The Curious Engineer

All blogs / Linux / Unix

The Crow

thecrow.uk

Linux / UnixGamingEmulationDev tools / editors / IDEs

’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
Posts
101 from 22 Mar 2020 to 6 Aug 2025
Posting
now and then
Kind
personal blog
Feed
https://thecrow.uk/feed.xml

2025 11

  1. Articles and Essays
  2. The precinct: a cop game where you do the right thing
  3. Generate RSS feeds for (almost) any website with mkfd
  4. After effectively banning porn, Idaho state government shows visitors... porn.
  5. Infinite featured-post scroll with Publii static site generator
  6. Privacy policy
  7. Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky - a tar-black comedy of civilisation's end
  8. The Gamebox 300 is a Game Boy Color - with extras
  9. Gameloft's The Oregon Trail is a fun time-suck
  10. Print your way through the zombie apocalypse
  11. The giant in the attic - a large format 3D printer is just what you need at home

2024 16

  1. Fallout London may be be the best entry in the series - and it's great on Linux
  2. Markdowndown lets you easily convert web pages to Markdown
  3. Great classic games you can play in your Linux terminal
  4. MarkText is the beautiful cross-platform Markdown editor you've been looking for
  5. Emulate classic Game Boy action in The Linux Terminal
  6. Terminal Roulette is a classic casino game in your terminal
  7. Going, going... gone. How to easily install Golang on Linux
  8. Ancestry.com: Helping you trace your roots and share your exact address
  9. Windy out? How to check the weather, moon phase and more from your Linux terminal
  10. Banish search spam forever with uBlacklist!
  11. A friendly reminder stay vigilant against scam emails from criminals and ne'er-do-wells
  12. LanguageTool is an AI-powered Grammar Checker you can self-host on your own hardware
  13. Mirrors? Where we're going we won't need mirrors
  14. On the Edge of disaster: Microsoft's browser on Linux
  15. Keep an eye on your self-hosted services with statping-ng
  16. Use GitHub RSS feeds to stay up-to-date with your favourite projects

2023 33

  1. The Clipboard Project is copy-paste wizardry in your Linux terminal
  2. Use Obfuscate to easily censor private information in images.
  3. QR codes are for suckers - it's time for them to go
  4. tui-mines is classic Minesweeper action in a Linux terminal
  5. How to automatically reject cookies and hide cookie pop-ups on Firefox
  6. How many services can you self-host on a Raspberry Pi?
  7. Trilium Notes is the self-hosted Evernote alternative you're looking for
  8. Instantly generate configs from running containers with Docker-Autocompose
  9. Pyphoon gives you an accurate ASCII moon phase in your terminal
  10. Paranoid and perplexed by Plex privacy pickle? Just Enjoy Jellyfin
  11. Radio-active is an instantly usable internet radio TUI
  12. Not by AI: a badge to say you're (mostly) human
  13. Bandcamp support is faltering - maybe you should download your music now
  14. MacOS on Linux is easier than you think
  15. Podman-TUI makes managing containers a breeze
  16. Bypass Paywalls Clean combines all soft paywall hacks into one neat package
  17. Create a multi-textured ambient sonic smorgasbord on Linux with Blanket
  18. Create a great-looking website in minutes with Publii.
  19. A TechCrunch RSS feed was hijacked in 2021. Nobody noticed.
  20. Set up your own XMPP server on a Raspberry Pi in under five minutes
  21. Play the first ever text adventure game in your Linux terminal!
  22. Relive the glory days of CRT monitors with cool-retro-term
  23. How to install the latest version of Docker Compose on Linux (and why you should)
  24. Cheap portable retro-gaming with a hated handheld
  25. Discover your most used Linux commands with MUC
  26. How to get the 2011 Scrivener Beta Working on Ubuntu 22.04
  27. Immich is the killer app that will kick-start the self-hosting revolution
  28. Install Immich on a Raspberry Pi and replace Google Photos
  29. How to use ChatGPT 3.5 from your terminal without API Keys using tgpt
  30. Quickly Rectify Time-Consuming Terminal Typos on Linux With thefuck
  31. How to install specific npm and node versions on Linux
  32. Self-hosted recipe managers to make cooking a joy
  33. The Crow's predictions for 2023

2022 12

  1. The 2022 LastPass data breach is starting to look truly horrendous
  2. How to set a static ip address for your raspberry pi server
  3. How to run Wordpress on an old laptop or PC
  4. Every day, an area of the Amazon, equivalent to 10 iPhones, is lost to illegal forestry
  5. In wake of EPIC data breach - Samsung forcing users to accept T&Cs or risk their data
  6. Turn your old PC or laptop into a server and own your own piece of the internet
  7. Protect your inbox from spam and online threats
  8. Twitter is the United States of the Internet and citizens won't leave no matter who's in charge
  9. Covfefe: Words of wisdom from the greatest politicians of the 21st century
  10. Self-host your own audio library with Audiobookshelf
  11. Delta Chat - going old-school with the future of messaging apps
  12. The Crow's predictions for 2022 (better late than never)

2021 15

  1. (Book Review) Rebel Code: Linux And The Open Source Revolution by Glyn Moody
  2. A Gov.uk site dedicated to porn? Absolutely. Best of British Porn? Not Quite.
  3. FreshRSS – Stay safe and never visit another website again
  4. Your email is leaking - How much data you give away without ever realising.
  5. Seizing the means of production with an Anycubic Photon Mono Resin Printer.
  6. This item has been flagged as inappropriate - What google reads in your private docs
  7. Sun Worshipper - Off Grid With A Solar Kettle. Tried and tested
  8. Mealie - Probably the best self-hosted recipe manager... In the world.
  9. Far from the Madding crowd - Geminispace and the smolweb
  10. 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
  11. Get My Ass to Mars - The Crow heads into space
  12. Nostalgia, privacy, and family portraits
  13. Does my face look odd in this? Staying anonymous with Fawkes cloaking tech
  14. Don't Trust Auntie. The Beeb allows social networks to track you
  15. The Teeniest Tiniest Laptop In The West

2020 14

  1. Comments on a static site? It's simpler than you think!
  2. Why does this site look like crap?
  3. Google to limit free photo storage – deploy Photoprism and host your own
  4. G-lined by Undernet? Welcome to the world of 2020
  5. AntiSocial media – The Crow dives headlong into the Fediverse
  6. Forget Net Nanny – PiHole will keep your kids’ late-night activity in check
  7. Your data wants to be free – but only because you’re a terrible admin
  8. Nextcloud Cookbook is the recipe manager you didn’t know you needed
  9. The Pandemic Playlist – survive lockdown with these viral classics
  10. Neal Stephenson's Fall. How deep does the rabbit hole go?
  11. Freelancing in a time of quarantine – and why RSS is the greatest
  12. The Outer Worlds – The game Fallout 4 should have been
  13. Mining the moon – pick and rocket required
  14. Dumpster diving for tech – a real life study in the art of reduce, reuse, recycle