Day 2025-04-16

10.

A 2025 Survey of Rust GUI Libraries

www.boringcactus.com/2025/04/13/2025-survey-of-rust-gui-libraries.html

Saving for the quote, cause it sums it up pretty well:

Tcl, a fascinating late-80s programming language that I would describe as weird in a Lua way, weird in a LISP way, and weird in its own way all at once.

accessibility,article,author_boringcactus,programming_language_rust

9.

Flashback Project

flashbackproject.org

electron-based flash clone, seems neat

animation,project_page,software_content_authoring,software_creative,software_open_source,website

8.

the creeping rot of forced nostalgia

wings.nu/nomanifesto.php

Among the things that produced my general attitude to my own creative output on the web.

article,author_wings,fandom_drama,rant,yesterweb

7.

Nostalgia is Bullshit

wings.nu/nostalgia

A classic.

Fandom drama is delicious.

article,author_wings,fandom_drama,rant,yesterweb

6.

The Standard Salvaged Computing Platform

gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/0/~solderpunk/phlog/the-standard-salvaged-computing-platform.txt

article,degrowth,gopher,permacomputing,sustainable_computing

5.

Compost Party

compost.party

Cell phone web server! And where I discovered this software

low_power_computing,permacomputing,shared_unix,sustainable_computing,website

4.

Graphics Interchange Format Version 89a Specification

www.w3.org/Graphics/GIF/spec-gif89a.txt

file_format_gif,paper,reference,resource,specification

3.

What's In A GIF?

www.matthewflickinger.com/lab/whatsinagif/gif_explorer.asp

An interactive GIF decoder with debug output from the LZW decoder. The most useful resource for debugging GIF implementations I know of besides the spec itself and hexdump(1).

author_matthew_flickinger,debugging,file_format_gif,interactive,resource,webpage

2.