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Recommended links #4

Since I don’t have time to do weekly recommendations and also keep up posting here as I’m focusing on other projects at the same time I will make recommendations whenever possible. Here’s the 4th batch of recommended links: A brief history of UNIX; In case you didn’t know, there’s a subreddit for sysadmin jobs at

New domain transfer policy

Starting with 12/01 ICANN will enforce a new domain transfer policy. With some registrars this was already enforced internally, but now it’s gonna get enforced globally. What this means is that when a registrant performs an update to the registered name, organization or email address for any gTLD (non-country code) domain they own, a Change

Who Does Black Friday?

Well it’s that time of the year when you gotta do the shopping for cool digital products and if you’re wondering who does Black Friday here’s some hints: OVH has great domain deals and not so great server deals; .com & .net are just $1.98 at eNom; Name.com has Cyber Monday deals that start tonight;

Get curated digital resources for free

A while back I stumbled upon a deal from a site called ByPeople and after purchasing what I needed I didn’t give much attention to this site until today when I checked out their deals (given that everyone has Halloween deals) and noticed that the folks at ByPeople have built a quite interesting website which

Did the world go blind suddenly?

I’m not sure if it’s just me or if the world suddenly went blind. All I’m seeing nowadays in terms of UX and design assumes the use of very large typography. Facebook is testing out in certain countries the possibility for users to increase the font size in their posts and all of the sudden everybody