Friday assorted links: Draw.Audio Draw.Audio is a free musical sketch-pad for exploring ideas in sound and art. It's an all-in-one synthesizer, sequencer, and drawing tool. 🔗

Draw.Audio - Draw something, then listen to it.

Draw.Audio is a free musical sketch-pad for exploring ideas in sound.

--- SnapNostr | Create beautiful images of Nostr notes Create stunning, customizable screenshots of Nostr posts with SnapNostr. 🔗

SnapNostr - Create beautiful images of Nostr notes

Create stunning, customizable screenshots of Nostr posts with SnapNostr.

--- ColliderScript: Covenants in Bitcoin via 160-bit hash collisions We introduce a method for enforcing covenants on Bitcoin outputs without requiring any changes to Bitcoin by designing a hash collision based equivalence check which bridges Bitcoin’s limited Big Script to Bitcoin’s Small Script. 🔗 https://colliderscript.co/colliderscript.pdf --- Guide for Wallets Employing Bitcoin Core 28.0 Policies | Bitcoin Optech The guide explains and provides command line samples for: - One Parent One Child (1P1C) Relay - TRUC Transactions - 1P1C-topology Package RBF - Pay To Anchor (P2A) as well as describing common wallet patterns that can benefit: simple payments, coinjoins, LN, Ark, LN splicing 🔗

Bitcoin Optech

Guide for Wallets Employing Bitcoin Core 28.0 Policies

In Bitcoin Core 28.0 contains new P2P and mempool policy features that may be useful for a number of wallets and transaction types. Here Gregory Sa...

Wednesday assorted links: Writing secure Go code | Jakub Jarosz What does it mean to keep security in mind when writing Go code? Answering this question in one short article seems impossible. For this reason, we will narrow it down to a few specific practices. 🔗

Jakub Jarosz

Writing Secure Go Code

Security testing starts with understanding vulnerabilities. The CVE website lists known software flaws. The OWASP Top Ten highlights common weaknes...

--- The Go libraries that never failed us: 22 libraries you need to know | Three Dots Labs blog In this guide, we share 22 Go libraries that have proven reliable across multiple production systems we've built. We cover essential tools for HTTP routing, database access, messaging, observability, and testing - all based on our experience leading Go teams. For each library, we explain its key strengths and provide practical usage tips. We also highlight common mistakes to avoid when using these tools. 🔗

The Go libraries that never failed us: 22 libraries you need to know

In this guide, we share 22 Go libraries that have proven reliable across multiple production systems we

Tuesday assorted links: ahmetsait/toolgit Git Productivity Toolkit 🔗

GitHub

GitHub - ahmetsait/toolgit: Git Productivity Toolkit

Git Productivity Toolkit. Contribute to ahmetsait/toolgit development by creating an account on GitHub.

Monday assorted links: The UFO Timeline Made by @TUPACABRA on X, it's a fully interactive timeline of UFO cases, with lots of categories to sort by. Not a ton of cases yet but it's getting updated regularly. 🔗 https://theufotimeline.com/ --- fabiospampinato/cash An absurdly small jQuery alternative for modern browsers. 🔗

GitHub

GitHub - fabiospampinato/cash: An absurdly small jQuery alternative for modern browsers.

An absurdly small jQuery alternative for modern browsers. - fabiospampinato/cash

Saturday assorted links: Bioart Build figures, presentations, and illustrations with 2,000+ science and medical art visuals. This collection of high-quality, scientifically accurate vectors, icons, and brushes is freely available within the public domain. 🔗

BioArt

BioArt

--- getcronit/pylon Enables TypeScript developers to easily build GraphQL APIs 🔗

GitHub

GitHub - getcronit/pylon: Enables TypeScript developers to easily build GraphQL APIs

Enables TypeScript developers to easily build GraphQL APIs - getcronit/pylon

--- PicLooks Free authentic looking AI generated profile pictures for your designs, saving you hours searching stock photo sites. 🔗

PicLooks | Free Profile Pictures

Free authentic looking AI generated profile pictures for your designs, saving you hours searching stock photo sites.

--- Fun with Custom Cursors Explore creative ways to enhance user experience by designing custom mouse cursors for your website, providing a fun and interactive element to your projects 🔗

Let's Build UI

Fun with Custom Cursors

Two ways to change the default mouse cursor appearance.

