usenet_links — Initially created: Thursday, March 6, 2025 — 14:01 Most recently edited: Thursday, March 6, 2025 — 13:51
Usenet
Usenet is a distributed discussion system where users post “articles” into “newsgroups” (often just “groups”). Newsgroups span a huge range of topics, organized into a heirarchy. The name usenet is typically used to refer to 8 or 9 specific heirarchies (the.alt heirarchy, which is not managed by the same group as the other 8, is often, but not […]
zines_links — Initially created: Thursday, March 6, 2025 — 14:01 Most recently edited: Thursday, March 6, 2025 — 13:56
Zines
Jess Driscoll has some really great zine resources, but maybe the most immediately useful is this neat 8-page zine template ( archive), with a raw PDF but also an Apple Pages template. A few other versions are available.
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troff_links — Initially created: Thursday, March 6, 2025 — 13:23 Most recently edited: Thursday, March 6, 2025 — 13:23
Links about troff
Troff is a typesetting system for Unix, arguably Unix’s first “killer app”. It is old and weird and clunky, but I like it.
For reference, I use the version of troff in Plan 9. If you’re not on Plan 9 (and can’t or don’t want to use plan9ports), I recommend the […]
websites — Initially created: Wednesday, April 24, 2024 — 10:22 Most recently edited: Wednesday, April 24, 2024 — 10:23
Awesome Web Pages
The web is wonderful.
Inspired by a combination of obsessing over the design of a few sites I’ve discovered recently(ish) and having way too many open tabs, I’ve started collecting some sites which are either particularly inspiring […]
troff — Initially created: Tuesday, October 24, 2023 — 14:44 Most recently edited: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 — 09:40
How to use troff & friends
This not a complete guide to using troff. There is excellent reference material out there, and some very good tutorials. I do wish there were “gentler” introductions, but that’s outside the scope of this document (at least for now). Rather, this is a set of tips, notes, tricks &. from my use — largely for my reference later (I recently couldn’t […]
twitter — Initially created: Sunday, June 9, 2019 — 14:06 Most recently edited: Tuesday, May 7, 2024 — 14:09
How to use Twitter.
At this point, the simplest answer is “don’t”.
Since the takeover, the service has just been getting consistently worse, both technically and socially, and the trajectory is for it to keep heading in that direction. If you’re able, it’s probably best to […]