Articles by robin_reala
348

The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner (sightlessscribbles.com)

2

Gnome 50, "Tokyo" (gnome.org)

2

Use a Sun Mouse Systems Optical Mouse on a PC (2009) (telltronics.org)

2

March, 19-21: God is a comedian (no01.substack.com)

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10 Years Today (mastodon.social)

5

How Can Governments Pay Open Source Maintainers? (shkspr.mobi)

1

Conseil d'État upholds Criteo's €40M GDPR fine (noyb.eu)

3

Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it (gamingonlinux.com)

4

The deaf blacksmith who married in 1576 (theconversation.com)

1

'Demand Management' is doomed (loosemore.com)

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Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (2025) (pv-magazine.com)

4

The Privacy 'Zealots' Were Right: Ad Tech's Infrastructure Was Always a Risk (adexchanger.com)

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No right to relicense this project (github.com/chardet)

1

What I Like About WCAG 3.0 (afixt.com)

4

VoxCSS – CSS voxel engine for the DOM (voxcss.com)

3

A New Share Button (joinmastodon.org)

5

Curl Security Moves Again (haxx.se)

3

Meta could end up owning 10% of AMD in new chip deal (arstechnica.com)

1

Graph Theory Using Modern CSS (css-tip.com)

3

Roads to Rome (2015) (benedikt-gross.de)

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Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer; pulls story (infosec.exchange)

5

The Power of 'No' in Internet Standards (mnot.net)

1

The Role of Gas in Powering AI-Driven Energy Demand (igu.org)

94

NetNewsWire Turns 23 (netnewswire.blog)

1

Mastodon.social can now display Mongolian script posts vertically (github.com/mastodon)

2

Why the Internet Is Terrified of London (youtube.com)

2

Shattered Pixel Dungeon in 2026 (shatteredpixel.com)

1

The Super Sharp Blade (netzhansa.com)

1

Demo Effect Explained: How to Make a 3D Tunnel on the C64 [video] (youtube.com)

22

[flagged] QuitGPT – OpenAI Execs Are Trump's Biggest Donors (quitgpt.org)

379

FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled (404media.co)

28

Thatcher Effect – Optical Illusion and Explanation (optical.toys)

1

JavaScript Bin Down in 2026 (remysharp.com)

1

Incident CVE-2024-Yikes (nesbitt.io)

4

A11yJSON: A standard to describe the accessibility of the physical world (sozialhelden.github.io)

1

HarfBuzz at 20 (docs.google.com)

3

New in Calibre 9.0 (calibre-ebook.com)

1

GregKH Awarded the Prize for Excellence in Open Source 2026 (haxx.se)

3

unfuck-microwave.sh (cofe.rocks)

2

XKCD Color Survey Tokens (hatspace.net)

1

Response time in man-computer conversational transactions (1968) (acm.org)

2

FOSDEM 2026 – The Servo project and its impact on the web platform ecosystem [video] (fosdem.org)

3

What makes a good audio game? (reddit.com)

1

Empty Promises: A Deep Dive into Flickr Pro for 2026 (petapixel.com)

2

ePub and HTML – Survey results and next steps (w3.org)

3

GB Renewables Map (robinhawkes.com)

1

Quamina v2.0.0 (tbray.org)

2

Curl Rate Limits (eissing.org)

12

[flagged] Leave X – Protect Democracy (leavex.eu)

6

The Toil of (Blog) Art (lcamtuf.substack.com)

2

Listen to the music formed by a group of skiers in the Westfjords (icelandinsider.is)

1

Ratio App: Accessibility Color Contrast Checker for macOS (markwyner.com)

3

Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About AI (gizmodo.com)

1

The Hobbyist Maintainer Economic Gravity Well (softwaremaxims.com)

1

Design systems and shareable browser support (medium.com/flat-pack-tech)

1

X Is a Power Problem, Not a Platform Problem (connectedplaces.online)

2

Myths about Logitech Developer ID certificate expiration (lapcatsoftware.com)

23

"We write to ask that you enforce your app stores' terms of service against X" [pdf] (senate.gov)

2

Gritter Tracker – Traffic Scotland (gov.scot)

3

Former Google CEO plans to singlehandedly fund a Hubble telescope replacement (arstechnica.com)

2

Croatia extends free train travel to more groups (croatiaweek.com)

2

Microsoft Edge is getting a Copilot-inspired redesign (theverge.com)

4

Danmark Skifter: Danes take back control of their digital lives (danmarkskifter.dk)

2

The text mode lie: why modern TUIs are a nightmare for accessibility (xogium.me)

6

Swedish man survived in snowed-in car for two months (2012) (theguardian.com)

3

Xteink X4: Ultra-Thin Magnetic Back EReader (xteink.com)

3

A Flappy Bird clone that uses your folding phone as the controller (infosec.exchange)

4

Public Domain Day 2026 in Literature (standardebooks.org)

10

Lessons from Building an Indie App for Artists (shanehudson.net)

30

Former EU commissioner and activists barred from US (theguardian.com)

85

I announced my divorce on Instagram and then AI impersonated me (eiratansey.com)

2

Tiny Tapeout 8 demo competition entries (a1k0n.net)

5

The attempt to read the Unix V4 tape is underway (discuss.systems)

3

I perform Maurice Ravel's Boléro on a variety of homemade 8-bit instruments (linusakesson.net)

4

Creating Diagrams in Markdown on GitHub (docs.github.com)

3

Agentic AI is brilliant because I loath my family (shkspr.mobi)

1

So Many Websites (robinrendle.com)

1

Flutter 3.38.0: How an accessibility upgrade broke Android headings (abra.ai)

2

How HTML Changes in ePub (htmhell.dev)

2

AIxCC Curl Details (haxx.se)

1

Galileo (Operating System) (wikipedia.org)

1

How would your feed look if you got to control what you saw on social media? (abc.net.au)

158

GitHub Actions has a package manager, and it might be the worst (nesbitt.io)

1

The Hidden Disabilities Sunflower (hdsunflower.com)

5

Elon Musk's X fined €120M by EU in first clash under new digital laws (theguardian.com)

1

Downdetector and the real cost of no upstream dependencies (pragmaticengineer.com)

2

We tested Europe's luxurious new 'business-class' sleeper bus (theguardian.com)

17

No ARIA is better than bad ARIA (w3.org)

5

Trailblazing scheme to reconnect thousands with HIV treatment (gov.uk)

1

The GitHub Annotation Toolkit (github.com/github)

4

How do you learn without AI? (stackoverflow.com)

3

Executive Function Resources: Tools, Worksheets and Strategies (executivefunctiontoolkit.com)

2

Plan beautiful, twisty Routes with Kurviger (kurviger.com)

2

The Monocab Project (monocab-owl.de)

1

Direction-Aware Arrow Shape using corner-shape (css-tip.com)

1

IKEA's Web Fonts (medium.com/flat-pack-tech)

1

Accessible Dice Guide for Blind and Visually Impaired People (knightsofthebraille.com)

1

Design your website like a nice restaurant (paulmakeswebsites.com)

1

Unicode Binary Input Terminal (hackaday.io)

2

Blåhaj Quest (blahaj.quest)