Weekly Shaarli

All links of one week in a single page.

Week 37 (September 11, 2023)

Mastodon instance with 6 files - Justin Garrison

This article explained the ActivityPub protocol (used by Mastodon and others) by describing the essential endpoints which may be served simply in static json.

I love this approach of explaining things by reducing a complex thing into the minimalist essentials.

Discover subdomains of a domain

A utility to find subdomains for a domain.

Also see https://crt.sh.

Making visually stable UIs | Horizon EDA Blog

How to avoid texts shifting around with changing values in a variable pitch line?

  1. use U+2007 FIGURE SPACE to pad numbers (not space, which may have different width to the digits)
  2. use U+2212 MINUS SIGN instead of the ascii '-' character.
Search PBS Space Time

Search the transcripts of PBS Space Time.

Having fun with keyboard mappings under Linux ⌨️ - pulsar17's blog
  • How to find the scancode of a key (evtest),
  • And map it to some known keycode (setkeycodes).