tinyapps.org cataloged tiny, well-made software for ages. At present, it serves mainly as an occasional tech blog.
As defined by this website, a tiny app (application) is software weighing 1.44MB or less. This ranges from the miniscule Tiny IDEA (a mere 448 bytes), to the awe-inspiring QNX demo disk (which pretty much fills a floppy).
Several well-intentioned but hopelessly flawed antivirus services were reporting this site as dangerous after their automated scans flagged legitimate sysadmin tools like Atomic Web Server and X-Pass. Encrypting the archives (hopefully) avoids this problem. Formerly, the entire downloads directory was protected via basic access authorization, but a compelling argument was made to protect the files instead.
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Downloads are now hosted by Neocities. Files can be checked against their SHA-256 hashes found on the locally-hosted downloads index page thusly:
| Operating System | Terminal Command |
|---|---|
| GNU/Linux | sha256sum filename |
| OpenBSD | sha256 filename |
| OS X / macOS | shasum -a 256 filename |
| Windows | certutil -hashfile filename SHA256 |
(OK, not really a question...) Enable dark mode on your device to enjoy a gentler color scheme through the the magic of CSS.
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That function is now served through the blog, which can be subscribed to via RSS.
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Miles Wolbe, an itinerant tech on Maui.
Yes. You are 100% responsible for your own actions. Using this site, visiting a link, downloading a program, in short, living, is done entirely at your own risk (and joy).
No. (Well, with the exception of the "Recent Updates" question - that one used to get asked a fair bit.)
last update: 2024.02.29