09 Sep 2026

Linkdump #4

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Well… this linkdump hasn’t got so many stuff.

Infrastructure

FreedomNames: This project has been recently started by Melroy, an active member of BCH community, to make domain names without central authority. Let’s see how it’ll go.

rc23: Yet another shell for UNIX based on Plan 9 rc. I am always interested in going beyond traditional UNIX.
smolbsd: A project with which you can create a tiny NetBSD VM to run a single service. It advertises as “boot under 10ms” under a modern x86 hardware. You might also want to checkout firecracker(see Below).
firecracker micro VM: A minimalist virtualization technology and program to run micro VMs on Linux.
river: River is a wayland compositor without a window manager. So you can use it to create your own window manager easier.

From Locked Room to Open Worlds: A post from an acquintance of mine. She explains how through Internet he could explore the entire world and the ideas, and then to question everything.
Don’t be a meat proxy: We have a new phenonem where people just copy/paste everything from LLMs to their coworker or code reviewer. The one doing so is called a “Meat proxy” and Niklas Gruhn explains why it adds no value, but rather wastes efforts of your coworker or project maintainer to read LLM text output…

As a StarWars fan, I’ve seen the mainstream movies and films degrading over and over. On the other hand, some fans produce films which are much better than official StarWars average. Here is a fan film titled “Vader”. It’s really cool. I want to watch it again and again. Episode 2 is here. Episode 1 is here. If I had the means, I would definitely have donated to the people making this.

FOSS Torrents: The people behind this project have created torrents for many FOSS softwares, games and operating systems. Some projects officially have got partnership while others are unofficially created by them. If you can, please seed the projects you like. Or donate FOSS Torrents. Below is a photo on one of me seedboxes which shows which projects have been downloaded most from me.

Here’s an excellent paper demonstrating a Scheme REPL, VM and compiler in under 4-5KB. Many newer languages such as Rust, Julia and others get inspired to take some features from Lisp. But still, Lisp has got advantages no other language outside the family has. And it is unfortunate, with the current situation, no Lisp has got much of a room in the industry. I think another post is needed to explain why Lisp matters a lot.
Coalton: A statically typed and functional programming language on the top of Common Lisp. I think later I should create me own language on the top of CL for specific purposes.