European Alternatives is a project that collects and analyzes European alternatives to digital services and products, such as cloud services and SaaS products. We regularly receive advice and suggestions from European Alternatives users, so feel free to reach out!

• Web analytics services
• Cloud computing platforms
• Content delivery network (CDN) services
• Email providers
• Virtual private server (VPS) hosters
• Search engines
• Transactional email service
• Domain name registrars
• Time tracking apps
• Navigation apps
• Uptime monitoring services
• File hosting services
• Machine translation services
• Object storage providers
• Microblogging services
• VPN services
• Managed DNS providers
• Professional networking platforms
• Function as a service (FaaS) providers
• Platform as a service (PaaS) providers
• Error tracking services
• Electronic signature software
• Public DNS resolvers
• Payment service providers
• Captcha services
• Spelling and grammar checkers
• Password managers
• Instant messaging apps
• Version control services
• Identity and access management (IAM) services
• Live chat software
• Web browsers
• Video conferencing software
• Document collaboration services
• Calendar services
• Email marketing services
• Font services
• WordPress hosting providers
• Team communication services
• Managed Kubernetes services
• Video hosting services
• Video platforms
• Maps API services
• Tag management systems
• DDoS protection services
• Session recording tools
• ACME SSL certificate providers
• Survey tools
• Marketing automation software
• Project Management Software
• SMS APIs

WebVM is a server-less virtual Linux environment running fully client-side in HTML5/WebAssembly in your browser.
It is available as a Dockerfile

J'ai eu l'occasion de découvrir Terra Aventura, l'application gratuite de geocaching en Nouvelle-Aquitaine :

En particulier, je recommande vivement son parcours Un musée à ciel ouvert, qui invite à une belle balade à Bressuire, et permet de découvrir et admirer plusieurs oeuvres de street art :

Voici un aperçu des magnifiques fresques …

An open-source guide to help you write better command-line programs, taking traditional UNIX principles and updating them for the modern day.

Le fondateur et dirigeant de Telegram, Pavel Durov, est détenu en France à la surprise générale. Il a été interpellé près de Paris alors qu’il venait d’arriver avec son jet privé. L’arrestation du patron de l’une des applications les plus utilisées au monde, notamment en Ukraine et en Russie, provoque depuis de nombreux commentaires, y compris sur le thème de la liberté d’expression.

Telegram est l’objet de reproches de laxisme, en raison des activités illégales qui ont été décelées sur le service.

L’arrestation de Pavel Durov parce que Telegram ne modère pas assez sa plateforme suscite une certaine circonspection chez plusieurs analystes et commentateurs. D’aucuns se demandent si d’autres enjeux n’entrent pas aussi en ligne de compte, en raison du rôle particulier du service en matière de désinformation, influence et propagande.

Peter O’Brien served as a lawyer in Ireland between 1891 and 1900. Due to his unique ability to win cases by packing the jury, he was known as ‘Peter the Packer.’
This is his story.
This game takes about 10-15 minutes to complete and has a definitive ending.

Page itch.io : https://dmullinsgames.itch.io/voir-dire

Polyfill.io was owned by the Financial Times web team, then moved under community management, and the last maintainer sold the project to a weird Chinese CDN company, and they moved it away from Fastly (the CDN / Edge compute platform running the OSS code for the service) and started to mess with the returned files.

From polyfill.io original creator: twitter.com/triblondon/status/1761852117579427975

Issue on their repo: polyfillpolyfill/polyfill-service/issues/2834

The domain polyfill.io is now a CNAME to polyfill.io.bsclink.cn, there has been no communication about this, or how the service is now ran (it previously depended on Fastly's edge compute platform, which is not available on this chinese cloud).

My first job was a trial by fire, to this day, that codebase remains the worst and the best codebase I ever had the pleasure of working in.
[...] I hope I can share with you some of its most fun and scary stories.

I mean a database table called calendar. What did it contain? A manually filled-out calendar.
When asking our resident shaman (who went by the name Munch), he informed me that when the calendar runs out we can't login to the system.

😱

Power Surge 51 is a puzzle game where you must manage your supply of power and minerals while building your way to the power core of each level.

The core emits a power surge every 10 seconds. Build generators to capture the energy and use it to power your colony.

Game made for Ludum Dare 51

Oh no!
Something went wrong with the ritual and Klara was pulled into another dimension.
Get her back using magic and teamwork!

• nice storytelling with cute animals
• very short,with simple logic puzzles
• beautifully illustrated

Amazing! ​🧙🔮🐍

You’re on a mission to get revenage on your ex-girlfriend and her family and her family’s friends and basically just all the birds on earth… how dare they be a bird. The nerve.
Exciting card battling fun!
Throw cards down to summon your worm army. No bird must be left alive!

Jeu issu de l'édition 55 de la game jame Ludum Dare

Découvert grâce à Doc Geraud : Ces jeux faits en 48h mettent une claque de game design ! @ YouTube

Page itch.io : https://guyunger.itch.io/would-you-still-love-me-if-i-was-a-worm

En avril, j'ai eu l'occasion de faire un tour à Liège, en Belgique. J'ai mis les pieds par hasard dans la Librairie Entre-Temps, où j'ai acquis ce livre passionnant :

À la lecture de ce livre …

Très bonne BD, un peu style Mike Mignola version fantasy.