VirtualTam's bookmarks

1. fonttools - Manipulate font files from Python

   2025-05-24
   programming/css programming/python text/font

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   • Utilities
   • Libraries
   • Optional Dependencies
2. The Home Assistant Cookbook - Index

   2025-05-11
   diy documentation internet-of-things sensor smart-home/home-assistant weather

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   A collection of posts on how to perform common tasks and deal with common problems.

3. Zarf Updates - Interactive Fiction Archive search feature

   2025-05-10
   game/interactive-fiction programming/python search-engine

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   • IF Archive Search Page
   • searchlib/cli.py @240e47c
   • Sygil-Dev/whoosh-reloaded - A fast, featureful full-text indexing and searching library implemented in pure Python
4. Admixfrog - A HMM to infer ancestry frogments (fragments) from low-coverage, contaminated data.

   2025-05-10
   ethnology genetics probability programming/c programming/c++ programming/python programming/r science statistics

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   • DReichLab/AdmixTools - Tools test whether admixture occurred and more
   • admixr (CRAN)
   • fgvieira/ngsDist - Estimation of pairwise distances under a probabilistic framework
   • ANGSD/NgsRelate - Infer relatedness and other summary statistics for pairs of individuals from low coverage Next Generation Sequencing (NGS)
   • Science Direct - Population dynamics and genetic connectivity in recent chimpanzee history
5. Whoosh Reloaded - a fast, featureful full-text indexing and searching library implemented in pure Python

   2025-05-01
   programming/python query search-engine

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   • Documentation
6. 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

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   • Archiving Web Sites (LWN)
   • Robots.txt meant for search engines don’t work well for web archives

   Web page archive formats:

   • ARC (1996)
   • WARC (BnF, 2009)
     • WARC Specifications
     • The WARC Ecosystem

   Tools for crawling, scraping and archiving Web pages:

   • internetarchive/heritrix3 - Extensible, web-scale, archival-quality web crawler project (Java)
   • internetarchive/Zeno - State-of-the-art web crawler (Go)
     • internetarchive/gowarc - Read and write WARC files in Go
   • webrecorder/pywb - Web Archiving Toolkit for replay and recording of web archives (Python)

   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
7. Real-Time Rendering - Tracking the latest developments in interactive rendering techniques

   2025-03-05
   game graphics/3d graphics/ray-tracing hardware/gpu

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   • Graphics Books
   • Resources
   • erich666/RealTimeRendering
8. Nokia Design Archive

   2025-01-19
   design electronics history microsoft/windows mobile/symbian nokia phone

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   • Nokia Design Archive - Start Page
9. Go - Truncate strings with special characters without corrupting data

   2025-01-05
   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?
10. A look at search engines with their own indexes

    2024-11-28
    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
11. sqlfluff - A modular SQL linter and auto-formatter with support for multiple dialects and templated code

    2024-11-24
    database/mysql database/postgresql database/sqlite programming/python programming/sql static-analysis/lint

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    • Configuration
    • Rules Reference
12. 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

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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

    Command-line dithering tools:

    • makew0rld/didder (Go CLI)
      • makew0rld/dither (Go library)

    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
13. Crowdsec - Curated Threat Intelligence Powered by the Crowd

    2024-05-29
    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. Building a Kubernetes Home Lab on the Raspberry Pi

    2024-05-28
    cryptography/certificate-authority distributed-system linux/container linux/container/kubernetes network/dns raspberry-pi self-hosting

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    1. Architecture & Roadmap
    2. Setup Kubernetes Management Node and Private Certificate Authority
    3. Configuring a Multi-Architecture Build Process
    4. Local DNS Services
15. smallstep/certificates - A private certificate authority (X.509 & SSH) & ACME server for secure automated certificate management

    2024-05-27
    cryptography/certificate cryptography/certificate-authority network/http network/http-server/traefik network/reverse-proxy network/transport-layer-security programming/go

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    • Run a private online TLS certificate authority in a Docker container
    • Configure popular ACME clients to use a private CA with the ACME protocol
    • Run your own private CA & ACME server using step-ca
    • Build a Tiny Certificate Authority For Your Homelab
16. NS-3 Network Simulator - A discrete-event network simulator for Internet systems, targeted primarily for research and educational use

    2024-05-08
    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
17. MIDIMonster - A universal control and translation tool for multi-channel absolute-value-based control and/or bus protocols

    2024-04-21
    instrument/midi jack network/mqtt osc programming/c programming/lua programming/python serial-communication/usb

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    • MIDIMonster
    • MIDIMonster Knowledge Base
18. How to use PostgreSQL for (military) geoanalytics tasks

    2024-03-31
    country/russia country/ukraine database/postgresql geography/gis map nasa/earthdata war

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    • From Map to Reality: Using PostGIS in Warfare (PDF)
    • NASA Earthdata - Full and open access to NASA’s collection of Earth science data for understanding and protecting our home planet
    • Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Active Fire detection
    • PostgreSQL - GiST - Generalized Search Tree
    • PostgreSQL - SP-GiST - Space-partitioned GiST
    • H3 - Hexagonal hierarchical geospatial indexing system
    • zachasme/h3-pg - PostgreSQL bindings for H3
19. Desmos - Graphing Calculator

    2024-03-31
    calculator mathematics mathematics/equation plot visualization

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    • Getting Started: Desmos Graphing Calculator
    • Desmos: A Definitive Guide on Graphing and Computing
    • Des-blog
    • /r/Desmos
    • /r/Desmos - Wiki
20. ArcGIS Dashboards Gallery

    2024-03-31
    earth geography geography/gis map science visualization

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    • Active Fires and Hotspots
    • Coronavirus COVID-19 Dashboard
    • Ocean Health Index
    • Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks - Soundscape Library
    • Sunken Ships of the Second World War