VirtualTam's bookmarks

1. The Biggest Shell Programs in the World

   2025-06-03
   programming/shell programming/shell/bash

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   • Some surprising code execution sources in bash
   • Bash Pitfalls - A compilation of common mistakes made by bash users. Each example is flawed in some way.
2. Less htmx is More

   2025-05-10
   framework/django programming/html programming/javascript programming/python

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   • DjangoCon 2022 - From React to htmx on a real-world SaaS product: we did it, and it's awesome!
     • Following up "Mother of all htmx demos"
   • bigskysoftware/idiomorph - A DOM-merging algorithm
3. 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)
4. Beautiful Song of the Week - A never-ending mixtape of the world's loveliest music

   2025-01-04
   music music/ambient music/blues music/folk music/jazz music/pop music/rock music/world

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5. What's the big deal about Deterministic Simulation Testing?

   2024-12-30
   distributed-system programming/go programming/python programming/rust programming/testing

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   • Antithesis - So you think you want to write a deterministic hypervisor?
   • Resonate - Deterministic Simulation Testing
   • TigerBeetle - Deterministic Simulation Testing
   • Introducing Limbo: A complete rewrite of SQLite in Rust - Can we match SQLite’s world-famous reliability?
   • Polar Signals - (Mostly) Deterministic Simulation Testing in Go
6. CloudNativePG - A Kubernetes operator that covers the full lifecycle of a highly available PostgreSQL database cluster

   2024-12-03
   database/postgresql linux/container/kubernetes programming/go programming/python

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   • cloudnative-pg/cloudnative-pg
   • CloudNativePG Tutorial: Manage Multiple Cloud-Native Databases
   • Barman, Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL
7. Red Hat - Furthering the evolution of CentOS Stream

   2024-11-22
   community license linux/centos linux/red-hat open-source/fork

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   • Red Hat’s commitment to open source: A response to the git.centos.org changes
   • Hackaday - CentOS Is Dead, Long Live CentOS
   • Impact of RHEL changes to AlmaLinux
   • Brave New World: The Path Forward for Rocky Linux
   • Rocky Linux Expresses Confidence Despite Red Hat's Announcement
   • Jeff Geerling - Dear Red Hat: Are you dumb?
   • Jeff Geerling - Removing official support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
   • JMJ - Re-evaluating RHEL
8. Building SimCity - How to Put the World in a Machine

   2024-11-22
   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
9. Supercharge the One Person Framework with SQLite: Rails World 2024

   2024-10-18
   database/sqlite framework/ruby-on-rails programming/ruby programming/sql

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   • How (and why) to run SQLite in production: RubyConf Taiwan 2023
   • Litestream - Streaming SQLite Replication
10. Amulet Map Editor - A new Minecraft world editor and converter that supports all versions since Java 1.12 and Bedrock 1.7.

    2024-04-14
    game/minecraft programming/java programming/python

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    • Amulet Editor
11. 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
12. nanofont3x4 - World's smallest readable 3x4 font with lowercase; includes all ASCII symbols

    2024-03-21
    text text/font

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13. Grumpy Website

    2023-10-29
    internet/browser programming/html user-experience user-interface web

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    Grumpy Website is a world-leading media conglomerate of renowned experts in UIs, UX and TVs.

    We’ve been reporting on infinite scrolls, cookie banners and unnecessary modal dialogs since 2017.

14. The Spilhaus World Ocean Map in a Square

    2023-07-25
    geography graphics/2d map ocean planet/earth

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    • Cartogaphie Numérique - Des usages de la projection Spilhaus et de notre vision du monde
    • Steal this Spilhaus project for ArcGIS Pro please
15. Site Reliability Engineering - Book

    2023-07-22
    infrastructure/on-call infrastructure/site-reliability-engineering observability

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    • SRE in the Real World
16. Graphene-Python - a library for building GraphQL APIs

    2022-08-27
    framework/django programming/api/graphql programming/python

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    • https://github.com/graphql-python/graphene
    • https://github.com/graphql-python/graphene-django
    • https://docs.graphene-python.org/projects/django/en/latest/
    • https://www.twilio.com/blog/graphql-apis-django-graphene
    • https://www.reddit.com/r/django/comments/uzm4fn/is_graphene_django_reliable_is_it_used_in/
    • Real World Graphene: Lessons Learned From Building A Graphql Api On Top Of A Django App for Saleor (https://github.com/saleor/saleor)
    • graphene-django or: How I learned to stop RESTing and Love the Graph
17. Cities and Memories - Remixing the world, one sound at a time

    2022-05-29
    audio city sound

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    • https://citiesandmemory.bandcamp.com/
18. BlueMap is a tool that generates 3d-maps of your Minecraft worlds and displays them in your browser

    2022-01-16
    game/minecraft graphics/3d internet/browser programming/java

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    • https://github.com/BlueMap-Minecraft/BlueMap
19. IoT logging with MQTT, Fluentd / Fluent Bit and Loki

    2020-08-15
    embedded fluentd internet-of-things network/mqtt observability/grafana observability/logging observability/logging/grafana-loki

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    Open questions, potential solutions or workarounds:

    • Loki does not support out-of-order message ingestion
      • https://github.com/grafana/loki/issues/1544
      • https://github.com/project-hatohol/fluent-plugin-sort
    • There is not Java client for Loki
      • https://github.com/grafana/loki/issues/1158
      • https://grafana.com/docs/loki/latest/api/
      • https://github.com/grafana/loki/tree/master/cmd/fluent-bit
    • The Wiced MQTT queue might be limited depending on the volume of logs
      • https://iotexpert.com/2017/03/08/embedded-world-2017-wiced-wifi-mqtt-and-the-amazon-iot-cloud/
20. Frida • A world-class dynamic instrumentation framework | Inject JavaScript to explore native apps on Windows, macOS, GNU/Linux, iOS, Android, and QNX

    2020-01-30
    debugging linux/kernel/ebpf observability/tracing program ptrace

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    • https://github.com/frida/frida
    • https://frida.re/docs/home/