Bom dia! Monday assorted links: The Bitcoin Whitepaper Footnotes  Examining Satoshi's References and beyond for breadcrumbs  🔗

Stacker News

The Bitcoin Whitepaper Footnotes -  Part 1 \ stacker news ~bitcoin

Examining Satoshi's References and beyond for breadcrumbs Recently I've been diving down the Bitcoin rabbit hole, reading the Whitepaper references...

--- The present and potential future of progressive image rendering - JakeArchibald.com Let's dive straight into the kinds of progressive rendering that are currently available natively in browsers. 🔗

The present and potential future of progressive image rendering

Exploring progressive image rendering across JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, and JPEG XL.

Good Morning! Sunday assorted links: normalize.css normalize.css makes browsers render all elements more consistently and in line with modern standards. 🔗

normalize.css

Nǐ hǎo! Saturday assorted links: 15 Go Subtleties You May Not Already Know Some of my favorite tidbits from the past year of working with Go. 🔗

15 Go Subtleties You May Not Already Know

Some of my favorite tidbits from the past year of working with Go.

--- Spark And Ark: A Look At Our Newest Bitcoin Layer Twos A comparison of the trust models and trade offs of Ark and Spark, the two newest entrants to Bitcoin's collection of Layer Two protocols. 🔗

Bitcoin Magazine

Spark And Ark: A Look At Our Newest Bitcoin Layer Twos

A comparison of the trust models and trade offs of Ark and Spark, the two newest entrants to Bitcoin's collection of Layer Two protocols.

Namaste! Friday assorted links: Scripts I wrote that I use all the time I've written a number of little scripts over the years, many of which I use every day. Here's a little collection. 🔗

Scripts I wrote that I use all the time

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Ohayō gozaimasu! Thursday assorted links: Disco - Self-hosting that doesn't feel like self-hosting Disco is an open-source PaaS that turns any Linux server into a deployment platform. Get the git push workflow you love, without the per-app markup. 🔗

Disco

Disco — Self-hosting that doesn’t feel like self-hosting.

Disco is the self-hosted Heroku alternative: git push deploys, zero-downtime releases, automatic SSL, on your own servers at hardware cost.

--- OpenWebcamDB - Global Directory of Live Webcams and Streaming Cameras Discover live webcams from around the world. Watch real-time streams from cities, beaches, mountains, and popular destinations. Explore thousands of streaming cameras worldwide. 🔗

OpenWebcamDB

OpenWebcamDB - Global Directory of Live Webcams and Streaming Cameras

Discover live webcams from around the world. Watch real-time streams from cities, beaches, mountains, and popular destinations. Explore thousands o...

Bom dia! Friday assorted links: How I Reversed Amazon's Kindle Web Obfuscation Because Their App Sucked As it turns out they don't actually want you to do this (and have some interesting ways to stop you) 🔗

Cats with power tools

How I Reversed Amazon's Kindle Web Obfuscation Because Their App Sucked

As it turns out they don't actually want you to do this (and have some interesting ways to stop you)

Добрае раніца! Thursday assorted links: I am sorry, but everyone is getting syntax highlighting wrong @ tonsky.me Syntax highlighting is a tool. It can help you read code faster. Find things quicker. Orient yourself in a large file. Like any tool, it can be used correctly or incorrectly. Let’s see how to use syntax highlighting to help you work. 🔗

tonsky.me

I am sorry, but everyone is getting syntax highlighting wrong

Applying human ergonomics and design principles to syntax highlighting

--- How I Almost Got Hacked By A 'Job Interview' I was 30 seconds away from running malware, Here's how a sophisticated scam operation almost got me, and why every developer needs to read this. 🔗

David Dodda

How I Almost Got Hacked By A 'Job Interview'

I was 30 seconds away from running malware, Here's how a sophisticated scam operation almost got me, and why every developer needs to read this.

Добрае раніца! Wednesday assorted links: Subverting Telegram’s End-to-End Encryption | IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology In this paper, we analyze the security of Telegram’s end-to-end encryption (E2EE) protocol in presence of mass-surveillance. Specifically, we show that Telegram’s E2EE protocol is susceptible to fairly efficient algorithm substitution attacks. 🔗

Subverting Telegram’s End-to-End Encryption | IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology

--- How to Turn Liquid Glass into a Solid Interface - TidBITS Apple’s new Liquid Glass interface design brings transparency and blur effects to all Apple operating systems, but many users find it distracting or difficult to read. Here’s how to control its effects and make your interface more usable 🔗

TidBITS

How to Turn Liquid Glass into a Solid Interface - TidBITS

Apple’s new Liquid Glass interface design can be hard to read in certain situations. If you encounter any issues, here’s how to adjust the tran...

