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Things and Stuff Wiki - An organically evolving personal wiki knowledge base. An on-the-fly taxonomy containing a patchwork trail of topic outlines, descriptions, notes, stubs and breadcrumbs, with links to sites, systems, software, manuals, organisations, people, articles, guides, slides, papers, books, comments, videos, screencasts, webcasts, scratchpads and more. Content is orientated towards mostly free/libre/open, mostly Linux. Quality and age varies drastically. Sometimes old things are first, sometimes last. Use the Table of Contents menu to navigate long pages. Zoom in if text is too small. Dead link? Wayback Machine. I probably need to fix the theme CSS after an update. See also libreav.org. Chat to msg me (not checking tho atm). e

UI / X11 / GUI

Terminals / TUI

WM/DE / Wayland

AwesomeWM / i3

File managers

Clipboard

Demoscene

Gaming / Console

Photos / Images

Lighting / Laser

CAD / 3D

Video / Vision

Link / Wi-Fi

Internet / Mesh

Transport / DNS

HTTP(S) / SSH

Chat / IRC

VoIP / Comms

Audio / s / AV

Speech / vox

Speaker / s

MIDI / OSC

DAW

Playback / MPD

Rip / Tag / t

Things and Stuff Wiki welcomes you! Hello, I'm Milkii and this is my personal wiki site that I use for keeping track of various bits and pieces.

A wiki is collection of quickly editable work-in-progress articles on whatever. Wiki means quick; new pages can be created very easily, there's a simple markup format for links, text style, etc., and resuable templates can be used in some wiki systems. tl;dr: Wikis in Plain English - a 3:52 video by Common Craft explaining what a wiki is for.

On the Things and Stuff Wiki, the menu template, article (page) lengths, table-of-contents outline, paragraph and list orders are organic, inconsistent and very likely to change. Some articles are very long as prefer the benefit of getting everything on the same page to make more obvious how assemblages of content and the relationships between them might of could be ordered.

Origins: I started using wiki web software to take notes in 2003 using an account hosted by wikiservice.at (thank you Helmut Leitner!). It's still available to view here. Later I ran the Things and Stuff in Edinburgh Facebook events group (and Twitter) came first. The aim was to help disseminate information on free, low-cost and notable groups, institutions, spaces (and other things and stuff) in and around or relating to Edinburgh. Many things didn't change over time, so I added local info to the wiki on Edinburgh. Facebook gutted their groups a long time ago, so I realigned it to be for the wiki instead.

Wiki tasks:

links (and commentary) saved
messy stubs sectioned
link titles and descriptions added
sections refactored
link summations made
sections further moved and merged
menu reordering

Quick link copy bookmarklet:

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Quick GitHub/Wikipedia link copy bookmarklet:

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