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matrix8967 | 2 years ago | on: New Tool: Mess with DNS

Huuuge fan of Julia's works.

Her writing and projects were a huge help during an especially turbulent time of my life & career...But I found her work to be extremely informative and validating and gave me the push I needed to do some of my best work.

I def recommend checking out her blog(s) and saving a list of interesting posts to supplement your reading list - even if you're a subject matter expert.

matrix8967 | 3 years ago | on: A Curated Collection of Websites That Look Like Desktops

Wow - this is crazy timing!

I came across this site sometime ago - but didn't bookmark it.

Just a few hours ago - I found some similar resources and wished I'd bookmarked this list.

And here it is!

Anyway, here's my list on the same theme: Systems running in a browser.

  https://simone.computer/#/webdesktops
  https://github.com/copy/v86
  https://github.com/syxanash/awesome-web-desktops
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_desktop
  https://github.com/zriyansh/awesome-os
  https://github.com/jeffpar/pcjs
  https://github.com/whscullin/apple2js
  https://github.com/felixrieseberg/macintosh.js
  https://github.com/felixrieseberg/windows95/
  https://github.com/1j01/98

Thanks for supplementing my notes stranger!

matrix8967 | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2022)

  Location: Arkansas
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: Linux, BSD, RHEL, LXC, KVM, Qemu, Docker, K8s, AWS, GCC, Vultr, Linode, Caddy, Nginx, Wireguard, OpenVPN, Ansible, Jekyll, Git, SOC2.
  Résumé/CV: https://alexmorris.dev/Resume.html
  Email: hey(ᵃᵗ)alexmorris.dev

matrix8967 | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are your favorite personal websites?

https://jvns.ca/

Julia Evans blog posts are always a treat to read.

* Doesn't skimp on the technical details / resources / examples.

* Incredibly readable, human focused language that doesn't "talk down" to a reader.

* Wide range of useful topics: Networking, Careers, Soft-Skill, Writing, etc.

* Amazing & informative Art/Zines.

I leaned on her wisdom often when I found myself suddenly thrust into a career as a DevOps Network Engineer.

Her writing very validating for me during some particularly turbulent projects I was working on.

It helped me find my own language to advocate for my code/designs in the face of (often needless) scruitiny from technical and non-technical team members.

Even if you're familiar with the subject matter of a post -- there's a 99% chance that it'll still be worth it to skim, and come away with something you didn't have before.

Huge fan.

matrix8967 | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2022)

  Location: Arkansas
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: Linux, BSD, LXC, KVM, Qemu, Docker, K8s, AWS, GCC, Vultr, Linode, Nginx, Wireguard, OpenVPN, ZFS, Ansible, Jekyll, Gitlab.
  Résumé/CV: https://alexmorris.dev/Resume.html
  Email: hey(ᵃᵗ)alexmorris.dev

matrix8967 | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2022)

  Location: Arkansas
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: Linux, BSD, LXC, KVM, Qemu, Docker, K8s, AWS, GCC, Vultr, Linode, Nginx, Wireguard, OpenVPN, ZFS, Ansible, Jekyll, Gitlab.
  Résumé/CV: https://alexmorris.dev/Resume.html
  Email: hey(ᵃᵗ)alexmorris.dev

matrix8967 | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2022)

  Location: Arkansas
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: Linux, BSD, LXC, KVM, Qemu, Docker, K8s, AWS, GCC, Vultr, Linode, Nginx, Wireguard, OpenVPN, ZFS, Ansible, Jekyll, Gitlab.
  Résumé/CV: https://alexmorris.dev/Resume.html
  Email: hey(ᵃᵗ)alexmorris.dev

matrix8967 | 3 years ago | on: Explaining Code Using ASCII Art

Oh man - I'm def gonna spend some time picking the bones of this list -- great finds.

I have a whole section of my notes dedicated to ASCII Art in the purely creative/crack/BBS scene.

