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Stories by awal

Default search engine: Wikipedia (paste.sr.ht)
Archive it or you will miss it (sircmpwn.github.io)
Servo Nightly Builds Available (blog.servo.org)
What is keeping you from leaving a large centralized service?
Hello! I am trying to compile a list of common reasons why users don't move from a big centralized evilâ„¢ service to either a self-hosted solution or another more "freedom friendly" option (say Gitlab.com vs Github.com) or some other thing altogether. While there are ofcourse common regular ...
Free private Github repos for everyone (github.com)
How do you backup your non-work-related data?
Looking for ideas on personal data backup. Both the software side and the hardware side. Since almost all personal data nowadays defaults to being hosted online - even data you generally have local copies of anyway - few people seem to ever consciously think about backups, including people workin...
The Inner JSON Effect - The Daily WTF (thedailywtf.com)
URLs are UI (hanselman.com)
Maintainers Matter: The case against upstream packaging (kmkeen.com)
Chrome extension to indicate background network activity per tab (github.com)
alacritty - A cross-platform, GPU enhanced terminal emulator (github.com)
How to Print Integers Really Fast - Paul Khuong (pvk.ca)
Google's AMP is a gilded cage (shkspr.mobi)
Beyond Memory Safety With Types (insanitybit.github.io)
Timing attack to check if devtools are open (github.com)
Addition of HTML style anchor links to terminal emulators (gist.github.com)
spreadsheets + vi + json (awalgarg.me)
Hi lobste.rs! I'd like to share a proof of concept for an idea I've thought about for a long time. Think of a new form of spreadsheets where the primary data structure is not a rigid grid but a free-form JSON-like structure (but with first class tables support of course). I'm linking here a demo whi...
The Saddest Moment (usenix.org)
Simple and elegant Markdown-based resumes (github.com)
A very basic implementation of a virtual continuum fingerboard (continuum.awalgarg.me)
Source code: https://codeberg.org/awal/continuum. Hey everyone! I wrote this a while ago but only recently got around to fixing it up enough for sharing. It's a virtual fingerboard, a very basic one at that, inspired by the Haken-Continuum [1]. Really works best with some sort of touchscreen, ...
Systems design 2: What we hope we know (apenwarr.ca)
aflit: Arch Linux variant for leetâ„¢ people (github.com)
What will your ideal/dream programming laptop be?
I thought this would make for some good discussion :) Tell us what should your laptop should have. Go wild on the details! Screen size/resolution/cpu/updradability/ports/OS support/everything. If you have some not-so-obvious reasons for why a feature is important for you, do share! Please share t...
Inside Two-Factor Authentication Apps (hackaday.com)
We got a request in IRC from the author of this article. For reasons orthogonal to the topic of the article, I am posting it from my account and inviting them to an account for commentary instead.
Pastejacking (github.com)
Hot StackExchange questions in your email, filtered by your interests (github.com)
I wrote this for my own use, but figured it'd be worth sharing. What Stack sites/tags would *you* like to follow? :)
Visualize and inspect custom algorithms with time-travel (github.com)
Floating-point representation (2011) (toves.org)
Parsing Binding Names for Efficient Representation in the SpiderMonkey Virtual Machine (rfrn.org)