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“rusty chains”<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0Creativity103<\/a>\u00a0is licensed under\u00a0CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n I’m a horrible abuser of browser tabs, often having many many windows with many many tabs. Until recently I was using The Great Suspender<\/a> to help cut back some of the memory usage – but using any browser extension is a security risk<\/a>. You’re allowing random code to run within the context of the browser window, giving it potential access to all the things your browser can do – or that you do with the browser.<\/p>\n While I also use a RSS feed reader<\/a>, I still often come across some article or start down some path of investigation and want to come back to it so I’ll leave it open. I’ve had tabs open for a year or more, I keep them across reboots and have even gone back into my Chrome history to dig out ones that were closed by accidental reboot\/restart. It’s a problem.<\/p>\n Today is housecleaning day – let’s dump some links that I keep meaning to look at and have been eating up system resources.<\/p>\n Amazing how many windows \/ tabs I had been dragging around, my browser load seems much better now. These also experienced some bit rot since I remember having other tabs which I’d obviously accidentally closed and were part of the group of things I was looking at in the context.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “rusty chains”\u00a0by\u00a0Creativity103\u00a0is licensed under\u00a0CC BY 2.0 I’m a horrible abuser of browser tabs, often having many many windows with many many tabs. Until recently I was using The Great Suspender to help cut back some of the memory usage – but using any browser extension is a security risk. You’re allowing random code to run … Continue reading “Link Dump”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1788"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1795,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788\/revisions\/1795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nI own two production Arduboy units, and one dev model. It’s a really fun platform to play and write code for. I kept meaning to explore some of the games on this website.<\/li>\n
\nWhen Neuromancer came out I was hooked. This list came via Adafruit’s blog,\u00a0 I’ve read many of them but not all.<\/li>\n
\nThis is a 2018 article, it’s still sitting in a tab waiting for me to use it as inspiration for my next book.<\/li>\n
\nA cool write up on how to pull data out of Chrome from configuration files on your machine. When I initially opened this tab, the site was still hosted – now only the archive.org link works. Still very cool if I ever were to build out some scripts.<\/li>\n
\nAnother article which has also been saved by archive.org on the same topic of pulling useful information via scripts out of Google.<\/li>\n
\nClearly not a lesson I’ve learned. This is a hackaday.com article that I keep meaning to read.<\/li>\n
\nA now defunct blog of Frederik Pohl, a SciFi writer who passed away in 2013.<\/li>\n
\nDecentralized peer to peer internet is super interesting. I keep meaning to take the time to learn more about the space.<\/li>\n
\nI keep meaning to build out a remote control system to power electric baseboard heaters. This seems like a key building block allowing me to trigger 240V circuits.<\/li>\n
\nAn article by the EFF I’ve been meaning to read about privacy and web tracking.<\/li>\n
\nI meant to blog about this, maybe I still will. Did you know that the 4 connector headphone jack has two different configurations? OMTP vs AHJ? Of course Apple picked one, and many others the other.<\/li>\n
\nThis seemed like a great set of feeds to add to my feed reader. More diversity in the information I’m consuming will help me have a more rounded view of what’s happening in technology.<\/li>\n
\nThis is an nmap based network scanner. It would be a great thing to add to my nighty scripts that run over my home network.<\/li>\n
\nI did most of the challenges and pushed the result out to github<\/a>, I kept meaning to clean up the solutions and push any remaining work I had on my dev machine.<\/li>\n
\nSeeing a 256 byte demo on hackaday<\/a>, I was inspired to go see how it all worked being an assembly programmer at heart. It’s a deep well to fall in, with interesting effects in a handful of bytes.<\/li>\n
\nI got here because of the talk EVERTHING IS BROKEN (and we can fix it!)<\/a> but the whole site seems very interesting.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n