uftpd is a small FTP and TFTP server for the LAN. No configuration file and no users to manage: it serves the ftp user's home directory, from inetd or as a standalone daemon.
mg is a small, fast, and portable Emacs-like editor with syntax highlighting and UTF-8 support, descended from MicroEMACS by way of OpenBSD, and in the public domain.
mdnsd is a small Multicast DNS and DNS-SD (service discovery) responder and library for advertising and discovering hosts and services on the local link.
Merecat httpd is a tiny embedded web server forked from thttpd -- HTTPS, CGI, virtual hosts, and a reverse proxy in a ~160 kiB footprint.
Finit is a fast, simple init and process supervisor for embedded, server, and desktop Linux -- an alternative to SysV init and systemd, reverse engineered from the EeePC fastinit.
Mockup of rxvt new look, running Midnight Commander.
I want to test the editors I maintain, kg and mg, on as many
terminals as possible, and after bouncing between xterm, GNOME Terminal,
kitty, Alacritty and Terminator over the years, rxvt is the
one I keep coming back to – mostly for how far it bends to a plain
config file. So here’s how I set it up with a few sane defaults, or at
least how far I got …
The following writeup is part of my series; Reminders to self. Please let me know if there’s anything you’d like me to delve further into.
Like many of you I keep mirrors of my projects on a small VPS — partly as insurance, GitHub is lovely until it isn’t, and partly because I like having my own corner of the web. For years gitweb did the honors, showing its age but doing the job. When I went looking for something nicer I found legit, which looks great — but on my single-core droplet it pegged the CPU just rendering a repo page. Add the AI scraper herds that graze on every public git frontend these days, and the poor machine never had a quiet moment.
