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Huuuge fan of Julia's works.

Her writing and projects were a huge help during an especially turbulent time of my life & career...But I found her work to be extremely informative and validating and gave me the push I needed to do some of my best work.

I def recommend checking out her blog(s) and saving a list of interesting posts to supplement your reading list - even if you're a subject matter expert.


Wow - this is crazy timing!

I came across this site sometime ago - but didn't bookmark it.

Just a few hours ago - I found some similar resources and wished I'd bookmarked this list.

And here it is!

Anyway, here's my list on the same theme: Systems running in a browser.

  https://simone.computer/#/webdesktops
  https://github.com/copy/v86
  https://github.com/syxanash/awesome-web-desktops
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_desktop
  https://github.com/zriyansh/awesome-os
  https://github.com/jeffpar/pcjs
  https://github.com/whscullin/apple2js
  https://github.com/felixrieseberg/macintosh.js
  https://github.com/felixrieseberg/windows95/
  https://github.com/1j01/98
Thanks for supplementing my notes stranger!


  Location: Arkansas
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: Linux, BSD, RHEL, LXC, KVM, Qemu, Docker, K8s, AWS, GCC, Vultr, Linode, Caddy, Nginx, Wireguard, OpenVPN, Ansible, Jekyll, Git, SOC2.
  Résumé/CV: https://alexmorris.dev/Resume.html
  Email: hey(ᵃᵗ)alexmorris.dev


https://jvns.ca/

Julia Evans blog posts are always a treat to read.

* Doesn't skimp on the technical details / resources / examples.

* Incredibly readable, human focused language that doesn't "talk down" to a reader.

* Wide range of useful topics: Networking, Careers, Soft-Skill, Writing, etc.

* Amazing & informative Art/Zines.

I leaned on her wisdom often when I found myself suddenly thrust into a career as a DevOps Network Engineer.

Her writing very validating for me during some particularly turbulent projects I was working on.

It helped me find my own language to advocate for my code/designs in the face of (often needless) scruitiny from technical and non-technical team members.

Even if you're familiar with the subject matter of a post -- there's a 99% chance that it'll still be worth it to skim, and come away with something you didn't have before.

Huge fan.


  Location: Arkansas
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: Linux, BSD, LXC, KVM, Qemu, Docker, K8s, AWS, GCC, Vultr, Linode, Nginx, Wireguard, OpenVPN, ZFS, Ansible, Jekyll, Gitlab.
  Résumé/CV: https://alexmorris.dev/Resume.html
  Email: hey(ᵃᵗ)alexmorris.dev


  Location: Arkansas
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: Linux, BSD, LXC, KVM, Qemu, Docker, K8s, AWS, GCC, Vultr, Linode, Nginx, Wireguard, OpenVPN, ZFS, Ansible, Jekyll, Gitlab.
  Résumé/CV: https://alexmorris.dev/Resume.html
  Email: hey(ᵃᵗ)alexmorris.dev


  Location: Arkansas
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: Linux, BSD, LXC, KVM, Qemu, Docker, K8s, AWS, GCC, Vultr, Linode, Nginx, Wireguard, OpenVPN, ZFS, Ansible, Jekyll, Gitlab.
  Résumé/CV: https://alexmorris.dev/Resume.html
  Email: hey(ᵃᵗ)alexmorris.dev


Oh man - I'm def gonna spend some time picking the bones of this list -- great finds.

I have a whole section of my notes dedicated to ASCII Art in the purely creative/crack/BBS scene.

Unicode/Cyrillic fonts used by loud girls on instagram:

  https://coolfonts.text-generator.org/
  https://www.messletters.com/en/
  https://github.com/sepandhaghighi/art
Some creative ASCII tools:

  https://github.com/maaslalani/draw
  https://blocktronics.github.io/moebius/
  http://picoe.ca/products/pablodraw/
  https://ivanceras.github.io/svgbob-editor/
  http://www.torchsoft.com/en/aas_information.html
  https://github.com/hpjansson/chafa/
Here's some ANSI and BBS scene stuff:

  https://www.asciiarena.se/
  https://16colo.rs/
  https://www.ansilove.org/
  https://www.trueschool.se/
  https://www.teletextart.com/
  https://www.pouet.net/
  https://github.com/NuSkooler/enigma-bbs
Like most of us - I grew up with mostly Async communication online.

I'm still out here dishing out emoticons like it's 1998 and every kilobyte counts.

  (•_•)
  ( •_•)>⌐■-■
  (⌐■_■)


"Unicode/Cyrillic fonts used by loud girls on instagram" had me LOLing hahahaha

we can be friends


Man - this is my fkn brand.

Plain text is almost a universal truth -- and it's easy to church up your documentation with a well presented ASCII chart.

Some ANSI Color Codes and ASCIInema can carry you a long way.

Here's a list of plain text information tools from my notes:

  https://mbarkhau.keybase.pub/asciigrid/
  https://gitlab.com/mbarkhau/asciigrid/
ascii-tables is exactly what is says on the label.

  https://ozh.github.io/ascii-tables/
  https://github.com/ozh/ascii-tables/

  https://www.netpen.io/main/
  https://github.com/ebirger/netpen/
svgbob and svg-term are both great for creating SVGs out of these plain text files:

  https://github.com/marionebl/svg-term-cli/
  https://ivanceras.github.io/svgbob-editor/
  https://github.com/ivanceras/svgbob/
Here are some TUI/CLI focused frameworks. These are over kill for me - but maybe useful to someone here:

  https://www.textualize.io/
  https://charm.sh/
  http://maaslalani.com/slides/
  https://github.com/peterbrittain/asciimatics/
TUI/Text-Based presentaion tools:

  https://sli.dev/
  https://github.com/slidevjs/slidev/
  https://github.com/maaslalani/slides/
  http://maaslalani.com/slides/
  https://github.com/d0c-s4vage/lookatme/
  https://github.com/chunqiuyiyu/ervy/
Honorable Mention goes to wtf-util and it's TUI configurator:

  https://wtfutil.com/
  https://github.com/ggerganov/wtf-tui
Thanks for coming to my ted talk!


Thanks for the shoutout. AsciiGrid is dockerized should you want to run it yourself, for example because the keybase website happens to not be serving it anymore: https://github.com/mbarkhau/asciigrid#docker


Plug for my side project: https://animasci.com/

Runs in the browser, editor for animated ASCII art, exports as embeddable javascript and animated GIFs.


Marp is pretty neat for markdown presentations, not too complicated and has useful (and pretty!) output.

https://marp.app/


maybe add https://asciiflow.com ?


> Plain text is almost a universal truth

Would you mind explaining what you mean by this? I take it you mean it ubiquitous, which of course it is, but as a phenomenon I'd much rather see things that look like they come from the real world, with color, depth, texture, and I'd much rather see a future where interactions with computers are moving in that direction.


This maybe a bit redundant -- but IMO it's always worth a quick stop at `https://alternativeto.net/` since you can specify OS & License types, etc and read a few reviews.

I've also started to find some neat stuff with `https://github.com/trending` - has been good for finding some good jumping-off points for subjects where I don't always have my finger on the pulse.

It's nice to get out of the echo-chamber and see what the other side of the shop is innovating. It helps me solve problems in ways I might not have come up with - and I've thankfully made lots of friends in Art, Design, UI/UX, and FrontEnd now because of it...so it's easier to keep up with for me now.

I don't think that's an especially hot take on HN though, but just putting it out there in case someone needed to hear it.


AlternativeTo is terrible, riddled with fake reviews and so blatant as well.


I don't entirely disagree.


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