This is a collection of links I stumbled across and found worth sharing. Also see the blogroll for links to blogs I regularly read.
When I watch YouTube videos on my Android phone, I almost always use the NewPipe app. It offers a privacy-friendly experience, protects me from ads, and offers a few more options that you would only get with YouTube Premium (downloading video or audio, for example).
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I don’t know much about the technical background, but it’s kind of cool to see that a website can be hosted on a calculator (archive link).
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I like listening to interviews with SQLite developer Richard Hipp (as you may know). He’s a great storyteller and you can always learn something new from him. This podcast episode is no exception.
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Totally agree with Manu’s latest post:
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It’s nice to see when people fork, modify and actually use your open source projects. Like Emanuel Pina does. He has forked my project MailyGo, which enables receiving form submissions on static sites and sends them via e-mail. He added some nice features (which I will definitely take inspiration from and add some back to the upstream project!).
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Pavel Durov, founder of Telegram, published a blog post with “7 myths Apple is using to justify their 30% tax on apps”. He explains quite well why Apple’s practices are not fair and disproves many arguments that you can regularly read from Apple fans on Hacker News or in comments on tech news sites.
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Michael Lynch is someone who, when he has an idea or a problem, spares no effort to get to the bottom of it and develop a solution, usually with a combination of hardware and software. Recently he developed a project that allows him to remote control a server just by connecting a Raspberry Pi via USB and HDMI. The Pi runs a program with a web interface that forwards the keyboard input to the server via USB and sends the HDMI output back to the browser. This allows it to control the BIOS and even install a new operating system.
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I once wrote about pure CSS paintings. It’s amazing what you can achieve with just HTML and CSS. Another amazing thing is CSS-Sweeper, a Minesweeper clone written in just HTML and CSS. It’s not the fastest implementation but more a “stress test” and will probably have lags on average computing devices. Nevertheless, it’s awesome! You can play it here.
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Shane Wighton from the YouTube channel “Stuff Made Here” built a robot that cuts his hair. It worked OK for part of his hair, but see yourself… I wonder how one could even come up with such an idea to have one’s hair cut by a robot with scissors? Crazy!
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Social engineering is more like hacking people instead of hacking systems. Still, Twitter has been hacked:
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