Thursday assorted links: Capacitor by Ionic - Cross-platform apps with web technology Build iOS, Android, and Progressive Web Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript 🔗

Capacitor

Capacitor by Ionic - Cross-platform apps with web technology

Build iOS, Android, and Progressive Web Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

--- The Bitcoin Popularity Index (BPI) - A Measure Global Interest - Bitcoin Magazine - Bitcoin News, Articles and Expert Insights The Bitcoin Popularity Index is a unique tool measuring global Bitcoin interest through Google search data, highlighting key adoption trends 🔗

Bitcoin Magazine

The Bitcoin Popularity Index (BPI) - A Measure Of Bitcoin Interest Around The World

The Bitcoin Popularity Index is a unique tool measuring global Bitcoin interest through Google search data, highlighting key adoption trends

--- Gerador de números de cartão de cidadão Site espectacular para gerar aleatoriamente Números de Cartão de Cidadão portugueses 🔗

Gerador de números de cartão de cidadão

Site espectacular para gerar aleatoriamente Números de Cartão de Cidadão portugueses

--- Opcode Explained Documenting bitcoin opcodes 🔗

Opcode Explained

Documenting bitcoin opcodes.

--- Smarter than 'Ctrl+F': Linking Directly to Web Page Content Discover how text fragments revolutionize web navigation. Learn to link directly to specific text on any web page, surpassing traditional 'Ctrl+F' searches. Explore this powerful, user-friendly feature for precise content sharing and improved web experiences. 🔗

Ahmad Alfy

Smarter than

Discover how text fragments revolutionize web navigation. Learn to link directly to specific text on any web page, surpassing traditional

Wednesday assorted links: Australia/Lord_Howe is the weirdest timezone | SSOReady Timezones are weird. But only finitely so. Here's the exact conceptual model you should have of them. 🔗

Australia/Lord_Howe is the weirdest timezone | SSOReady

Timezones are weird. But only finitely so. Here's the exact conceptual model you should have of them.

--- The Bitcoin Dev Project Find your way in bitcoin open source 🔗

The Bitcoin Dev Project

The Bitcoin Dev Project

Find your way in bitcoin open source

--- koekeishiya/yabai: A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning 🔗

GitHub

GitHub - asmvik/yabai: A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning

A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning - asmvik/yabai

--- Using an 8K TV as a monitor For programming, word processing, and other productive work, consider getting an 8K TV instead of a multi-monitor setup. An 8K TV will have superior image quality, resolution, and versatility compared to multiple 4K displays, at roughly the same size. As a bonus, an 8K display is also suitable for gaming at 4K 120 Hz, or for full screen media consumption, which is not possible with multiple smaller monitors. 🔗

Using an 8K TV as a monitor

For programming, word processing, and other productive work, consider getting an 8K TV instead of a multi-monitor setup. An 8K TV will have superio...

Tuesday assorted links: Using a CSS cursor to show the external link’s favicon – Terence Eden’s Blog 🔗

Using a CSS cursor to show the external link’s favicon – Terence Eden’s Blog

--- Learn to Read Russian in 15 Minutes 🔗

Learn to Read Russian in 15 Minutes

--- HTML Form Validation is heavily underused HTML Forms have powerful validation mechanisms, but they are heavily underused. In fact, not many people even know much about them. Is this because of some flaw in their design? Let’s explore. 🔗

Expression Statement

HTML Form Validation is heavily underused

HTML Forms have powerful validation mechanisms, but they are heavily underused. In fact, not many people even know much about them. Is this because...

--- fiatjaf/wikistr A \wikipedia\ client for nostr. 🔗

GitHub

GitHub - fiatjaf/wikistr: A "wikipedia" client for nostr

A "wikipedia" client for nostr. Contribute to fiatjaf/wikistr development by creating an account on GitHub.

Sunday assorted links: Olivetti’s Ivrea: How an Italian Tech Giant Built the World’s Most Progressive Company Town | by Daniel Stone | Medium 🔗 https://medium.com/@danielstone/olivettis-ivrea-how-an-italian-tech-giant-built-the-world-s-most-progressive-company-town-557cb035c383 --- Typeset An HTML pre-proces­sor for web ty­pog­ra­phy. Typeset pro­vides ty­po­graphic fea­tures used tra­di­tion­ally in fine print­ing which re­main un­avail­able to browser lay­out en­gines. 🔗

Typeset

An HTML pre-proces­sor for web ty­pog­ra­phy which provides real hang­ing punc­tu­a­tion, optical mar­gin align­ment, small caps de­tec�...

