VirtualTam's bookmarks

1. Permacomputing - Resilience and regenerativity in computer and network technology inspired by permaculture 2025-04-29

   tags: diy, efficiency, hardware, recycle

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   • Principles
   • Projects
2. The USB ID Repository - A public repository of all known ID's used in USB devices: ID's of vendors, devices, subsystems and device classes 2025-03-29

   tags: hardware, linux, serial-communication/usb

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   • Debian - usb.ids
   • vcrhonek/hwdata - Hardware identification and configuration data, such as the pci.ids and usb.ids databases
3. Inigo Quilez - Computer graphics , methematics, shaders, fractals, demoscene 2025-03-24

   tags: graphics/2d, graphics/3d, graphics/voxel, hardware/gpu, image/texture, mathematics

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4. Picotron Fantasy Workstation - A self-contained creative environment built for imaginary hardware 2025-03-16

   tags: art/pixel-art, game, programming/lua, retro

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   • Picotron FAQ
   • Picotron
   • The Year of the Picotron Desktop
5. Real-Time Rendering - Tracking the latest developments in interactive rendering techniques 2025-03-05

   tags: game, graphics/3d, graphics/ray-tracing, hardware/gpu

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   • Graphics Books
   • Resources
   • erich666/RealTimeRendering
6. cpufetch - Command-line tool to display CPU information 2025-01-11

   tags: command-line, hardware/cpu, programming/c

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7. pigg - GUI for remote control of Raspberry Pi GPIO hardware 2024-12-04

   tags: embedded, programming/rust, raspberry-pi, user-interface/iced

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8. Qubes OS - A reasonably secure operating system 2024-11-28

   tags: linux, security, virtualization/xen

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   • Introduction
   • Certified Hardware
   • Why would one use Qubes OS?
9. Making USB devices - end to end guide to your first gadget 2024-11-19

   tags: electronics/pcb, embedded, microcontroller/st-microelectronics/stm32, programming/c, serial-communication/usb

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   • Build own USB device on linux-based board!
   • What Are Differential Pairs?
   • How to route USB data lines on a PCB
   • Can You Route USB 2.0 on a 2-Layer Board?
   • KiCad STM32 Hardware Design - An Overview in 20 Minutes - Phil's Lab #15
   • STM32 Programming via USB (DFU) - Phil's Lab #72
   • How To: STM32F103C8T6 As An USB Device (Virtual Serial Port / CDC)
10. The Annotated Hacker Test | For those of us who didn't receive a case of beer with our computer. 2024-11-19

    tags: computer, hardware/cpu, hardware/ram, history, nerd, programming/assembly, programming/c, programming/pascal, unix

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    • Original plain text version from 1989
    • Real Programmers Don't Use PASCAL (see: THE REAL PROGRAMMER'S NATURAL HABITAT)
11. Hacking the T2S+ Out of Fear: Get Lock-In Thermography for Free 2024-11-03

    tags: camera/thermal, electronics, hardware, image/2d, linux, mobile/android, opencv, programming/c++, programming/java, programming/python, reverse-engineering, serial-communication/usb

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    • netman69/inficam - Android app and C++ bindings for InfiRay cameras
    • stawel/ht301_hacklib - ht-301 thermal camera opencv lib
    • What is the occasional clicking sound made by the Tau2 camera? What is FFC?
    • diminDDL/IR-Py-Thermal - Python Thermal Camera Library
    • Lock-in IR-Thermography - a novel tool for material and device characterization (PDF)
12. CERN Open Hardware Licence 2024-11-03

    tags: diy, electronics, hardware, license, research

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    • CERN OHL version 2
13. Crowdsec - Curated Threat Intelligence Powered by the Crowd 2024-05-29

    tags: bsd, linux/iptables, network/firewall, observability/logging, programming/go

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    • crowdsecurity/crowdsec
    • Documentation
      • Docker / Podman Deployment
      • Data Sources
      • Parsers
      • Configuration
      • Observability / Prometheus
      • OpenAPI Specification
    • Blog
      • Building a Network for Small Businesses Part 1: Hardware
      • Building a Network for Small Businesses Part 2: Running Configurations
      • Building a Network for Small Businesses Part 3: Attack Scenarios
    • Discussion on HN (2020)
14. USENIX - FreeBSD on Firecracker 2024-05-04

    tags: algorithm, bsd/freebsd, hardware/acpi, virtualization/firecracker, virtualization/hypervisor

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    • FreeBSD can now boot in 25 milliseconds on AWS Firecracker
15. Tiny Undervalued Hardware Companions 2024-04-19

    tags: cable, laptop, network/ethernet, serial-communication/usb

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16. *(char*)0 = 0; - What Does the C++ Programmer Intend With This Code? 2024-03-12

    tags: compiler, hardware/cpu, memory/cache, programming/c, programming/c++

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17. ANGLE - Almost Native Graphics Layer Engine 2023-12-05

    tags: graphics/opengl, graphics/webgl, internet/browser

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    Allow users of multiple operating systems to seamlessly run WebGL and other OpenGL ES content by translating OpenGL ES API calls to one of the hardware-supported APIs available for that platform

18. Rust std fs slower than Python!? No, it's hardware! 2023-11-30

    tags: amd, hardware/cpu, linux/kernel/ebpf, memory, observability/tracing, programming/python, programming/rust

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    • Xuanwo/when-i-find-rust-is-slow
    • Std::fs::read slow?
19. Hacking and upgrading the Korg Kronos - From a 1.66GHz Atom to a 3.9GHz Skylake 2023-10-01

    tags: diy, embedded, hardware, instrument/synthesizer, korg/kronos, linux

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    • https://kronoshacker.blogspot.com/
    • https://www.kronoshaven.com/
    • http://www.korgforums.com/forum/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=60
20. LWN - What every programmer should know about memory 2023-07-22

    tags: hardware, hardware/cpu, hardware/ram, memory, memory/cache, performance

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    • What every programmer should know about memory (Full PDF version) Mirror
    • Part 1: Introduction & Commodity Hardware Today
    • Part 2: CPU Caches
    • Part 3: Virtual Memory
    • Part 4: NUMA support
    • Part 5: What programmers can do
    • How much of ‘What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory’ is still valid?