Here I, Norberto P. Torquato, share information and opinions.

If you are looking for hover effects, animated cursors, GIFs etc., you will find plenty of inspiration in the Neocities catalog, but not here.

Software articles

Unix and X11

• Editres, Athena and X-resources.
• Window manager independent minimizer.
• DWM patch to show multiple window titles in the bar.
• Actually useful "wall paper" with root-tail.
• Disable anti-aliasing in all applications, including Qt ones.
• Tkdiff without extraneous scrollbars.
• Purge an evil URL in the clipboard with urlpurify. See proxies below.
• Smart tooltip with buffer list for Gvim on :b and :sb.

General

• How to tell whether my web site is decent?.
• IRC facts for the uninitiated.
• Font anti-aliasing sucks.
• Crude dark mode in Firefox without extensions.
• HTML façade hides site contents, but they're there.
• Avoid Github.

Miscellanea

Opinion

• Outermost margins ought to be almost zero.
• Singular they is bad.
• Starshine: My problem with the modern web.
• Carl Svensson: Peak web has passed.
• [Video] The website obesity crisis.

Cool, old stuff

• Wiby.
• Cool but obscure X11 tools.

External resources

Try Codidact instead of Stack Exchange. The former is non-profit and treats its users and volunteer with respect (whereas the latter doesn't).

Proxies to avoid tracking and advertisements

• Libreddit for Reddit.
• Invidious for Youtube.

Though, of course, for the most private experience, use Tor.

Archiving

Schopenhauer: Über die Freiheit des Menlisches Willens (note: may not be correctly displayed in your browser, but will in a text viewer/editor) was retrieved from this obscure site, which is currently and mayhap permanently down. Each text page was on its on web page, which was a pain, so I processed it into a single document. Note the text is public domain. Enjoy!

About

As one could guess by the simple fact that I chose Neocities (and not crap like Google, Wix or whatnot) to host this site, I like

• Static web;
• Simple but original and colorful user interface;
• A web which respects your bandwidth.

By the same token, I hate

• Tracking;
• Heavily scripted web sites;
• Broken HTML;
• The fact that the modern Web is only fully browsable with severely bloated browsers.

The obnoxious aspects of the modern WWW have already been described at large in innumerous sites. It would be therefore vain and wasteful to repeat them in a different way, so I simply redirect the interested reader to the external resources section for that.