Saturday assorted links: TinyWidgets A collection of tiny, reusable, UI components — wrapped in a helpful app layout with header, side bar, dark mode, and more. 🔗

TinyWidgets

--- Tables with Fixed Headers and Horizontal Scroll | Tania Rascia's Personal Website Tania Rascia shares a helpful solution for creating HTML tables with both horizontal scroll and fixed headers, a common but tricky problem for developers. 🔗

HTML Tables with Horizontal Scroll and Sticky Headers

Turns out, creating an HTML table that has both horizontal scroll and fixed headers can be a tricky problem. As another developer said about…

--- *Spark A trust-minimized solution designed to scale Bitcoin and extend the Lightning Network. 🔗

Spark

Spark: Bitcoin's Payment Layer for Stablecoins & Instant BTC

Build wallets, issue stablecoins, and move BTC instantly: all natively on Bitcoin. No bridges, no custodians. Start building with Spark's SDKs today.

Friday assorted links: Bitcoiners Anonymous Curious who supports Bitcoin? Browse our database of supporters. 🔗

Bitcoiners Anonymous

Homepage - Bitcoiners Anonymous

Welcome to the largest database of Bitcoin Supporters! Bill Gates, Jack Dorsey, Abigail Johnson, Nassim Taleb, and more

Thursday assorted links: Tog's paradox Tog’s Paradox (also known as The Complexity Paradox or Tog’s ComplexityParadox) is an observation that products aiming to simplify a task for users tend toinspire new, more complex tasks. It’s one of the key reasons for thesymptom of requirements changing after delivery in enterprise softwareproducts, and for feature creep in consumer products. Tog’s Paradox alsoexplains why it’s futile to try to completely nail down requirements for asoftware product, as the product itself will have an impact o... 🔗

Votito

Tog's paradox

Tog’s Paradox (also known as The Complexity Paradox or Tog’s ComplexityParadox) is an observation that products aiming to simplify a task for u...

--- GitButler | Git Branching, Refined A Git client for simultaneous branches on top of your existing workflow.. 🔗

GitButler

GitButler

GitButler software development platform

--- GitHub - thebrandonlucas/bitcoin-qr A zero-dependency, zero-framework QR code web component for Bitcoin on-chain, Lightning, and unified BIP-21 payments. 🔗

GitHub

GitHub - thebrandonlucas/bitcoin-qr: A zero-dependency, zero-framework QR code web component for Bitcoin on-chain, Lightning, and unified BIP-21 payments.

A zero-dependency, zero-framework QR code web component for Bitcoin on-chain, Lightning, and unified BIP-21 payments. - thebrandonlucas/bitcoin-qr

Wednesday assorted links: Two examples of hover styles on images – alexwlchan When I hover over an image, I can add a border to a link, or change the colours of an SVG icon. 🔗

Two examples of hover styles on images – alexwlchan

--- The Interactive Guide to Rendering in React In this interactive guide, we'll explore why, when, and how React renders. 🔗

Fireship

The Interactive Guide to Rendering in React

In this interactive guide, we'll explore why, when, and how React renders.

--- numbnoot.gandlaf.com/cashu Cool cashu explainer 🔗 https://numbnoot.gandlaf.com/cashu

Tuesday assorted links: GitHub - maoserr/epublifier Converts some webnovels to epub format. 🔗

GitHub

GitHub - maoserr/epublifier: Converts some webnovels to epub format

Converts some webnovels to epub format. Contribute to maoserr/epublifier development by creating an account on GitHub.

--- Send Encrypt and send files with a link that automatically expires to ensure your important documents don’t stay online forever. 🔗

Send

Encrypt and send files with a link that automatically expires to ensure your important documents don’t stay online forever.

--- How to secure your new VPS: a step-by-step guide - by Kyri From sensible user management to automated security patches, by the end of this guide you'll sleep confidently with a VPS you know is secure. 🔗

How to Secure Your New VPS: A Step-by-Step Guide

From sensible user management to automated security patches, by the end of this guide you'll sleep confidently with a VPS you know is secure.

Monday assorted links: EmailBTC - Send Bitcoin to anyone that has an email address. No seed phrases. No KYC. No recipient EmailBTC account needed. Just seamless, non-custodial, open-source simplicity. Send to friends who've never touched crypto with just their email address. 🔗

EmailBTC

EmailBTC - Send Bitcoin to anyone that has an email address.

No seed phrases. No KYC. No recipient EmailBTC account needed. Just seamless, non-custodial, open-source simplicity. Send to friends who've never t...

