1794477869	Neat Finds #06: Gopher Holes, Beige Boxes and Unix Since 1970	https://pablomurad.com/neat-finds-06-gopher-holes-beige-boxes-and-unix-since-1970/	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.	plain	8a9f4883	Pablo Murad		neat-finds
1794462076	A short history of pubnixes and tildes	https://pablomurad.com/history-of-pubnixes-and-tildes/	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.	plain	9664bd98	Pablo Murad		pubnix
1794434940	Primer, explained as much as it can be	https://pablomurad.com/primer-explained/	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.	plain	3183cd56	Pablo Murad		movies
1794407011	Two notebooks: Docs do Murad and Pablo, how?	https://pablomurad.com/docs-do-murad-and-pablo-how/	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.	plain	2e741103	Pablo Murad		projects
1794400062	Emacs beyond the basics, part III: a real programming setup	https://pablomurad.com/emacs-beyond-the-basics-part-3/	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.	plain	1beec034	Pablo Murad		emacs
1794354875	POLYGON1993 paints with broken signals	https://pablomurad.com/polygon1993-glitch-art/	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	plain	f64bc426	Pablo Murad		art
1794335225	The IndieWeb and the small web, explained	https://pablomurad.com/indieweb-and-small-web-explained/	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.	plain	c18834a0	Pablo Murad		indieweb
1794330221	A practical guide to WebFinger	https://pablomurad.com/practical-guide-to-webfinger/	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.	plain	86e97d65	Pablo Murad		webfinger
1794250301	Neat Finds #05: Homepages, Pocket Synths and a Server in a QR Code	https://pablomurad.com/neat-finds-05-homepages-pocket-synths-and-a-server-in-a-qr-code/	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	plain	c303af8d	Pablo Murad		neat-finds
1794244416	Emacs beyond the basics, part II: your first steps in Emacs Lisp	https://pablomurad.com/emacs-beyond-the-basics-part-2/	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.	plain	c32dd8fa	Pablo Murad		emacs
1794228420	50 Obsidian tricks that need zero plugins	https://pablomurad.com/50-obsidian-tricks-zero-plugins/	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.	plain	bf7cd82e	Pablo Murad		obsidian
1794179225	Reading log, 2026-W45	https://pablomurad.com/reading-log-2026-w45/	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	plain	9c3e070d	Pablo Murad		reading
1794175109	Cock.li, email the way it used to be	https://pablomurad.com/cock-li-email-the-way-it-used-to-be/	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.	plain	4ef40569	Pablo Murad		email
1794124580	Bloggram turns your Telegram channel into a blog	https://pablomurad.com/bloggram-telegram-channel-blog/	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.	plain	b8a5e9dd	Pablo Murad		projects
1794116940	Emacs beyond the basics, part I: feeds, gopher, the fediverse and mail	https://pablomurad.com/emacs-beyond-the-basics-part-1/	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.	plain	11f47dfe	Pablo Murad		emacs
1794102878	The small things I love	https://pablomurad.com/the-small-things-i-love/	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.	plain	8f5633ed	Pablo Murad		projects
1794073145	How to get into the demoscene: a practical guide	https://pablomurad.com/how-to-get-into-the-demoscene/	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.	plain	3ec6a47f	Pablo Murad		demoscene
1794015478	Three small computers looking for neighbors	https://pablomurad.com/three-small-computers-looking-for-neighbors/	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.	plain	b3203825	Pablo Murad		pubnix
1793970039	Come get lost in weirdnet	https://pablomurad.com/come-get-lost-in-weirdnet/	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.	plain	ab86c09e	Pablo Murad		smallweb
1793965023	Org mode from zero: a complete, friendly guide	https://pablomurad.com/org-mode-from-zero/	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.	plain	955ae455	Pablo Murad		emacs
1793964057	Come wander the small web with curl	https://pablomurad.com/rss-expert-come-wander/	No account, no key, nothing to install: rss.expert answers curl and the browser at the same address. Wander the small web with /one, /weird and /random, find any site's feed, read articles as plain text, or subscribe to the weird web in your reader.	plain	3d70f786	Pablo Murad		rss
1793908157	Neat Finds #04: Old Machines, Small Rings and Terminal Weather	https://pablomurad.com/neat-finds-04-old-machines-small-rings-and-terminal-weather/	Issue four: Serial Experiments Lain and Encarta 95 in a browser tab, a NES emulator in 5,000 bytes of C, webrings, finger, chat over SSH, terminal weather, LaTeX flowers and an esoteric palette generator.	plain	2074e74f	Pablo Murad		neat-finds
1793887125	How murad.chat fits the fediverse on one VPS	https://pablomurad.com/murad-chat-fediverse-one-vps/	GoToSocial, PeerTube, Lemmy, Matrix, a Bluesky PDS and Nostr on one 8-core VPS. How I tamed Pixelfed's Horizon (79% to 16% of its memory limit), cut Celery workers, capped every container and then loosened the limits that were starving the apps.	plain	aa2ab1d4	Pablo Murad		self-hosting
1793885186	How to publish a website under ip6.arpa	https://pablomurad.com/how-to-publish-a-website-under-ip6-arpa/	The idea is a strange little trick: take the reverse DNS zone of an IPv6 prefix and use it as the public address of a website. It works, it teaches you a lot about DNS and it costs nothing. It also won't replace a normal domain, and the sections below	plain	bf479965	Pablo Murad		dns
1793839941	Software as culture: the demoscene	https://pablomurad.com/software-as-culture-the-demoscene/	We have a slightly annoying habit of treating software as a tool and nothing else. One program edits photos, another does spreadsheets, another plays music, another runs a server. In that logic, good software is useful software: fast, secure and, with some luck, it won't ask you to create an	plain	9b66b0ed	Pablo Murad		demoscene
1793818390	Binary Memories, part III	https://pablomurad.com/memorias-binarias-parte-iii/	When I started using the internet regularly, around 1995, the Brazilian web was wilderness. There was no Google. So how did you find a website? Through printed magazines, or because somebody told you about it. Imagine that. That same year a Brazilian "search engine" showed up, called Cadê? (the late	plain	a6c7c56d	Pablo Murad		personal
1793818351	How Usenet serves files	https://pablomurad.com/how-usenet-serves-files/	There's something I love about Usenet: it was never meant to be a file download system. Its original job was simpler and, in a way, more elegant. It distributed messages. Text, discussions, forums before forums existed. People posted to groups, servers passed articles to each other, and newsreaders downloaded the	plain	381ab355	Pablo Murad		usenet
1793800019	The other Pablo Murads	https://pablomurad.com/the-other-pablo-murads/	For years my name felt more like a clue than a fact. Pablo is Spanish, a version of Paul, or so I read more than once. Murad comes from somewhere else, with a Lebanese shadow, maybe a Turkish one, maybe just the echo of some older geography. I'm not Spanish,	plain	4719b000	Pablo Murad		personal
1793724620	Come wreck your photos :)	https://pablomurad.com/come-wreck-your-photos-on-phlog-space/	phlog.space is a free little photo site where every picture gets wrecked by one of 35 random effects. Now with a MySpace-style top 8, webmentions and even less tracking. No JavaScript, no ads, just plain PHP and SQLite. Come post with us.	plain	baca95a9	Pablo Murad		photography
1793692805	The file server I didn't know I needed: copyparty	https://pablomurad.com/copyparty-file-server/	Every now and then a piece of software solves the problem I installed it for and then keeps showing me other problems it can solve. copyparty is one of those. I've been using it and I'm loving it. The pitch sounds almost too simple: run a program, point it at	plain	65c231bb	Pablo Murad		self-hosting
