Lighting another’s fire does not diminish your own. Below are the high-carbon tools and libraries I use to maintain my forge in Harare.
The Zero-Dollar Curriculum
- MIT OpenCourseWare: The gold standard for computer science and math.
- The Go Tour: The best place to start your Go programming journey.
- The Linux Documentation Project: Where the secrets of the shell are kept.
- Exercism (Go Track): Practice Go with mentors for free.
- Data Science at the Command Line: Jeroen Janssens’ masterpiece on why the terminal is a world-class data laboratory.
The Markup Toolkit
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Typst: Modern, fast, and beautiful typesetting. A true successor to LaTeX.
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Hugo: The engine that powers this blog. Static, fast, and secure.
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Pandoc: The ‘Universal Swiss Army Knife’ for converting any text format.
The Sovereign Stack
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VPS Benchmarks: Independent performance tests and reviews for various VPS providers.
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Modoboa: For self-hosting your email without the ‘Cloud’ overlords.
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Restic: Ironclad, encrypted backups for your peace of mind.
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Syncthing: Continuous file synchronization that respects your privacy.
The Data & Systems Wing
- Python (Data Analysis): The essential hammer for statistics and data science.
- Rust: A modern, memory-safe alternative to C. The high-carbon steel of system programming.
The Advanced Markup Wing
- Asciidoc: The true successor to DocBook. Perfect for complex technical manuals and books.
- Hugo PaperMod: The theme powering this forge. Clean, fast, and responsive.
Take these tools. Build something that lasts.