Sunday, November 9, 2025

Interesting things / Finds

 I will update this page with interesting things / finds i find day to day

Code

 Things i remember 09/nov/2025

JSLinux - Linux In Browser

I think this is the first project that ran Linux in browser  created by lgendery Fabrice Bellard  ( FFmpeg , QEMU)

https://bellard.org/jslinux/

 qb.js  - QBASIC implementation in javascript 

 QBASIC implementation in javascript stevehanov 

https://stevehanov.ca/blog/?id=92 

Kilo -  small text editor in less than 1K  

 Created by antirez (Salvatore Sanfilippo) creator of redis

 https://github.com/antirez/kilo

Building an Operating System for the Raspberry Pi

https://jsandler18.github.io/

Emulating The IBM PC On An ESP32

https://hackaday.com/2021/07/28/emulating-the-ibm-pc-on-an-esp32/

 Exclaidraw

A whiteboard where you can sketch sequence diagrams, flowcharts, architecture diagrams, or pretty much anything visual.

Built on  React

https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw 

mTCP - TCP/IP applications for your PC compatible retro-computers  

TCP/IP for old computers DOS 8088 

 https://www.brutman.com/mTCP/mTCP.html

 Teleforking a process onto a different computer!

https://thume.ca/2020/04/18/telefork-forking-a-process-onto-a-different-computer/ 

https://github.com/trishume/telefork 

 MartyPC is a cross-platform emulator of early PCs written in Rust

https://github.com/dbalsom/martypc 

https://martypc.net/

tiny8bit - Run some of the old computers emulated in browser 

Run many old computer C64 ,  Sinclair  , Amstrad  , and some old ones i never heard before.

https://floooh.github.io/tiny8bit/ 

 https://floooh.github.io/tiny8bit/

Web Based tools / Services

shodan - Search engine for everything connected in internet

Its a kind of a port scanner that scans at internet scale.

https://www.shodan.io/

 sqrx - Disposable browser - Be Fearless!

 sqrx allows to browse web in a remote computer instantly!

10-nov-2025 in their website i cannot find an option currently to use it , i think they are moving to enterprise space. 

their chrome extension still works 

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/squarex-be-secure-anonymo

https://sqrx.com  

 

Tech / Development Articles 

Soyuz digital computer -  Initially soyuz was not require that much computing functions as Apollo /  Space shuttle. Still soyuz used a digital computer  Argon-16 , Triple redundant Argon was of 2 KB RAM and 16KB ROM

https://spectrum.ieee.org/a-digital-soyuz 

 My Dad's Story (1970)- Soviet era technical college admission

A touching account of the author’s father’s journey to gain admission to a military university during the Soviet era  a story of determination, hardship, and perseverance, including his struggle just to board the train that would take him to his entrance exams.

http://ilyavolodarsky.com/soviet-college-admission 

General / Stories

Russia / Soviet union related

 https://medium.com/@arnfinn.sorensen/russia-my-father-and-me-629498afa3e7 

 

  

 

 

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