Building things and leaving them scattered around to keep the internet free. https://pablomurad.com/ 2026-11-12T07:47:21-03:00 pablawn-v1 https://pablomurad.com/neat-finds-06-gopher-holes-beige-boxes-and-unix-since-1970/ 2026-11-12T07:04:29-03:00 2026-11-12T07:04:29-03:00 Pablo Murad

Issue six: browsers and servers for Gemini, Gopher and Finger, an ephemeral forum, a beige DOS PC drawn from scratch, Serial Experiments Lain decompiled, PSP games in the browser, Zork's source and the whole history of Unix in one Git repo.

https://pablomurad.com/history-of-pubnixes-and-tildes/ 2026-11-12T02:41:16-03:00 2026-11-12T02:41:16-03:00 Pablo Murad

From dial-in Unix machines in 1982 to SDF, tilde.club, tilde.town and the tildeverse: the story of public computers shared by strangers, why the tilde means home, what people do on them, and how runv.club came back to join the neighborhood.

https://pablomurad.com/primer-explained/ 2026-11-11T19:09:00-03:00 2026-11-11T19:13:55-03:00 Pablo Murad

Primer cost $7,000 and is still one of the hardest time travel films to follow. How the box works, the week day by day, the twist with the three Aarons, the main theories, the real science in the garage and why programmers will recognize half of it.

https://pablomurad.com/docs-do-murad-and-pablo-how/ 2026-11-11T11:23:31-03:00 2026-11-11T11:23:31-03:00 Pablo Murad

Two places where the writing that doesn’t fit a blog lives: Docs do Murad, a compendium of recipes in Portuguese for servers, privacy and the web by hand, and Pablo, how?, a digital garden in English of fixes, concepts and lists.

https://pablomurad.com/emacs-beyond-the-basics-part-3/ 2026-11-11T09:27:42-03:00 2026-11-11T09:27:42-03:00 Pablo Murad

Turn Emacs into a modern programming setup: projects, Eglot and language servers, tree-sitter, completion, Consult and Embark, compile and debug, Git without Magit, containers and a ready-to-paste config.

https://pablomurad.com/polygon1993-glitch-art/ 2026-11-10T20:54:35-03:00 2026-11-10T20:54:35-03:00 Pablo Murad

I've followed POLYGON1993 for about four years. On Instagram I followed him from several of my accounts, one after another, until Instagram banned me. I love his work, and this post is about him: who he is, how those images get made and where they've been going. If you've never

https://pablomurad.com/indieweb-and-small-web-explained/ 2026-11-10T15:27:05-03:00 2026-11-10T15:27:05-03:00 Pablo Murad

What the IndieWeb and the small web are, how they differ and where they meet: POSSE, microformats, Webmention and IndieAuth on one side, Neocities, webrings, Gemini and pubnixes on the other. Plus where to find these sites and how to start your own.

https://pablomurad.com/practical-guide-to-webfinger/ 2026-11-10T14:03:41-03:00 2026-11-10T14:03:41-03:00 Pablo Murad

WebFinger is the small protocol that lets a fediverse server find @you@yourdomain. What it is, how a request and its JSON answer look, who uses it, and three ways to set it up on your own domain: a static file, an nginx map and a short PHP script that follows RFC 7033.

https://pablomurad.com/neat-finds-05-homepages-pocket-synths-and-a-server-in-a-qr-code/ 2026-11-09T15:51:41-03:00 2026-11-09T15:51:42-03:00 Pablo Murad

Issue five. Most of this batch is about places where people put their own words: directories of personal sites, a homepage host, a couple of blogging platforms, a forum, a guestbook, and servers for protocols most people have never heard of. Toward the end it gets stranger, with an NES

https://pablomurad.com/emacs-beyond-the-basics-part-2/ 2026-11-09T14:13:36-03:00 2026-11-09T14:13:36-03:00 Pablo Murad

A gentle first step into Emacs Lisp: read the syntax, write your own commands, bind keys, use hooks and advice, build a quick-notes command and learn to debug and read Emacs’s own source. No programming background needed.