Nǐ hǎo! Sunday assorted links: elementary os The thoughtful, capable, and ethical replacement for Windows and macOS 🔗

Thoughtful, capable, and ethical computing ⋅ elementary OS

Thoughtful, capable, and ethical computing

Bună dimineața! Saturday assorted links: iFrame Test - Check if Website Can Be Embedded - undefined Test whether any website can be embedded in an iframe. Simple visual tool to check iframe compatibility. 🔗

iFrame Tester Gator - Test Embeddability & Bypass Restrictions

Simple tool to test iframe embedding compatibility by visual inspection.

--- Wi-Fi Aware or Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) for mobile mesh | by Micha Anthenor Benoliel | Oct, 2025 | Medium A first implementation of Wi-Fi Aware by the Nodle team for bitchat 🔗 https://anthenor.medium.com/wi-fi-aware-or-bluetooth-low-energy-ble-for-mobile-mesh-ea11defcfd46

Ohayō gozaimasu! Thursday assorted links: PWAscore - PWA Browser Scorecards Compare Progressive Web App support across popular mobile (and soon, desktop) browsers. 🔗

PWAscore

PWAscore - PWA Browser Scorecards

Compare Progressive Web App capabilities across popular mobile browsers. See which browsers best support PWA features like Service Workers, Web App...

Guten Morgen! Tuesday assorted links: The Landlord-Friendly, Self-Install Solar Kit. | Sunboxlabs Premium Solar Kits for self-install clean energy, and batteries for backup, off-grid & outdoors. 🔗

sunboxlabs

The Landlord-Friendly, Self-Install Solar Kit. | Sunboxlabs - Premium Solar Kits for self-install clean energy, and batteries for backup, off-grid & outdoors.

Sunboxlabs - Premium Solar Kits for self-install clean energy, and batteries for backup, off-grid & outdoors. |

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Bonjour! Monday assorted links: Mic-E-Mouse Covert Eavesdropping through Computer Mice 🔗

Mic-E-Mouse

Your computer mouse has big ears. Image courtesy of GPT4/Dall-E-3, generated using the keywords "computer mouse with big ears and a microphone as a...

Good Morning! Saturday assorted links: gringokiwi/glacier-wallet Send your bitcoin to the future. 🔗

GitHub

GitHub - gringokiwi/glacier-wallet: Send your bitcoin to the future

Send your bitcoin to the future. Contribute to gringokiwi/glacier-wallet development by creating an account on GitHub.

--- The LAB – The Little Book of Linear Algebra 🔗

The LAB – The Little Book of Linear Algebra

--- muspy – Get Notified on New Album Release Dates Have you ever missed an album of one of your favourite artists only to discover it by accident weeks after the release? Do you spend a lot of time on official websites looking for release announcements? With muspy you will save time and won't miss any releases! 🔗 https://muspy.com/ --- In Praise of RSS and Controlled Feeds of Information | Tom Burkert The way we consume content on the internet is increasingly driven by walled-garden platforms and black-box feed algorithms. This shift is making our media diets miserable. Ironically, a solution to the problem predates algorithmic feeds, social media and other forms of informational junk food. It is called RSS (Really Simple Syndication) and it is beautiful. 🔗

Tom Burkert

In Praise of RSS and Controlled Feeds of Information

The way we consume content on the internet is increasingly driven by walled-garden platforms and black-box feed algorithms. This shift is making ou...

Guten Morgen! Thursday assorted links: chr15m/minimal-pwa: Minimal files + config for a PWA This is the minimal set of files for a \progressive web app\ to be installable on Android and iOS. 🔗

GitHub

GitHub - chr15m/minimal-pwa: Minimal files + config for a PWA

Minimal files + config for a PWA. Contribute to chr15m/minimal-pwa development by creating an account on GitHub.

Dobrý ráno! Wednesday assorted links: Documentation | Lee Robinson How to build incredible developer documentation. 🔗

Documentation

How to build incredible developer documentation.

Buenos días! Tuesday assorted links: Open Props: sub-atomic styles Open source CSS custom properties to help accelerate adaptive and consistent design. Available from a CDN or NPM, as CSS or Javascript. 🔗

Open Props: sub-atomic styles

Open source CSS custom properties to help accelerate adaptive and consistent design. Available from a CDN or NPM, as CSS or Javascript.

Namaste! Monday assorted links: toolbrew - Free Online Utility Tools Library | Text, Video, SEO Tools Free collection of online utility tools including text converters, video downloaders, SEO analyzers, and productivity tools. No ads, no signup required. 🔗

toolbrew

toolbrew - Clean & Useful Tools Library

Professional text tools including case converter and word counter. Clean, ad-free interface for content creators.

--- The Economics of War: MEFO Bills 🔗

Grey Dynamics

The Economics of War: MEFO Bills

German rearmament in the 1930s required the use of significant heterodox financing options, most important of which was the MEFO Bills pro...

Namaste! Sunday assorted links: Rails Blocks | Home | Delightful Ruby on Rails UI components A collection of Ruby on Rails UI components with minimal dependencies, easy to use, with Tailwind CSS and stimulus controllers. 🔗

Rails Blocks - Rails UI Components using Tailwind CSS and Stimulus

Rails UI components for building modern web applications, simply copy and paste the code into your app.