Similar to the 512KB club, there exists the 250KB club. It collects web pages that focus on performance, efficiency and accessibility.
Qualifying sites must fullfil one requirement.
The website must not exceed 256KB compressed size.

256KB Club also contains very niche sites and is great to discover some new corners of the Internet.
The linked pages are often minimalistic personal pages and geeky blogs.

I submitted my blog for inclusion in the club, as it measures less than 250KB.
It was accepted a day earlier than for the 512KB club :-)
Now the blog has its own page in the club: https://250kb.club/blog-x-way-org/

Some time ago I discovered the 512KB club. It collects performance-focused websites from across the Internet.
Qualifying sites must fullfil two requirements to participate.
The site must provide a reasonable amount of content.
And the total uncompressed web resources must not exceed 512KB.

512KB Club is a nice resource to discover more niche sites on the Internet.
Often these are handcrafted personal sites and blogs with unique content.
They remind me of all the unique personal sites and blogs from before the web2.0/social-media/walled-garden time.

My blog is also very lightweight (currently clocking 39.48kB on the Cloudflare URL Scanner), thus I submitted it for inclusion in the list.
It was accepted recently and is now listed as part of the Green Team (sites smaller than 100KB).

Found this cute snippet in the Makefile of the NumWorks Epsilon codebase. It is a rudimentary implementation of the cowsay functionality.

We also see how it is used in the clena: cowsay_CLENA clean part.
I like how it reminds about the typo when calling the clena instead of the clean target.
It gives a clear but unintrusive message about the typo, and then also does what was intented (running the clean target).

.PHONY: cowsay_%
cowsay_%:
	@echo " -------"
	@echo "| $(*F) |"
	@echo " -------"
	@echo "        \\   ^__^"
	@echo "         \\  (oo)\\_______"
	@echo "            (__)\\       )\\/\\"
	@echo "                ||----w |"
	@echo "                ||     ||"

.PHONY: clena
clena: cowsay_CLENA clean

In the Realizing Meshtastic's Promise with the T-Deck article, Jeff Geerling showcases the experimental device-ui for the T-Deck.

This experimental UI looks already very pretty and I expect that it will provide a very nice Meshtastic experience once all features have been implemented.
The article also contains instructions on how to install a development version of the experimantal UI based on some CI snapshots. Maybe something to try out one of these days :-)

In his Writing one sentence per line article, Derek Sivers explains the benefits of writing one sentence per line.
The approach leverages that whitespace in HTML source code is collapsed when being rendered in the browser.
Thus we can have a much more writer-friendly text formatting when editing the text, while still providing a nicely rendered output to whoever views the resulting page in a browser.

The main advantages outlined in the article are:
It helps you judge each sentence on its own.
It helps you vary sentence length.
It helps you move sentences.
It helps you see first and last words.

I really like this approach and will apply it in my future writing on the blog.
The indenting of text (not explicitly mentioned in the article but visible in the source) is also something I will try to adopt.

Here is how the above two paragraphs look in the source text:

<p>
	The main advantages outlined in the article are:<br>
	It helps you judge each sentence on its own.<br>
	It helps you vary sentence length.<br>
	It helps you move sentences.<br>
	It helps you see first and last words.
</p>
<p>
	I really like this approach and will apply it in my future writing on the blog.<br>
	The indenting of text (not explicitly mentioned in the article but visible in the source) is also something I will try to adopt.
</p>

sshidentifierlogger is a small tool that I started writing about 5 years ago and have been using on some of my hosts.

Its purpose is to listen to network traffic and passively collect identification strings during SSH handshakes.
Initially I had a lot of fail2ban activity on my jumphost, blocking many SSH scanning/enumeration/bruteforcing attempts and wanted to know what software the attackers use.

A bit particular is that sshidentifierlogger does not depend on the classic C library libpcap, but rather uses the go-native pcapgo implementation by gopacket.
Thus it can be cross-compiled on any platform, which comes in handy when you do not want to install the full go buildchain on your jumphost.

The collected data is quite interesting (most of the scanning used to be done with libssh2).
Which I did leverage to write iptables rules blocking packets with undesired SSH identification strings.
This has been quite successfull in reducing the amount of fail2ban activity :-)

The Blockquotes and Pre-formatted text sections in the HTML for People book inspired me to improve the styling of the blog.
The following code now defines the visual appearance of blockquote and pre elements in the blog:

blockquote {
	border-left: 1px dotted #ffbb18;
	padding-left: 21px;
	margin-left: 21px;
}
pre {
	background-color: #f9f7f7;
	border-radius: 4px;
	padding: 4px;
}

To see it in effect, scroll down to the Hidden Pref to Restore Slow Motion Dock Minimizing on MacOS or Notifying external services about changes in the blog posts.

Today I played around a bit with a Meshtastic device and tried to configure it through the Web Serial API in Chrome.
On my Linux system it could see the device but not really change any values, update firmware etc.

This confused me for some time, until I looked at the permissions of /dev/ttyACM0 (which were crw-rw----).
A quick sudo chmod a+rw /dev/ttyACM0 later, and I could write to the configuration of the Meshtastic device.
The more tedious part was that after every config change the device rebooted and the USB serial connection was re-initialized by Linux, thus I needed to re-run the chmod command after every change. Luckily I figured out how to enable WiFi on the device and from then on no longer needed the serial access.

Turns out that the procedure for enabling Visual Voicemail with Galaxus Mobile is the same as for TalkTalk.

In my case their database entry was somehow stuck and I first needed to send a VVM OFF to 935 before starting the procedure.

Daring Fireball describes how to restore the old trick of slow motion MacOS Dock effects:

In the midst of recording last week’s episode of The Talk Show with Nilay Patel, I offhandedly mentioned the age-old trick of holding down the Shift key while minimizing a window (clicking the yellow button) to see the genie effect in slow motion. Nilay was like “Wait, what? That’s not working for me...” and we moved on.

What I’d forgotten is that Apple had removed this as default behavior a few years ago (I think in MacOS 10.14 Mojave), but you can restore the feature with this hidden preference, typed in Terminal:

defaults write com.apple.dock slow-motion-allowed -bool YES

Then restart the Dock:

killall Dock

Or, in a single command:

defaults write com.apple.dock slow-motion-allowed -bool YES; killall Dock

I had forgotten that this had become a hidden preference, and that I’d long ago enabled it.