Early in 1998, This is True author Randy Cassingham was distressed to see that not only had actor Jack Lord died, but that his death was virtually ignored in the mainstream media. Wanting to honor him somehow, Randy came up with the idea of an “honorary unsubscribe” — symbolically deleting Lord from the This is True online distribution list. (Randy had no way of knowing if Lord actually was a subscriber, since it’s virtually impossible to positively identify someone by their email address alone.) Reaction was immediate: True’s readers loved the honor, so now someone is honored almost every week in This is True’s email newsletter.
But there’s no point in rehashing what everyone already knows about. Rather than jump on bandwagons recognizing celebrities, the Honorary Unsubscribe is designed to “recognize the Unknown, the Forgotten, and the Obscure People who had an impact on our lives.” So you will probably recognize few of the names, but you’ll come to understand the impact the honorees have had on your life. These are the people you will wish you had known!
On the occasions that Randy does write about someone well-known, it’s usually because he has found an angle that most people don’t know about — or the person dropped out of the limelight and was forgotten.
A monthly newsletter about natural disasters and climate change.
A super-simple, super lightweight CMS that can be used to build a website, a blog, a personal wiki, or lots of other things. Has a robust library of extensions.
Edit your website in a web browser. Log in with your user account. You can use the normal navigation, make some changes and see the result immediately. It is a great way to update your website. No database, no admin panel. Datenstrom Yellow doesn't get in your way. Edit your website in a text editor. Create small web pages, wikis and blogs. You can use your favorite text editor and change everything on your computer. This is convenient for developers, designers and translators. Download one file, unzip it and copy everything to your web server. Your website is immediately available. The most important things are included. There are extensions with additional features, languages and themes that you can install.
Eric A. Meyer has been working with the web since late 1993 and is an internationally recognized expert on the subjects of HTML, CSS, and web standards. A widely read author, he was technical lead at Rebecca’s Gift, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to providing healing family vacations after the death of a child; and was, along with Jeffrey Zeldman, co-founder of the web conference series An Event Apart (2005–2021).
RSS: https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/feed/
ATOM: https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/feed/atom/
How APRS Works is an authoritative source of current, accurate, and easy-to-understand information about the Automatic Packet Reporting System (APRS).
Cybersecurity from the trenches, written by Kevin Beaumont (gossithedog). Opinions are of the author alone, not their employer.
I've been working with Terraform for a while now, and I've noticed that there are a few things that people keep asking me about. I thought it would be helpful to write a blog post about some of the most common questions I get asked and share some of the things I've learned along the way. This is not an exhaustive list, and, if you have any feedback or suggestions, please let me know!
PreemChrome is a curated and cultivated digital garden maintained by SynAck. It’s not a “blog” in the traditional sense of the word like most people might be used to insofar as this space isn’t really a chronological ordering of thoughts. Rather, this is a place that I can throw out half-baked thoughts, screeds, manifestos, and oddities and then cultivate them over time. Some of them might never get past the “half-baked” stage; some of them will eventually become so fully-baked as to evoke the smell of homemade bread in one’s mind as they read them. The point is, there will be no chronological ordering of either posts or updates; either one of those things could happen at any time. It’s all part of my nefarious plan to keep you coming back for more.
Hello visitors! Present punk is the idea that we are either currently living in a cyberpunk dystopia, or that we are transitioning into one.
The first purpose of this blog is to curate a collection of all the news stories today that prove this idea, from the latest corporate takeovers to the newest tech innovations.
The second purpose is to reckon with dystopia becoming true, and probe more deeply into the why’s and the what-can-we-do’s.
Rosie Grant, MLIS, is a part time digital librarian at the American Jewish University in Los Angeles and full time Outreach and Communications Manager for the Center for the Study of Women|Barbra Streisand Center at UCLA. She runs @ghostlyarchive on Tiktok and Instagram where she discovers and cooks recipes she finds on gravestones. She has currently cooked 25 recipes found on gravestones around the world and traveled to visit 7 of them.
RSS feed: https://ghostlyarchive.com/feed/
Pb is a tiny CMS for creative coders. Create a beautiful blog just from Markdown files. Drag and drop them to your /posts folder. Portabloc will do the rest. Pb is a minimalist CMS, lightweight and easily customizable. For those who want to create simple and modern sites without complex deployments: No database, no Javascript, no bloat. Requires PHP v5.03 or later with mbstring enabled and mod_rewrite (which pretty much means Apache).
Extremly simple "static" PHP blog that renders markdown posts. No installation or database needed. To create a post just write a new .md file. Everything else just works.
Note: It's not a full blogging platform, does not currently come with any premade themes, it's just a script and specific folder structure to load and display markdown files. The demo site looks pretty good as-is, though.
Requires PHP v5.x or later and a web server that supports .htaccess (Apache and Lightspeed, though I don't see why you couldn't write some rules for Nginx).
Blog and monthly digest of Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) information sources, tools, articles, events, and helpful tips.
Instead of manually checking individual websites for updates, you can automatically get updates through a website's RSS feed using an RSS Reader app. This allows you to build a single collection of updates across the web in a single feed, that only you control. You can get an RSS feed for any website supported in three simple steps.
Open RSS is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides free RSS feeds to the public.
Their blog is well worth perusing.
Somebody made an actual fucking fansite in 2023. Will wonders never cease?
I write about security, privacy, vulnerabilities and exploits, retro computing, music, various programming languages, personal projects and general stuff that crosses my mind. Make sure you use encrypted email when sending me any sensitive info.
Tor mirror: http://sizeofaex6zgovemvemn2g3jfmgujievmxxxbcgnbrnmgcjcjpiiprqd.onion/
The sister site of the Sunbow Marvel Archive, dedicated to the digital preservation of scripts, storyboards and other production material from 1980s animation. This is an unofficial site which has no affiliation with any company responsible for the commission or production of the cartoons depicted herein.
A somewhat silly website that talks about recently discovered 0-day vulnerabilities.
RSS feed: https://0dayfans.com/feed.rss
News and opinions about wildfires in the US.