Internet Discoveries between 13 October and 20 October

  • Your self-hosted bookmark archive. Free and open source.
  • Navidrome
  • A solar gravitational lens will be humanity’s most powerful telescope. What are its best targets?
  • Stengo/DeskPad
  • Linkwarden
  • Winamp really whips open source coders into frenzy with its source release
  • kv4p HT
  • Europa Clipper mission to ‘one of the most promising places to look for life beyond Earth’ set for lift-off
  • splitbrain/clipscreen
  • Internal blog post reveals Automattic’s plan to enforce the WordPress trademark using ‘nice and not nice lawyers’
  • You’ll soon be able to safely and easily move your passkeys between password managers
  • Google Messages gets a new feature that makes it easier to keep private
  • Lines from “Star Wars” That Can Be Improved by Substituting “Pants” for Key Words
  • How I use Kanban boards in Obsidian to manage my personal projects
  • #9: Unit Tests As Documentation
  • An easy to use, powerful, and reliable system to process and distribute data
  • HashiCorp unveils ‘Terraform 2.0’ while tiptoeing around Big Blue elephant in the room

Interesting details

Your self-hosted bookmark archive. Free and open source. - LinkAce is a self-hosted archive to collect links of your favorite websites. Save articles to read them later, tools to use them in your next project, or historic content to archive it for the long term. LinkAce comes with a lot of features while keeping a clean and minimal interface.

Navidrome - Navidrome allows you to enjoy your music collection from anywhere, by making it available through a modern Web UI and through a wide range of third-party compatible mobile apps, for both iOS and Android devices.

<a name=’A solar gravitational lens will be humanity’s most powerful telescope. What are its best targets?’>A solar gravitational lens will be humanity’s most powerful telescope. What are its best targets?</a> - Image of a simulated Earth, at 1024×1024 pixel resolution, at the distance of Proxima Centauri,at 1.3 pc, as projected by the SGL to an image plane at 650 AU from the Sun. Credit: Toth V. T. & Turyshev, S.G.

Stengo/DeskPad - Certain workflows require sharing the entire screen (usually due to switching through multiple applications), but if the presenter has a much larger display than the audience it can be hard to see what is happening.

Linkwarden - Linkwarden is an open-source collaborative bookmark manager to collect, organize and preserve webpages. Hold on, there’s more!

Winamp really whips open source coders into frenzy with its source release - As people in the many, many busy GitHub issue threads are suggesting, coding has come a long way since the heyday of the Windows-98-era Winamp player, and Winamp seems to have rushed its code onto a platform it does not really understand.

kv4p HT - The radio simply plugs into the USB C port on your Android smartphone and transforms it into a fully-fledged handheld radio transceiver. It’s completely open source (GPL3): the Android app, ESP32 firmware, PCB designs, and 3D printer files.

<a name=’Europa Clipper mission to ‘one of the most promising places to look for life beyond Earth’ set for lift-off’>Europa Clipper mission to ‘one of the most promising places to look for life beyond Earth’ set for lift-off</a> - Is there anywhere else in our solar system that could support life? An imposing NASA probe due to lift off as Australia sleeps tonight might take the first real step toward finding out.

splitbrain/clipscreen - clipscreen is a simple application that creates a virtual monitor that mirrors a portion of your screen. A green rectangle highlights the specified area. Why’s this useful? You can use any screen sharing tool (Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Jitsi Meet, etc.

Internal blog post reveals Automattic’s plan to enforce the WordPress trademark using ‘nice and not nice lawyers’ - Matt Mullenweg, the WordPress co-founder and Automattic CEO, has been embroiled in a very public and legal fight with WP Engine these last few weeks over the use of WordPress as a trademark, and fees Automattic believes WP Engine owes to the WordPress project – sparring that has resulted in WP Eng

<a name=’You’ll soon be able to safely and easily move your passkeys between password managers’>You’ll soon be able to safely and easily move your passkeys between password managers</a> - The FIDO Alliance is working on a new set of standards for transferring credentials.

Google Messages gets a new feature that makes it easier to keep private - Key Takeaways An APK teardown of Google Messages revealed new privacy settings for Profiles, letting users control who sees their picture and name. Though the feature hasn’t fully launched, it was enabled early in the APK teardown, suggesting the feature is close to fully functional.

Lines from “Star Wars” That Can Be Improved by Substituting “Pants” for Key Words - A list created by one of my classmates in the Carleton College class of 2000: We’ve got to be able to get some reading on those pants, up or down. The pants may not look like much, kid, but they’ve got it where it counts. I find your lack of pants disturbing.

How I use Kanban boards in Obsidian to manage my personal projects - Thanks to its offline-first approach, graph views, canvas, backlinks, and Markdown support, Obsidian has been quite popular among productivity seekers these days.

#9: Unit Tests As Documentation - Hello! Let’s continue our series on unit tests by discussing their relation with documentation. When we think about documentation, we think about comments, README files, or tools like Notion or Confluence.

An easy to use, powerful, and reliable system to process and distribute data - NiFi automates cybersecurity, observability, event streams, and generative AI data pipelines and distribution for thousands of companies worldwide across every industry.

<a name=’HashiCorp unveils ‘Terraform 2.0’ while tiptoeing around Big Blue elephant in the room’>HashiCorp unveils ‘Terraform 2.0’ while tiptoeing around Big Blue elephant in the room</a> - HashiCorp’s annual HashiConf shindig wrapped up in Boston with a Big Blue elephant in the room and a hissed instruction: “Don’t mention IBM!” That the conference was in the unspoken shadow of the impending IBM acquisition was a shame since the company unveiled some useful, if not earth-shattering, u

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