Software for calm computing

(agk) Links – 15 Sept 2020

• A book of proverbs

Catalogs

• Switching.software and Good Reports
• Awesome console services
• Yunohost app catalog and Freedombone apps
• Arch Wiki, Inconsolation, and Ben NanoNote applications
• Solène Rapenne’s list of useful tools and leaving emacs
• Uses This: Devine, Justine, Drew, Nils, and Rob
• SDF commands, mostly by smj, and sshfs

I didn’t choose the console life

• Shell shortcuts, bash cheats, cli one liners, and bite-size command line
• Solène’s notes on aspell, qrencode, and reading ebooks
• K.Mandla’s coreutils writeup
• 3mux and tmux
• tmate and debug-me

Notes and documents

• Text editors (missing acme, micro, nano, sam, joe, jed, wordgrinder, and wordstar)
• Plod and how to use it
• Rekka’s pandoc notes, customizing pandoc, and typeset programming books
• Typeset markdown with ConTeXt build script and resume.md
• Read-o-meter, translators DeepL and apertium, and docverter

Aspirational links

• The plain text project
• Ward Cunningham’s expense calculator
• Zettelkasten note-taking in 10 minutes (see Neuron and neuron.vim)
• Why vi rocks, learn vim for the last time, and edit text with vi

Scripting

• Shell scripting for personal productivity
• Devine’s UNIX notes and Drew DeVault’s shell literacy
• How to live well on the Linux console
• I hate regex and incremental regular expressions
• The sed $HOME and useful one-line scripts for sed
• AWK as a major systems programming language and AWK one-liners

Backup, version control, and hosting

• Gitless, Oh Shit, Git!?!, CTX guide to Git, and manage your dotfiles with git
• Rsync, rsnapshot, BorgBackup, restic, git-annex, and syncthing
• rsync.net, free servers and cheap domains