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The Cyber Vanguard
Personal blog · cyber.dabamos.desystemsprogramminggames
The Cyber Vanguard is a personal blog at cyber.dabamos.de about systems, programming and games. Since 2018, 43 different Hacker News readers have linked it 50 times, most often “The 88x31 GIF Collection”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Most-linked posts?
- The 88x31 GIF Collection9 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2020-05-27
- Cool but obscure X11 tools7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2019-08-16
- The 88x31 GIF Collection3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-06-14
What Hacker News says?
I'm _slightly_ triggered by the border radius on the 88x31 .gif, but I'll cope. Related (and brace yourself if you're on an older computer): https://neonaut.neocities.org/cyber/88x31 https://cyber.dabamos.de/88x31/
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on “Only 90s Web Developers Remember This (2014)”Submitted The 88x31 GIF Collection as a story · 496 points
HN discussionThe GIFs are displayed alphabetically by filename, and are paginated. The "N" files show up on the third page: http://cyber.dabamos.de/88x31/index3.html
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on “The 88x31 GIF Collection”Submitted Cool but obscure X11 tools as a story · 368 points
HN discussionSo many questions about that "Anti code and run" http://cyber.dabamos.de/88x31/anticodeandrun2.gif
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on “The 88x31 GIF Collection”Submitted Cool, but Obscure X11 Tools as a story · 269 points
HN discussionSo is X11, by that logic https://cyber.dabamos.de/unix/x11/
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on “Run0, a systemd based alternative to sudo, announced”Submitted The 88x31 GIF Collection as a story · 99 points
HN discussion>XLennart is a modification of the arcade game XBill. >An evil and unpopular computer hacker named “Lennart”[1] tries to install his malicious init system on various BSD and Linux systems. >Like in XBill, the player has to hit him and restore infected systems. [1] https://cyber.dabamos.de/unix/x11/poettering.gif
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on “Cool but obscure X11 tools”Submitted Cool, but Obscure X11 Tools as a story · 31 points
HN discussionD is general purpose programming language similar to Python but most would agree that in computing sense it is more general than Python since the latter is rather limited in hardcore HPC domain (bit twiddling, etc). The fact that most of today's programmer or in the future will be just fine and better off with GC based languages compiled or interpreted, as modern drivers are better off with auto transmission than th…
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on “OpenD, a D language fork that is open to your contributions”Submitted Cool but Obscure X11 Apps as a story · 10 points
HN discussionhttps://cyber.dabamos.de/unix/x11/#xroach Though it doesn't augment anything, nor does it look particularly pretty...
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on “Show HN: High performance X11 animated wallpapers”Submitted Philipp Engel's Modern Fortran as a story · 6 points
HN discussionobligatory recommendation, the "The 88x31 GIF Collection: Part 1" https://cyber.dabamos.de/88x31/
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on “Making a 88x31 button book using ImageMagick”Submitted The 88x31 GIF Collection (from the 1990s, 2000s, and today) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHow about < https://cyber.dabamos.de/88x31/index.html >?
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on “What is the web revival?”Submitted The 88x31 GIF Collection as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI remember doing ls /usr/bin/x* and just running all of them to see what they did, there were a lot of fun things in those days. Here's a pretty exhaustive list: https://cyber.dabamos.de/unix/x11/
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on “Xsnow”Submitted Cool, but Obscure X11 Tools as a story · 3 points
HN discussionOh my goodness, thank you! I have been searching for a source of the small icons as an example to show the computing classes I lecture, and I finally found my rotating favorite one! https://cyber.dabamos.de/88x31/msntbciis.gif Thank you so much - on the flip side, my students may dislike you because they're going to get a lecture on how the web used to be!
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on “We are still using 88x31 buttons”Submitted The 88x31 GIF Collection as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHere are a few samples https://cyber.dabamos.de/88x31/
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on “We are still using 88x31 buttons”Submitted OREGON 77 – The Oregon Trail in FORTRAN 77 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI've picked my favorite: https://cyber.dabamos.de/88x31/nowebp.gif
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on “The 88x31 GIF Collection”Submitted FreeBSD on Lenovo ThinkPad X270 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThere are various card puncher emulators in the web. I recently stumbled upon https://masswerk.at/keypunch/ which is very nice. In the old days, when X11 was cool, we had https://cyber.dabamos.de/unix/x11/#x026
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on “Cardpunch: Punch a punched card”Submitted Snoopy Calendar as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAlso loved the vibe. One of the web ring sites goes to http://cyber.dabamos.de/88x31/ which was an absolute blast from the past!
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on “how to completely own an airline in 3 easy steps”Submitted Multi-Player IBM PC Games List (1995) as a story · 1 points
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