https://pablomurad.com/50-obsidian-tricks-zero-plugins/ 2026-11-09T09:47:00-03:00 2026-11-08T04:56:32-03:00 Pablo Murad

Fifty Obsidian tricks hiding in a fresh install, no community plugins needed: search operators, block links and embeds, callouts, multiple cursors, Bases formulas, file recovery, the new CLI and more.

https://pablomurad.com/reading-log-2026-w45/ 2026-11-08T20:07:05-03:00 2026-11-08T20:07:05-03:00 Pablo Murad

The best of my read-later list. hax0r: News for hackers and programmers hax0r.zip so i guess everyone uses llms to think now - eva's site eva.ac If you love a website, back it up - The Future Is Now blog.mistys-internet.website We have lift off 🚀: building a gemini server in

https://pablomurad.com/cock-li-email-the-way-it-used-to-be/ 2026-11-08T18:58:29-03:00 2026-11-08T18:58:29-03:00 Pablo Murad

Cock.li gives you an email address the way it used to be: a name, a password and a captcha. IMAP, POP, XMPP, Tor addresses for everything, and Cock-mail, a whole webmail in a single HTML file that runs in your browser. Free since 2013.

https://pablomurad.com/bloggram-telegram-channel-blog/ 2026-11-08T04:56:20-03:00 2026-11-08T04:56:20-03:00 Pablo Murad

Bloggram turns a Telegram channel into a blog search engines can find: every post gets its own page, title and description, with tag pages, resized photos, RSS and a sitemap. Edits and deletions follow along. Free, no ads, no JavaScript.

https://pablomurad.com/emacs-beyond-the-basics-part-1/ 2026-11-08T02:49:00-03:00 2026-11-08T02:57:48-03:00 Pablo Murad

Emacs as a small operating system: read RSS with elfeed, browse gopher and Gemini with Elpher, follow the fediverse with mastodon.el, chat on IRC and Matrix, read the web in EWW and send mail. Keys, configs and a starter block.

https://pablomurad.com/the-small-things-i-love/ 2026-11-07T22:54:38-03:00 2026-11-07T22:54:38-03:00 Pablo Murad

Eight small things I built and love: bimb.ooo for pastes and tiny sites, tuno.place notes, pupu.page for writing, tedy.science sums, phlog.space for wrecked photos, and three ravens that carry email: RavenMail forms, theraven.my and the new theraven.social. All free, no ads.

https://pablomurad.com/how-to-get-into-the-demoscene/ 2026-11-07T14:39:05-03:00 2026-11-07T14:39:05-03:00 Pablo Murad

A practical follow-up to my demoscene post: how to watch demos, run the real thing in emulators, find the best prods on Pouët and Demozoo, start making your own with Shadertoy, TIC-80, trackers and sizecoding, and when to go to a party.

https://pablomurad.com/three-small-computers-looking-for-neighbors/ 2026-11-06T22:37:58-03:00 2026-11-06T22:37:58-03:00 Pablo Murad

I look after three small public Unix machines and all of them have room for you: runv.club on Debian, noctem.cafe on OpenBSD and Noctem 9 on Plan 9. Shell accounts, tilde pages, Gopher, Gemini, IRC and no algorithm. Pick one and come say hi.

https://pablomurad.com/come-get-lost-in-weirdnet/ 2026-11-06T10:00:39-03:00 2026-11-06T10:00:39-03:00 Pablo Murad

weirdnet.org is a hand-made map of the small, weird, personal web: 45,589 links in 314 categories, a 1996 look, a Random button, a link dump with RSS, old recipes, crazy letters and a guide to starting your own site. Come get lost.

https://pablomurad.com/org-mode-from-zero/ 2026-11-06T08:37:03-03:00 2026-11-06T08:37:04-03:00 Pablo Murad

A complete, friendly guide to Org mode in Emacs: headings and folding, TODOs, dates and repeaters, the agenda, capture, links, tables with formulas, clocking, code blocks you can run, export to HTML and PDF, a starter config and a cheat sheet.