Pebbles is a Telegram bot designed to address a specific challenge: the difficulty of executing commands on Linux servers from a mobile device. While there are already excellent CLI tools for mobile devices, such as Termux, it didn’t quite fit my needs. Typing CLI keys on a small touch screen can be cumbersome, especially in crowded spaces like a subway. A Telegram bot emerged as an ideal solution since I was already an avid Telegram and Python user....
I really didn’t think that it will ever be a necessary to use IRC in modern world. First of all, there are better alternatives like Discord and Matrix. Secondly, IRC is a technology from 1988. For a bit of context, in 1988 Soviet Union was still a thing, and Guns and Roses just started making good music. Privileged Gen-Z rhetoric aside, it’s actually not all that bad. Yes, if you are old school you can still use IRC in the terminal, and constantly remind everyone how old days were much better than now, but that’s not very productive....
For me the toughest and most time consuming part of web development was always front end. All the centering divs, box models and CSS inheritance stuff. And even if I get all the code to work, website still looks like highschool student’s project from the 90s. Well, no more. Hugo framework allows users to create websites using Markdown language, and takes care of rendering Markdown files into HTML and CSS code....