Topic: tech

Neocities is a fun place where people can set up their own personal sites for free. It has a cool informal vibe. Here are examples of awesome Neocities sites.

Just being about an unusual, interesting or personal topic was not enough to qualify for inclusion here. The sites in this article all have something highly original in terms of artwork, the coding, and/ or somehow add another dimension as compared with other sites on Neocities or elsewhere on the internet.

GitHub doesn't allow the use of GitHub Pages to build a site for commercial use. Here is what to safely do instead if you are creating a commercial project.

A commercial project is one that contains advertisements or is an e-commerce site such as a merch site, or an affiliate site, paid membership site, or any other project that might make money.

This is a balanced review of the 1440 news digest describing its pros and cons. 1440 news is a free daily news digest which aims to be unbiased. It comes Monday through Saturday as a newsletter in your email. Find out here whether it's worthwhile.

There are a lot of reasons you might be looking for a VPS server - maybe you've outgrown your shared hosting plan or you want to run custom software or a tech stack that isn't available on most shared hosting options (e.g. Ruby on Rails).

A lot of VPS providers out there come with a scary price tag. This is particularly an issue if you're just starting your new website and it won't have a lot of traffic or income yet.

To solve this problem, here is a list of the cheapest VPS hosting providers at or under $5 per month.

ACL's (access control lists) are ideal for when you need fine-grained permission control in Linux. The challenge when using ACLs is finding a code editor which preserves those ACL permissions upon save. Most code editors are not designed with ACLs in mind, and these are lost when saving a file, leaving only the standard Linux permissions.

Here are Linux code editors which preserve ACLs.

When you look at your progress in your current league on Duolingo, you'll notice that some people have a little status icon (kind of like an emoji) shown next to their profile picture, as you can see in the image above. But how do you change this icon or remove it completely? It's easy to do, but it's not at all intuitive. Here is an illustrated tutorial for how to change your status mini-icon in Duolingo. This method works for both Android and iPhone at the time of writing.