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"Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love, and in order to occupy and distract himself without love he gives way to passions and coarse pleasures, and sinks to bestiality in his vices, all from continual lying to other men and to himself. The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than any one. You know it is sometimes very pleasant to take offense, isn't it? A man may know that nobody has insulted him, but that he has invented the insult for himself, has lied and exaggerated to make it picturesque, has caught at a word and made a mountain out of a molehill—he knows that himself, yet he will be the first to take offense, and will revel in his resentment till he feels great pleasure in it, and so pass to genuine vindictiveness."

• Features of your font you had no idea about · OlegWock
• Modern Font Stacks System font stack CSS organized by typeface classification for every modern OS. The fastest fonts available. No downloading, no layout shifts, no flashes — just instant renders.

Fonts

See my Font Matter Page.

• ET Book is a Bembo-like font for the computer designed by Dmitry Krasny, Bonnie Scranton, and Edward Tufte. It is free and open-source. Used by svs.
• Ink & Switch uses Merriweather and Merriweather Sans for very nice and pleasant reading experience.
• llama.ttf  is a font file which is also a large language model and an inference engine for that model.
• Server Mono -- a monspace font.
• Inter; made popular by next.js
• Tetris Font by Erik Demaine and Martin Demaine
• Recursive Sans & Mono "A typographic palette for vibrant code & UI", via ✩ Bending Zed to render my beautiful fonts with Nix

Web Fonts

• Time to Say Goodbye to Google Fonts: Cache Performance

Google Fonts resources will be redownloaded for every website, regardless it being cached on the CDN. Self-host your fonts for better performance. The old performance argument is not valid anymore.

Font Designers

• DAVID JONATHAN ROSS

• OSS Friends - Documenso
• Use Feedful.app to create your own dashboard [^1]
• Scoutflo Atlas - Open Source Marketplace Find and explore the best open-source tools for your business needs
• OpenSauced Start the path to your next contribution and join the global community of open source developers making an impact around the world.

[^1]: (selfnote: using pk email google SSO)

Cool Illustrations

Making Software "A reference manual for people who design and build software. Written and illustrated by Dan Hollick."

Reusable libraries

• Free to Use Vector Illustrations | ManyPixels

• Open Source Illustrations | unDraw

Tools

• Screely - Generate Website Mockups

Observable: Build expressive charts and dashboards with code -- Read the announcement of 2.0 -- Observable 2.0 | Observable. Mike Bostock of the NYT, d3 fame is the founder of observable.

Static sites for data apps?! a recording of the talk given by Robert Kosara of Observable.

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See also evidence

So far, my approach has been quite ad-hoc. I plan to ..huh... make a plan to do proper backups.

What it is currently:

• iCloud
• Google
• Apple Time Machine
• Couple of Hard drives
• A few DVDs burnt with important docs and photos a few years ago

Some concerns to address:

• what things to backup
• ease of backup (not more than X hours in a month/year)
• ease of handing it off (to family members)

Some related reading:

• How I Backup by Derek Sivers; Feb 2024.

Yakshaves -- my space of collecting ideas for tinkering in various stages. You free to steal these ideas. Just drop me a line if you do end up implementing them 😇.

Inspired by yakshav.es which I made a note of in 2017 - for the name, and yak collective for the idea of tinkering.

If you want to collaborate on any of these ideas, please reach out to me on twitter or email.

Ideas

1. 2023-09-14. kindergarten - fork of "A high-frequency word assessment for kindergarteners and their parents" . I want to make a Kannada version of this website.
2. 2023-10-01. Freely available Text To Speech trained model for Kannada on the lines of Thorsten Voice.
   • See nanna dhani
   • 2023-10-09 see https://tts.bhashini.ai
3. 2023-10-09. "Most popular 5000 words Kannada dictionary".
   • How do we decide what are the most popular 5000 words?
4. 2023-10-11 A general "blog-to-book" software that is known to work for the famous blogging platforms like blogger, movabletype and wordpress. The idea is to make books out of long-running ( ran? )blogs into ebooks and maybe even printable books. some candidates are livingfrugal (thousands of blogposts; a stress tester), "the last psychiatrist" (discontinued since '14), and Dr Elisa Freschi's blog etc
5. 2023-10-11 "Email to blog". There is used to be a service like that was funded by YC. I wonder what happened to it.
6. 2023-10-12 More workflows around using bbedit as text automation... or maybe even boop
7. 2023-11-13 my own custom scripts to implement the idea behind mdn note. Maybe something like raku
8. 2024-02-27 OPML Servcie -- an online application that allows cleaning up, and publishing .opml files as HTML. Optionally provide a decent enough XSL file that renders the OPML file well. Also an editor that reformats the OPML file and allows quick editing of entries into categories, add missing attributes etc.
9. 2024-03-31 Publishing Apple Notes as a Website
10. 2024-07-25 22:59 Sustainable Forum Software
11. 2024-07-26 Recreate the stream using redbean
12. 2025-07-23 Redirect and Capture (RadCap). Lets say you have moved docsuments from one site to another, and this will break URLs. in order to setup correct redirects, you can of course use the server, but you might miss some not covered in the rules. So, we have RadCap. Radcap will have one sqlite table that has - redirect - (source, destination) columns. It will do a HTTP redirect when a request matches source. However, you are also interested in capturing what links are broken "out there". So, you write the URL to a different table - capture - (source, count, first_seen, last_seen). We will strip out URL parameters before saving the source, column. If we have already seen that URL, we increment the count.
13. 2025-07-24 A bookmarking website like pinboard that works like streams-place by using Telegram as the interface.
14. 2025-08-10point local LLM at the markdown files powering this site, and ask it to find closest documents related to a search term. (e.g: "extract structured information from unstructured text"). I think there exists a obsidian plugin that does soemthing similar, but I found it very intrusive and disabled it.

