Links

Collection of some links that I don’t want to lose, but don’t have an article for (yet?)

IT Hardware

• Parky Towers resources on thin clients https://www.parkytowers.me.uk/thin/

OpenBSD

• OpenBSD package management and updating https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq15.html
• OpenBSD disk formatting etc., http://blog.trumpton.org.uk/2011/03/openbsd-formatting-disks.html
• Open BSD on a laptop
• OpenBSD first steps
• More OpenBSD laptops
• Or OpenBSD on the desktop

Gopher, small web, etc.,

• https://gopher.floodgap.com/overbite/

TRIZ

• Lots of books http://www.trizminsk.org/eng/book.htm
• https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470684320
• More books on TRIZ http://xtriz.com/books.htm
• discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10581143
• Triz Journal https://the-trizjournal.com/newbie-what-are-the-best-books-to-learn-triz/
• Lots of videos and guides: https://opensourcetriz.com/

Dotfiles

• Have been using stow: https://alexpearce.me/2016/02/managing-dotfiles-with-stow/
• Apparently nix offers some benefits nowadays… https://alexpearce.me/2021/07/managing-dotfiles-with-nix/
• https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles
• https://driesvints.com/blog/getting-started-with-dotfiles/
• https://www.webpro.nl/articles/getting-started-with-dotfiles
• https://dotfiles.github.io/tutorials/
• https://github.com/webpro/awesome-dotfiles
• https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dotfiles
• https://github.com/tuurep/dotfiles
• https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/fzf-a-command-line-fuzzy-finder-missing-demo-a7de312403ff/

Version control

• experimenting with fossil, some prefer it to git: https://opensource.com/article/20/11/fossil
• More on Fossil: https://www2.fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki
• Gitology
  • http://jordi.inversethought.com/blog/on-gitology/
• https://www.mercurial-scm.org/

Networking

• https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2023-02-06-nftables.html

Email setup

• http://frostyx.cz/posts/synchronize-your-2fa-gmail-with-mbsync
• http://frostyx.cz/posts/synchronize-your-2fa-gmail-with-mbsync
• https://notmuchmail.org/manpages/notmuch-reindex-1/
• https://blog.flaport.net/configuring-neomutt-for-email.html
• https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/mutt-wizard
• Msmtp
  • https://arnaudr.io/2020/08/24/send-emails-from-your-terminal-with-msmtp/
  • https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Msmtp
  • https://www.serverwatch.com/guides/using-msmtp-as-a-lightweight-smtp-client/
• mu https://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/
• https://trendoceans.com/how-to-install-and-configure-mutt-command-line-email-client/#Mutt_Configuration_Files
• https://paul.frields.org/2009/07/12/best-in-show/

Filesystems

• https://bcachefs.org/Roadmap/

Other stuff

• Taskwarrior https://taskwarrior.org/docs/examples/
• https://tuomov.iki.fi/software/ (I used to love the pwm window manager, mostly use lxde these days, but pwm was ahead of its time (as was the same author’s ion wm))
• suckless software (in this case, installing suckless terminal also here on Arch Wiki
• including dwm…
• File Sharing on Wikipedia