JKirchartz's Research Links

Sharing links of interest to me and other designers & developers.

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Clean blue sketch traditional line-art to color it digital with in Krita

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Alternatives to the !important Keyword | CSS-Tricks

Cascade layers, specificity tricks, smarter ordering, and even some clever selector hacks can often replace !important with something cleaner, more predictable, and far less embarrassing to explain to your future self.

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I don’t like to cover “current events” very much, but the American government just revealed a truly bewildering policy effectively banning import of new consumer router models. This is ridiculous for many reasons, but if this does indeed come to pass it may be beneficial to learn how to “homebrew” a router. Fortunately, you can make a router out of basically anything resembling a computer. I’ve used a linux powered mini-pc as my own router for many years, and have posted a few times before about how to make linux routers and firewalls in that time.

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Joins are NOT Expensive! - Raw Reading: When talking about Data Lakes and how people access them - we must address some of the misconceptions that made them popular in the first place.

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Hello, Jail: A Quick Introduction to FreeBSD Jails · Cogs and Levers

A place for thoughts, ideas, tutorials and bookmarks. My brain can only hold so much, you know.

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Old browsers don’t have JavaScript compression APIs, so we store data in pixel color channels and export to PNG to compress data.

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anarcat

What if I told you there is a way to configure the network on any Linux server that:

works across all distributions

doesn't require any software installed apart from the kernel and a boot loader (no systemd-networkd, ifupdown, NetworkManager, nothing)

is backwards compatible all the way back to Linux 2.0, in 1996

It has literally 8 different caveats on top of that, but is still totally worth your time.

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GitHub - jgm/doctemplates: Pandoc-compatible templating system

Pandoc-compatible templating system. Contribute to jgm/doctemplates development by creating an account on GitHub.

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A guide to using uv to create and manage Python projects, including adding dependencies, running commands, and building publishable distributions.

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OpenRC Service Script Guide

The OpenRC init system. Contribute to OpenRC/openrc development by creating an account on GitHub.

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A free book about how to use the terminal multiplexer "Tmux"

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An ISA sound card and CD-ROM emulator, powered by a Raspberry Pi Pico

PicoGUS can emulate Gravis UltraSound, Sound Blaster 2.0 / AdLib (OPL2), CMS/Game Blaster and Tandy 3-Voice, and supports MIDI output with MPU-401 intelligent mode emulation. PicoGUS is also an ODE (optical drive emulator) for DOS and Windows 95/98 PCs with its Panasonic/MKE CD-ROM emulation.

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Deploying my websites on Coolify | tiff on software

Dropping as much Big Tech products as possible. Enter, Coolify.

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The Garage team - An S3 object store so reliable you can run it outside datacenters

An S3 object store so reliable you can run it outside datacenters

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Friction

Friction is a powerful and versatile motion graphics application that allows you to create vector and raster animations for web and video.

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