Weekly Shaarli

All links of one week in a single page.

Week 24 (June 10, 2024)

GitHub - CoLRev-Environment/colrev: CoLRev: An open-source environment for collaborative reviews

A commandline tool to undertake literature reviews.

Seems a little too 'magic' for my liking to fully indulge but something similar could prove extremely powerful to future literature reviews.

The penultimate list of Free Linux games, with over 100 titles! - SLRPNK

A big list of games. All run on Linux. All are free. (though some free-to-play with payment models between optional and required included).

Really good list, especially considering the strategy and roguelike categories!

Finding R&D Trends and Experts Made Simple | Scinapse

Presenting a whole new perspective on research discovery services. Intelligent data and quick access to state-of-the-art insights.

Bringing mainly 'insights' but can still be useful as a scholarly query engine.

termbin.com - terminal pastebin

Termbin.com is a command line pastebin - easy way to share your terminal output.

The only requirement is netcat!

GitHub - cockpit-project/cockpit: Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers.

Neat way to manage a (bare-metal) server through the web-browser. Similar to things like webmin or cpanel but completely open and free as far as I can see.

Under the hood it's all based on cli commands (for firewall, logs, network management etc) and especially systemd (everything is invoked through systemd commands initially, can spawn nspawn VMs, manage services, ...). Really neat!

GitHub - pipefunc/pipefunc: Lightweight function pipeline (DAG) creation in pure Python for scientific workflows πŸ•ΈοΈπŸ§ͺ

Directed acyclic graphs to take care of any data and resource inter-dependencies and just focus on having a stable output.

Basically similar to e.g. dagster or other high-fallutin' cloud offerings, and somewhat similar to targets for R.
Of primary interest here is the cache=True setting for a pipeline which ensures its underlying functions only get recomputed when they actually change (see the ipynb example Cache section).

Seems super nifty just because it's super lightweight and easy to get started - but is fairly new as of this moment.

Xbps-src packaging tutorial - xbps-src tutorials

An exhaustively detailed (and example-oriented) tutorial on creating template files for voidlinux and making sure that they work.

Even goes into different build systems, contributing your changes upstream and more.

GitHub - coastalwhite/lemurs: A customizable TUI display/login manager written in Rust πŸ’

Very nice display manager that works with wayland and uses simple (often one-liner) scripts to set up new desktop environments/window managers.

This way you can exactly control what happens as a WM is started,
plus it uses PAM as authentication and works with and without systemd.

rastapasta/mapscii - An ascii map on the terminal

Simple nice (and surprisingly detailed) ASCII map, connectable over telnet

Gameplay β˜… Beyond All Reason RTS

A Total Annihilation/Supreme Commander spiritual inheritor, which looks pretty good!

Wordles of the World

A long LONG list of wordle like games, all kinds of languages, wordle alternatives and similar ones.

OpenAlex - Open-data driven semantic scholarly search

Seems to be the upcoming search engine functioning similarly to Microsoft Academic.

Built to be completely open, fully available as open data, built on open technologies. Very nice.

Semantic Scholar | AI-Powered Research Tool

Semantic Scholar uses groundbreaking AI and engineering to understand the semantics of scientific literature to help Scholars discover relevant research.

Semantic search, tries to imitate Microsoft Academic somewhat. Not completely open but still can be a good resource for academic queries.

GitHub - apognu/tuigreet: Graphical console greeter for greetd

Another greeter frontend - mimicking ly but apparently written in a more framework agnostic way. (Such that it also works with voidlinux whereas ly does not for example)