VirtualTam's bookmarks

41. Falsehoods programmers believe about time: @noahsussman: Infinite Undo 2018-10-22

    tags: date, programming, time, time/clock, time/timezone

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    • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4128208

    • https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/v8s0y/falsehoods_programmers_believe_about_time/

    • https://www.metafilter.com/117073/Falsehoods-Programmers-Believe

    • https://infiniteundo.com/post/25509354022/more-falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-time

    • https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/zckb2/more_falsehoods_programmers_believe_about_time/

42. Prometheus Blackbox prober exporter 2018-10-04

    tags: network, network/http, network/icmp, network/ping, observability, observability/time-series/prometheus

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    • https://michael.stapelberg.de/posts/2016-01-01-prometheus-blackbox-exporter/
    • https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/blob/master/example.yml
    • https://github.com/coreos/prometheus-operator/issues/256
43. HypriotOS: SD card image for Raspberry Pi with Docker 2018-09-28

    tags: arm, linux, linux/container/docker, raspberry-pi

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    • https://blog.hypriot.com/post/how-to-get-docker-working-on-your-favourite-arm-board-with-hypriotos/
44. How to POST JSON data with Curl from Terminal/Commandline to Test Spring REST? - Stack Overflow 2018-09-04

    tags: command-line, curl, network/http, programming/api, programming/shell

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45. thunderbird-monterail: A set of themes for thunderbird inspired by a Monterail blog post 2018-09-03

    tags: email, ergonomics, linux, mozilla, thunderbird, user-interface

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    • https://www.monterail.com/blog/2016/the-power-of-email-clients-why-did-we-redesign-thunderbird
    • https://www.monterail.com/blog/thunderbird-new-interface-redesign-survey
46. Peter Bourgon · A theory of modern Go 2018-08-18

    tags: code, global, magic, programming/go

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    • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13949588
    • https://programmingisterrible.com/post/139222674273/write-code-that-is-easy-to-delete-not-easy-to
47. Share Compose configurations between files and projects | Docker Documentation 2018-07-25

    tags: configuration, linux/container/docker, linux/container/docker-compose, programming/yaml

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    Extension with Compose format 3.4+:

    • https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/31101
    • https://github.com/docker/compose/issues/4315
    • https://github.com/docker/cli/pull/452
    • https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/5140
    • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45279662/extend-service-in-docker-compose-3

    Inheritance through YAML anchors:

    • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14184971/more-complex-inheritance-in-yaml
    • https://web.archive.org/web/20130213112648/http://blog.101ideas.cz/posts/dry-your-yaml-files.html
    • https://gist.github.com/bowsersenior/979804
48. The Go Programming Language Specification - Interface Types 2018-07-09

    tags: interface, method, programming/go, programming/object-oriented-programming

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    • https://research.swtch.com/interfaces
    • http://jordanorelli.com/post/32665860244/how-to-use-interfaces-in-go
    • https://medium.com/golangspec/interfaces-in-go-part-i-4ae53a97479c
49. ParallelSSH - a Python asynchronous parallel SSH library designed for large scale automation 2018-06-01

    tags: network, network/ssh, programming/python

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    • https://github.com/ParallelSSH/ssh2-python
    • https://parallel-ssh.org/post/ssh2-python/
    • https://pypi.org/project/ssh2-python/
    • https://www.libssh2.org/
50. LibGDX - Coordinate systems 2018-04-29

    tags: graphics/2d, graphics/3d, libgdx, user-interface

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    • https://github.com/libgdx/libgdx/wiki/Projection%2C-viewport%2C-%26-camera
    • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7708379/changing-the-coordinate-system-in-libgdx-java
    • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19350101/understand-libgdx-coordinate-system-and-drawing-sprites
    • https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/105424/libgdx-coordinate-system
    • http://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2011/05/18/Why-up-The-joys-of-3D-coordinate-systems.aspx
    • http://www.badlogicgames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3565
51. Jessie Frazelle's Blog: Home Lab is the Dopest Lab 2018-02-18

    tags: automation, continuous-integration, continuous-integration/jenkins, cryptography/encryption, home, linux/container/docker, personal, self-hosting, server, source-code-management/git

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    • https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/personal-infrastructure/
52. Vim and Django 2018-02-10

    tags: editor, editor/vim, framework/django, programming/python, syntax

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    • https://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/UsingVimWithDjango
    • http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1487
    • https://github.com/jmcomets/vim-pony/
    • https://github.com/vim-scripts/django.vim
    • https://github.com/tweekmonster/django-plus.vim
    • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4027961/describe-your-customized-vim-editor-for-python-django-development
    • https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/2zkxip/some_good_vimrcs_blog_posts_about_using_vim_with/
      • https://github.com/dan-gamble/dotfiles/blob/master/vim/.vimrc
53. In the Zones - Stalker RPG 2018-02-10

    tags: alien, board, game, game/role-playing-game, post-apocalyptic

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    • http://www.burgergames.com/stalker/EN_web/extras.htm

    • http://www.burgergames.com/stalker/EN_web/IEC_logo.gif

    • http://www.burgergames.com/stalker/EN_web/stasheet_en.pdf

    • http://pare.iki.fi/blog/?p=74

    • https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product_info.php?products_id=100243&

    • https://stalkersavageworlds.blogspot.fr/

    • https://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/15/15588.phtml

    • https://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?617970-The-Roadside-Picnic-RPG-It-s-finally-here!

