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The Productivity Stack

A good overview about different productivity tools and their place on the productivity stack.

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remove.bg: Remove Background from Image

This is simply amazing. Remove the background from any portrait image automatically. This will come in handy someday.

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The Illustrated TLS 1.3 Connection: Every Byte Explained

A revised edition in which we dissect the new manner of secure and authenticated data exchange, the TLS 1.3 cryptographic protocol.

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Lessons learned from writing over 300,000 lines of infrastructure code

EditorConfig

EditorConfig helps developers define and maintain consistent coding styles between different editors and IDEs. The EditorConfig project consists of a file format for defining coding styles and a collection of text editor plugins that enable editors to read the file format and adhere to defined styles. EditorConfig files are easily readable and they work nicely with version control systems.

This looks useful for open source projects (and companies where everybody chooses its own editor).

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tmux-resurrect: Persists tmux environment across system restarts

tmux-resurrect saves all the little details from your tmux environment so it can be completely restored after a system restart (or when you feel like it). No configuration is required. You should feel like you never quit tmux.

Just added this to my tmux setup. Let's see how it works out in the long run.

 

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GoCD: Open Source Continuous Delivery and Release Automation Server

Easily model and visualize complex workflows with GoCD, a free and open source continous delivery server.

Recommended by the folks of Noris Network.

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Huginn

Huginn is a system for building agents that perform automated tasks for you online. They can read the web, watch for events, and take actions on your behalf. Huginn's Agents create and consume events, propagating them along a directed graph. Think of it as a hackable version of IFTTT or Zapier on your own server. You always know who has your data. You do.

 

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Together

The together project is an IndieWeb environment for reading, discovering, and interacting with content. You might call it a reader.

An alternative reader for the IndieWeb if you are not into Monocle.

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Aperture

Aperture is a Microsub server. Microsub is a spec that provides a standardized way for reader apps to interact with feeds. By splitting feed parsing and displaying posts into separate parts, a reader app can focus on presenting posts to the user instead of also having to parse feeds. A Microsub server manages the list of people you're following and collects their posts, and a Micropub app shows the posts to the user by fetching them from the server.

Another piece of the IndieWeb puzzle.

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Indiepaper: A read later service built for the open web

Have you ever stumbled upon an article that you want to read, but don't have the time to read right away? Indiepaper is here to help! Send your articles to Indiepaper using the bookmarklet, macOS app, or iOS Workflow, and Indiepaper will extract the article contents and save it for later by publishing to your micropub server.

Indiepaper pairs wonderfully with microsub servers like Aperture and Indie Reader apps like Together, Indigenous, and Monocle.

Yet another IndieWeb project for those cold dark winter nights.

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Sim Daltonism

From the perspective of a color blind person, some colors are impossible to distinguish. Sim Daltonism lets you visualize colors as they are perceived with various types of color blindness. Use the camera on your iOS device, or use the Mac app to filter a region of the screen.

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The Virtual Keypunch

Type and download your personal punch cards — the Web2.0 of “big iron” age!

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Apache NiFi

An easy to use, powerful, and reliable system to process and distribute data. Apache NiFi supports powerful and scalable directed graphs of data routing, transformation, and system mediation logic.

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Mermaid

Ever wanted to simplify documentation and avoid heavy tools like Visio when explaining your code?

This is why mermaid was born, a simple markdown-like script language for generating charts from text via javascript.

Looks useful in the Asciidoc context, but according to sources this is still very rough around the edges. Need to keep an eye on this though.

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Sozi

Sozi is a zooming presentation editor and player.

Unlike in most presentation applications, a Sozi document is not organised as a slideshow, but rather as a poster where the content of your presentation can be freely laid out. Playing such a presentation consists in a series of translations, zooms and rotations that allow to focus on the elements you want to show.

If you ever need your own local Prezi, this is an option.

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Return of the Tentacle

"Return of the Tentacle - Prologue" is a fan project and the unofficial sequel to the iconic adventure game "Day of the Tentacle". Purple Tentacle is back and tries to conquer the world and enslave humanity once more. The three friends Bernard, Laverne and Hoagie make their way back to the mansion of the mad scientist Dr. Fred – time travel should help saving the world.

Let's save this for those cold winter evenings...

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Swiss Propaganda Research: Der Medien-Navigator 2018

Wie sind deutschsprachige Medien politisch und geopolitisch positioniert? Für den Medien-Navi­gator 2018 wurden insgesamt 80 verschiedene Publikationen untersucht.

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Mermaid

Ever wanted to simplify documentation and avoid heavy tools like Visio when explaining your code? This is why mermaid was born, a simple markdown-like script language for generating charts from text via javascript.

I'm staying with PlantUML for now.

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Cheat.sh

The only cheat sheet you need. Unified access to the best community driven documentation repositories of the world.

Cheat sheets for the command line. Very neat!

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