you to switch to Firefox and show you how I use it.\r \r 🔗

🦊 How to Firefox - Kaushik Gopal

Chrome finally pulled the trigger on the web’s best ad-blocker, uBlock Origin. Now that Chrome has hobbled uBO, Firefox — my beloved —1 i...

Buenos días! Wednesday assorted links: vanilla-extract — Zero-runtime Stylesheets-in-TypeScript. Zero-runtime Stylesheets in TypeScript.\r Use TypeScript as your preprocessor. Write type‑safe, locally scoped classes, variables and themes, then generate static CSS files at build time. 🔗

vanilla-extract

vanilla-extract — Zero-runtime Stylesheets-in-TypeScript.

Zero-runtime Stylesheets-in-TypeScript.

--- chubin/wttr.in The right way to check the weather 🔗

GitHub

GitHub - chubin/wttr.in: :partly_sunny: The right way to check the weather

:partly_sunny: The right way to check the weather. Contribute to chubin/wttr.in development by creating an account on GitHub.

--- Don't animate height! | Granola Our app was mysteriously using 60% CPU and 25% GPU on my M2 MacBook. It turned out this was due to a tiny CSS animation! In this post, I show how to find expensive animations, why some are so expensive, and how to make many animations much cheaper. Along the way, we'll learn how the browser renders CSS animations and how to use Chrome's dev tools for performance profiling. 🔗

Granola

Don't animate height!

--- A Friendly Introduction to SVG • Josh W. Comeau The really cool thing is that SVGs are first-class citizens in the DOM. We can use CSS and JavaScript to select and modify SVG nodes, as if they were HTML elements. 🔗

A Friendly Introduction to SVG • Josh W. Comeau

SVGs are one of the most remarkable technologies we have access to on the web. They’re first-class citizens, fully addressable with CSS and JavaS...

Buenos días! Tuesday assorted links: bitcoinconferences.info A simple list of upcoming bitcoin conferences worldwide 🔗

bitcoinconferences.info

A simple list of upcoming bitcoin conferences worldwide

--- WebSecDojo - Learn web security through hands-on CTF challenges 🔗

WebSecDojo - Learn web security through hands-on CTF challenges

Learn web security through hands-on CTF challenges. Practice your skills and earn points.

--- How I keep up with AI progress (and why you must too) - nilenso blog Curated a list of sources that make up an information pipeline consider balanced and healthy. If you’re late to the game, consider this a good starting point.\r \r 🔗

nilenso blog

How I keep up with AI progress

Last Updated: 30th June 2025

--- The Big LLM Architecture Comparison From DeepSeek-V3 to Kimi K2: A Look At Modern LLM Architecture Design 🔗

The Big LLM Architecture Comparison

From DeepSeek-V3 to Kimi K2: A Look At Modern LLM Architecture Design

Dobrý ráno! Monday assorted links: janoside/btc-rpc-explorer Database-free, self-hosted Bitcoin explorer, via RPC to Bitcoin Core. 🔗

GitHub

GitHub - janoside/btc-rpc-explorer: Database-free, self-hosted Bitcoin explorer, via RPC to Bitcoin Core.

Database-free, self-hosted Bitcoin explorer, via RPC to Bitcoin Core. - janoside/btc-rpc-explorer

Namaste! Saturday assorted links: Chrome's SSL Bypass Cheatcode - Thomas Countz If you type thisisunsafe on a Chrome SSL error page, Chrome will bypass the error and load the page for you. 🔗

Thomas Countz

Chrome’s SSL Bypass Cheatcode

Did you know that Chrome has a secret cheatcode that lets you bypass SSL errors? It’s called thisisunsafe, and I couldn’t help but pull on the ...

Namaste! Wednesday assorted links: no days off A celebration of consistency, discipline, and the pursuit of movement 🔗

no days off

no days off

A celebration of consistency, discipline, and the pursuit of movement

--- The Solidity Language open-source package was used in a $500,000 crypto heist | Securelist Kaspersky GReAT experts uncover malicious extensions for Cursor AI that download the Quasar backdoor and a crypto stealer. 🔗

Securelist

The Solidity Language open-source package was used in a $500,000 crypto heist

Kaspersky GReAT experts uncover malicious extensions for Cursor AI that download the Quasar backdoor and a crypto stealer.

Добрае раніца! Tuesday assorted links: Upyo A simple and cross-runtime library for sending email messages using SMTP and various email providers 🔗

Upyo

Upyo is a simple and modern email sending library with a universal interface for emailing across runtimes like Node.js, Deno, Bun, and edge functio...

Namaste! Monday assorted links: GitHub - dsekz/chrome-x-browser-validation-header Reverse engineering and generation toolkit for Chrome's private x-browser-validation header, used for integrity. 🔗

GitHub

GitHub - dsekz/chrome-x-browser-validation-header: Reverse engineering and generation toolkit for Chrome's private x-browser-validation header, used for integrity.

Reverse engineering and generation toolkit for Chrome's private x-browser-validation header, used for integrity. - dsekz/chrome-x-browser-validatio...

--- You should repaste your MacBook (but don't) 🔗

You should repaste your MacBook (but don't)

My favorite memory of my M1 Pro MacBook Pro was the whole sensation of “holy crap, you never hear the fans in this thing”, which was ve...

--- Federated Open Key Service (FOKS) 🔗

Federated Open Key Service (FOKS)

Ohayō gozaimasu! Friday assorted links: Routstr A Decentralised LLM Routing Marketplace Routstr brings the convenience of the OpenRouter experience to the permissionless, censorship‑resistant world of Nostr and Bitcoin 🔗

Routstr

Routstr - Decentralized AI Inference Router

Access top AI models with Bitcoin Lightning payments. Permissionless, private, and decentralized.

--- and Other Stuff - Nostr Funding Initiative Building Nostr's Future Together Supporting the transition from an experimental protocol to a widely adopted, sustainable ecosystem through collaborative growth and funding. 🔗

AOS – Technology for Human Thriving

AOS builds freedom tech that enhances, explores, and empowers human thriving through open, decentralized systems.

Bom dia! Thursday assorted links: Record and share your terminal sessions, the simple way - asciinema.org asciinema [as-kee-nuh-muh] is a free and open source solution for recording terminal sessions and sharing them on the web. 🔗

Record and share your terminal sessions, the simple way - asciinema.org

Buenos días! Tuesday assorted links: NostrPay Kids The Fun, Safe Bitcoin Wallet for the Next Generation 🔗

Nostrpay

Nostrpay - Safe, Simple, and Fun Bitcoin for Kids

Join the NostrPay waitlist! A playful, parent-controlled Bitcoin Lightning wallet designed to help kids learn, save, and spend sats safely. Parents...

--- Am I online? Checking internet connectivity with 'generate 204' endpoints. 🔗

Am I online?

Checking internet connectivity with

Buenos días! Sunday assorted links: macOS Icon History — Basic Apple Guy Documenting the evolution of macOS system icons over the past several decades. 🔗

Basic Apple Guy

macOS Icon History — Basic Apple Guy

Documenting the evolution of macOS system icons over the past several decades.

--- Moon Phase Tracker | Rendered in ASCII Art ASCII Moon - view & cycle through The Moon's phases - rendered in ASCII art. 🔗

Moon Phase Tracker | Rendered in ASCII Art

ASCII Moon - view & cycle through The Moon