VirtualTam's bookmarks

1. PICO-8 Fantasy Console 2024-11-03

   tags: diy, game, graphics/2d, programming/lua, retro

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   • PICO-8 User Manual
   • PICO-ATE - Altruistic Template Encyclopedia for PICO-8
   • adventures in PICO-8 compression: mine1k
   • PICO-1k Game Jam
   • pico-8/awesome-PICO-8
   • picolove/picolove - PICO-8 Reimplementation in Love2D
2. Adventures In Rust: Bringing Exchange Support To Thunderbird 2024-06-04

   tags: email, microsoft/exchange, network/http, programming/rust, programming/xml, thunderbird

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3. The Lost Universe - NASA's Tabletop Role-Playing Game Adventure 2024-03-31

   tags: fantasy, game/role-playing-game, nasa, nasa/hubble, science

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4. Crystalverse - A Crystal Growing Adventure 2021-11-18

   tags: chemistry, crystal, salt

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5. Inside The Bulb: Adventures in Reverse Engineering Smart Bulb Firmware 2019-03-05

   tags: embedded, firmware, hack, internet-of-things, light, reverse-engineering

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6. Let's Encrypt with HAProxy 2018-07-25

   tags: cryptography/certficate, letsencrypt, network/http, network/http-server/haproxy, network/tcp, network/transport-layer-security

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   • https://github.com/letsencrypt/acme-spec/issues/33
   • https://coolaj86.com/articles/adventures-in-haproxy-tcp-tls-https-ssh-openvpn/
   • https://blog.chmd.fr/ssh-over-ssl-episode-4-a-haproxy-based-configuration.html
7. VIM Adventures 2017-10-06

   tags: editor, editor/vim, game, keyboard, shortcut, text, tutorial

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8. Jez UK Ltd - Articles | Adventures in Autoconfiscation 2017-04-27

   tags: autotools, build, linux, make, microsoft/windows, programming/c, programming/c++

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9. BEAUTIFUL DESOLATION - Isometric Post-apocalyptic Adventure by Christopher Bischoff —Kickstarter 2017-04-01

   tags: africa, game, illusion, indie, post-apocalyptic

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10. Python Dependency Analysis — Adventures of the Datastronomer 2017-02-13

    tags: data, dependency, graph, matrix, package, programming/library, programming/python, visualization

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11. Automate Your Browser: A Guided Selenium Adventure 2016-11-09

    tags: automation, internet/browser, programming/python, selenium, web, web/scraping

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12. Python unit testing frameworks: Nose, Pytest 2015-02-13

    tags: code, coverage, feature, nose, programming/python, programming/python/pytest, programming/testing, quality, unit

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    Python's built-in unittest module is quite cool, but a bit limited and way too verbose (read: it's quite not easy to incite developers to write unit tests)

    I'm currently looking for more dev-friendly solutions, the key points being:

    • writing test code should be easy and straight-forward -keep the focus on "what to test" instead of "how to transcribe a process to a test"
    • parallelization! -we, spoiled developers, should make good use of our way-too-many-cores build machines...
    • complete feature set!
      • we don't want to just run tests...
      • coverage reports (find dead/weak/untested code sections)
      • output formatting (JUnit-XML seems to be quite a common format out there)

    There seem to be 3 solutions in Python:

    • stock unittest + project-dependent customizations / test helpers
    • nosetests
    • py.test

    And 2 ways of gettings things done:

    • keeping things stock: no external dependency, project-specific implementation...
    • using a test framework: one more module in your (test) virtualenv, more concise tests, more features (// run, code coverage, etc.)

    Some links:

    • http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22856638/nose-vs-pytest-what-are-the-subjective-differences-that-should-make-me-pick
    • http://helixyte.org/2014/04/unit-testing-adventures-moving-from-nose-to-pytest/
    • http://lists.idyll.org/pipermail/testing-in-python/2013-August/005624.html
13. Terry Cavanagh Games 2014-07-09

    tags: adventure, game, indie, puzzle, web

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    http://terrycavanaghgames.com/nayasquest/

14. SkyGoblin | Soundcloud 2014-07-05

    tags: adventure, game, game/point-and-click, jazz, music/soundtrack

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15. The Stanley Parable on Steam 2013-10-11

    tags: adventure, exploration, game/steam, weird

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16. Du nouveau pour TRI 2013-10-02

    tags: adventure, game, indie, sandbox

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17. Steam Greenlight :: Dead Cyborg 2013-08-29

    tags: adventure, cyborg, game, game/point-and-click, indie, robot, steampunk

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    “Dead Cyborg” is a first person view sci-fi adventure game. The story is about the meaning of life... and death... in a rusty post-apocalyptic metal and concrete world.

18. Steam Greenlight :: The Cat Lady 2013-08-29

    tags: adventure, game, game/point-and-click, game/steam, indie

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    A dark point'n'click game... soon on Steam!