A fresh weekend is here to try a new script, revive some old hardware, and give your desktop a little polish.
New in Showcase
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DNS lookup CLI tool (Bash + curl + jq), part of my “practice with real APIs” series by @Furqan_Ashraf
A compact Bash script that hits a live DNS API via curl and parses results with jq to print A, AAAA, MX, NS, SOA, SPF, TXT, and CNAME records right in your terminal - good weekend practice with real response handling. -
Reviving a 15-year-old netbook with Arch Linux shared by @hydn
A detailed writeup on bringing an ASUS Eee PC 1000HE back to life with Arch Linux 32-bit, including the quirks of 32-bit only hardware and older Wi-Fi cards that refuse 5 GHz.
Active & Updated
- DNS lookup CLI tool (Bash + curl + jq), part of my “practice with real APIs” series — the author published a GitHub repo that collects this DNS utility with the earlier IP, currency, and WHOIS scripts, plus setup notes in the README.
Desktops, Rices & Setups
- @tkn shared their setup — Ubuntu MATE 26.10 pre-alpha on a bedside laptop, freshly release-upgraded and looking tidy.
Drop your own projects in Showcase and your desktops in the visual threads to be featured before next Saturday’s update.
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