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title: 'issue list'
title: 'link list'
description: 'Irregular Link Digest.'
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# lost+found
Irregular Link Digest.
Unsorted pile of links I sometimes urgently need in the middle of a conversation.
> Some file systems contain a special directory,
> called **lost+found** under Unix, where a file system check
> places lost and potentially corrupted files when the correct location
> cannot be determined, and so **requires manual intervention by the user**.
> cannot be determined,
> and so **requires manual intervention by the user**.
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Coming soon
- **[Articles by Bartosz Ciechanowski](https://ciechanow.ski/archives/)**
Interactive articles about physics, math, and engineering.<br>
This is probably the best website on the entire internet.
My favorite post is the one about [bicycles](https://ciechanow.ski/bicycle/).
- **[The Cursed Computer Iceberg Meme](https://suricrasia.online/iceberg/)**
An endless hall of shame and weirdness of computers.
- **[The Evolution of Trust](https://ncase.me/trust/)**
A briliant interactive guide to the game theory of why and how we trust each other.<br>
The rest of this site is also pretty good.
- **[I Know What You Download](https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/)**
Torrenting can leave traces.<br>
Check torrent downloads and distributions for your own or your neighbor's IP address.
- **[Retries](https://encore.dev/blog/retries)**
Requests over the network can fail.<br>
An interactive study of common retry methods for developers.
- **[No Tabs in IntelliJ IDEA](https://hadihariri.com/2014/06/24/no-tabs-in-intellij-idea/)**
"There are many ways to navigate a project inside IntelliJ IDEA (or any other editor)
that doesnt necessarily include having to look
through a list of tabs and figure out where you have to click next."<br>
Post from the VP of Program Management at JetBrains.
- **[An Interface Designed for Touch Typists](https://sfwriter.com/wordstar.htm)**
If you think VIM is insane, you should definitely read about WordStar,
which is still quite popular among many fiction writers.
- **[Ask HN: Programmers who don't use autocomplete/LSP, how do you do it?](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42492508)**
Different opinions on writing code without using ~~overcomplicated~~ advanced tools.
- **[Your Computer Isn't Yours ](https://sneak.berlin/20201112/your-computer-isnt-yours/)**
An investigation into one of the many reasons why no one should use products from Apple.
- **[Yr from NRK and Meteorologisk Institutt](https://www.yr.no/en/)**
A weather forecast site with a no-nonsense interface.<br>
Direct links:
[Belgrade](https://www.yr.no/en/forecast/graph/2-792680/Serbia/Central%20Serbia/Belgrade/Belgrade),
[Istanbul](https://www.yr.no/en/forecast/graph/2-745044/Republic%20of%20T%C3%BCrkiye/Istanbul/Istanbul)
and [Yekaterinburg](https://www.yr.no/en/forecast/graph/2-1486209/Russia/Sverdlovsk%20Oblast/Yekaterinburg).
- **[Hoodmaps](https://hoodmaps.com/)**
A crowdsourced map to navigate cities using marked areas and user-generated tags.
- **[ShadeMap](https://shademap.app)**
This service calculates shadows from mountains, buildings, and trees for any date and time, and displays them on a map.
- **[Cost of Living Comparison](https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/comparison.jsp)**
A comparison tool lets you compare the affordability of two cities side-by-side.
- **[The World Factbook](https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/)**
A massive CIA database on almost every country in the world.<br>
Handy when you need to check what kind of power outlets a country uses before you get there.
- **[Rules for Writing Software Tutorials](https://refactoringenglish.com/chapters/rules-for-software-tutorials/)**
Most software tutorials suck. Here's how to make one that doesn't.
- **[Pangram](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangram)**
A sentence using every letter of a given alphabet at least once.<br>
[An additional list in Russian and other languages](https://www.artlebedev.ru/kovodstvo/sections/33/).
- **about:translations**
Firefox has a built-in translator. Not so smart, but works offline.
- **[No Config for Old Men](https://datagubbe.se/noconf/)**
A rant about how modern software wont let you customize it anymore.
- **[Webcompat.com](https://webcompat.com/)**
Bug reporting for the web.<br>
If a site breaks in one browser but not another, its a web compatibility bug. Report it.
- **[JSFuck](https://jsfuck.com/)**
An esoteric and educational programming style based on the atomic parts of JavaScript.<br>
It uses only six different characters to write and execute code.
- **[Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji](https://paulbutler.org/2025/smuggling-arbitrary-data-through-an-emoji/)**
Unicode is broken. You can encode data in any unicode character.
- **[Common Mythconceptions](https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/common-mythconceptions)**
A list of the worlds biggest myths and misconceptions — with myth-busting included.
- **[A Mathematicians Lament — by Paul Lockhart](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Mathematician's_Lament)**
A passionate critique of how math is taught and a vision of how beautiful it could be instead.
Also [available in Russian](https://www.nbspace.ru/math/).