VirtualTam's bookmarks

1. Rust In Space! How Rust is powering next-generation space mission simulators 2025-01-11

   tags: astrodynamics, programming/rust, space, time, time/clock

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   • Angus Morrison: "How Rust is Powering Next-Generation Space Mission Simulators" | RustConf 2024
   • Slides
   • lox-space/lox - Oxidized Astrodynamics
2. My colleague Julius 2024-12-23

   tags: company, team

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   • Discussion on HN
   • Discussion on Lobste.rs

   I've met my fair share of Juliuses, both in college and in work. It often really made me question why I even care about what I do.

   — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42497179

3. A look at search engines with their own indexes 2024-11-28

   tags: alternative, network/http, search-engine, search-engine/search-engine-optimization, web

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   • Very Alternative Search Engines
   • Neat search engines you may not have heard of
   • Lots of great new search engines popping up that search the rest of the web that Google tends to ignore.
   • How bad are search results? Let's compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT
4. Building SimCity - How to Put the World in a Machine 2024-11-22

   tags: architecture/urban-planning, book, city, game/sandbox, game/sim-city, game/simulation, programming/c++, society/demographics

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   • Discussion on Hacker News
   • Book report by Steward Brand
   • ROMchip Presents: Building SimCity: A Conversation with Will Wright and Chaim Gingold
   • EA Sim City 2000 Will Wright Interview
   • Game Developer Magazine - April/May 1995
   • Stanford Libraries - Interfacing to Microworlds, Will Wright, Maxis
   • Will Wright on Designing User Interfaces to Simulation Games (1996) (2023 Video Update)
   • Will Wright and Brian Eno - Generative Systems
   • Playing with Time | Brian Eno and Will Wright
   • SimHacker/MicropolisCore - SimCity/Micropolis C++ Core

   Related books:

   • Racing the Beam - The Atari Video Computer System
   • Minitel - Welcome to the Internet
   • Developer's Dilemma: The Secret World of Videogame Creators
   • Silicon Second Nature - Culturing Artificial Life in a Digital World
5. The AirGradient Builds Overview 2024-10-23

   tags: air, diy, electronics, electronics/pcb, embedded/arduino, sensor, smart-home

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   • airgradienthq/arduino
   • DIY Air Quality Sensor (2021-08-08, using revision 4)
   • Jeff Geerling - Your home's air could be making you sick. Fight back! (2021-09-08)
   • Monitoring my home's air quality (CO2, PM2.5, Temp/Humidity) with AirGradient's DIY sensor
   • Discussion on HackerNews
6. Kestra - Orchestration platform for scheduled and event-driven workflows 2024-06-09

   tags: data/workflow, programming/java, programming/javascript

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   • kestra-io/kestra
   • Show HN: Kestra - Open-Source Airflow Alternative
   • How Leroy Merlin managed their cloud data pipelines with Kestra
7. Principles for keyboard layouts 2024-05-31

   tags: diy, keyboard/layout, keyboard/mechanical-keyboard, serial-communication/usb

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   • Adafruit - Relegendable Plastic Keycaps for MX Compatible Switches
   • Printable Keycap Grid
8. 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)
9. A Pattern Language - An abridged, hyper-textual, and copyleft manifestation of the 1977 architecture classic A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander 2024-05-15

   tags: architecture, book, city

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   • zenodotus280/apl
   • Christopher Alexander - Patterns in Architecture
   • HN thread
   • List of related HN threads
10. All you need is Wide Events, not "Metrics, Logs and Traces" 2024-04-19

    tags: database, distributed-system, observability, observability/logging, observability/metrics, observability/tracing

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    • Scuba: Diving into Data at Facebook - International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) (PDF, Talk)
    • HN discussion
    • Axiom - Stop sampling, observe every event
      • Adaptive _time compression — A database hacker story
    • Eventrelay - An event streaming/storage system for the rest of us
    • Honeycomb - Identify Outliers
    • Rill - Fast operational dashboards that your team will actually use
    • Strangeloop 17 - Why We Built Our Own Distributed Column Store by Sam Stokes
11. oss-security - backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to ssh server compromise 2024-03-31

    tags: compression/lzma, compression/xz, linux, programming/c, programming/shell/bash, security, security/backdoor

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    • XZ Utils backdoor
    • xz/liblzma: Bash-stage Obfuscation Explained
    • /r/Linux - XZ Utils backdoor
    • Debian Bug report logs - #1068024 revert to version that does not contain changes by bad actor
    • FAQ on the xz-utils backdoor
    • LWN - A backdoor in xz
    • Everything I Know About the Xz Backdoor
12. AWS Access Key Format 2024-02-28

    tags: cloud-computing/aws, programming/go, programming/python, security, security/credentials, security/token

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    • AWS Security Credentials Formats
    • A short note on AWS KEY ID
    • Research Uncovers AWS Account Numbers Hidden in Access Keys
    • TruffleHog Now Detects AWS Canaries without setting them off
13. Elite: "The game that couldn't be written" 2023-12-20

    tags: embedded, game, graphics/3d, nintendo/nes

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    • Elite [disc] on the BBC Micro Games Archive
    • Fully documented source code for Elite on the BBC Micro and NES
    • Ian Bell's Elite Home Page
14. postgres_lsp - Language Server for PostgreSQL 2023-12-08

    tags: database/postgresql, programming-language, programming/sql

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    • Postgres Language Server: implementing the Parser
    • Hacker News announcement thread
15. WebAuthn - An API for accessing Public Key Credentials 2023-06-11

    tags: cryptography/public-key-infrastructure, internet/browser, security/authentication

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    The Web Authentication API (also known as WebAuthn) is a specification written by the W3C and FIDO, with the participation of Google, Mozilla, Microsoft, Yubico, and others. The API allows servers to register and authenticate users using public key cryptography instead of a password.

    • Guide to Web Authentication
    • Asynchronous Remote Key Generation: An Analysis of Yubico’s Proposal for W3C WebAuthn [PDF]
    • Issue 664630: Web Authentication API for Chrome
    • Bugzilla - [meta] Update WebAuthn JS API to the L1-REC spec
    • keepassxc#1870 - Feature Request: Integration with the Web Authentication API
16. Cube Cola - We are wildcrafting our own cola from an open source recipe reverse-engineered from the original Coke 2023-02-20

    tags: cola, drink, recipe, soda

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    • https://cube-cola.org/index.php?route=information/information&information_id=10
    • https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/8j50ja/this_norwegian_soda_t%C3%B8yen_cola_is_open_source/
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCola_(drink)
17. How to use rsync to download RFCs » RFC Editor 2023-02-19

    tags: ietf/rfc, rsync

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    • https://www.rfc-editor.org/retrieve/bulk/
    • https://www.rfc-editor.org/rpc/wiki/doku.php?id=rfc_files_available
18. Lisping at JPL | Ron Garrett 2023-01-29

    tags: nasa/jet-propulsion-laboratory, programming/c, programming/c++, programming/java, programming/lisp

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    • http://blog.rongarret.info/2023/01/lisping-at-jpl-revisited.html
    • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34524552
    • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22087419
    • https://www.corecursive.com/lisp-in-space-with-ron-garret/
19. Mitogen for Ansible | A redesigned UNIX connection layer and module runtime for Ansible 2023-01-28

    tags: configuration-management/ansible, network/ssh, programming/python

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    • https://github.com/mitogen-hq/mitogen
    • https://mitogen.networkgenomics.com/howitworks.html
    • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15355144
20. Fake Dog for Home Security 2022-12-15

    tags: diy, dog, internet-of-things, security, sensor

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    • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32250487