    • https://www.facebook.com/StalkerRPG

    • https://www.facebook.com/Stalker-Le-Jeu-de-r%C3%B4le-113573412481124/

54. Migrating a 130TB Cluster from Elasticsearch 2 to 5 in 20 Hours with 0 Downtime and a Rollback… 2018-01-31

    tags: data, database, distributed-system/cluster, index, observability/elastic, observability/elastic/elasticsearch, search

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    • https://thoughts.t37.net/how-we-reindexed-36-billions-documents-in-5-days-within-the-same-elasticsearch-cluster-cd9c054d1db8
    • https://thoughts.t37.net/how-we-upgraded-a-22tb-mysql-cluster-from-5-6-to-5-7-in-9-months-cc41b391895d
    • https://www.elastic.co/blog/hot-warm-architecture-in-elasticsearch-5-x
    • https://www.graylog.org/post/back-to-basics-using-a-hot-warm-elasticsearch-cluster
    • https://github.com/mraad/es-hot-warm
55. Docker - CMD and ENTRYPOINT 2017-12-04

    tags: command, linux/container/docker, package

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    • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21553353/what-is-the-difference-between-cmd-and-entrypoint-in-a-dockerfile
    • https://www.ctl.io/developers/blog/post/dockerfile-entrypoint-vs-cmd/
    • https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/builder/#cmd
    • https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/builder/#entrypoint
56. Distributed environments and database migrations 2017-11-29

    tags: data, database, database/migration, distributed, framework/django, linux/container/docker

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    Actors:

    • database server / cluster
    • load-balanced application servers relying on a database schema with migrations
    • reverse proxy

    Issue:

    • managing database schema migrations

    Possible sequence:

    • create the database
    • run a service that executes database schema migrations
    • start application servers
    • start the load-balancer / reverse-proxy

    Resources:

    • https://www.reddit.com/r/docker/comments/2t2pnf/what_are_best_strategies_to_migrate_relational/
    • https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/357929/db-migration-strategy-for-docker-containers-in-aws-ecs
    • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41592091/run-a-database-migration-command-when-deploying-a-docker-container-to-aws
    • https://ltd-keeper.lsst.io/gke-migrations.html
    • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31715239/docker-compose-database-migrations-and-other-pre-post-scripts
    • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38089999/docker-compose-rails-best-practice-to-migrate
    • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37058812/how-best-to-run-one-off-migration-tasks-in-a-kubernetes-cluster
57. Django, Docker and MySQL 2017-11-29

    tags: database, database/migration, database/mysql, framework/django, linux/container/docker, programming/python, programming/sql

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    Django ORM:

    • https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/ref/databases/#mysql-notes
    • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34777755/how-to-config-django-using-pymysql-as-driver
    • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19189813/setting-django-up-to-use-mysql

    MySQL / MariaDB / Percona connectors:

    • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4960048/python-3-and-mysql
    • https://github.com/PyMySQL/PyMySQL
    • https://pypi.python.org/pypi/mysql-connector-python

    Docker images:

    • https://store.docker.com/images/mariadb
    • https://store.docker.com/images/mysql
    • https://store.docker.com/images/percona

    Compose and Django ORM database migrations:

    • https://docs.docker.com/compose/django/
    • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33992867/how-do-you-perform-django-database-migrations-when-using-docker-compose
    • https://www.stavros.io/posts/how-deploy-django-docker/
    • https://docs.docker.com/compose/startup-order/
58. “tmux in practice” series of posts – Alexey Samoshkin – Medium 2017-11-28

    tags: command-line, command-line/tmux, network/ssh, tab, window

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59. Having Fun: Python and Elasticsearch, Part 1 - bitquabit 2017-11-06

    tags: email, network/http, observability/elastic/elasticsearch, programming/api, programming/python, search

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    • https://bitquabit.com/post/having-fun-python-and-elasticsearch-part-1/
    • https://bitquabit.com/post/having-fun-python-and-elasticsearch-part-2/
    • https://bitquabit.com/post/having-fun-python-and-elasticsearch-part-3/
    • https://elasticsearch-py.readthedocs.io
    • https://elasticsearch-dsl.readthedocs.io/
    • https://docs.python.org/3.6/library/email.html
60. Adding unit tests to legacy code - Stack Overflow 2017-10-16

    tags: development, legacy, programming/test-driven-development, programming/testing, software-engineering/refactoring, unit

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    • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/748503/how-do-you-introduce-unit-testing-into-a-large-legacy-c-c-codebase

    • https://www.downrightlies.net/posts/2015/05/18/how-to-retrofit-tests-to-legacy-code.html

    • https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/227893/does-it-make-sense-to-write-tests-for-legacy-code-when-there-is-no-time-for-a-co

    • https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/122014/what-are-the-key-points-of-working-effectively-with-legacy-code

    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Characterization_test

    • https://www.amazon.com/dp/0131177052/

      • http://www.netobjectives.com/system/files/WorkingEffectivelyWithLegacyCode.pdf
      • https://www.slideshare.net/nashjain/working-effectively-with-legacy-code-presentation