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Tuesday assorted links:

How I Designed a Dieter Rams inspired iPhone Dock

πŸ”— https://arslan.io/2024/09/23/dieter-rams-inspired-iphone-dock/

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GitHub - breez/swapd

A simple submarine swap daemon.

πŸ”— https://github.com/breez/swapd

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How much energy does desalinisation use? Is it β€œabsurdly cheap”?

πŸ”— https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/how-much-energy-does-desalinisation

Monday assorted links:

Open Source Icon Sets - Iconify

Open source vector icons from all popular icon sets.

πŸ”— https://icon-sets.iconify.design/

Don't know, yet.

I bookmarked this because I want to transform my Helm wallet repo into a book and publish it in Denmark. It needs some investigation still.

Sunday assorted links:

Turn your blog into a book | jorge

Using the jorge static site generator to pack a blog anthology as an epub file.

πŸ”— https://jorge.olano.dev/blog/turn-your-blog-into-an-ebook/

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SwapMarket

SwapMarket is a virtual broker for Non-Custodial Bitcoin Bridges, Connecting Different Layers of Bitcoin.

πŸ”— https://swapmarket.github.io/

Saturday assorted links:

Visual guide to SSH tunneling and port forwarding - ITTAVERN.COM

πŸ”— https://ittavern.com/visual-guide-to-ssh-tunneling-and-port-forwarding/

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Silent Link

Anonymous eSIM Get global mobile 4G/5G Internet access and burner phone numbers instantly and privately on any modern eSIM-compatible smartphone

πŸ”— https://silent.link/

Clever phishing attack using CAPTCHA and targeting GitHub users:

https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/31282

Friday assorted links:

The shady Story behind why we think Veganism is healthy

Paid off scientists, swayed politicians, and hidden studies helped us be afraid of meat

πŸ”— https://josepheverettwil.substack.com/p/the-shady-story-behind-why-we-think

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Atkinson Hyperlegible Font - Braille Institute

Atkinson Hyperlegible was carefully developed by the Braille Institute to help low-vision readers. It improves legibility and readability through clear, and distinctive letters and numbers.

πŸ”— https://www.brailleinstitute.org/freefont/

Thursday assorted links:

GitHub - erskingardner/whitenoise: Secure Messaging over Nostr

White Noise is a secure & private messenger client for Nostr. It's built with Tauri, Rust, and Svelte.

πŸ”— https://github.com/erskingardner/whitenoise

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Protocol Buffer Design: Principles and Practices for Collaborative Development | by Roman Kotenko | Aug, 2024 | Lyft Engineering

πŸ”— https://eng.lyft.com/protocol-buffer-design-principles-and-practices-for-collaborative-development-8f5aa7e6ed85

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Cashu NUTs Specifications

πŸ”— https://cashubtc.github.io/nuts/

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Bitcoin: a unique portfolio diversifier

Asset management giant BlackRock, with over $10 trillion in assets under management, has published a new report touting Bitcoin as a unique portfolio diversifier

πŸ”— https://www.blackrock.com/us/individual/literature/whitepaper/bitcoin-a-unique-diversifier.pdf

Wednesday assorted links:

ecash – BitcoinScoresby

πŸ”— https://bitcoinscoresby.com/ecash/

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cmdruid/tapscript: A humble library for working with Tapscript and Bitcoin Transactions.

A humble library for working with Tapscript and Bitcoin Transactions. - cmdruid/tapscript

πŸ”— https://github.com/cmdruid/tapscript?tab=readme-ov-file

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HTTP Authentication Using Schnorr Signatures

This specification defines a method for authenticating HTTP requests using Schnorr signatures, providing a decentralized and secure authentication mechanism. By leveraging Schnorr signatures, widely used in cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Litecoin, this method enables seamless integration with decentralized networks and services. Published by Nostr Community Group

πŸ”— https://nostrcg.github.io/http-schnorr-auth/

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Why This Great Mathematician Wanted a Heptadecagon on His Tombstone | Scientific American

Mathematician Gauss left behind a trophy case of mathematical achievements to highlight on his tombstone, but above all he wanted a regular heptadecagon etched on it

πŸ”— https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-this-great-mathematician-wanted-a-heptadecagon-on-his-tombstone/

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Polar β€” The best monetization platform for developers | Polar

Polar is an open-source alternative to Lemon Squeezy, enabling developers to easily monetize their work through memberships, products, and SaaS, with features like GitHub repo access, Discord roles, and license key management. Polar handles billing, taxes, and payouts, with no fixed costs and only charges when you earn.

πŸ”— https://polar.sh/

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Linkpreview - Check your website og image, meta tags, favicon, etc.

Check Preview your website og image, meta tags, favicon, etc.

πŸ”— https://linkpreview.xyz/

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WalletScrutiny - Know your wallet like you built it.

