VirtualTam's bookmarks

1. Whoosh Reloaded - a fast, featureful full-text indexing and searching library implemented in pure Python 2025-05-01

   tags: programming/python, query, search-engine

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   • Documentation
2. snksoft/crc - Generic CRC implementation for Go 2025-03-23

   tags: cryptography/hash, programming/go

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   • 16, 32, 64 bits
   • Custom parameters: polynomial, XOR, reverse input/output bits
   • Flexible alternative to hash/crc32 and hash/crc64
3. Redis Transactions 2025-03-18

   tags: database/redis, programming/go

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   • Understanding transactions and WATCH
   • Golang Redis Pipelines, WATCH, and Transactions
4. Zoekt - Fast trigram based code search 2025-02-19

   tags: programming/go, search-engine, source-code-management/git

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   • FAQ
   • Zoekt Query Language Guide
   • isker/neogrok - A frontend for Zoekt
   • Query Language Guide by Neogrok
5. AFL++ - American Fuzzy Lop Fuzzing Framework 2025-02-15

   tags: compiler/llvm, genetic-algorithm, programming/c++, programming/fuzzing, programming/rust, research, security, virtualization/qemu

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   • AFLplusplus/AFLplusplus
   • AFLplusplus/LibAFL - A collection of reusable pieces of fuzzers
   • rc0r/afl-utils - Utilities for automated crash sample processing/analysis, job management and corpus optimization
   • 0xricksanchez/AFL_Runner - Scaling best-practice AFLPlusPlus fuzzing campaigns made easy
   • AFL++ Papers
   • Sister Projects
   • The LibAFL Book
   • Fuzzing projects with american fuzzy lop (AFL)
   • afl - american fuzzy lop
6. gRPC - Standardization of rich error reporting via google.rpc.Status 2025-01-16

   tags: error-handling, network/grpc, network/protocol-buffers, programming/go, programming/python

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   • gRPC Guides - Error Handling
   • gRPC Proposals - New RPC Status API for Python
   • Advanced gRPC Error Usage
   • Google API Improvement Proposal - AIP-193 - Errors
7. Go - Truncate strings with special characters without corrupting data 2025-01-05

   tags: programming/go, text/unicode

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   • Strings, bytes, runes and characters in Go
   • x/exp/utf8string - Index strings by rune rather than by byte
   • How can I elliptically truncate text in golang?
   • Why can the Go string type contain invalid UTF-8 data?
8. CPython - Sigstore Information 2024-12-30

   tags: cryptography/certificate, cryptography/signature, programming/python, programming/python/pypi

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   • Python and Sigstore
   • PyPI now supports digital attestations
9. Text normalization in Go 2024-11-28

   tags: ietf/rfc, programming/go, text/ascii, text/unicode

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   Standard library:

   • unicode - Data and functions to test some properties of Unicode code points

   Extra libraries:

   • golang.org/x/text - Supplementary Go packages for text processing, many involving Unicode
   • golang.org/x/text/runes - Tansforms for UTF-8 encoded text
   • golang.org/x/text/transform - Reader and writer wrappers that transform the bytes passing through
   • golang.org/x/text/unicode/norm - Types and functions for normalizing Unicode strings
   • golang.org/x/text/unicode - Building blocks for other packages in golang.org/x/text

   Third-party libraries:

   • anyascii/go - Converts Unicode characters to their best ASCII representation

   RFCs:

   • RFC 8264 - PRECIS Framework: Preparation, Enforcement, and Comparison of Internationalized Strings in Application Protocols
   • RFC 8265 - PRECIS for Usernames and Passwords
   • RFC 8266 - PRECIS for Nicknames

   Resources:

   • Unicode - General Category Property
   • Diacritic
   • Unicode Equivalence
   • Unicode Equivalence - Normal Forms
   • When to use Unicode Normalization Forms NFC and NFD?
   • Remove diacritics using Go
10. sqruff - Fast SQL formatter/linter 2024-11-24

    tags: programming/rust, programming/sql, static-analysis/lint

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    • Translating sqlfluff to Rust
11. Famicom Mahjong controller 2024-11-22

    tags: controller, game, game/arcade, game/emulator, nintendo/nes, serial-communication/usb

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    • Famicom Mahjong/Hanafuda controller USB keyboard mod
    • Adventures in Lo-Fi: Famicom Mahjong controller USB keyboard mod
    • Famicom Mahjong controller and how does it work?
    • Nes Dev - Jissen Mahjong controller
12. Bookmarklet - JavaScript commands that add new features to the browser 2024-11-19

    tags: internet/browser, programming/html, programming/javascript, programming/script

