The Linux folks have their penguin and the BSDers their daemon. Perl's got a camel, FSF fans have their gnu and OSI's got an open-source logo. What we haven't had, historically, is an emblem that represents the entire hacker community of which all these groups are parts. This is a proposal that we adopt one — the glider pattern from the Game of Life.

About half the hackers this idea was alpha-tested on instantaneously said "Wow! Cool!" without needing any further explanation. If you don't know what a glider is, or why it would make a good emblem, or if you're dubious about having an emblem at all, read the FAQs page.

I first proposed this emblem in October 2003. It has since entered fairly widespread use, as you can see by the number of international translations over on the left. Not universal, because many hackers object on principle to the idea of having an emblem at all, but it appears to be a successful meme.

Acme is a powerful text editor, development environment and textual-user-interface platform developed by Rob Pike originally for Plan 9 from Bell Labs research operating system, and now has ports available for all major platforms.

Werc is a minimalist web anti-framework built following the Unix and Plan 9 tool philosophy of software design.

Werc avoids the pain of managing collections of websites and developing web applications.

• Database free, uses files and directories instead.
• Written using the rc shell, leveraging the standard Unix/Plan 9 command toolkit.
• Minimize tedious work: eg., no need to ever write HTML, use markdown (or any other format) instead.
• Very minimalist yet extensible codebase: highly functional core is 150 lines, with extra functionality in modular apps.

Cat-v.org hosts a series of sites dedicated to diverse subjects that share an idiosyncratic intellectual perspective, questioning orthodoxy and fomenting elitism and high standards in topics from software design to politics, passing by art and journalism and anything else interesting.

Other than total and complete world domination, the overriding goal is to encourage and stimulate critical and independent thinking.

We represent a group of scientists, hackers and other misfits.

As part of the International Day against DRM (“digital handcuffs”), on May 3th, 2016, April is republishing a video on the issue of e-books and DRM.

This day of protest is an opportunity to remember how dangerous these digital handcuffs are for free software users and developers alike, and how far they go toward restraining legitimate uses of works.

The e-book landscape has not changed much since last year, and the video we released a year ago today, to bring attention to the issue of DRM and e-books, is still very relevant, so we are republishing it, to mark the International Day against DRM.

DRM greatly reduces readers' rights, and is what makes an e-book different from a printed book in terms of user freedom. With a DRM-free e-book, the user has essentially the same rights as with printed books (the ability to lend them, to read them as many times as s/he wishes, anywhere, and on any device, etc.), while with a DRM-locked e-book, the user has but limited rights. Please view, share, and re-share this video, in support of computing freedom, and to help us continue to raise public awareness of the restrictions' insidious attacks on computer users' freedom.

And don't even try to fix a wobbly table with your e-book.

The video is in French with English sub-titles. Sub-titles : French, and English (SRT format).

dmenu is a dynamic menu for X, originally designed for dwm. It manages large numbers of user-defined menu items efficiently.

Set the number of rows using the menu option View → Freeze Rows.

We are the home of quality software such as dwm, dmenu, st and plenty of other tools, with a focus on simplicity, clarity and frugality. Our philosophy is about keeping things simple, minimal and usable. We believe this should become the mainstream philosophy in the IT sector. Unfortunately, the tendency for complex, error-prone and slow software seems to be prevalent in the present-day software industry. We intend to prove the opposite with our software projects.

Ingenious ideas are simple. Ingenious software is simple. Simplicity is the heart of the Unix philosophy. The more code lines you have removed, the more progress you have made. As the number of lines of code in your software shrinks, the more skilled you have become and the less your software sucks.

Uzbl is a lightweight webkit browser following the UNIX philosophy - to do one thing and do it well.

A popup window switcher roughly based on superswitcher. This version started off as a clone of simpleswitcher, the version from Sean Pringle. All credit for this great tool should go to him. Rofi developed extra features, like a run-dialog, ssh-launcher and can act as a drop-in dmenu replacement, making it a very versatile tool.

shove - Prove-like Test Tool for Shell Scripts

Remembering what CSS to prefix is hard. Today browsers develop quickly (yay) and things often change (boo). Preprocessors and mixin libraries are not always up to date.

This page has one purpose: simply show what prefixes are needed for a newer CSS property. Need more information? Check the awesome Can I Use or Autoprefixer!

for file in *.txt; do
    iconv -f ascii -t utf-8 "$file" -o "${file%.txt}.utf8.txt"
done

Not only that, we can do one better by using vw and calc.

Simply set the width of the child elements to be 100% of the viewport width by using vw (percentage viewport units), and then set their left margin to a negative calculated value based on this, minus the width of the wrapper. Other than the optional max-width of the parent, everything else is calculated automatically. You can dynamically change the width of the parent container, and the children will automatically resize and align as needed, without being positioned.

Beautify HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, Ruby, Java, C, C++, C#, Objective-C, CoffeeScript, TypeScript, Coldfusion, and SQL in Atom

This is a simple package to automatically call 'tree-view:reveal-in-sidebar' whenever a file is opened or brought into focus.

Will automatically add closing tags when you complete the opening tag.

Validate your HTML and CSS files using W3C validators.