Monthly Shaarli
January, 2022
- ooh! directory, curated collection of 1000+ blogs by Phil Gyford.
- Ye Olde Blogroll, humanly curated list of personal & independent blogs that are updated regularly. Hat tip to Ben Werdmüller.
- https://theforest.link
- https://indieblog.page
- https://personalsit.es
- https://indieweb.xyz/en
- https://blogroll.club
- https://feedle.world
- https://micro.blog/discover
- https://aboutideasnow.com
- https://nownownow.com
- R-bloggers, R news and tutorials contributed to hundreds of R bloggers.
On personal blogs

Gitea is great. So is Codeberg. The ability to share repos, issues, and users across Gitea instances, would be awesome.
Git itself is already federated and decentralised, but there is still a need for federation of the remote repo and its facilities.
The idea of some sort of federation between Gitea instances has been around since 2016.
- https://forgefriends.org/blog/2021/11/22/what-is-forgefriends/
- https://social.gitea.io/@gitea/1075767916260526973
- https://forum.forgefriends.org/t/nlnet-grant-application-for-federation-in-gitea-deadline-october-1st-2021/354
- https://forum.forgefriends.org/t/forge-federation-webinar-january-19th-2022-10am-noon-utc-1/538#a-10000-feet-view-of-problems-with-forge-silos-and-their-solutions-4
- Software Forge performance index (maintained by SourceHut)

In this video produced by the American Chemical Society, George Zaidan does a great job presenting a short but fundamental explanation of what an electron is and why that matters (pun intended).
I can really recommend!
Via Physics World.
There's a chemistry tree.
Looks like good fun, and the data that makes up the genealogy is shared under a CC-BY license (bulk data export requires contacting the site admin), but I have found no mention of the license for the code of the website/project.
Their FAQ is very informative.
- i3wm, tiling window manager for X11.
- sway, drop-in replacement for i3wm on Wayland.
- enlightenment, window manager, compositor and minimal desktop. Not tiling. Supports X11, experimental Wayland support.
There are many more window managers. Add more as I (re)discover them.
Citation File Format (CFF), a YAML 1.2-based format for providing citation metadata for (research/scientific) software.
- CFF github repo
- Guide to the CFF v1.2 schema, including such niceties as credit redirection
- One of many CFF file generators (here is a table of other tools).
- Making software citation easi(er) - The Citation File Format and its integrations, slides for a presentation by Stephan Druskat (one of the CFF maintainers).
- There are, of course, R-based CFF generators.
cffr
is backed by rOpenSci. - Stephan Druskat's cfftracker answers the question: how many repos on Github contain
CITATION.cff
files? At the moment just north of 1000 repos (less than I thought, to be honest). Keep adding CFF to your scientific repos, people :-)
Via Martin Fenner (twice over).
Refractive index database
قاموس عربي عربي و قاموس عربي انجليزي ثنائي
Huvudsökande: Uppsala universitet.
Medsökande lärosäten och forskningsinstitut: Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden AB, Högskolan dalarna, Mälardalens högskola och Karlstads universitet.
Koordinator: professor Marika Edoff
Exciting news! No website or similar yet, but here are some news snippets.
This project involves six universities and 50 companies and organisations, and has a budget of 110 MSEK over five years.
Several research themes:
- advanced technology
- building integration
- enhanced PV systems
- land sharing
- planning for large-scale expansion
- and others
Theme 1: advanced technology
Solar cell devices with higher power, lower resource consumption.
For example, perovskite solar cells and tandem cells.
- https://www.energimyndigheten.se/forskning-och-innovation/forskning/omraden-for-forskning/kompetenscentrum-2022-2026/ (scroll down)
- https://www.energimyndigheten.se/nyhetsarkiv/2021/600-miljoner-till-energiomstallningens-kompetensforsorjning/
- https://energiforsk.se/nyhetsarkiv/energiforsk-och-nya-kompetenscenter/
- https://www.sbp.se/nyheter/sbp-del-av-ny-svensk-solenergiforskning