VirtualTam's bookmarks

1. 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
2. ElizabethanDrama.org - Making Elizabethan Plays Understandable and Fun to Read 2024-11-22

   tags: book, history, literature, theater/play

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   • Shakespeare Navigators
   • versemeter - An in-depth exploration of meter in Shakespeare's work
   • The Plays of Thomas Middleton
   • Richard Brome Online
3. 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)
4. 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
5. Practical Electronics Archive | Electronics Magazine from the UK starting in 1964 2023-06-05

   tags: diy, electronics, magazine

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   Practical Electronics began publication in the UK in December,1964 and was aimed at the experimenter and construction enthusiast.

   In November, 1992 Practical Electronics merged with Everyday Electronics to become Everyday Practical Electronics.

6. reMarkable 2 - 3rd-party accessories and homebrew software 2023-01-21

   tags: e-ink, e-reader, linux, network/ssh, programming/c, programming/c++, programming/go, user-interface/qt

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   Stylus:

   • https://remarkablewiki.com/tech/stylus
   • https://www.joshualowcock.com/guide/remarkable-2-compatible-pens-remarkable-marker-alternatives/
   • https://www.joshualowcock.com/guide/how-to-install-the-lamy-al-star-pen-button-eraser-hack-on-the-remarkable-2/
   • https://www.reddit.com/r/RemarkableTablet/comments/nvtwt8/alternative_pen_which_is_compatible_with/

   Case:

   • https://www.joshualowcock.com/guide/remarkable-2-folio-remarkable-case-alternative/

   Guides:

   • reMarkable Guide
   • https://www.meganwalker.me.uk/2021/01/installing-remux-koreader-on-the-remarkable-2/
   • https://www.reddit.com/r/RemarkableTablet/comments/lzuxti/experience_using_the_remarkable_2_as_a_linux/
   • https://www.simplykyra.com/category/remarkable/

   System:

   • https://remarkablewiki.com/tech/ssh
   • • https://www.reddit.com/r/RemarkableTablet/comments/10ymr95/til_you_can_request_that_rm_not_use_your_private/

   Usage:

   • https://www.reddit.com/r/RemarkableTablet/comments/jl3tue/is_anybody_else_having_trouble_turning_pages_on/

   Software:

   • https://eeems.website/toltec/
   • https://www.reddit.com/r/RemarkableTablet/comments/aqfflg/xochitl_question/
   • https://github.com/reMarkable
   • https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable
   • https://github.com/isaacwisdom/RemarkableLamyEraser
   • https://github.com/ddvk/remarkable2-framebuffer
   • https://github.com/ddvk/rmfakecloud
   • https://github.com/ddvk/remarkable-hacks
   • https://github.com/ddvk/remarkable-stylus
   • https://github.com/juruen/rmapi
   • https://rmkit.dev/apps/remux
   • https://github.com/dps/remarkable-keywriter

   Articles:

   • https://rmkit.dev/eink-is-so-retropunk/
7. Technical Writing Style Guides 2020-08-16

   tags: documentation, manual, software, user

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   • https://developers.google.com/tech-writing
   • https://developers.google.com/style
   • https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html
   • https://www.ox.ac.uk/sites/files/oxford/media_wysiwyg/University%20of%20Oxford%20Style%20Guide.pdf
   • https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/style-guide/welcome/
8. Terragen – a powerful solution for building, rendering, and animating realistic natural environments 2020-01-21

   tags: generation, graphics/2d, graphics/3d, image, render

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   • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terragen
   • https://planetside.co.uk/wiki/
9. 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
10. How to Make a CNC Turner's Cube: [ Creative CNC Project ] 2019-06-23

    tags: cube, machining/cnc, metal

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    • https://www.instructables.com/id/Turners-Cube-Manual-Machine/
    • https://www.cnczone.com/forums/general-metalwork-discussion/52757-making-large-quot-turners-cubes-quot-engine.html
    • http://www.commsp.ee.ic.ac.uk/~mrt102/other/workshop/turnerscube.html
11. Bye bye Mongo, Hello Postgres | Digital blog | Info | The Guardian 2018-12-21

    tags: cloud-computing, cloud-computing/aws, database, database/mongodb, database/postgresql, distributed-system/cluster, performance

