VirtualTam's bookmarks

1. Visualizing all books of the world in ISBN-Space

   2025-05-10
   book graphics/shader/glsl isbn programming/typescript

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   • phiresky/isbn-visualization
   • phiresky/blog
   • Bookland (Wikipedia)
   • Shadow Library (Wikipedia)
   • Space-filling curve (Wikipedia)
2. NIST’s Cesium Fountain Atomic Clocks

   2025-01-24
   atomic laser physics/temperature space time/clock

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   • NIST-F1 Cesium Fountain Clock, 1999-12-29
   • NIST Launches a New U.S. Time Standard: NIST-F2 Atomic Clock, 2014-04-03
   • Advanced Laser Cooling for the Atomic Space Clock, 2021-10-12
   • Primary Atomic Reference Clock in Space
   • Laser Cooling
3. Rust In Space! How Rust is powering next-generation space mission simulators

   2025-01-11
   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
4. Cozy Space Survivors | Simonschreibt

   2024-11-06
   art/pixel-art blender game game-engine/godot game/roguelike graphics/2d indie

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5. feed reader best practices | Rachel By The Bay

   2024-10-26
   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?
6. BlockLayer - Calculators for Home Improvement

   2024-06-20
   carpentry computer-aided-design masonry woodworking

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   • Masonry Arch
   • Gothic Arch
   • Kerf Spacing
   • Mortise and Tenon
   • Dovetail
7. 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
8. Go Toolchains

   2023-06-24
   command-line programming/go unix/path

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   • Go 1.21 will (probably) download newer toolchains on demand by default
9. Lisping at JPL | Ron Garrett

   2023-01-29
   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/
10. Floor 796 | Ever-expanding animation of the life of the 796th floor of a space station

    2022-12-14
    art/animation culture internet internet/browser programming/javascript space video

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    • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33612401
    • https://habr-com.translate.goog/ru/company/floor796/blog/673318/?_x_tr_sl=en&_x_tr_tl=es&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp
    • https://www.w3schools.com/js/js_api_web_workers.asp
11. SimCity, Cellular Automata, and Happy Tool for HyperLook (nee HyperNeWS (nee GoodNeWS)) | by Don Hopkins | Medium

    2022-12-12
    cellular-automaton city game linux/x11 programming/postscript unix user-interface

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    • https://donhopkins.medium.com/the-shape-of-psiber-space-october-1989-19e2dfa4d91e
12. The Wall (Geostationary Satellites near real-time animations)

    2022-01-10
    earth image satellite space weather

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13. sǝuoſ ǝuıɥsunS » RE-303: Build your own authentic replica of the TB-303

    2021-11-05
    diy electronics instrument/midi instrument/synthesizer

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    • https://privat.bahnhof.se/wb447909/dinsync/re-303/
    • https://shop.re-303.com/product/space-cadet-bundle/
    • https://www.synthtopia.com/content/2007/02/12/build-your-own-tb303/
14. bspwm: A tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning

    2020-01-02
    linux linux/x11 window-manager window-manager/tiling

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15. The Size Of Space

    2019-11-17
    astronomy moon nebula planet space star sun

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16. generated-space

    2019-10-30
    graphics/2d image procedural-generation

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    • https://twitter.com/kgolid
    • https://github.com/kgolid
17. James Webb telescope inspired backlit wall hanging

    2019-10-28
    diy electronics/led hexagon light poster space wall wood

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    Wall hanging:

    • https://www.reddit.com/r/spaceporn/comments/aap52z/james_webb_telescope_themed_backlit_wall_hanging/
    • https://www.reddit.com/r/spaceporn/comments/aap52z/james_webb_telescope_themed_backlit_wall_hanging/ecudkr8/
    • https://www.etsy.com/shop/VegaWoodworks
    • https://www.etsy.com/listing/671041513/james-webb-telescope-themed-led-wall-art?ref=shop_home_feat_1
    • https://www.reddit.com/r/spaceporn/comments/bqe1ur/three_jwst_led_signs/

    Desktop:

    • https://www.etsy.com/listing/709849885/james-webb-space-telescope-desktop-led?ref=shop_home_active_4
    • https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/bxnid7/jwst_led_desktop_light/
    • https://www.reddit.com/r/nasa/comments/bxpfiv/jwst_led_desktop_light/

    Images:

    • https://i.imgur.com/0m2ZcYB.jpg
    • https://i.imgur.com/HsOo01d.jpg

    Honeycomb shelves:

    • https://www.wikihow.com/Make-Homemade-Honeycomb-Shelves
    • https://www.jennaburger.com/2014/04/diy-wood-honeycomb-shelves/
    • https://abeautifulmess.com/2012/06/diy-honeycomb-shelves.html
    • https://sawshub.com/diy-honeycomb-shelves/

    LED Backlights:

    • https://www.queenbeeofhoneydos.com/diy-lighted-movie-poster-box/
18. Geodesics - a modular collection for VCV Rack

    2019-10-19
    audio instrument/synthesizer physics space vcvrack

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19. The Schemaverse, a space-based strategy game implemented entirely within a PostgreSQL database

    2019-10-18
    astrology database database/postgresql game programming/sql web

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20. Space-Creator - Randomly generated solar systems

    2019-09-24
    generation image planet processing programming/python space

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    • https://github.com/erdavids/Generative-Space-System
    • https://github.com/erdavids/Circle-Packing
    • https://novelkeys.xyz/products/godspeed-deskpads?variant=19554768519261