The Knowl Bookshelf aims to be a unified front-end for all of your ebook databases. Often, there may be significant structural differences between various ebook sources (i.e. Project Gutenberg Project, Internet Archive, Open Library, etc). Knowl Bookshelf mutates these differing sources into a common set of univeral Knowl fields. This consolidated/unified database is then presented to the end user as an elegant Single-Page Application (SPA).

Simple sci-hub batch downloader, written in bash. Has to be adapted to use-cases a little (since hard-coded variables for page url and doi input file)

Other scihub downloaders:

• Sci-Hub - did not work for me last time I tried it, presumably had a missing dependency, or written for outdated python version
• scihub.py - not tested yet, but seems ambitious in that it gets the newest url, checks for captchas, and is pretty flexible in input dois

Often this happens because pipx intends to use an older version of pip or similar issues after upgrading the system version of python.

Most drastic, but also most efficient, solution in this comment.

Various settings and extensions for Firefox, sorted from essential to suggested, to help escape tracking and telemetry.

The Rich API makes it easy to add color and style to terminal output. Rich can also render pretty tables, progress bars, markdown, syntax highlighted source code, tracebacks, and more — out of the box.

Intermediate to advanced git tips:

advanced git log output, digging into individual git ref logs, using git for word-wise diffs (could be really useful for prose!), signing commits, git aliases, and more.

Alternative to hledger, written in python and supporting an easy python extension system (write your own plugins).

Generally intended to be simpler to use than ledger/hledger, at the expense of very advanced settings and input options.

Provides its own query language to find transactions, as well as an integrated web interface (and https://github.com/beancount/fava as a more advanced implementation of the web interface). Looks really good and functional, as well as way simpler than e.g. Firefly III interface.

easy-to-use command-line/curses/web plaintext accounting tool; a modern and largely compatible Haskell rewrite of Ledger - simonmichael/hledger

hledger makes use of plaintextaccounting principles and can read files in *ledger format, as well as csv files.

Additional accounting ideas and configuration possibilities are discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20012499.

Quickstart help can be found here: https://hledger.org/quickstart.html

Full manual is available here: https://hledger.org/accounting.html, containing many ideas, workflows, and tutorials for accounting in general and hledger in specific.

Lens IDE for Kubernetes. The only system you’ll ever need to take control of your Kubernetes clusters. It's open source and free. Download it today!

Shell for linux, running on python, aiming to be largely 'bash-like' (if not completely compatible afaik).

Could be intersting for more in-depth terminal work (semi-programmable) but probably large time investment to switch from other cozy homes like zsh.

This is a small hack providing relative recurring tasks with due date some period after completing the current task. Taskwarrior will not learn such a feature before "the Great Recurrence rewrite", which has already been delayed for many years, so this had to be dealt with.

StackExchange alternative - open-source, smaller, and more free from drama.

Unfortunately (naturally) missing the large archives of knowledge on SE so far.

Privacytools (“PTIO”) is a project with the noble mission to "*provide
knowledge and tools to protect your privacy against global mass…

A command-line tool to turn web pages into beautiful, readable PDF, EPUB, or HTML docs. - danburzo/percollate

Good explanation of the very basics of open source software principles.

We analyzed the best secure messaging services that will encrypt and secure your communications. Here are the top recommendations.

Going by open-source, audited, and ownership-based recommendations.

With all the praise for Signal, do be aware that supporting the Signal developers might not be the optimum choice since they are putting large blocking stones in front of what should be collaborative open source work in order to retain centralized ownership and power, especially through platform centralization and trademark lawsuit threats. See here.

Configuration steps for arch specifically aimed at Dell XPS laptops. (Though not version specific)

🦄 A modern web client for SFTP, S3, FTP, WebDAV, Git, Minio, LDAP, CalDAV, CardDAV, Mysql, Backblaze, ... - mickael-kerjean/filestash

Fixing non-working fullscreen mode in virtualbox under i3wm.

Boils down to disabling the 'seamless' options bar in fullscreen mode, then it works (fullscreen on/off with Host+F, i.e. right-ctrl+F)

Some useful shell ideas (bash, but many work with zsh).

Aliases, history functions, brace expansion etc