A collection of internet evergreens I started a new web page, to publish a collection of awesome and inspiring web pages that are worth reading. Currently the collection is modest, I hope to build over time. Find this collection of evergreens here.

denote-review Implement a simple review process for denote notes with denote-review How an Emacs package came into existence Systems in use Over time I have grown into using several different note systems next to each other, like taking notes in awkiawki wiki and in denote. Both were a succession of earlier systems:...

Best of the Gutenberg books I read in 2025 Project Gutenberg is a fantastic treasure trove filled to the brim with over 75,000 books. In 2025 I read several books and short stories that are now in the public domain. Here are the most noteworthy. Books Little Fuzzy by H. Beam Piper (1962) 252 pages Short science...

Added a blogroll like in the old days In the heyday of blogs, many blogs published a blogroll, often is a side bar. This was a list with which showed a selection of links other blogs. It showed the blogs that had recently been updated. I created a blogroll that does the same. Selection of links A script looks every...

New category in the links The demise of the search engines and the embrace of untrustworthy, useless AI-generated results, optimistically referred to as "AI-powered" are upon us. The web is turning into a web for profit. Individual websites and blogs, that make up the smol web, are almost impossible to find. Some...

Joined the Generation Lissa! webring The Generation Lissa! webring is for people who learned how to build their own personal websites with code between the years of 1996 and 2005, and still run a personal space on the Internet. More about the webring Webrings help to keep the web alive Small hand-cafted, non...

Prosody XMPP server in the home lab Local XMPP server on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W This is an article about a local server only, not reachable from the internet. The differences with a XMPP server that is connected to the internet and does federation with other XMPP servers is in the infrastructure: TLS-certificates...

VNC on a OpenBSD virtual machine OpenBSD comes with the vmm(4) hypervisor and vmd(8) daemon. It is easy to create and install an OpenBSD virtual machine on an OpenBSD workstation. For more information, see the Virtualization page in the OpenBSD FAQ. Running one or more OpenBSD virtual machines on your OpenBSD laptop...

Install 9front in vm-bhyve on FreeBSD 9front 9front (or plan9front) is a fork of the Plan 9 from Bell Labs operating system. 9front with Mothra and Netsurf vm-bhyve FreeBSD vm-bhyve is a great tool to create, install and manage virtual machines. vm-bhyve is designed to work with ZFS, which makes it very easy to...

Adventures with OS X Mavericks in 2025 Running OS X Mavericks on an old mid 2013 MacBook Air Specs of the Macbook Air 1.3 GHz Intel Core i5 4 Gb 1600 MHz DDR memory Intel HD Graphincs 5000 13 inch TFT LED 1440x900 display 128 GB SSD Apart from the Apple keyboard layout, the keyboard is fine. The glass trackpad...

Notational Velocity on OS X Mavericks The Linkdump No 74 on 82MHz had a nice introduction to the blogpost Getting Ready for the Winter. Part 1, Switching Technology on the blog Minutes To Midnight by Simone Silvestroni. In this great blogpost Simone describes several reasons to switch to OS X Mavericks and writes...

Spellcheck in Emacs on OS X Mavericks with MacPorts The MacPorts Project provides thousands of ports that greatly simplify the task of compiling and installing open-source software on a Mac. It is easy to install MacPorts. Once MacPorts is installed, it only takes a few commands to install and upgrade software...