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Projects

flohmarkt

A decentralized small-ads platform built on ActivityPub

lorri

nix-shell replacement for projects

netencode

A human-readable nested data exchange format inspired by netstrings and bencode.

sources.profpatsch.de/Profpatsch

Everything else

Observations

Reading other people’s texts out loud, and thinking about them. Listen, or subscribe.

Essays

• Can we have a more "social" media? 2026-03-24
• Ethical use of Common Resources 2026-03-17

Notes

• Accept: text/llm 2026-08-26
• sfttime(7) — a hexadecimal time system based on fractional days 2026-04-23
• An idealized Configuration Language 2022-03-31
• Preventing out-of-memory (OOM) errors on Linux 2020-01-25
• Private bittorrent trackers are markets
• Converting between different String types in Rust

Posts

• Ligature Emulation in Emacs 2017-05-04