Software

For complex command-line tools, traditional man pages are often indispensable, but they can feel cluttered when you just need a quick answer. That’s where »tldr pages« comes in: a modern alternative that presents the most important commands concisely and clearly. The content is maintained by an engaged community and is vollständig Open Source. With options like the Browser-App, access is always easy, fast, and available offline — ideal when you want your browser and terminal open side by side. ...

From the outside, open source often looks like a technical concept. A license here, a repository there, a few lines of source code, publicly visible. But look closer and you’ll see: it’s about much more than software. It’s about freedom. And about sharing. I’m not a developer in the classic sense. I’ve never overseen major projects or designed complex software architectures. But over the years I’ve written many small scripts, sometimes in PHP, sometimes in Python or Perl. I’ve built websites with WordPress, written HTML and CSS, tried things out and discarded them. Never aiming for perfection, but always wanting to create something that works — for me, and sometimes for others. ...

Recently I leafed through a conversation between LWN and Richard Stallman from about two decades ago. Even at that early stage his remarkably confrontational style already stood out. LWN writes in “Interview with Richard M. Stallman |”: Proprietary software is antisocial, so developing it is wrong. In most cases, the user of proprietary software is expected to promise not to share with anyone else. It’s wrong to make that agreement, wrong to keep it if you have made it, and especially wrong to lure someone else into making such a promise. Using part of the proceeds of this antisocial activity for a worthy cause cannot justify it. ...

Once again this blog has been a bit neglected. So far I had been blogging with an iOS Shortcut workflow, but it somehow stopped working. I adjusted the process again — technically it worked, but it wasn’t very practical. I briefly googled how others had solved the problem and came across Post from Rosemary Orchard. This workflow uses the stdin input option of the Run Script Over SSH action — in simple terms, it lets you pass input to that action as well as use variables as input in the script section. – Rosemary Orchard von 27. August 2018 ...

How environmentally friendly is your website? The Carbon Calculator tries to estimate this using the following factors. Calculating the carbon emissions of a website is somewhat of a challenge, but using five key pieces of data we can make a pretty good estimate: Data transfer over the wire Energy intensity of web data Energy source used by the data centre Carbon intensity of electricity Website traffic – Website Carbon Calculator Even though I scored a perfect 100%, you shouldn’t take the result too seriously. ...