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linkroll

Here I collect links to things that are interesting to me, or I’d like to keep a note of for future reference

[2025-06-25] The Croissant Conspiracy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBnzS_RSxeY [trivia] [hist] [food]
[2025-06-24] White Coke - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Coke [trivia] [hist] [ru]
[2025-06-11] Hurting the feelings of the Chinese People - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurting_the_feelings_of_the_Chinese_people [trivia] [cn]
[2025-06-10] Volkswagen Extended Warranty - Terms and Conditions - https://www.volkswagen.co.uk/en/owners-and-services/my-car/warranties/extended-mileage-terms.html [trivia]
[2025-06-07] Prowlarr, index manager for torrents and nzb - https://prowlarr.com/ [tech] [web] [media]
- Can be used with FlareSolverr to bypass cloudflare captchas - https://github.com/FlareSolverr/FlareSolverr
[2025-06-05] Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution - https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths [tech] [cult]
[2025-05-24] Headphone Assistant MkII https://sites.google.com/view/headphoneadvice/home [tech] [hw]
[2025-05-24] Data Analysis and Regression (1977, Frederick and Tukey) - https://archive.org/details/dataanalysisregr0000most/page/n615/mode/2up [aca] [econ]
[2025-05-24] Tony Law’s Surreal Guide to Surreal Comedy - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000djpg [trivia] [comedy]
- Excellent surrealist comedy, especially the second segment.
- ‘Reeves & Mortimer’ on BBC Radio 1 (06/02/1994) Chris Morris interviews Arthur Streeb-Greebling (Peter Cook) on ‘Why Bother?’ (1994) ‘The Museum of Lost Keyboards’ (13/12/2003)
[2025-05-22] DJT Guide to Japanese - https://djtguide.neocities.org/guide [jp]
[2025-05-20] Setting Up Jekyll to run as a systemd service – with gotchas solved - https://jeremyhajek.com/2022/05/28/Setting-Up-Jekyll-to-run-as-a-systemd-service.html [tech] [web]
[2025-05-20] Markdown syntax - https://www.markdownguide.org/basic-syntax/ [tech] [lang]
[2025-05-20] Remembering The Kanji Vol. 1 online index - https://hochanh.github.io/rtk/rtk1-v6/index.html [jp]
[2025-05-20] trouble.nvim (neovim LSP diagnostics buffer) - https://github.com/folke/trouble.nvim [tech] [editor]
[2025-05-20] CSS Zen Garden - https://csszengarden.com/ [tech] [web]
[2025-05-20] itter.sh (“social media for purists”) - https://www.itter.sh/ [tech]
[2025-05-20] QMK-enabled macropad - https://www.akpain.net/blog/qmk-macropad/ [tech] [hw]
[2025-05-20] Evrard d’Espinque’s Illuminations of De Proprietatibus Rerum (ca. 1480) - https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/despinque-anglicus-illuminations/ [trivia] [art]
[2025-05-20] Japanese conjugation practice - https://baileysnyder.com/jconj/ [jp]
[2025-05-20] PRQL is a modern language for transforming data https://prql-lang.org/ [tech] [db] [lang]
[2025-05-20] tmux cheat sheet - https://tmuxcheatsheet.com/ [tech] [linux]
[2025-05-20] moonfly theme (for vim) - https://github.com/bluz71/vim-moonfly-colors [tech] [editor]
[2025-05-20] How to use PostgreSQL like a message queue - https://worlds-slowest.dev/posts/postgresql-message-queue/ [tech] [db]
[2025-05-20] uConsole - https://www.clockworkpi.com/uconsole [tech] [hw] [linux]
- This looks like a really cool small computer that can run full Linux and is powered off rechargable batteries
[2025-05-20] Burrito Now, Pay Later - https://enterprisevalue.substack.com/p/burrito-now-pay-later [econ]
- Seems to be written by an Economics Enjoyer(tm)
[2025-05-20] “Falsification falsified” (Sven Ove Hansson, Foundations of Science 11, 2006) - https://philpapers.org/rec/HANFF [aca] [phil]
[2025-05-20] 9base (Arch Linux package) - https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/9base/ [tech] [linux]
[2025-05-20] United Arab Republic (1958-1971) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Arab_Republic [trivia]
[2025-05-20] FerretDB, “A truly open source MongoDB alternative” - https://github.com/FerretDB/FerretDB [tech] [db]
[2025-05-20] melonJS - HTML5 game engine - https://github.com/melonjs/melonJS [tech]
[2025-05-20] Konachan (anime wallpapers) - https://konachan.net/ [tech] [anime] [jp] [art]
- use width:>=2560 height:>=1440 as search terms
[2025-05-20] Umineko no Naku Koro ni Musu - https://vndb.org/v24610 [vn] [jp]