Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix. Using any modern web browser, you can setup user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing and much more. Webmin removes the need to manually edit Unix configuration files like /etc/passwd, and lets you manage a system from the console or remotely. See the standard modules page for a list of all the functions built into Webmin.

Economist Michael Hudson continues his discussion of Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire with a focus on US monetary imperialism

A modern solitaire collection for the web. Built with HTML5 and Javascript.

ASCIIQuarium is a short Perl script that lets you embrace aquatic nature from your terminal. It's an aquarium/sea animation in ASCII art.

Minesweeper for the web. Built with JavaScript and no ads, ever.

JS is a most popular technology, and second most wanted technology on the market, according to Stack Overflow 2018 survey. NodeJS is all over backend job ads. React vs Angular is the new tabs vs spaces.

Here we have a gem. JavaScript’s author saying that JS was meant to be what BASIC was to C++ and that was the sales pitch for it. This post is not about technicalities of JS. It’s about how our pluralistic ignorance allowed toy language to first become de-facto language in the browser, then work it’s way to the server side and now being used for things such as console emulation and data science.

As the title indicates, I consider JS being popular a bad thing. To begin with, JS is a very bad language. The Wat talk does brilliant job of explaining what is wrong.