πŸ”— https://walletscrutiny.com/

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satshoot.com

Unstoppable Freelancing on Nostr

πŸ”— https://satshoot.com/

Tuesday assorted links:

Anonostr | Anonymous Nostr Client

Send anonymous notes to the Nostr network with Anonostr. Each note submission generates a new key pair that's securely burned after single use furthering anonymity.

πŸ”— https://anonostr.com/

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What Is cbBTC? - The Bitcoin Manual

cbBTC is a derivative token minted on Ethereum and Coinbase’s Base networks, with plans to expand to more blockchains in the coming months.

πŸ”— https://thebitcoinmanual.com/articles/cbbtc/

Monday assorted links:

The 10 Oldest Currencies Still Used Today

πŸ”— https://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-10-oldest-currencies-still-used-today/

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Understanding Concurrency, Parallelism and JS | rugu

πŸ”— https://www.rugu.dev/en/blog/concurrency-and-parallelism/

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GitHub - lnbits/LNbits-on-Liquid

Using trustless atomic swaps via boltz to run LNbits of Liquid!

πŸ”— https://github.com/lnbits/LNbits-on-Liquid

Sunday assorted links:

Hurl - Run and Test HTTP Requests

Hurl, run and test HTTP requests with plain text and curl. Hurl can run fast automated integration tests.

πŸ”— https://hurl.dev/

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The Bastard Operator From Hell Complete

Geek humour from the 90'

πŸ”— https://bofh.bjash.com/

Saturday assorted links:

Konty | Sketch your app ideas without stress

πŸ”— https://konty.app/

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Good forms - daverupert.com

Brian LeRoux posted a few thoughts about forms and the idea of a β€œgood form” resonated with me so I dogpiled some of my own thoughts and experiences on it. Here’s a compilation of those ideas. I’m sure this is incomplete and would love to see your list.

πŸ”— https://daverupert.com/2024/09/good-forms/

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6 Techniques I Use to Create a Great User Experience for Shell Scripts

πŸ”— https://nochlin.com/blog/6-techniques-i-use-to-create-a-great-user-experience-for-shell-scripts

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The Ultimate Guide to Font Performance Optimization | DebugBear

Font performance optimization is a set of web development techniques that make fonts load faster and render more smoothly, including thoughtful font selection, the use of performant font formats, self-hosting, optimized @font-face declarations, font display strategies, and others.

πŸ”— https://www.debugbear.com/blog/website-font-performance

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How I Built an NFC Movie Library for my Kids | Simply Explained

When I was a kid, my sister and I had a tower of VHS tapes we watched endlessly. Fast-forward to today, and my children's movie collection is vastly different. It's completely digital and dispersed across services. I wanted to recreate the tangibl...

πŸ”— https://simplyexplained.com/blog/how-i-built-an-nfc-movie-library-for-my-kids/

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supertestnet/brick-wallet: A web frontend for NWC

πŸ”— https://github.com/supertestnet/brick-wallet

Friday assorted links:

The first water car is already a reality: 1000 kilometers of autonomy and the end of gasoline

πŸ”— https://www.eldiario24.com/en/water-car-end-gasoline/114/

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Meet the winners of the 2024 Ig Nobel Prizes | Ars Technica

The award ceremony features miniature operas, scientific demos, and the 24/7 lectures.

πŸ”— https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/09/meet-the-winners-of-the-2024-ig-nobel-prizes/

Thursday assorted links:

Transparent Textures

Standing on the shoulders of Subtle Patterns. Built and maintained by @mikehearn.

πŸ”— https://www.transparenttextures.com/

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Consent | Nostr Privacy

A few privacy issues with nostr protocol and apps

πŸ”— https://consentonchain.github.io/blog/posts/nostr-privacy/

Have you seen this?

It's AI that creates a roast based on your notes.

Talk to him.

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Wednesday assorted links:

htmx ~ Web Security Basics (with htmx)

Writing web applications with HTML templates is a slightly different security model, but it’s no harder than securing a JSX-based application, and in some ways it’s a lot easier.

πŸ”— https://htmx.org/essays/web-security-basics-with-htmx/

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Yaak – The most intuitive desktop API client

Organize and execute REST, GraphQL, and gRPC requests in a simple and intuitive app

πŸ”— https://yaak.app/

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how nostr works

HTML explanation of Nostr's decentralization possibilities

πŸ”— https://how-nostr-works.pages.dev/#/

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balloons-js

Animated balloons effect for your website

πŸ”— https://arturbien.github.io/balloons-js/

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Create an Animated Favicon

Quickly create an animated favicon from a GIF. Copy and paste JavaScript code to your site to get started. Made by AE Studio.

πŸ”— https://www.faviconvideo.com/