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Pronounced 'ark', this programme lets you send email from the terminal.

I wrestled with neomutt (another CLI email client) to send emails in the terminal, but the documentation presumed that everyone in the world already knew how to set up notmuch and understood basic email nonsense, and went straight into telling you …

I found out about the Russian invasion of Ukraine from a meme-site, where someone had cobbled together all the public footage available from the ground. The sirens, the little lights in the sky, the military aeroplanes, and the sound of bombs.

Jumping to Youtube (where I watch news channels), I found they have less …

I always find what I need with Duck Duck go. I've heard others don't, and I have a suspicion they're using it wrong.

Anyone used to Google might search for a film by typing in 'that guy with the beard', and find exactly what they're looking for, because Google's algorithm has cached thousands of similar results, and …

A lot of people who see the Gemini protocol for the first time come up with the same criticism:

If you hate the modern web's bloat, why not just use minimal html?

Gemini has a number of advantages over a series of small html websites.

Unity

When people say 'minimal html', they all have different ideas about what that …

Sysadmins refer to the low-level scripted hacks as 'the background noise of the internet'.

So apparently if the internet could speak, it would sound like

Let me in, I am admin. Password is admin. Let me in. I am root. Let me in...are you still there? Let me in...

Sile's a typesetting program which makes nifty pdfs. It's been going great for me, so I thought I'd share the journey so far.

The Good

• It's based on lua, which is super-simple. You don't need to know any lua to use it, but if you want to poke about, it's easier enough for a non programmer to get an idea of what's …

People often talk in terms of the false dichotomy between pragmatic software use, and ethical software use.

'Us pragmatic folks', they begin, 'just want to use what works'. We should understand of course that they have nothing against people who have principles, but would prefer functioning to non-functioning …

I love LaTeX because it can do things nothing else can. I have to use it, because it can do things nothing else can.

But it has some deep problems.

Packages

I think the biggest root of problems is having packages, rather than just having people submit a pull request on a central repository and add whatever feature …

These are some commands you can do from any Linux terminal. They all run through someone else's server, so any information you send will be visible to the owner.

Get the Current Weather

curl wttr.in

It's best to open the terminal full-screen here to see the full result.

You can also do a city. For some reason, the …