Daily Shaarli
February 16, 2024
mup music publication
OpenBSD-based live system
The mighty, self-hostable Git server for the command line🍦 - charmbracelet/soft-serve
Calcure is a modern TUI calendar and task manager with customizable interface. The program manages your events and tasks, displays birthdays from your abook, and can import events and tasks from calcurse and taskwarrior.
Add-on macro packages (not part of the groff distribution)
Originally published in 1987, Unix Text Processing (UTP) (written by Dale Dougherty and Tim O'Reilly) provides one of the few comprehensive looks at all the tools involved in a typical troff-based writing workflow.
The simple approach to using install-font.sh to install fonts for groff probably works for almost everybody.
This is a brief explanation of how to choose which macro package to use with the Unix typesetting system troff (or groff).
CAUTION: youtube link
THE FANDOM is a documentary film about the furry fandom. It dives headfirst into the imaginative world of “FURRIES,” the often-misunderstood internet subculture of fans of the anthropomorphic arts. Using a bountiful collection of archival tapes and images, this documentary traces the evolution of the furry fandom from its roots in the 1970s to the expansive, international community it has become today. Join a host of charming characters (including the grandparents of the fandom itself) on this heart-warming journey through the decades; witness the many triumphs and challenges that shaped “furry” into the most unique fandom of all time.
NOTE: 19:20 comment about appreciating the idea of creativity
Prerequisites This tutorial assumes you either have (1) a text editor where you can edit LaTeX and the corresponding TeX distribution for your OS to compile it into a PDF or (2) access to a site where you can edit and compile LaTeX.
Learn and practice git.
A guide for astronauts (now, programmers using Git) about what to do when things go wrong.
A workflow for contact management in plain text.
When is an extremely simple personal calendar program, aimed at the Unix geek who wants something minimalistic. It can keep track of things you need to do on particular dates.
rem2pdf is a Perl program that takes the output of "remind -p" and
produces a PDF calendar. See "man rem2pdf" for details.
(not included in all distribution packages of remind)
Adding OpenType Fonts to groff
groff Mailing List archives
Writing a resume in groff can seem difficult, but rest assured it can easily be accomplished, and in this guide I will show how a simple resume can be created. In this guide I will use the macro set ms, so remember to compile the document using ‑ms. This guide will also use the tbl program to create tables, so remember to first compile the document in tbl.Slideshow Presentation:
"How to have fun with the world’s most important free software project"
The A11Y Project is a community-driven effort to make digital accessibility easier.
A smart redirecting gateway for various frontend services
Farside provides links that automatically redirect to working instances of privacy-oriented alternative frontends, such as Nitter, Libreddit, etc. This allows for users to have more reliable access to the available public instances for a particular service, while also helping to distribute traffic more evenly across all instances and avoid performance bottlenecks and rate-limiting.A dark and sleek Emacs setup for general purpose editing and programming - susam/emfy
Most commonly used git tips and tricks.
This Perl tutorial assumes the prospective Perl hacker has no prior knowledge of programming languages, but is able to differentiate between a computer and a toaster.
Using remind's RUN directive and echo to pipe reminders to commands.
text-based front-end to Remind
Note: last known working copy according to mailing list.
example documents
When writing documents in vim, it’s nice to have a quick way of compiling them into the desired formats. In my case, I compile my groff files into pdfs while at the same time having a preview in zathura. Zathura automatically detects changes in pdfs and reloads accordingly, which is nice.Learn simple macros to add footnotes, blockquotes, lists, subheads, and other formatting for your class papers.
(more) Ethical alternatives to Amazon