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The precinct: a cop game where you do the right thing
August 5, 2025
Generate RSS feeds for (almost) any website with mkfd
July 26, 2025
After effectively banning porn, Idaho state government shows visitors... porn.
July 20, 2025
Infinite featured-post scroll with Publii static site generator
July 18, 2025
Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky - a tar-black comedy of civilisation's end
July 12, 2025
The Gamebox 300 is a Game Boy Color - with extras
June 12, 2025
Gameloft's The Oregon Trail is a fun time-suck
May 5, 2025
Print your way through the zombie apocalypse
April 22, 2025
The giant in the attic - a large format 3D printer is just what you need at home
January 11, 2025
Fallout London may be be the best entry in the series - and it's great on Linux
August 2, 2024
Markdowndown lets you easily convert web pages to Markdown
July 6, 2024
Great classic games you can play in your Linux terminal
June 22, 2024
MarkText is the beautiful cross-platform Markdown editor you've been looking for
June 8, 2024
Emulate classic Game Boy action in The Linux Terminal
May 18, 2024
Terminal Roulette is a classic casino game in your terminal
May 11, 2024
Going, going... gone. How to easily install Golang on Linux
May 4, 2024
Ancestry.com: Helping you trace your roots and share your exact address
April 27, 2024
Windy out? How to check the weather, moon phase and more from your Linux terminal
April 18, 2024
Banish search spam forever with uBlacklist!
April 8, 2024
A friendly reminder stay vigilant against scam emails from criminals and ne'er-do-wells
April 1, 2024
LanguageTool is an AI-powered Grammar Checker you can self-host on your own hardware
March 30, 2024
Mirrors? Where we're going we won't need mirrors
March 21, 2024
On the Edge of disaster: Microsoft's browser on Linux
January 22, 2024
Keep an eye on your self-hosted services with statping-ng
January 12, 2024
Use GitHub RSS feeds to stay up-to-date with your favourite projects
January 8, 2024
The Clipboard Project is copy-paste wizardry in your Linux terminal
December 18, 2023
Use Obfuscate to easily censor private information in images.
December 16, 2023
QR codes are for suckers - it's time for them to go
December 11, 2023
tui-mines is classic Minesweeper action in a Linux terminal
December 10, 2023
How to automatically reject cookies and hide cookie pop-ups on Firefox
December 7, 2023
How many services can you self-host on a Raspberry Pi?
December 5, 2023
Trilium Notes is the self-hosted Evernote alternative you're looking for
December 3, 2023
Instantly generate configs from running containers with Docker-Autocompose
December 1, 2023
Pyphoon gives you an accurate ASCII moon phase in your terminal
November 29, 2023
Paranoid and perplexed by Plex privacy pickle? Just Enjoy Jellyfin
November 28, 2023
Radio-active is an instantly usable internet radio TUI
November 27, 2023
Not by AI: a badge to say you're (mostly) human
November 26, 2023
Bandcamp support is faltering - maybe you should download your music now
November 24, 2023
MacOS on Linux is easier than you think
November 24, 2023
Podman-TUI makes managing containers a breeze
November 23, 2023
Bypass Paywalls Clean combines all soft paywall hacks into one neat package
November 22, 2023
Create a multi-textured ambient sonic smorgasbord on Linux with Blanket
November 21, 2023
Create a great-looking website in minutes with Publii.
November 17, 2023
A TechCrunch RSS feed was hijacked in 2021. Nobody noticed.
November 16, 2023
Set up your own XMPP server on a Raspberry Pi in under five minutes
November 13, 2023
Play the first ever text adventure game in your Linux terminal!
