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Since I'm adding many YouTube videos to the new Web Gems section, I decided to lazy load all YouTube embeds on the website. The concept is straightforward: instead of loading the full YouTube player for every video on a page, only the video's thumbnail and a small bit of CSS to mimic the player interface are loaded. The actual player is only requested and loaded if the reader clicks 'Play'. This…
Walter Wallis, a master of his craft. INFO: Your browser has JavaScript disabled. Here is the raw URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY1UqUuBqQQ Bad code becomes a liability after 6 months. Good code after 6.5.
Collection of posts and texts that I liked. There are also other readings on my Instapaper profile. I'm currently migrating everything over to regain control of my data. GNU Parallel, Where Have You Been All My Life? alexplescan.com What I Learnt About Making Websites by Reading Two Thousand Web Pages alexwlchan.net Web Typography: Designing Tables to Be Read, Not Looked At alistapart.com Making…
Collection of personal websites. Here is a list of personal websites that I find interesting and inspiring. Most of them are related to either art or technology. To keep up with new posts, I have their RSS feeds in Gnus (my news reader) as well. Please note that the views and opinions expressed on these websites do not necessarily reflect my own. However, I do enjoy reading and hearing from them.…
INFO: Your browser has JavaScript disabled. Here is the raw URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3QF1uAvbkU&lc=Ugx6o1Qz-T2YVomiw1J4AaABAg This video, plus this comment, always makes me smile: Nice to see the art of reasoned argument is still alive. P.S.: I have this one printed on some of my archive binders, just in case someone has never witnessed such a work of art on the editor wars. Also,…
The search for an ideal keyboard/setup is a common quest that Emacs hackers face at some point. Some time ago, in a terminal far, far away, jwz shared some fun results for searching finally got my Emacs setup just how I like it. Since then, this motif has been one of my favorites gems from his hostname—along with all the retro-computing, Emacs, music, movies, and Tron parties of course. These are…
C-3PO take on the dark arts of recursion. INFO: Your browser has JavaScript disabled. Here is the raw URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr9s6-tuppI
The '80s… Black Sabbath on the speakers, Heavy Metal on the big screen. INFO: Your browser has JavaScript disabled. Here is the raw URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02nAH_oAjeg&lc=UgxFtt5oPtkr9VEt_P94AaABAg Summer of 1981. I was 11 years old and my mom wouldn't let me watch it. So I told her I wanted to see another movie that was playing at the same time. She dropped me off for the mantinee. I…
It is worth learning Portuguese just to get the feeling of this one. INFO: Your browser has JavaScript disabled. Here is the raw URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuRS6lcoIbo
And you were thinking Sebastian was programming in Rust all this time. INFO: Your browser has JavaScript disabled. Here is the raw URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Snr113r5ocY
Such a funny rant. But I think this video is here because of the farm segment. INFO: Your browser has JavaScript disabled. Here is the raw URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs&lc=UgzVF6RwyhWhkHtDCYJ4AaABAg 'As of this moment I officially resign from my job as software engineer and will take up work on a farm shoveling pig shit and administering anal suppositories to sick horses because…
INFO: Your browser has JavaScript disabled. Here is the raw URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugPZnsRHUkc A comment that made me appreciate Second Reality even more: I'm not sure younglings now can appreciate how utterly jaw-dropping Second Reality was in the day. In October 1993 my uni flatmate got it on a magazine cover-mount floppy, and he yelled at me to come in his room and watch it on his…
How did I write and publish this? Emacs. INFO: Your browser has JavaScript disabled. Here is the raw URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urcL86UpqZc Emacs takes a lifetime to learn. So the sooner you start, the longer it will take.
21 years later and this video is still mind-blowing. INFO: Your browser has JavaScript disabled. Here is the raw URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzS96auqau0
Although I'm pretty eclectic with music, I can count on one hand the DJs I care enough to pay closer attention. Fatboy Slim is certainly one of them. As someone who grew up with a PlayStation in the '00s, Rockafeller Skank has a very special place in my memories. A few months ago, this set popped up in my feed, but I forgot to add it to the music video collection back then. I really enjoyed the…
As someone who follows many RSS feeds via NNTP in Gnus, I often find myself opening some entries just to skim them and understand what they are about. This happens because some item titles alone do not provide enough context so I can act accordingly. A matter exacerbated by the fact that these entries normally fall outside my scoring rules. In contrast, some websites prepend their content types to…
Centralized repository of reusable automation components for Git forges. Project page https://eternodevir.com/projects/pipelines Area Infrastructure Domain CI/CD Role Author Launched November 1, 2025 Status Core YAML, JavaScript License GPL-3.0 Repository GitHub, Sourcehut Centralized repository of reusable automation components for Git forges. It provides reusable CI/CD pipelines, quality checks,…
CLI tool for importing and utilizing exported social media data from popular services on Hugo websites. Project page https://eternodevir.com/projects/diego Area Application Domain IndieWeb Role Author Launched February 27, 2024 Status Core Golang License GPL-3.0 Repository GitHub, Sourcehut Diego integrates with Hugo as a CLI tool to assist in importing and utilizing exported social media data…
GNU Emacs major mode designed for writing Hugo-powered blogs using various markup formats. Project page https://github.com/masasam/emacs-easy-hugo Area Application Domain Text Editor Role Contributor Launched February 7, 2017 Status Core Emacs Lisp License GPL-3.0 Repository GitHub GNU Emacs major mode designed for writing Hugo-powered blogs using various markup formats. Overview easy-hugo is a…
OCI-compliant container image boilerplates for managing isolated development environments with GNU Make. Project page https://eternodevir.com/projects/mkdev Area Infrastructure Domain Containerization Role Author Launched January 10, 2025 Status Core Containerfile, Makefile License GPL-3.0 Repository GitHub, Sourcehut mkdev is a personal collection of OCI-compliant container image boilerplates for…