Collectif..ves

• katzele || bebou
• vvvvvvaria
• prepostprint
• byebyebinary
• club1

Type

fonts

drawn with curves

• BBBBaskervvol BBB fork of ANRT’s Baskervville
• not comic microsoft’s soft power unmasked
• junicode gorgeous condensed old style serif
• T_eX user group font catalogue

drawn with bits on a 2d map

• unifont aims to cover 100% unicode coverage. Ligatured writing systems such as arabic are broken though. unifontex is a fork with a better glyphset
• int10h.org great collection of bitmap fonts accross various hardwares

drawn with text

• figlet fonts collection → specimens

texts

• Of Urdu digits and CSS counter styles
• webtypography.net The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web
• metroid FAQ/Speed Guide (SNES) by nemes1ssOne of a kind monospaced text where justification is achieved by the choice of words, writing and typesetting at the same time.
• The concept of a Metafont Donald Knuth. Douglas Hofstadter answers the same year Metafont Metamathematics and Metaphysics
• Knuth vs Hofstadter Thomas Huot-Marchand

Writing systems

• abjads
• Système bibi-binaire

Post binaire

• typo-inclusive.net
• Læ Queer Unicode Initiative (QUNI) → tableau QUNI

Tools

Tools I like

text

• Ed text editor live demo
• lowdown - simple markdown translator markdown parsing
• htmlq - Like jq, but for HTML. html parsing
• awk
• ncurses textual ui framework in c
• recutils textual database with query utilities
• Francium catium a static site generator using shell and a makefile
• figlet & toilet wonderful filters to draw text with text
• was allows me to open recent files by fuzzy finding inside my text editor. I am considering switching to Arthur's approach which finds from the current path.

image

• ImageMagick – Convert, Edit, or Compose Digital Images image manipulation
• Didder - An extensive, fast, and accurate command-line image dithering tool. image dithering
• ascii-image-converter Image to text conversion

pdf

• mutool - all purpose tool for dealing with PDF files pdf manipulation

utilities

• mencal menstruations and other cycles tracker

Tools I rely on

• cmus music player
• vim text editor
• tmux terminal multiplexor
• zathura pdf viewer
• mutt mailer
• zsh shell
• st terminal
• dmenu general purpose menu
• alacritty another terminal emulator, I like its hot reloading of styles
• i3
• i3blocks shell interface for i3 status bar
• debian

Licenses

• CC4r, Collective Conditions for re-use
• CC2r, Collective Commitment to Reuse

Timelines

• Web browsers
• Unix
• Histoires d’internet

Read

• T_eX user group's Yannis Haralambous Interview from Dave Walden 2009
• Elodie Mugrefya Paul Otlet, An Omissum (from DIVERSIONS/DIVERSIONS/DIVERSIES 2019)
• Florian Cramer (echo echo) echo (echo): Command Line Poetics 2007, from Considering your tools: a reader for designers and developers
• Michael Murtaugh Vernacular approaches to teaching with computational tools(web archive) 2021, from VLTK
• Byte Magazines (1975 — 1998)
• Femke snelting Dividing and sharing
• Olia Lialina Turing Complete User
• drones run linux: the free software movement isn’t enough
• Cookie (informatique) — Wikipédia First public written occurence of the term “cookies” dates to an article from the financial times of 1996, the article is called This bug in your PC is a smart cookie and is archived bellow
  • Financial Times · 1996/02/12 · txt
  • Financial Times · 1996/02/12 · pdf

• Computer latency

• 100-year-programs.txt

Documentation

forth

• Thinking Forth 1984

shell

• Sarah Garcin - Print daemon
• POSIX shell cheat sheet
• Shell parameter expansion
• List Only Directories in Linux With ls and Other Commands
• bash guide
• zsh native scripting handbook

cgi

• Writing Safe CGI Programs

awk

• Domain-specific language - Wikipedia
• Brian Kernighan’s Home Page
• Numeric Functions (The GNU Awk User’s Guide) The possibility to do textual trigonometry inside awk → polar2cartesian conversion

jq

• json2csv

recutils

• gnu recutils doc
• recutils presentation

StackExchange

• Is Perl faster than bash? - Stack Overflow
• shell - Using awk with variables - Stack Overflow
• shell - How to generate a list of all dates in a range using the tools available in bash? - Stack Overflow
• unix - awk command to accept two variables as parameters and return a value - Stack Overflow
• command line - Print a 256-color test pattern in the terminal - Ask Ubuntu
• Looping through all files in a directory → find . -type f -exec echo put {} \;
• Why use a makefile over a shell script ?
• Why is using a shell loop to process text considered bad practice ?
• javascript - Best way to add DOM elements with jQuery - Stack Overflow → $('<p>',{append:§ ${val}, css:{backgroundColor:'olive'}, appendTo: $('body')});

Interviews

• WEB90 — Stéphane Bortzmeyer par Camille Paloques-Berges et Valérie Schafer — 2015
  • Partie 1
  • Partie 2
  • Partie 3

Conferences

• Douglas Engelbart
  • The Mother of All Demos 1968
  • The Augmented Knowledge Workshop 1986
• Samuel Goyet Les interfaces de programmation (API) web : écriture informatique, industrie du texte et économie des passages — 2017
• Camille Paloque-Berges Le poisson d’avril « kremvax.0001 » — 2018
• Vincent Quint Amaya Software Story Software Heritage 2023
• Kay Lack A Journey Through the FORML Archives Silicon Valley Forth Interest Group 2025
• Christoph Haag How I Stopped to Learn Programming and Love the Bash LGM 2016
• Neil C Smith Libre Designers and the Software Apocalypse LGM 2025
• Pierre Marchand & Julie Vanderhaeghen Printing Maps with Spot Colors LGM 2025
• Nathan Willis Let's All Go Back To Bitmap Fonts! LGM 2025
• Ana Isabel Carvalho & Ricardo Lafuente Making fonts without font editors LGM 2019
• Valérie Schafer Femmes, informatique et numérique 2024
• Khrys
  • Contre-histoires féministes de la technique et du «libre» 32
  • IA, Philosophie du Libre et Féminisme JdLL2025
  • Se réapproprier les techno-logies : un point de vue libroféministe Capitole 2Libre 2025
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• Lucie Anglade & Guillaume Ayoub - Outside the beaten path of CSS FOSSDEM 2026
• Xavier Lambein - PAW, a programmable DAW FOSSDEM 2026
• Laure Giletti - 19500 images 144 points 64 signes — Laure Giletti, designer graphique, Eurogroupe, Bye Bye Binary 2023
• Didier Verna
  • L’algorithme de Knuth-Plass — Exposé mensuel de GUTenberg 2024
  • Une extension du Knuth-Plass — Exposé mensuel de GUTenberg 2025

• Roger Chartier - Qu’est-ce qu’un livre ? 2009

  • Qu’est-ce qu’un livre ? n°1
  • Qu’est-ce qu’un livre ? n°2
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• Thomas Huot-Marchand Knuth vs. Hofstadter

• Marc Chantreux

  • keep calm and read the perl script (Manipulexity/Whipuptitude) 2015
  • Écosophie du numérique 2023
  • Acme changed my life slcon 2019