One advantage of having a link ‘backlog’ is that I can pick and choose a bit, to present grouped items.

• LiteCLI: A user-friendly command line client for SQLite. (via)
• A holiday gift woodworking project using Clojure. (via)
• 2019 IGF nominees: something notable.
• 2019 IGF nominees: mixed reactions.
• 2019 IGF nominees: my favorites.
• Privacy Engineer job at Wikimedia.
• Rand Intelligent Terminal Agent (RITA): Design Philosophy. (PDF, via)
• Book review: Retro debugging. (via)
• The ‘Say Thanks’ Project. Can’t help thinking of T.Hanks. (via tuxillo on EFNet #dragonflybsd)
• The Rise and Demise of RSS. Not as common nowadays, but invaluable for these weekend Digest articles.  (via)
• Nethack beaten in 7 minutes, 15 seconds realtime. One comment notes that you can, within game rules, die before you start playing. (via)
• Text Games to Watch for in 2019. 
• In honor of Donald Knuth’s 81 birthday Stanford uploaded 111 lectures on Youtube. (via)
• Facebook is the new crapware. (via)
• 404 Page Not Found: The internet feeds on its own dying dreams. (via)
• Computers in Kids’ Bedrooms. (via)
• Snowflake Archeology: Early computer animation (1960s) for the DEC PDP-1. (via)
• Online Text Tools. For when you don’t have a shell handy.
• Sinographs for “tea”.
• Misadventures in process containment. Interesting for the history.
• Dawn of the Second Epoch. Coming sooner than Y2038, possibly.
• UNIX in pictures. (via)
• Re-decentralizing the Web, for good this time. In-depth article, not just a polemic, getting into how Solid works. (via)