Google's motto is to do no evil. Fair enough. Yet, they are getting an alarmingly large amount of the pie at the moment, and we don't want to fall into a Minitel2.0 world. So let's see how the world looks like without Google, and with a sprinkle of self-hosting (on distant-sun or a NAS-to-come), and double serving of open source and free software.

Replacing other non-Google proprietary services for open protocols is also the extended scope of this.

OpenGrok is a fast and usable source code search and cross reference engine. It helps you search, cross-reference and navigate your source tree. It can understand various program file formats and version control histories like Mercurial, Git, SCCS, RCS, CVS, Subversion, Teamware, ClearCase, Perforce, Monotone and Bazaar. In other words it lets you grok (profoundly understand) source code and is developed in the open, hence the name OpenGrok. It is written in Java.

Replace your VBA code with Python, a powerful yet easy-to-use programming language that is highly suited for numerical analysis. Supports Windows & Mac!

0bin is a client side encrypted pastebin that can run without a database.

0bin allows anybody to host a pastebin while welcoming any type of content to be pasted in it. The idea is that one can (probably...) not be legally entitled to moderate the pastebin content as they have no way to decrypt it.

It's an Python implementation of the zerobin project under the WTF licence. It's easy to install even if you know nothing about Python.

Ken Thompson's "cc hack"

Presented in the journal, Communication of the ACM, Vol. 27, No. 8, August 1984, in a paper entitled "Reflections on Trusting Trust".

Ken Thompson, co-author of UNIX, recounted a story of how he created a version of the C compiler that, when presented with the source code for the "login" program, would automatically compile in a backdoor to allow him entry to the system. This is only half the story, though. In order to hide this trojan horse, Ken also added to this version of "cc" the ability to recognize if it was recompiling itself to make sure that the newly compiled C compiler contained both the "login" backdoor, and the code to insert both trojans into a newly compiled C compiler. In this way, the source code for the C compiler would never show that these trojans existed.

Interesting approach to quick filesystem navigation.

Automated tools like autojump, z, and fasd address this problem by offering shortcuts to the directories you often go to. The author of this shell hack prefers a more manual solution, which provided quite an increase in efficiency with this.

Shaarlier - Simple Android app for sharing links on Shaarli.

docker-shaarli - Shaarli Dockerfiles

Fábio Rehm's Blog

pyfuzzy is a framework to work with fuzzy sets and process them with operations of fuzzy logic.

For more information see also the Wikipedia category fuzzy logic.

Reads Fuzzy Control Language (FCL) files, if the antrl python runtime is available.

scikit-fuzzy (a.k.a. skfuzzy): Fuzzy logic toolbox for Python.

This package implements many useful tools for projects involving fuzzy logic, also known as grey logic.

ANTLR (ANother Tool for Language Recognition) is a powerful parser generator for reading, processing, executing, or translating structured text or binary files. It's widely used to build languages, tools, and frameworks. From a grammar, ANTLR generates a parser that can build and walk parse trees.

Gooey - Turn (almost) any Python command line program into a full GUI application with one line.