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    • https://github.com/guardian/machine-images
    • https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live/2015/jul/01/heatwave-live-britain-hottest-day-2015
12. Making A Raspberry Pi Grafana Monitor - Muffin's Lab 2018-09-28

    tags: dashboard, observability, observability/grafana, raspberry-pi

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    • https://www.reddit.com/r/raspberry_pi/comments/92ll54/making_a_raspberry_pi_grafana_monitor_muffins_lab/
    • https://medium.com/@alexjv89/setting-up-a-dashboard-on-raspberry-pi-4e6e2e37ddbb
    • https://www.danpurdy.co.uk/web-development/raspberry-pi-kiosk-screen-tutorial/
13. Golang UK Conference 2016 - Marcus Olsson - Building an enterprise service in Go 2018-09-20

    tags: development, domain-driven-design, programming/go

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    • https://github.com/marcusolsson/goddd
14. Playing Badass Acorn Archimedes Games on a Raspberry Pi | DXM Tech Support 2018-07-01

    tags: arm, computer, game, hardware/cpu, history, risc

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    • http://davetrott.co.uk/2017/03/strategy-is-sacrifice/
15. SHEDWORKS - Sable 2018-06-26

    tags: art, exploration, game, indie, moebius

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    Trailers:

    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJFQhEY9udE

    Dev & Art Team:

    • https://twitter.com/ShedworksGreg
    • https://twitter.com/ShedworksDan
    • https://twitter.com/betterthemask
    • https://twitter.com/Jbrekkie
    • https://twitter.com/MartinKvale
    • https://twitter.com/MacchiatoLycan

    Media:

    • https://twitter.com/i/moments/971351000635314176
    • http://www.erictabuchi.net/filter/Photoworks/Architecture-d-entrainement

    Interviews:

    • http://uk.ign.com/articles/2018/06/14/e3-2018-sable-is-an-unlikely-companion-to-breath-of-the-wild
    • https://www.pcgamer.com/sable-is-a-gorgeous-contemplative-exploration-game-made-by-two-friends-who-work-in-a-shed/
    • https://www.forbes.com/sites/maxthielmeyer/2018/06/26/sable-developer-greg-kythreotis-talks-art-and-architecture-in-e3s-prettiest-game/#59af53bf358c
16. BBC Sound Effects Archive Resource • Research & Education Space 2018-06-17

    tags: audio, bbc, effect, sound

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    • https://github.com/bbcarchdev/Remarc
    • http://bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk/index
17. How To Choose an Effective Firewall Policy to Secure your Servers | DigitalOcean 2018-05-15

    tags: linux, network, network/firewall, policy, security, server

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    • http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/%7Epeterb/network/drop-vs-reject
    • https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/22686/is-it-good-practice-to-manually-lock-down-ports-on-each-host
    • https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/22711/is-it-a-bad-idea-for-a-firewall-to-block-icmp/22713
    • https://serverfault.com/questions/84963/why-not-block-icmp/84981
18. High Speed Networking: Open Sourcing our Kernel Bypass Work - BBC R&D 2018-05-04

    tags: linux, network, network/packet, performance, stream, video

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    • https://www.smpte.org/st-2110
    • https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2015-10-streaming-video-on-10-gigabit-ethernet-and-beyond
    • https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2016-05-ip-studio-at-the-uk-network-operators-forum
    • https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/projects/cloud-fit-production
19. Dnsmasq - network services for small networks. 2018-04-27

    tags: linux, network, network/dhcp, network/dns, network/ip

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    • http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/docs/dnsmasq-man.html
    • https://wiki.debian.org/HowTo/dnsmasq
    • https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Dnsmasq
    • https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dnsmasq
20. Pigpen cipher 2018-04-20

    tags: character, cipher, programming/python, text

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    • http://crypto.interactive-maths.com/pigpen-cipher.html
    • https://www.kidscodecs.com/pigpen-ciphers/
    • https://babelstone.blogspot.fr/2008/02/pigpen-and-fowl-fonts.html
    • http://www.babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/Pigpen.html
    • https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/8dgvcq/turtle_pig_pen_cipher/