VirtualTam's bookmarks

21. Servo - The embeddable, independent, memory-safe, modular, parallel web rendering engine 2024-05-02

    tags: graphics/webgl, graphics/webgpu, internet/browser, programming/javascript, programming/rust, user-interface/qt, web

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    • The Servo Book
    • servo/servo
22. Steam Audio - A full-featured audio solution that integrates environment and listener simulation 2024-04-02

    tags: audio, game-engine/fmod, game-engine/unity, game-engine/unreal, game/steam, programming/c++, virtual-reality

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    • Steam Audio Open Source Release
    • ValveSoftware/steam-audio
23. 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
24. Refactoring Legacy Software: Strangler Fig Pattern 2024-04-01

    tags: microservice, monolith, programming/design-pattern, software-engineering/legacy, software-engineering/refactoring

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    • Red Hat - The pros and cons of the Strangler architecture pattern
    • Azure Architecture - Strangler Fig pattern
    • Microservices Pattern: Strangler application
25. Oxide - Engineering a culture 2024-04-01

    tags: company, company/remote, culture, embedded, operating-system, programming/rust, software-engineering

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    • Principles
    • RFDs
      • RFD 3 - Hiring Process
      • RFD 68 - Partnership as Shared Values
    • Compensation as a Reflection of Values
26. rerun-io/revy - Proof-of-concept time-travel debugger for the Bevy game engine, built using Rerun 2024-03-31

    tags: debugging, game-engine/bevy, graphics/2d, graphics/3d, programming/rust

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    • rerun-io/rerun - Visualize streams of multimodal data
27. OpenGFW - A flexible, easy-to-use, open source implementation of GFW (Great Firewall of China) on Linux 2024-03-31

    tags: linux, network/firewall, network/ipv4, network/ipv6, network/packet-capture/wireshark, programming/go, reverse-engineering

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    • USENIX Security Symposium 2023 - How the Great Firewall of China Detects and Blocks Fully Encrypted Traffic
28. Defining, Measuring, and Managing Technical Debt 2024-03-31

    tags: software-engineering/refactoring, software-engineering/technical-debt

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    • Defining, Measuring, and Managing Technical Debt (PDF)
29. toxiproxy - A TCP proxy to simulate network and system conditions for chaos and resiliency testing 2024-03-10

    tags: network/proxy, network/tcp, programming/go, programming/ruby, programming/testing/integration, quality-of-service

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    • Building and Testing Resilient Ruby on Rails Applications
30. ANGLE - Almost Native Graphics Layer Engine 2023-12-05

    tags: graphics/opengl, graphics/webgl, internet/browser

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    Allow users of multiple operating systems to seamlessly run WebGL and other OpenGL ES content by translating OpenGL ES API calls to one of the hardware-supported APIs available for that platform

31. The Grug Brained Developer - A layman's guide to thinking like the self-aware smol brained 2023-07-22

    tags: complexity, management, programming, satire, software-engineering

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    • Comments on Lobste.rs
32. Site Reliability Engineering - Book 2023-07-22

    tags: infrastructure/on-call, infrastructure/site-reliability-engineering, observability

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    • SRE in the Real World
33. Regex engine internals as a library 2023-07-14

    tags: programming/c++, programming/go, programming/regular-expressions, programming/rust

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    • rust-lang/regex
    • google/re2
    • BurntSushi/rebar - A biased barometer for gauging the relative speed of some regex engines on a curated set of tasks
    • Resources about implementing regular expression search efficiently, Russ Cox
34. Create an advanced search engine with PostgreSQL 2023-07-14

    tags: database/postgresql, programming/sql, search-engine, text

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    • Postgres Full Text Search vs the rest (MeiliSearch, OpenSearch/Elasticsearch, SQlite FTS, Typesense)
    • Optimizing Full Text Search with Postgres tsvector Columns and Triggers
    • Word separators for Postgres full text search with Rails
    • Using PostgreSQL Full Text Search With Golang
    • PostgreSQL: Full Text Search
    • PostgreSQL: Preferred Index Types for Text Search
35. Rust Binary Analysis, Feature by Feature 2023-06-17

    tags: compiler, programming/rust, reverse-engineering

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36. Social Media Analytics & Tracking Query Parameters 2023-06-11

    tags: internet/analytics, internet/browser, network/url, privacy, search-engine/search-engine-optimization

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    • UTM Parameters
    • Google Ads - Conversion Tracking
    • Websites use URLs to track you. Here’s how to stop them.
    • Firefox’s privacy crusade now targets a key form of tracking
    • ClearURLs - An addon to remove tracking elements from URLs to help protect your privacy
    • iOS 17 automatically removes tracking parameters from links you click on
37. Reverse engineering the CAN messages for a BMW F Series Gear Selector 2023-03-03

    tags: editor/vim, embedded, programming/python, programming/python/ipython, programming/rust, reverse-engineering

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    Article Series:

    • https://www.projectgus.com/2022/06/bmw-f-series-gear-selector-part-one-failures/
    • https://www.projectgus.com/2022/06/bmw-f-series-gear-selector-part-two-breakthrough/
    • https://www.projectgus.com/2022/07/bmw-f-series-gear-selector-part-three-success/

    Supporting Repository:

    • https://github.com/projectgus/car_hacking
    • https://github.com/projectgus/car_hacking/tree/main/bmw_gear_selector

    Related Projects:

    • https://github.com/tenderlove/initial-v
38. Cube Cola - We are wildcrafting our own cola from an open source recipe reverse-engineered from the original Coke 2023-02-20

    tags: cola, drink, recipe, soda

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    • https://cube-cola.org/index.php?route=information/information&information_id=10
    • https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/8j50ja/this_norwegian_soda_t%C3%B8yen_cola_is_open_source/
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCola_(drink)
39. Image Stacks and iPhone Racks - Building an Internet Scale Meme Search Engine | FindThatMeme.com Blog 2023-02-14

    tags: apple, image, image/optical-character-recognition, meme, phone

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40. HyperLogLog - Approximate the number of distinct elements in a set 2022-12-14

    tags: algorithm, database/postgresql, database/redis

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    • HyperLogLog: the analysis of a near-optimal cardinality estimation algorithm (PDF)
    • HyperLogLog in Practice: Algorithmic Engineering of a State of The Art Cardinality Estimation Algorithm
    • https://agkn.wordpress.com/2012/10/25/sketch-of-the-day-hyperloglog-cornerstone-of-a-big-data-infrastructure/
    • Redis new data structure: the HyperLogLog
    • https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/21wshj/redis_new_data_structure_the_hyperloglog/
    • https://redis.uptrace.dev/guide/go-redis-hll.html
    • https://towardsdatascience.com/hyperloglog-a-simple-but-powerful-algorithm-for-data-scientists-aed50fe47869
    • https://odino.org/my-favorite-data-structure-hyperloglog/
    • http://blog.notdot.net/2012/09/Dam-Cool-Algorithms-Cardinality-Estimation
    • https://supabase.com/blog/seen-by-in-postgresql
    • https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2017/12/22/distributed-count-vs-hyperloglog/