Unicode/Cyrillic fonts used by loud girls on instagram:

  https://coolfonts.text-generator.org/
  https://www.messletters.com/en/
  https://github.com/sepandhaghighi/art

Some creative ASCII tools:

  https://github.com/maaslalani/draw
  https://blocktronics.github.io/moebius/
  http://picoe.ca/products/pablodraw/
  https://ivanceras.github.io/svgbob-editor/
  http://www.torchsoft.com/en/aas_information.html
  https://github.com/hpjansson/chafa/

Here's some ANSI and BBS scene stuff:

  https://www.asciiarena.se/
  https://16colo.rs/
  https://www.ansilove.org/
  https://www.trueschool.se/
  https://www.teletextart.com/
  https://www.pouet.net/
  https://github.com/NuSkooler/enigma-bbs

Like most of us - I grew up with mostly Async communication online.

I'm still out here dishing out emoticons like it's 1998 and every kilobyte counts.

  (•_•)
  ( •_•)>⌐■-■
  (⌐■_■)

matrix8967 | 3 years ago | on: Explaining Code Using ASCII Art

Man - this is my fkn brand.

Plain text is almost a universal truth -- and it's easy to church up your documentation with a well presented ASCII chart.

Some ANSI Color Codes and ASCIInema can carry you a long way.

Here's a list of plain text information tools from my notes:

  https://mbarkhau.keybase.pub/asciigrid/
  https://gitlab.com/mbarkhau/asciigrid/

ascii-tables is exactly what is says on the label.

  https://ozh.github.io/ascii-tables/
  https://github.com/ozh/ascii-tables/

  https://www.netpen.io/main/
  https://github.com/ebirger/netpen/

svgbob and svg-term are both great for creating SVGs out of these plain text files:

  https://github.com/marionebl/svg-term-cli/
  https://ivanceras.github.io/svgbob-editor/
  https://github.com/ivanceras/svgbob/

Here are some TUI/CLI focused frameworks. These are over kill for me - but maybe useful to someone here:

  https://www.textualize.io/
  https://charm.sh/
  http://maaslalani.com/slides/
  https://github.com/peterbrittain/asciimatics/

TUI/Text-Based presentaion tools:

  https://sli.dev/
  https://github.com/slidevjs/slidev/
  https://github.com/maaslalani/slides/
  http://maaslalani.com/slides/
  https://github.com/d0c-s4vage/lookatme/
  https://github.com/chunqiuyiyu/ervy/

Honorable Mention goes to wtf-util and it's TUI configurator:

  https://wtfutil.com/
  https://github.com/ggerganov/wtf-tui

Thanks for coming to my ted talk!

matrix8967 | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you find tools?

I don't entirely disagree.

matrix8967 | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you find tools?

This maybe a bit redundant -- but IMO it's always worth a quick stop at `https://alternativeto.net/` since you can specify OS & License types, etc and read a few reviews.

I've also started to find some neat stuff with `https://github.com/trending` - has been good for finding some good jumping-off points for subjects where I don't always have my finger on the pulse.

It's nice to get out of the echo-chamber and see what the other side of the shop is innovating. It helps me solve problems in ways I might not have come up with - and I've thankfully made lots of friends in Art, Design, UI/UX, and FrontEnd now because of it...so it's easier to keep up with for me now.

I don't think that's an especially hot take on HN though, but just putting it out there in case someone needed to hear it.

matrix8967 | 4 years ago | on: Fedora Linux 34 is officially here

I've got similar hardware here - and just pulled down all my updates on the Fedora33 KDE spin. So far, both GTK and QT windows/UI are behaving fine for me...

Some some relevant hardware/kernel info I yanked out of glxinfo.

I've not looked for any bugreports, but I'm happy to follow one if I might be useful.

  AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT (NAVI10, DRM 3.40.0, 5.11.16-200.fc33.x86_64, LLVM 11.0.0)
  OpenGL version string: 4.6 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 20.3.5

  Monitors: 2
 0: +*DisplayPort-0 1920/598x1080/336+0+420  DisplayPort-0
 1: +DisplayPort-1 1080/598x1920/336+1920+0  DisplayPort-1