--- AlgoRelay: Nostr's First Algorithmic Relay AlgoRelay is nostr native first algorithmic relay, enabling operators to build relays using a preset weighting algorithm. 🔗

No Bullshit Bitcoin

AlgoRelay: Nostr's First Algorithmic Relay

AlgoRelay is nostr native first algorithmic relay, enabling operators to build relays using a preset weighting algorithm.

Sunday assorted links: Swiper - The Most Modern Mobile Touch Slider Swiper is the most modern free mobile touch slider with hardware accelerated transitions and amazing native behavior. 🔗

Swiper

Swiper - The Most Modern Mobile Touch Slider

Swiper is the most modern free mobile touch slider with hardware accelerated transitions and amazing native behavior.

--- Lenis – Get smooth or die trying 🔗

Lenis – Get smooth or die trying

A smooth scroll library fresh out of the darkroom.engineering.

--- luge - Front-end animation plugin for uncreative developers 🔗

luge

luge - Front-end animation plugin for uncreative developers

An easy-to-use timesaver that brings class animation to any website. It’s simple and fast, and it gives every developer the chance to use animation.

--- Homepage | GSAP GSAP is an industry standard JavaScript animation library from GreenSock that lets you craft high-performance animations that work in every major browser. 🔗

Homepage

Supported by Webflow. Animate Anything - A wildly robust JavaScript animation library built for professionals.

New paper from the ECB. TL;DR: HFSP Link: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4985877

Saturday assorted links: kv4p HT - open source ham radio transceiver for your smartphone 🔗

kv4p HT - Open Source Ham Radio for Android

--- PlaceholderJS Ridiculously simple and lightweight placeholders 🔗

PlaceholderJS - Ridiculously simple and lightweight placeholders

Ridiculously simple and lightweight placeholders

--- Tuttle Twins: \A Bitcoin Bash & Corrupted Cash\ - YouTube When inflation wrecks movie night, Grandma takes the twins—and stowaway Karinne—back to the Bitcoinverse. There, they learn about the risks of controlled money, CBDCs, and the freedom of Bitcoin. Plus, rocks. Lots of rocks. 🔗 --- ishaan1013/sandbox A cloud-based code editing environment with an AI copilot and real-time collaboration 🔗

GitHub

GitHub - ishaan1013/sandbox: Code editing environment with an AI copilot and real-time collaboration

Code editing environment with an AI copilot and real-time collaboration - ishaan1013/sandbox

--- Understanding Silent Payments - Part Two In this second part of our silent payment series, we will take a deep technical look into what your BitBox does under the hood in order to support silent payments securely. 🔗

BitBox Blog

Understanding Silent Payments - Part Two

In this second part of our silent payment series, we will take a deep technical look into what your BitBox does under the hood in order to support ...

Friday assorted links: Using Cloudflare on your website could be blocking RSS users Many users prefer to use an RSS feed reader to stay up to date with the content on the websites they visit. But if you've enabled Cloudflare on your website, you're likely blocking these RSS users from accessing your website content without realizing it. 🔗

Using Cloudflare on your website could be blocking RSS users

Cloudflare

--- Quicky Self-host Next.js applications in seconds!\r A CLI tool for seamless management of your Next.js applications 🔗

Quicky

A CLI tool for deploying and managing self-hosted Next.js and Node.js projects, featuring GitHub integration, domain setup, SSL certificates, and a...

--- h2tunnel A CLI tool and Node.js library for a popular \tunneling\ workflow, similar to the proprietary ngrok or the openssh-based ssh -L solution. All in less than 700 LOC with no dependencies. 🔗

GitHub

GitHub - boronine/h2tunnel: TCP over HTTP/2

TCP over HTTP/2. Contribute to boronine/h2tunnel development by creating an account on GitHub.

--- Sava OS A desktop interface for your web browser. 🔗

Sava OS

Sava OS

A desktop interface for your web browser

Thursday assorted links: Graphite | Web-based vector graphics editor and design tool Graphite is a free, open source vector and raster graphics engine, available now in alpha. Get creative with a nondestructive editing workflow that combines layer-based compositing with node-based generative design. 🔗

Graphite | Free online vector editor & procedural design tool

--- CapibaraZero docs | CapibaraZero A cheap alternative to FlipperZero™ based on Espressif boards 🔗 https://capibarazero.github.io/docs/ --- Taproot Script-Path Spend Transaction | by Gabrio Tognozzi | Medium The Taproot upgrade is a drive towards making Bitcoin more private and scalable. This upgraded provides two main improvements to the bitcoin ecosystem: In this blog post we will focus on Tapscript… 🔗 https://gabrio-tognozzi.medium.com/taproot-script-path-spend-transaction-40700480274b