Nelson's Linkblog 2024-12

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Helen Corbitt Texas Caviar

The original recipe for the blackeyed pea salad. Honestly sounds boring, but it's a starting point

2024-12-23 food • texas • history • corbitt • blackeyedpeas • southern

SimonW's linkblog

Details on process and tech for one of the most active current linkblogs

2024-12-22 blogs • linkblogs • socialmedia • internet • sharing

License Plate Game

A new word game from a friend

2024-12-21 games • words • wordle • scrabble • dictionary

The Loves of my Life

Chapter from Edmund White's new sex memoir. Text is very NSFW.

2024-12-20 gay • lgbt • erotic • sex • edmundwhite

World's richest man endorses Germany's right wing extremist party

2024-12-20 elonmusk • politics • germany • afd • nazis • fascism

MacKenzie Scott gives away another large tranche of money to non-profits

2024-12-19 charity • philanthropy • yieldgiving

mail-tester.com

A free service to test if an email is likely to be marked as spam

2024-12-18 email • spam • dkim • spf • testing • filtering • dmarc

Kenji and alcohol

Beloved food writer Kenji Lopez Alt shares a detailed story about his quitting alcohol with the help of AA

2024-12-18 kenji • kenjilopezalt • seriouseats • drinking • alcohol • recovery • aa • patreon

Amazon Time Sync

Microsecond-accurate timing in EC2 instances

2024-12-18 via:iamcal • aws • ec2 • time • ntp • ptp • synchronization • amazon • hosting

hydroxychloroquine fraud withdrawn

Sham paper for the fake Covid drug finally gets retracted

2024-12-18 fraud • science • covid • didierraoult • retraction

bridgy.fed has a new organization and second engineer!

2024-12-17 bridgy • socialmedia • activitypub • atproto • bluesky • mastodon • fediverse • ryanbarrett

Older woman gamer totally roasts stupid gamer boys

2024-12-17 funny • women • gamergirls • streaming

Mass hallucination thinks ordinary airplanes at night are mysterious drones or UFOs

2024-12-15 newjersey • drones • ufos • hallucination • aviation

Radiohead OK Computer re-arranged using Nintendo 64 sounds

2024-12-14 music • nintendo • radiohead • chiptune

A 1990s terminal emulator that provided terminal multiplexing client-side

2024-12-13 unix • uw • shell • terminal • dos • windows • 1990s • programming • screen

LocalThunk interview

Thoughts from the solo creator of indie game Balatro

2024-12-13 games • balatro • localthunk • interview

Sora AI gymnastics

Hypnotizing video of an AI *almost* displaying gymnastics correctly

2024-12-13 gymnastics • ai • uncannyvalley

Queer interview

Snappy interview with Luca Guadagnino and Daniel Craig about the new movie

2024-12-12 movies • gay • lgbt • danielcraig • queer • wsb • burroughs • snowball • queerbait

OldInsuranceMaps.net

Crowdsourcing georeferenced Sanborn maps. Very incomplete archive but totally the right idea.

2024-12-10 maps • sanborn • fireinsurance • history • crowdsourcing • georeferencing

The Library of Congress' collection of property maps

2024-12-10 maps • sanborn • property • history

Harmeet Dhillon (CW: anti-trans)

Trump pick for a DoJ lawyer is an anti-trans crusader who is trying to outlaw gender affirming care in all states

2024-12-10 politics • trump • civilrights • trans • transgender • hate

Uranian (sexuality)

A 19th century term for a homosexual man

2024-12-10 gay • history • lgbt • oscarwilde

Stormlight Archive recaps

In case you don't remember what happened in the first 4500 pages of the story, before reading the last 1500

2024-12-09 books • fantasy • scifi • stormlight • stormlightarchives • sanderson

Colorectal Surgeon Song

Bawdy but kind song by a Canadian duo

2024-12-09 funny • colorectal • medicine • parody • music

Website to make it easy to 3d print terrain models

2024-12-06 printing • 3dprinting • maps • dem • stl • terrain

Stardew Valley Spouse Survey

Choices made broken down by player's gender, sexual orientation, race, age, etc

2024-12-06 games • stardewvalley • survey • lgbt

Argentinian anarcho-capitalism

Summary of a year of a radical libertarian running Argentina and how what he's doing might be a hint of what Musk and DOGE might try to do. (The article is biased in favor of Milei.)

2024-12-05 politics • argentina • libertarian • capitalism • musk • doge • uspol

Accessing home services

A method for connecting to self-hosted web applications that's nicer than just having a bunch of random local IP addresses and ports

2024-12-05 devops • programming • proxmox • services • tailscale

3d objects that only have one stable position

2024-12-05 toys • gomboc • gravity • 3dprinting • sculpture

63 Chinese Cuisines

Interesting review of different regional cuisines in china

2024-12-04 food • tourism • china • sichuan

California solar glut

We don't have the grid and storage infrastructure to use all the electricity we are generating

2024-12-03 electricity • electrify • solar • california • economics • energy

Yet another HTTP server command line tool. This one has options for single page apps, etc.

2024-12-03 web • http • server • hacks

A profile of a prominent gay citizen in Nevada City

2024-12-02 niel • niellocke • gay • history • lgbt • nevadacity • grassvalley • nevadacounty • profile

Threads Won't Take You South of Market

On Facebook's also-ran social media platform pre-emptively blocking a whole lot of queer Fediverse servers

2024-12-02 facebook • threads • meta • fediverse • mastodon • censorship • lgbt • bear • bdsm