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    • Yawar Amin - Bookmarklets
    • Bookmarklets, and why you should use them
    • Bookmarklets: do you use them? If so, wanna share them?
13. The Ultimate Guide to Django Performance: Best Practices for Scaling and Optimization - LoadForge Guides 2024-11-18

    tags: database, framework/django, network/http, performance, programming/python, storage/cache

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    • Django - Performance and optimization
    • Django - Database access optimization
    • Better living through optimized Django
14. Image Dithering - Create the illusion of color depth in images on systems with a limited color palette 2024-11-18

    tags: color/palette, game, image/2d, image/compression, image/dithering, image/noise, indie

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    • Re: Return of the Obra Dinn [GDC 2016 Demo Build] - Dithering Process
    • Ditherpunk — The article I wish I had about monochrome image dithering
    • Cyan's Richard A. Watson - Dithering 101 (archive)
    • Differentiable Dithering
    • What the Heck is Blue Noise?
    • Generating Blue Noise Textures With Void And Cluster
      • Atrix256/VoidAndCluster
      • jdupuy/BlueNoiseDitherMaskTiles
    • Why Your Website Should Use Dithered Images
      • Dither Me This!
    • Why Your Website Should Not Use Dithered Images

    Online dithering tools:

    • Dither It! - A Web application to dither images
      • alexharris/ditherit-v2
    • Building Retro Dither: Dithering Algorithms, Run-Length Encoding, Resource Forks and More!
    • Blue Noise in Futhark
      • Munksgaard/bluenoise
15. GPIOViewer - Arduino Library to see live GPIO Pins on ESP32 boards 2024-11-18

    tags: embedded, embedded/arduino, http, microcontroller/espressif/esp32, microcontroller/espressif/esp8266, network/wireless/wifi

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    • Live GPIO Pin Monitoring!
    • Watch ESP32’s GPIO status in real-time in a web browser
    • Charles Giguere's GPIOViewer Library Gives You "X-Ray Vision" Into Espressif ESP32-Based Projects
    • me-no-dev/ESPAsyncWebServer
16. PICO-8 Fantasy Console 2024-11-03

    tags: diy, game, graphics/2d, programming/lua, retro

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    • PICO-8 User Manual
    • PICO-ATE - Altruistic Template Encyclopedia for PICO-8
    • adventures in PICO-8 compression: mine1k
    • PICO-1k Game Jam
    • pico-8/awesome-PICO-8
    • picolove/picolove - PICO-8 Reimplementation in Love2D
17. Go Wiki: Mobile 2024-10-26

    tags: mobile/android, mobile/ios, programming/go, programming/swift

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    • gomobile command
    • alta/go-mobile-swift-package-example
18. feed reader best practices | Rachel By The Bay 2024-10-26

    tags: feed, network/http, network/http/header, personal-knowledge/blog, storage/cache, web/syndication

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    Test feed:

    • feed reader score project
    • A sysadmin's rant about feed readers and crawlers
    • Feeds, updates, 200s, 304s, and now 429s
    • So many feed readers, so many bizarre behaviors
    • The feed reader score service is now online

    RFCs:

    • RFC 1945 - Hypertext Transfer Protocol - HTTP/1.0 - If-Modified-Since
    • RFC 7232 - Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Conditional Requests - Entity Tag (ETag)
    • RFC 9110 - HTTP Semantics

    Related:

    • Bret Simmons - NetNewsWire and Conditional GET Issues
    • John Brayton - Feed Polling for Unread Cloud
    • Jeff Kaufman - Looking at RSS User-Agents
    • Chris Siebenmann - The case of the very old If-Modified-Since HTTP header
    • ETag and HTTP caching
    • HTTP Conditional Requests Explained
    • Caching - What takes precedence: the ETag or Last-Modified HTTP header?
19. CoreDNS - DNS and Service Discovery 2024-05-28

    tags: network/dns, network/dnssec, programming/go

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    • coredns/coredns
    • Quick Start
    • Plugins
      • dnssec
      • file - Serve zone data from an RFC 1035-style file
    • Running CoreDNS as a DNS Server in a Container
20. NS-3 Network Simulator - A discrete-event network simulator for Internet systems, targeted primarily for research and educational use 2024-05-08

    tags: network, programming/c, programming/c++, programming/python, programming/xml, simulator, user-interface/qt

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    • nsnam/ns-3-dev
    • Tutorial
    • Installation
    • Models
    • NetAnim - Animates a previously executed simulation using an XML trace file generated during a simulation