1793687731	systemd: why do some Linux distributions go out of their way to avoid it?	https://pablomurad.com/systemd-why-do-some-linux-distributions-avoid-it/	I was reading about antiX when something caught my eye. It's a lightweight distribution, happy on old machines, based on Debian, and it deliberately stays away from systemd. With antiX 26, released on March 21, 2026, it went further than I expected: you get five init systems to pick from,	plain	2302d682	Pablo Murad		linux
1793687553	9front in your pocket: drawterm on Android	https://pablomurad.com/9front-in-your-pocket-drawterm-android/	Inspired by a tiny note from Sigrid on ftrv.se: how to build drawterm on an Android phone and connect to 9front without touching a PC. Plus what Plan 9 is, running rio on your phone, sharing your phone’s files over 9P, and an easier app.	plain	f60a8bf7	Pablo Murad		9front
1793657203	Newt and OpenBSD	https://pablomurad.com/newt-and-openbsd/	The plan was simple: spin up an OpenBSD VM on Proxmox to host a small static site generated with an SSG. No Docker and no panel full of abstractions in the middle, only httpd serving static files, the way OpenBSD likes it. On the public side I already had something	plain	fcc89964	Pablo Murad		openbsd
1793640400	50 more Obsidian plugins worth your time	https://pablomurad.com/50-more-obsidian-plugins-worth-your-time/	Fifty more Obsidian plugins, zero repeats from part one: screenplays, sheet music, chess and recipes next to the writing, planning and publishing tools. What each one does, how to start using it, and the catch when there is one.	plain	8a9b710a	Pablo Murad		obsidian
1793640254	Neat Finds #03: Tiny Websites, Paper Zines and Old Desktops	https://pablomurad.com/neat-finds-03-tiny-websites-paper-zines-and-old-desktops/	Issue three of my occasional zine of open source finds: SSH-powered hosting, a forum with zero JavaScript, a whole website inside a link, a TV schedule for handmade sites, one-sheet zines, a 1980s MUD and a mountain of tiled wallpapers.	plain	0f7f0c21	Pablo Murad		neat-finds
1793625051	How debrid services work	https://pablomurad.com/how-debrid-services-work/	There's a kind of internet service that feels almost magical the first time you use it. You paste a link, a magnet, a torrent file, sometimes an NZB, and the service hands you back a clean, fast, direct link to download or stream. You don't wait in a queue, solve	plain	c569336e	Pablo Murad		web
1793583248	The demon's joke, or Delage's demon	https://pablomurad.com/the-demons-joke-or-delages-demon/	I ran into one of those wonderfully suspicious YouTube titles: CURSED FILMS. Of course I clicked. On the other side of the screen, a middle-aged presenter called Getro was telling a completely deranged story about Georges Méliès, occultism and a little film so wicked that Méliès, with the help of	plain	c8636882	Pablo Murad		movies
1793582519	Reading log, 2026-W44	https://pablomurad.com/reading-log-2026-w44/	Things I read recently and think are worth your time. r/opensource just banned AI, non-English speakers, and more | The Verge theverge.com Cisco gives 27-year-old engineer unlimited AI tokens to rewrite 98% of the company's legacy code in 24 months: president plucks former startup founder, telling him to 'go nuts'	plain	4cf81668	Pablo Murad		reading
1793565553	Reddit is ending RSS and selling its data to AI	https://pablomurad.com/reddit-isnt-closing-the-door-on-ai/	Reddit says it's killing RSS and its public API to stop AI scraping. But AI is its customer: Google and OpenAI pay for access, while feed readers, researchers and small developers get locked out.	plain	3bc3be58	Pablo Murad		rss
1793549119	Getting started with Kitten, a kit for the Small Web	https://pablomurad.com/getting-started-with-kitten/	Kitten turns a folder of HTML, CSS and JavaScript into a website or web app, with HTTPS, a built-in database and peer-to-peer features for the Small Web. What it is, who it’s for, and how to go from install to a live app.	plain	d6e5a407	Pablo Murad		kitten
