VirtualTam's bookmarks

  1. PostgreSQL at Scale: Database Schema Changes Without Downtime
    2025-06-12
    database/migration database/postgresql database/schema
    Permalink
  2. The new reading stack
    2025-05-10
    book indie library network/activitypub personal-knowledge programming/html self-hosting web/syndication
    Permalink

    Book metadata sources:

  3. xsv - A fast CSV command line toolkit (Archived)
    2025-05-10
    command-line programming/csv programming/rust
    Permalink

    Maintained forks:

    • dathere/qsv - Command-line data-wrangling toolkit with Lua scripting
    • medialab/xan - CSV processing tool with a built-in expression language
  4. Zarf Updates - Interactive Fiction Archive search feature
    2025-05-10
    game/interactive-fiction programming/python search-engine
    Permalink
  5. Archiving URLs | Gwern
    2025-04-09
    network/http personal-knowledge/bookmark personal-knowledge/digital-garden programming/go programming/html programming/java programming/python web web/scraping
    Permalink

    Web page archive formats:

    Tools for crawling, scraping and archiving Web pages:

    Self-hosted solutions:

    • ArchiveBox - A self-hosted app that lets you preserve content from websites in a variety of formats
    • Wallabag - Save and classify articles, read them later
  6. Linux Containers - Incus
    2025-02-08
    distributed-system/cluster linux/container/incus linux/container/lxc programming/go virtualization/qemu
    Permalink
  7. Zork: The Great Inner Workings
    2025-01-21
    command-line game/interactive-fiction game/zork history parser programming/c programming/fortran programming/go programming/lisp
    Permalink

    It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.

  8. Hacking the Yamaha DX9 To Turn It Into a DX7
    2025-01-20
    electronics firmware instrument/synthesizer programming/assembly reverse-engineering
    Permalink
  9. Nokia Design Archive
    2025-01-19
    design electronics history microsoft/windows mobile/symbian nokia phone
    Permalink
  10. badkeys - Checking cryptographic public keys for known vulnerabilities
    2025-01-18
    cryptography/elliptic-curve cryptography/rsa leak programming/python security security/password
    Permalink
  11. The CLIP OS Project - A hardened, multi-level operating system [archived]
    2024-12-10
    france linux linux/gentoo security virtualization/hypervisor
    Permalink

    The CLIP OS project is an open-source project designed by the National Cybersecurity Agency of France (ANSSI) that aims to build a hardened, multi-level operating system, based on the Linux kernel and a lot of free and open source software.

    [...]

    The project is based on Gentoo Hardened and has many similarities with Chromium OS or the Yocto project.

  12. UsenetArchives - One of the most extensive archives of Usenet newsgroups on the Internet
    2024-12-08
    bulletin-board-system forum/usenet history storage/tape text
    Permalink
  13. ElectroPortis - The famous SGI/IRIX ElectroPaint(tm) screensaver by David Tristram, ported to Windows
    2024-11-26
    art graphics/2d programming/c programming/c++ programming/javascript screensaver
    Permalink 
          __    __
     /..\ /| |'-.
    .\_O/ || |   |   OH WOW
 _ /  `._ \|_|_.-'  FREE SOFTWARE
| /  \__.`=._) (_
|/ ._/  |"""""""""|  LET ME IN
|'.  `\ |         |   ON THIS
;"""/ / |         |
 ) /_/| |.-------.|
'  `-`' "         "
  14. Make systemd better for Podman with Quadlet
    2024-11-22
    linux/container/podman linux/red-hat linux/systemd
    Permalink

    Aka "Docker Compose for Podman"

    — What do you get if you squash a Kubernetes kubelet? — A quadlet

  15. Apple II graphics: More than you wanted to know
    2024-11-22
    apple/apple-ii computer electronics graphics history
    Permalink
  16. Building SimCity - How to Put the World in a Machine
    2024-11-22
    architecture/urban-planning book city game/sandbox game/sim-city game/simulation programming/c++ society/demographics
    Permalink

    Related books:

  17. SimCities and SimCrises - Transcript of the keynote for the 2017 International City Gaming Conference
    2024-11-22
    architecture/urban-planning city game/sandbox game/sim-city game/simulation politics research science-fiction society/demographics weather
    Permalink
  18. paperless-ngx - Open-Source document management system that transforms your physical documents into a searchable online archive
    2024-11-22
    django document/pdf email image/optical-character-recognition microsoft/office programming/python programming/typescript self-hosting text
    Permalink
  19. Poor Richard's Almanack - A yearly almanac published by Benjamin Franklin
    2024-11-18
    book calendar history press usa
    Permalink
  20. Image Dithering - Create the illusion of color depth in images on systems with a limited color palette
    2024-11-18
    color/palette game image/2d image/compression image/dithering image/noise indie programming/go programming/roff
    Permalink

    Command-line dithering tools:

    Online dithering tools: