Link Box

Here are some cool links, articles & blogs I found and want to share with the world.

• How do you text? Unpacking the battle between 'raindrop' and 'waterfall' texters
  Sep 23, 2019

  A short, but thought provoking, NBC news article about text, grammar and the nature of language on written form inside your phone screen. Written by Cecelia Watson.

• Elon Musk's Las Vegas Tunnel Kind Of Sucks?
  Sep 10, 2019

  Aaron Gordon writes in jalopnik.com the latest reports on Elon’s hyperloop project, turns out it’s just a hole in the ground with electric cars, out of the shelf teslas, being driven by humans. Even though Elon promised autonomous underground hyperfast buses, we get a glorified matchbox on a straw.

• OpenStax Textbooks
  Sep 9, 2019

  OpenStax publishes free college level textbooks on a diversity of topics. All textbooks are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).

• Dokieli
  Sep 9, 2019

  An interface for creating, editing and publishing documents, that unlike today’s Web, is more in line with Tim Berners-Lee’s vision for the World Wide Web. This tool makes web pages easily editable without prior coding knowledge. No HTML or CSS skills needed, just sign in and edit like a Word document.

• 11 Open Source Tools for Writers
  Sep 7, 2019

  A top 11 list by John Paul from itsfoss.com. Bookmarking this because I might refer back to it later. Highlights include Manuskript, GitBook, ghostwriter and Fountain.

• A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
  Sep 3, 2019

  Founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation John Perry Barlow wrote this text in 1996 laying out who’s in charge of the digital surface area, not the government.

• Bitcoin's carbon footprint
  Aug 23, 2019

  Huffpost article.

• Make your own social media platform
  Aug 22, 2019

  Darius Kazemi’s guide about how to run your own mastodon instance, written for both technical and non-technical folks.

• How to Build a Low-tech Website
  Aug 22, 2019

  This website is awesome, it’s a guide to make your own solar powered blog. The site itself is hosted on a solar powered server, so it may be down due to weather, if so remove the solar. prefix to visit the non-solar powered version.