1793522067	My other blog smells like candle smoke	https://pablomurad.com/my-other-blog-smells-like-candle-smoke/	I have another blog, and it smells like candle smoke. Chamber of Reflections is where I write about the occult and the esoteric: Templars, Lilith, Hermes, grimoires and old hoaxes. Why it's been with me since I was a kid, the causos I want to tell, and why I'd need four posts a day.	plain	bd325071	Pablo Murad		blogging
1793477616	I bought 18 postcards. Want one?	https://pablomurad.com/i-bought-18-postcards-want-one/	I bought 18 postcards from cities in Brazil and I’m mailing them, handwritten, to people around the world. Friends, strangers, whoever signs up first. Give me a real address and one could land in your mailbox before the end of the year.	plain	d9695210	Pablo Murad		postcards
1793477279	Build your own tilde, part II: limits, backups and real people	https://pablomurad.com/build-your-own-tilde-part-2/	Part II of building your own tilde: a safe script to create accounts, disk quotas, per-user memory and process limits with systemd, encrypted restic backups you actually restore, monitoring, suspending without deleting and a private preview.	plain	9161d5fa	Pablo Murad		tilde
1793429751	The face that haunted Bell Labs	https://pablomurad.com/the-face-that-haunted-bell-labs/	Meet Peter Weinberger, the W in AWK. In the 1980s his portrait escaped and took over Bell Labs: org charts, T-shirts, a water tower, wet cement, microchips, a chocolate mask. Today his face still shows up in Plan 9 whenever a character is missing.	plain	d374bc2b	Pablo Murad		unix
1793425251	Build your own tilde, part I: from an empty server to ~you	https://pablomurad.com/build-your-own-tilde-part-1/	A step-by-step guide to building your own tilde, a shared Unix server with ~user web pages. Part I goes from an empty Debian VPS to SSH with keys only, a firewall, /etc/skel, Apache userdir with HTTPS and two test members.	plain	ec7c9a2b	Pablo Murad		tilde
1793422560	murad.wtf: a night sky made of my servers	https://pablomurad.com/murad-wtf-a-night-sky-made-of-my-servers/	murad.wtf is a status page with no charts: it draws a night sky in plain text where stars are page visits, comets are my posts and an eclipse means a service is down. How it works, where to see it and why it knows nothing about you.	plain	823731ef	Pablo Murad		murad-wtf
1793370170	Why we brought runv.club back	https://pablomurad.com/why-we-brought-runv-club-back/	runv.club almost died after a year and a half online. Instead, we rebuilt it from scratch: a small public Unix server from Brazil with web pages, Gemini, Gopher, a blog, IRC and more, no ads or trackers. Signups open soon, five people a week.	plain	9b320ba8	Pablo Murad		runv
1793359080	The snake and the silence	https://pablomurad.com/the-snake-and-the-silence/	For years I talked to God and heard nothing back. Then, on a cold walk before dawn, I asked for an answer out loud. It came months later, at a street corner, and it took me a while to understand it.	plain	d7a8e877	Pablo Murad		personal
1793344620	A guide to SDF, part II: everything else you can do there	https://pablomurad.com/sdf-guide-part-2/	Part II of my SDF guide: email from the terminal, your own gopher hole and phlog, USENET, text games, SSH keys, vintage systems like TOPS-20, SDF’s fediverse services, and everything that opens up when you become an ARPA or MetaARPA member.	plain	a5adeb55	Pablo Murad		sdf
1793333440	A guide to SDF, part I: a Unix home since 1987	https://pablomurad.com/sdf-guide-part-1/	SDF has been letting strangers log in to a shared Unix system since 1987. Part I of my guide: how a 1987 anime BBS became a non-profit Unix home, how membership works, and how to sign up, log in, chat and publish your first web page. I’m there as pmurad.	plain	fe8540b6	Pablo Murad		sdf