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Free Software, Education, and Standards
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Protesilaos Stavrou ☛ Emacs: conditionally expand abbrev-mode definitions
In this ~15-minute video I show how to add conditions to abbrev-mode abbreviations that you define. The idea is to have those abbrevs expand only in certain cases. I use three examples, which I think cover the common needs.
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Hugo Daniel ☛ wgslender: My WGSL Toolchain
This toolchain exists because of demos and the demoscene, its principles of reusability and lean design are the same that I have been learning and perfecting with demos.
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Education
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James G ☛ HTML Day 2026 - with words, wonder
I wrote this in my notes shortly after attending the first of two HTML Day online sessions today, hosted by Zachary. The morning ended up being a lot busier than expected, with my showing up around half an hour late. With that said, I had a list of ideas for a web page and all the energy that came from looking forward to this event in my heart. Although I had such a list, however, I explored a new idea when I opened up my code editor and started to write.
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Bill Glover ☛ HTML Day London
Yesterday I attended HTML Day London 2026. I set myself the challenge of working entirely offline for the event. Other than offline documentation for HTML and CSS I was on my own. Unfortunately, I was unable to stay to the end to see what everyone else had created but here is what I managed: /html-day.
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Standards/Consortia
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[Old] Brent Saner ☛ OpenSSH Key Structure Guide
This document attempts to present a much more detailed, thorough, and easily-understood form of the key formats used by OpenSSH. The extent of those formats' canonical documentation is the OpenSSH source tree’s PROTOCOL.key, which is a little lacking.
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