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21. bash-stack - modern web framework in bash

    2025-01-20
    parody programming/awk programming/html programming/node.js programming/shell/bash sed

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    Need bash scripts? Already have too many? I'm available to help.

    • cgsdev0/bash-stack
    • bash.consulting
22. Hacking the Yamaha DX9 To Turn It Into a DX7

    2025-01-20
    electronics firmware instrument/synthesizer programming/assembly reverse-engineering

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    • ajxs/yamaha_dx97
    • Yamaha DX7 Firmware ROM Disassembly
    • Yamaha DX7 Official Technical Analysis
    • Yamaha DX 7 Technical Analysis Booklet
    • Introduction to Reverse-Engineering Vintage Synth Firmware
23. Python 3 - struct - Interpret bytes as packed binary data

    2025-01-19
    binary parser programming/python

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    • Format Characters
24. badkeys - Checking cryptographic public keys for known vulnerabilities

    2025-01-18
    cryptography/elliptic-curve cryptography/rsa leak programming/python security security/password

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    • badkeys/badkeys
    • Private Keys in the Fortigate Leak
25. Rust needs a web framework for lazy developers

    2024-12-30
    database framework network/http programming/html programming/rust web

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    The benefits are there: you get wonderful type system, wonderful performance, and build times that give you back those coffee breaks you used to get while your code compiled.

    • ~ntietz/newt - Nicole's Web Toolkit
    • Are we web yet?
26. Lychee - Finds broken hyperlinks and mail addresses inside Markdown, HTML, reStructuredText, or any other text file or website!

    2024-12-21
    command-line network/url programming/markdown programming/rust web

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    • lycheeverse/lychee-action - Github action to check for broken links in Markdown, HTML, and text files
27. FreshRSS - #4220 - Implement Web scraping "HTML + XPath"

    2024-12-14
    feed/rss programming/html programming/php programming/xml/xpath web/scraping

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    Consume any Web site / HTML source, also when an RSS / Atom feed is not available.

    • XPath Scraping with FreshRSS
    • RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge
28. Text normalization in Go

    2024-11-28
    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
29. Automatic Summarization

    2024-11-27
    natural-language-processing programming/python programming/r text

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    • TextRank: Bringing Order into Texts (PDF)
    • TextRank example for summarizing text with R
    • TextRank example for text summarization with Python, Numpy, Pandas, NLTK and Networkx
30. sqlfluff - A modular SQL linter and auto-formatter with support for multiple dialects and templated code

    2024-11-24
    database/mysql database/postgresql database/sqlite programming/python programming/sql static-analysis/lint

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    • Configuration
    • Rules Reference
31. How to Favicon in 2024: Three files that fit most needs

    2024-11-22
    image/icon programming/html

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    • Simplified way of adding a favicon to the website
32. Web Synth - A browser-based audio synthesis, music production, and sound experimentation platform

    2024-11-22
    audio instrument/midi instrument/synthesizer programming/rust programming/typescript programming/webassembly

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    • ameobea/web-synth
    • Rust+WASM Powered FM Synthesizer
    • FM Synthesis in the Browser with Rust, Web Audio, and WebAssembly with SIMD
33. 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
34. Streamline - Icon system for harmonious designs and faster workflows

    2024-11-21
    image/icon image/png image/svg programming/html web

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35. pg_duckdb - A Postgres extension that embeds DuckDB's columnar-vectorized analytics engine and features

    2024-11-20
    database/duckdb database/postgresql programming/apache-parquet programming/c++ programming/json programming/python programming/sql

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    • DuckDB - PostgreSQL Extension
    • Querying Postgres Tables Directly from DuckDB
36. The Annotated Hacker Test | For those of us who didn't receive a case of beer with our computer.

    2024-11-19
    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)
37. Bookmarklet - JavaScript commands that add new features to the browser

    2024-11-19
    internet/browser programming/html programming/javascript programming/script

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    • Yawar Amin - Bookmarklets
    • Bookmarklets, and why you should use them
    • Bookmarklets: do you use them? If so, wanna share them?
38. Image Dithering - Create the illusion of color depth in images on systems with a limited color palette

    2024-11-18
    color/palette game image/2d image/compression image/dithering image/noise indie programming/go programming/roff

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    • Re: Return of the Obra Dinn [GDC 2016 Demo Build] - Dithering Process
    • Ditherpunk — The article I wish I had about monochrome image dithering
    • Cyan's Richard A. Watson - Dithering 101 (archive)
    • Differentiable Dithering
    • What the Heck is Blue Noise?
    • Generating Blue Noise Textures With Void And Cluster
      • Atrix256/VoidAndCluster
      • jdupuy/BlueNoiseDitherMaskTiles
    • Why Your Website Should Use Dithered Images
      • Dither Me This!
    • Why Your Website Should Not Use Dithered Images

    Command-line dithering tools:

    • makew0rld/didder (Go CLI)
      • makew0rld/dither (Go library)

    Online dithering tools:

    • Dither It! - A Web application to dither images
      • alexharris/ditherit-v2
    • Building Retro Dither: Dithering Algorithms, Run-Length Encoding, Resource Forks and More!
    • Blue Noise in Futhark
      • Munksgaard/bluenoise
39. Jujutsu - A distributed version control system

    2024-11-13
    programming/rust source-code-management/git source-code-management/jujutsu source-code-management/mercurial

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    • martinvonz/jj
    • Tutorial
    • Jujutsu: A Haven for Mercurial Users at Mozilla
    • Soft skills: jujutsu early feelings
    • Git and jujutsu: in miniature
    • Steve Klabnik's Jujutsu Tutorial
    • Jujutsu VCS Introduction and Patterns
    • Jujutsu Megamerges and jj absorb
    • Configuring jujutsu (Oppili)
40. fish shell - a smart and user-friendly command line shell for Linux, macOS, and the rest of the family

    2024-11-08
    command-line programming/rust programming/shell/fish source-code-management/git

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    • Tutorial

    Reference:

    • abbr - manage fish abbreviations
    • argparse - parse options passed to a fish script or function
    • function - create a function
    • string - manipulate strings
    • switch - conditionally execute a block of commands

    Configuration:

    • Writing your own prompt
    • fish_add_path - add to the path
    • fish_git_prompt - output git information for use in a prompt
    • Setting up my fish shell from scratch on macOS

    Plugins:

    • jorgebucaran/fisher - A plugin manager for Fish
    • jorgebucaran/autopair.fish - Auto-complete matching pairs in the Fish command line
    • PatrickF1/fzf.fish
    • kidonng/zoxide.fish