Links #2025-11 - Activitypub over NNTP, forgeless git, and theanine

Articles or videos I found last week that I actually read and watched until the end.

• Illuminant - koldfront.dk

  "An ActivityPub server with an NNTP interface". This is an awesome idea. Apart from the nostalgia factor, it might very well be that the newsreaders of old have superior interfaces for dealing with an information firehose. Back then the user was in control, not some opaque algorithm.

• Git without a forge - www.chiark.greenend.org.uk

  A good reminder that git, on its own, is already about as decentralized as an app can get.

• My 16-month theanine self-experiment - dynomight.net

  I had my phase of experimenting with supplements. Eventually I found that coffee and chocolate are the only stimulants I need, but I know firsthand about the conflict between Science says... and But I really feel something..., and of course about our good friend, the rabble-rouser Mr Placebo. This post shows how to properly solve the dilemma.