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Collectif..ves

• katzele
• 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

drawn with bits on a 2d map

• unifont aims to cover 100% unicode coverage. Contextual writing systems are broken though.
• unifontex better glyphset support

drawn with text

• figlet fonts collection

texts

• metroid FAQ/Speed Guide (SNES) by nemes1ss One 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

• Système bibi-binaire

Post binaire

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

Tools

Tools I like

text

• lowdown - simple markdown translator markdown parsing
• htmlq - Like jq, but for HTML. html parsing
• awk
• ncurses textual ui framework in c
• Shell Bookmarks bookmarks manager
• recutils textual database with query utilities
• Francium A very interresting static site generator using shell and a makefile
• figlet & toilet wonderful filters to draw text with text

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

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

Timelines

• Web browsers
• Unix
• Histoires d’internet

Read

• Byte Magazines

• 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” to describe data stored client side 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

• Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster

Cahiers de GUTenberg

• Cahiers de GUTenberg n°22, Ligatures & caractères contextuels

Documentation

unix

• Unix Pipeline (Brian Kernighan) - Computerphile - YouTube
• UNIX Special: Profs Kernighan & Brailsford - Computerphile - YouTube
• AT&T Archives: The UNIX Operating System We can see RMS, Kernighan, Lorinda Cherry, Nina Macdonald and others
• POSIX Shell Tutorial

shell

• Sarah Garcin - Print daemon
• POSIX shell cheat sheet
• Case switch statement
• 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')});

Conferences

• Khrys
  • Contre-histoires féministes de la technique et du «libre» - Khrys - JdLL2024
  • IA, Philosophie du Libre et Féminisme - Khrys - JdLL2025
  • Se réapproprier les techno-logies : un point de vue libroféministe
  ...

• 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 #TeXLaTeX
  • Une extension du Knuth-Plass — Exposé mensuel de GUTenberg #TeXLaTeX

• 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
  • Qu’est-ce qu’un livre ? n°3
  • Qu’est-ce qu’un livre ? n°4
  • Qu’est-ce qu’un livre ? n°5
  • Qu’est-ce qu’un livre ? n°6
  • Qu’est-ce qu’un livre ? n°7
  • Qu’est-ce qu’un livre ? n°8
  • Qu’est-ce qu’un livre ? n°9
  • Qu’est-ce qu’un livre ? n°10
  • Qu’est-ce qu’un livre ? n°11
  • Qu’est-ce qu’un livre ? n°12

• Thomas Huot-Marchand Knuth vs. Hofstadter

• Marc Chantreux

  • Écosophie du numérique - 30 novembre 2023
  • slcon-2019-03 - Acme changed my life