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21. 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
22. 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
23. 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)
24. 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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25. 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/
26. NucliaDB - a cloud-native database for unstructured data and vector, text, paragraphs and relations indexing 2022-11-19

    tags: database/nosql, natural-language-processing, network/grpc, programming/python, programming/rust, protocol-buffers, search-engine

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    • https://github.com/nuclia/nucliadb
    • https://nuclia.com/building-nuclia/first-release/
    • https://2022.ploneconf.org/schedule/talks/nucliadb-oss-cloud-native-database-for-unstructured-data
    • https://gist.github.com/bloodbare/8381bfd0b11d94f2e8592b1101e695b5
    • https://github.com/nuclia/demos/
27. Simulating an Entire Car Engine (yes, it makes noise) 2022-09-24

    tags: engine, programming/c++, sound

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    • https://github.com/ange-yaghi/engine-sim
    • Simulating VTEC, a radial-5 engine and more with my engine simulator (there is sound)
28. PISA - Performant Indexes and Search for Academia 2022-07-03

    tags: programming/c++, programming/python, search-engine

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    • https://github.com/pisa-engine/pisa
    • http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2409/docker08.pdf
    • https://github.com/ot/ds2i/
29. Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Search - OpenSource Connections 2022-05-31

    tags: programming, search-engine, web

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30. Plover - a free, open source stenography engine 2022-05-24

    tags: keyboard, keyboard/mechanical-keyboard, programming/python, stenography

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    • https://github.com/openstenoproject/plover/wiki
    • http://plover.stenoknight.com/
    • https://github.com/openstenoproject/plover
    • https://stenokeyboards.com/products/the-uni
    • https://www.artofchording.com/
31. Bevy - data-driven game engine built in Rust 2022-02-16

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

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    • https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy
32. PCB Metro Map - Build Log 2021-10-10

    tags: diy, electronics, electronics/led, map, metro, pcb

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    • https://www.reddit.com/r/singapore/comments/oe3mlw/i_made_a_small_pcb_trinket_with_all_the_lines_up/
    • https://www.asiaone.com/singapore/software-engineer-spent-5-months-recreating-detailed-mrt-map-printed-circuit-board-led
    • https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cjx3711/metrom-circuit-board-transit-diagrams-by-lifeclocc
33. Engineering Essentials - SparkFun Electronics 2021-08-25

    tags: arduino, diy, electronics, schematics

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34. Podman | Daemonless container engine for developing, managing, and running OCI Containers 2021-08-21

    tags: linux, linux/container/docker, linux/container/podman, linux/red-hat

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    • https://github.com/containers/podman
    • https://podman.io/talks/2018/10/01/talk-replace-docker-with-podman.html
    • https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2019/04/24/how-to-run-systemd-in-a-container
    • https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2014/05/05/running-systemd-within-docker-container
35. Thundering Herds & Promises 2021-08-19

    tags: distributed, memory/cache, performance, programming/c++

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    • https://engineering.fb.com/2015/06/19/developer-tools/futures-for-c-11-at-facebook/
    • https://github.com/facebook/folly/blob/master/folly/futures/SharedPromise.h
36. Elm at Rakuten | Rakuten Engineering Blog 2021-08-19

    tags: programming/elm, programming/functional-programming, programming/javascript, web

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37. Quickwit | Search more with less 2021-05-18

    tags: programming/rust, search-engine, text

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    • https://github.com/quickwit-inc/quickwit
    • https://quickwit.io/blog/commoncrawl/
38. Tantivy is a full-text search engine library inspired by Apache Lucene and written in Rust 2021-05-18

    tags: programming/library, programming/rust, search-engine, text

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    • https://fulmicoton.com/posts/behold-tantivy/
    • https://fulmicoton.com/posts/behold-tantivy-part2/
    • https://fulmicoton.com/posts/tantivy-stacker/
39. LÖVE (Love2D) - Free 2D Game Engine 2021-05-02

    tags: engine/love2d, game, graphics/2d, indie, programming/lua

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    • Game Development with LÖVE 2D and Lua – Full Course
40. Ok Google: please publish your DKIM secret keys – A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering 2021-01-31

    tags: cryptography, email, email/dkim

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    • https://www.wired.com/2012/10/dkim-vulnerability-widespread/
    • https://wikileaks.org/DKIM-Verification.html
    • https://github.com/associatedpress/verify-dkim
    • https://rya.nc/dkim-privates.html