VirtualTam's bookmarks

1. NIST’s Cesium Fountain Atomic Clocks 2025-01-24

   tags: 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
2. 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
3. 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
4. Gymnasium - An API standard for reinforcement learning with a diverse collection of reference environments 2024-10-13

   tags: artificial-intelligence, programming/python, research

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   • Farama-Foundation/Gymnasium
   • 2407.17032 - Gymnasium: A Standard Interface for Reinforcement Learning Environments (PDF, 2024-07-24)
5. OWASP CycloneDX - A full-stack Bill of Materials (BOM) standard 2024-04-02

   tags: programming/go, programming/python, programming/rust, security, software-engineering/bill-of-materials

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   • CycloneDX
   • CycloneDX/cyclonedx-gomod
   • CycloneDX/cyclonedx-python
   • cyclonedx-rust-cargo
6. Standard Webhooks - Open source tools and guidelines to send webhooks easily, securely and reliably 2024-02-28

   tags: network/http, programming/json

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   • standard-webhooks/standard-webhooks
   • Specification
7. gg - Essential utilities missing from the Go standard library 2023-09-20

   tags: programming/go

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8. Programming Idioms - browse standard ways of coding standard things, in several popular programming languages 2022-09-19

   tags: programming

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9. Static Analysis Results Interchange Format (SARIF) - Defining a standard output format for static analysis tools 2022-05-30

   tags: continuous-integration, programming/json, static-analysis, static-analysis/lint

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10. Python Standard Library changes from 3.8 to 3.10 2022-05-29

    tags: programming/python

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11. PASETO - Platform-Agnostic SEcurity TOkens 2022-02-21

    tags: cryptography, network/http, security, security/authentication

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    • https://github.com/paragonie/paseto
    • https://github.com/paseto-standard/paseto-rfc
    • https://paragonie.com/blog/2017/03/jwt-json-web-tokens-is-bad-standard-that-everyone-should-avoid
12. What is the difference between /tmp and /var/tmp? 2022-02-02

    tags: linux, storage, tmp, unix

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    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard
    • /tmp - Directory for temporary files. Often not preserved between system reboots and may be severely size-restricted.
    • /var/tmp - Temporary files to be preserved between reboots.
13. textfiles.com | a glimpse into the history of writers and artists bound by the 128 characters that the American Standard Code for Information Interchange allowed them 2021-08-26

    tags: computer, history, internet, text/ascii

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    • http://ascii.textfiles.com/
    • http://textfiles.com/directory.html
14. SEI CERT C Coding Standard 2020-01-02

    tags: guidelines, programming/c, programming/c++, security

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    • https://resources.sei.cmu.edu/library/asset-view.cfm?assetID=454220
    • https://www.informit.com/store/secure-coding-in-c-and-c-plus-plus-9780321822130
15. cppreference - a complete online reference for the C and C++ languages and standard libraries 2020-01-02

    tags: documentation, programming/c, programming/c++, wiki

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16. mp4analyser: mp4 file analyser written in Python 2019-11-14

    tags: codec, codec/mp4, data, programming/python, streaming, video

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    • https://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/
    • https://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/c068960_ISO_IEC_14496-12_2015.zip
    • https://bitmovin.com/mpeg-dash-hls-examples-sample-streams/
17. Coding Standards for pure C (not C++) - Stack Overflow 2019-11-07

    tags: guidelines, programming/c

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    • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/415452/object-orientation-in-c
    • https://sites.google.com/site/cinterfacesimplementations/
    • http://web.archive.org/web/20190125125043/http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/dts/pm/Papers/nasa-c-style.pdf
    • https://www.maultech.com/chrislott/resources/cstyle/
    • https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/display/c/SEI+CERT+C+Coding+Standard
18. Pomerium, a standardized interface to add access control whether an application itself has authorization or authentication baked-in 2019-09-16

    tags: network/http, network/proxy, programming/api, security, security/authentication, user, web

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    • https://github.com/pomerium/pomerium
19. 0.30000000000000004 2019-09-09

    tags: approximation, arithmetic, float, hardware/ram, memory, programming

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    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating-point_arithmetic
    • https://standards.ieee.org/standard/754-2008.html
    • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/588004/is-floating-point-math-broken/588014#588014
    • https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html
20. Validating URLs in Go 2019-05-30

    tags: data, network/url, programming/go, validator

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    • https://golang.org/pkg/net/url/#Parse
    • https://golang.org/pkg/net/url/#ParseRequestURI
    • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31480710/validate-url-with-standard-package-in-go
    • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25747580/ensure-a-uri-is-valid
    • https://github.com/asaskevich/govalidator