Some Bits: Nelson's Linkblog

Understand Chicago: More notes from living under siege

I Want You to Understand Chicago

#civilrights #politics #chicago #trump #ice #-

rv for Ruby: Software package manager like Python's uv, but for Ruby

André.Arko.net

rv, a new kind of Ruby management tool

For the last ten years or so of working on Bundler, I’ve had a wish rattling around: I want a better dependency manager. It doesn’t just manage...

#programming #software #python #ruby #uv #+

Home battery power plant: Batteries installed in people's homes participated in an experiment to provide significant grid power when needed

Electrek

California's grid gets a record power assist from a 100k home battery fleet

Over 100,000 home batteries delivered 535 MW of power as a virtual power plant to California's grid during the evening peak last week.

#california #electrify #battery #sunrun #tesla #power #pge #+

Fag Rag: A 1970s gay liberation publication

Fag Rag - Wikipedia

#history #shively #gaylib #lgbt #gay #+

AIDS Info BBS: 1985 project to create an online community of people with AIDS https://archive.ph/20201216161307/https://onezero.medium.com/the-long-forgotten-story-of-ben-gardiner-the-aids-activist-whose-network-transformed-the-internet-c14460a73165#selection-689.59-689.72 #socialmedia #history #lgbt #aids #gay