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--> Why this site?

This is a little something to experiment with creating a Web I like
to see.  Now I can tell you that I dislike mobile apps because they
rarely work with plain text, or over an open protocol for end-users
to integrate it with other stuff you or other people have made.
I can babble to you about how much I hate the idea of an everything-
app that Elon Musk had tried (is trying?) to push forth, something
which is already a dystopian reality for Chinese people like me and
my family.  And I can certainly, absolutely, whine to you about the
abysmal state of schools, the Web, and most of the technology today
really, moving towards a ``greater'' future while having our beings
gouged out and replaced with stale generic gibberish; where we're
treated like docile dummies who would passively accept what they
tell us is or is not the case; where the only lens through which
we see of others and ourselves is those same lines of canned words,
chanted in a monotone voice deprived of soul, only to be packaged
and re-branded to likings of their business model...
(Oh -- and there is the surge of this AI thing too, right...)

But none of this describes what I like.  At the end of the day,
when the noises die down.... you'd see that none of this matters;
yet all there is left within is just bitter indignation, directed
solely at the frivolous debates over the decisions made by people
at the top.  ``So this,'' you say, ``this is it for us then... it
doesn't matter how much I try to tell them I am different.  I am
just another ordinary person, an insignificant grain of sand in
the annals of time, a dull boring face like any other... destined
to sit in the same seats in those colorless classrooms, and work
my life away in those same gray cubicles, do as what they tell me
and be who they describe me to be....''

Well that was what I pondered and came to the sad conclusion of...
until I thought of this: you can't change how they think by giving
angst rants -- heck, being angst is not what I like either -- but
you change by showing them what you mean.  You show it by making
the things you DO love and the things you DO care about.  Listing
things you hate and the kinds of people you aren't will never be
enough, because there will always be more to disagree with.  But
making things is powerful, and creation can be beautiful -- not
that it is a guarantee that everything we make is beautiful, but
that it CAN be -- and with time, thinking, love... (and of course
financial stability because life isn't a fairy tale =n=) I would
even dare to say that it WILL be beautiful and meaningful.

--> Alright... What is this site about then?

In anticipation of a reboot of www.rapidcow.org I want to collect
all I can find from around the Internet about the art of creating
things for the sake of the craft (with an overwhelming share from
the World Wide Web -- well, I'm biased, you know. ;)

Sometimes they fall right under categories with a cool name like
the Web Revival and Low Tech movement, as well as an advocacy for
UNIX philosophies and open exchange formats (specifically, UTF-8
encoded plain text files, though I have a heavy bias for ASCII text
wrapped at 64/72/76 chars for reasons I don't fully understand X)
Others, not so much... I like cool things when I see them.  And I
want to blather to a friend when I see one until I realize I don't
have one and even if I do they could never bear the length of the
paragraphs worth of text I write (... nah. I don't really care....
*sniff* =M=)

But you might find it cool too! So I'm putting those here too. :)

(Ooh, ooh! This might be more exciting though: ``Things they don't
teach you at school, or the industry, or anywhere really'' -- 'cause
that's precisely what this is about!  Like- Did you know that Git is
really just an information management system with a content-address-
able database with an open and well-documented API, so you can tech-
nically use it to track any files (not just code NOT JUST BORING-ASS
CODE you write once and never look at again!) Did you know that Git
unlike GitHub is free -- free as in free to modify free to inspect
free to extend, free, free uh..... free to use to track anything you
want to keep a history of!  And you get to keep it ALL to yourself
without EVER needing to send it to GitHub, for Microsoft and the
whole world to see!!!  Heck you can write diaries and tell Git to
track them -- Git won't judge you.... :')

And I'm not finished! UNIX commands, file systems, I/O, sockets,
protocols -- there is so much more I want to talk about (all of
these I think are so much more interesting than CS classes!)
I'm also learning these things as I speak, I don't know everything
and I don't claim to know them inside out...  After all, I'm just a
stupid boy who likes to rave about cool things -- cool things they
never taught me and will NEVER teach at school! XD

So yeah... I hope you will like it too. :)
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