Some Bits: Nelson's Linkblog

A linkblog by Nelson Minar (npub1hzp…88cs). Contains a few links a day hand-chosen by Nelson.

Weblog: https://www.somebits.com/linkblog/

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2026-04-02 14:14:15 UTC

RIP Stuey Weills: Beloved Nevada City community member passed away, a nice obituary of her impact on our small town
https://www.theunion.com/news/shes-a-rainbow-nevada-city-says-goodbye-to-gray-goose-shopkeeper-stuey-weills/article_8427ff13-75f8-482e-9066-525152b56b84.html
#nevadacounty #grassvalley #nevadacity

2026-02-10 21:54:15 UTC

AI programming tools: Simon talks about tools to make AI programming more effective. One helps a coding agent demonstrate what the code it wrote can do. The other is for making screenshots.
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/10/showboat-and-rodney/
#documentation #colding #simonw #agents #llm #ai #+

2025-11-08 19:44:15 UTC

Understand Chicago: More notes from living under siege
https://aphyr.com/posts/397-i-want-you-to-understand-chicago
#civilrights #politics #chicago #trump #ice #-

2025-08-26 14:14:15 UTC

rv for Ruby: Software package manager like Python's uv, but for Ruby
https://andre.arko.net/2025/08/25/rv-a-new-kind-of-ruby-management-tool/
#programming #software #python #ruby #uv #+

2025-08-05 15:44:15 UTC

Home battery power plant: Batteries installed in people's homes participated in an experiment to provide significant grid power when needed
https://electrek.co/2025/08/04/california-grid-gets-a-record-power-assist-from-a-100k-home-battery-fleet/
#california #electrify #battery #sunrun #tesla #power #pge #+

2025-06-13 00:19:15 UTC

Fag Rag: A 1970s gay liberation publication
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fag_Rag
#history #shively #gaylib #lgbt #gay #+

2025-05-03 04:09:15 UTC

AIDS Info BBS: 1985 project to create an online community of people with AIDS
https://archive.ph/20201216161307/https://onezero.medium.com/the-long-forgotten-story-of-ben-gardiner-the-aids-activist-whose-network-transformed-the-internet-c14460a73165#selection-689.59-689.72
#socialmedia #history #lgbt #aids #gay

2025-04-25 15:14:15 UTC

County judge arrested: FBI arrested a local judge because she wasn't helpful enough when ICE tried to arrest someone who had shown up to court
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/breaking/2025/04/25/milwaukee-county-judge-hannah-dugan-arrested-by-feds-at-courthouse/83270885007/
#immigration #civilrights #fascism

2025-04-22 16:24:19 UTC

ConsolePi: Turn a Raspberry Pi into a serial console with Internet access
https://github.com/Pack3tL0ss/ConsolePi?tab=readme-ov-file
#internet #console #hacking #server #serial #tcpip #+

2025-03-19 15:09:15 UTC

Plex enshittifies: Popular video piracy platform is now going to require you pay if you want to stream your pirated video offsite. Also prices are going up.
https://www.plex.tv/blog/important-2025-plex-updates/
#streaming #piracy #video #plex #tv #-

2025-01-10 12:59:16 UTC

Musk's fake gaming: Elon buys accounts someone else spent the hours developing, doesn't know how to play them
https://gizmodo.com/path-of-exile-2-players-call-bullshit-on-elon-musks-video-game-stream-2000548126
#elonmusk #politics #gaming #funny #-

2025-01-08 01:54:15 UTC

RSS Tricks: A list of little-known feeds for various web products
https://george.hotell.ing/2025/01/07/rss-tricks/
#syndication #feeds #blogs #rss #+

2024-12-29 18:24:15 UTC

Reed meat smoke: College buddies got serious about smoking meat for events
https://www.reed.edu/reed-magazine/articles/2014/meatsmoke.html
#meatsmoke #rennfayre #college #smoking #cooking #reed #bbq #+

2024-12-03 18:09:15 UTC

miniserve: Yet another HTTP server command line tool. This one has options for single page apps, etc.
https://github.com/svenstaro/miniserve
#server #hacks #http #web #+

2024-11-01 17:34:15 UTC

AI slop hoax parade: Thousands turned out in Dublin for a non-existent Hallowe'en parade, a rumor started by AI slop
https://defector.com/thousands-turn-out-for-nonexistent-halloween-parade-promoted-by-ai-listing
#ireland #dublin #funny #scam #slop #ads #ai #-

2024-10-23 18:44:15 UTC

Thermoradiative Photovoltaics: Theoretical idea of generating power sort of like a solar cell in reverse
https://www.optica-opn.org/home/articles/volume_35/november_2024/features/thermoradiative_photovoltaics/
#electricity #physics #science #energy #power #solar #+

2024-09-28 09:09:15 UTC

OpenFreeMap: A no bullshit free web map. Ambitious, I hope it succeeds
https://openfreemap.org/
#openstreetmap #hosting #maps #osm #+

2024-09-14 23:59:15 UTC

Murderbot author interview: Martha Wells speaking to the Mountain View library
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohDgU97PR1c
#marthawells #murderbot #writing #novels #books #+