November 9, 2023
Relive the glory days of CRT monitors with cool-retro-term
November 9, 2023
How to install the latest version of Docker Compose on Linux (and why you should)
November 8, 2023
Cheap portable retro-gaming with a hated handheld
November 7, 2023
Discover your most used Linux commands with MUC
November 6, 2023
How to get the 2011 Scrivener Beta Working on Ubuntu 22.04
November 1, 2023
Immich is the killer app that will kick-start the self-hosting revolution
September 22, 2023
Install Immich on a Raspberry Pi and replace Google Photos
September 20, 2023
How to use ChatGPT 3.5 from your terminal without API Keys using tgpt
September 1, 2023
Quickly Rectify Time-Consuming Terminal Typos on Linux With thefuck
March 13, 2023
How to install specific npm and node versions on Linux
February 14, 2023
Self-hosted recipe managers to make cooking a joy
February 2, 2023
The Crow's predictions for 2023
January 1, 2023
The 2022 LastPass data breach is starting to look truly horrendous
December 29, 2022
How to set a static ip address for your raspberry pi server
December 13, 2022
How to run Wordpress on an old laptop or PC
December 7, 2022
Every day, an area of the Amazon, equivalent to 10 iPhones, is lost to illegal forestry
September 8, 2022
In wake of EPIC data breach - Samsung forcing users to accept T&Cs or risk their data
September 5, 2022
Turn your old PC or laptop into a server and own your own piece of the internet
August 6, 2022
Protect your inbox from spam and online threats
June 8, 2022
Twitter is the United States of the Internet and citizens won't leave no matter who's in charge
May 19, 2022
Covfefe: Words of wisdom from the greatest politicians of the 21st century
April 19, 2022
Self-host your own audio library with Audiobookshelf
April 7, 2022
Delta Chat - going old-school with the future of messaging apps
January 23, 2022
The Crow's predictions for 2022 (better late than never)
January 7, 2022
(Book Review) Rebel Code: Linux And The Open Source Revolution by Glyn Moody
December 7, 2021
A Gov.uk site dedicated to porn? Absolutely. Best of British Porn? Not Quite.
November 25, 2021
FreshRSS – Stay safe and never visit another website again
June 26, 2021
Your email is leaking - How much data you give away without ever realising.
June 24, 2021
Seizing the means of production with an Anycubic Photon Mono Resin Printer.
June 8, 2021
This item has been flagged as inappropriate - What google reads in your private docs
May 16, 2021
Sun Worshipper - Off Grid With A Solar Kettle. Tried and tested
April 16, 2021
Mealie - Probably the best self-hosted recipe manager... In the world.
April 11, 2021
Far from the Madding crowd - Geminispace and the smolweb
March 23, 2021
He's justified, and he's ancient, and he (may have) burned a million quid - He plans to burn more. What Jimmy Cauty thinks of NFT
March 12, 2021
Get My Ass to Mars - The Crow heads into space
February 24, 2021
Nostalgia, privacy, and family portraits
February 5, 2021
Does my face look odd in this? Staying anonymous with Fawkes cloaking tech
January 31, 2021
Don't Trust Auntie. The Beeb allows social networks to track you
January 22, 2021
The Teeniest Tiniest Laptop In The West
January 19, 2021
Comments on a static site? It's simpler than you think!
December 30, 2020
Why does this site look like crap?
December 20, 2020
Google to limit free photo storage – deploy Photoprism and host your own
December 11, 2020
G-lined by Undernet? Welcome to the world of 2020
October 15, 2020
AntiSocial media – The Crow dives headlong into the Fediverse
July 21, 2020
Forget Net Nanny – PiHole will keep your kids’ late-night activity in check
July 20, 2020
Your data wants to be free – but only because you’re a terrible admin
July 1, 2020
Nextcloud Cookbook is the recipe manager you didn’t know you needed
June 14, 2020
The Pandemic Playlist – survive lockdown with these viral classics
May 31, 2020
Neal Stephenson's Fall. How deep does the rabbit hole go?
April 26, 2020
Freelancing in a time of quarantine – and why RSS is the greatest
April 11, 2020
The Outer Worlds – The game Fallout 4 should have been
April 3, 2020
Mining the moon – pick and rocket required
March 27, 2020
Dumpster diving for tech – a real life study in the art of reduce, reuse, recycle
March 22, 2020
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After effectively banning porn, Idaho state government shows visitors... porn.
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The Gamebox 300 is a Game Boy Color - with extras
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Print your way through the zombie apocalypse
The giant in the attic - a large format 3D printer is just what you need at home
Emulate classic Game Boy action in The Linux Terminal
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