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Reminds me mostly of LyX [0], although that one does use LaTeX and Tex; and targets a WYSIWYM approach [1] [0] https://www.lyx.org/ [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYSIWYM

The article sums up quite well which principles are at play here. The fun part it's suggesting (without words), is either to pick it apart and see what each part does, play around …

The delta-transfer algorithm [0] is about detecting which chunks of a file differ on source and target [1], and limiting the transfer to those chunks. The savings depend on how and…

"It was able to squeak, but not to speak. Experts and professors wrestled with it in vain. It refused to transmit one intelligible sentence." [0] "A translation of Legat's article …

Or rather: > You must have a filesystem, located on the /dev/sda4 device, mounted at /mnt/lfs. The /dev/sda4 device represents the fourth (primary) partition on the /dev/sda block …

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ousterhout's_dichotomy

https://www.ioccc.org/1991/brnstnd/index.html

Seems like a good fit for Expect. https://core.tcl-lang.org/expect/index https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expect

Ralph Griswold (also known for the Icon programming language [0]), started the On-Line Digital Archive of Documents on Weaving and Related Topics [1] at the time, a gem. [0] https:…

batshit?

lol, reminds me of this Monkey Dust one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2j_hXHEjX4

It permits you to config more complicated backups more easily. You can inherit and override rules, which is handy if you need to do for example hundreds of similar style backups, w…

Dirvish [0] is worth looking at, light-weight and providing a good set of functionality (rotation, incremental backups, retention, pre/post scripts). It is a scripted wrapper aroun…

LCAL[0]: The Moon Phase Calendar Program A PostScript program to visualize a calendar of moon phases (skip down to "LCAL PostScript Calendar Examples" for just that). Did some nice…

Cool indeed. A spin on it (also using POV-Ray), but using a photo (texture on an object) and animated (rotating that object, the texture, or the mirrors -- I forgot) in [0] and [1]…

Delay/disruption tolerant networking (DTN) seeks to address these kind of problems, using alternative techniques and protocols: store-and-forward, Bundle protocols and Licklider Tr…

Awk: Aho, Weinberger & Kernighan [0] Tcl: (an embeddable) Tool Command Language [1] Forth: FOURTH as in "4th generation software", "successor to 3rd generation compile-link-go lang…

There's another guide [0] for wire wrap technique (solderless, cold welded connections to square posts [1]). Used extensively in telephony switching/patching in the past, as well a…

Well done! For those interested: a predecessor called the "Jesusonic" was once made by Justin Frankel (of Winamp and REAPER fame): https://www.cockos.com/jsfx/ https://wiki.cockos.…

The exmh E-mail client frontend used this: https://rand-mh.sourceforge.io/book/exmh/thexmdi.html

I came up with: gawk 'BEGIN {IGNORECASE=1} ((length($1) == 6) && /^[a-fois]+$/) {gsub(/o/,0);gsub(/i/,1);gsub(/s/,5); print toupper("#"$1)}' /usr/share/dict/words (caveat: it does …

The title lured me into thinking it would be another Project Orion [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propuls... ] :)

Indeed, bsd-games were not mentioned. Here's a list: https://github.com/msharov/bsd-games There was Sleuth also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleuth_(video_game) Personally I enjo…

Great, thanks for the info! I used Tgif for exactly that, designing SNMP monitoring with network maps/dashboard like pages. Forgot exactly which combinations I implemented, but it …

Well found ;) I remember crossing this multiple times since the 90s while looking for Tgif-related info, but always in Japanese I think... and every time with marvel for his techni…