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See also unfinished-projects.

Similar pages: Govind's Blog/Steal My Ideas

GetDeploying - Find and compare cloud providers for your next project.

Ubicloud "Ubicloud provides cloud services on bare metal providers, such as Hetzner, OVH, or AWS Bare Metal. You can set it up yourself or use our managed service" by " co-founders at Citus Data, creators of the distributed PostgreSQL database."

A Tutorial Introduction to the Lambda Calculus by Raul Rojas. "This tutorial shows how to perform arithmetical and logical computations using the λ-calculus and how to define recursive functions, even though λ-calculus functions are unnamed and thus cannot refer explicitly to themselves."

Learn Lambda Calculus in 10 minutes with OCaml

Building programming media for novices.

Language Composition

• the bootstrap project
  • algebra
  • physics
  • data science

language levels

• flags
• rethink modularity
  • subroutines
  • objects
  • classes
  • procedures
  • libraries/modules
  • languages

When you make an operation cheap, it changes how users perceive it.

joeerl:

• 'thread pools are a failure of a language'
• X-oriented programming -> x is cheap to make and user

make it cheap to create langauges

language oriented programming.

• enrich what import does.
• provides
  • language extensions
  • restrictions
  • closure over libs
  • and other first-order information.

flags are not composable.

inventing languages is natural, but programming langauges.. ad hoc, brittle implementations and unsafe composition.

seymor pappert - low floor and high ceilings.

#lang margrave - SAT SOlving, security policies

#lang scribble/base

new syntax - rhombus.

matthew flatt - macros are lightweight apis for compilers

"A programmable programmable language"

Runtime systems

state, threads, locks

morris hurley threads book

TSR.

continuations [ primitive]

• graceful terminations
• longful computes

four contributions ("continuations from generalized stack inspection") paper.

js -> js compiler --> stoppify compiler - stopify.org

Accessibility

• scene graph
• semantic prioritization
  • frequency

Error Messages

epistemical closure

Cohen's kappa - take out the agreement by chance.

"parley"

Homepage: RisingWave: Open-Source Streaming Database

RisingWave Database is an open-source distributed SQL streaming database designed for the cloud.

Compared to existing stream processing systems like Apache Flink, Apache Spark Streaming, and ksqlDB, RisingWave stands out in two primary dimensions: Ease-of-use and cost efficiency, thanks to its PostgreSQL-style interaction experience and  Snowflake-like architectural design (i.e., decoupled storage and compute).

RisingWave speaks PostgreSQL-style SQL, enabling users to dive into stream processing in much the same way as operating a PostgreSQL database. RisingWave operates as a relational database, allowing users to decompose stream processing logic into smaller, manageable, stacked materialized views, rather than dealing with extensive computational programs.

In-production use cases

Like other stream processing systems, the primary use cases of RisingWave include monitoring, alerting, real-time dashboard reporting, streaming ETL (Extract, Transform, Load), machine learning feature engineering, and more.

See https://docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/use-cases/

• Streaming ETL
• Real-time analytics
• Event-driven applications

limitations

• No programmable interfaces
  • RisingWave does not provide low-level APIs in languages like Java and Scala, and does not allow users to manage internal states manually (unless you want to hack!). For coding in Java, Scala, and other languages, please consider using RisingWave's User-Defined Functions (UDF).

• Coursier  is the Scala application and artifact manager. It can install Scala applications and setup your Scala development environment. It can also download and cache artifacts from the web.
• Scala CLI from Virtuslab, is a command-line tool to interact with the Scala language. It lets you compile, run, test, and package your Scala code.
• ammonite