VirtualTam's bookmarks
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2025-06-30 -
- Safe Operations For High Volume PostgreSQL (Archived 2020-04-14)
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2025-05-10 - Owning my reading log
- Indie Bookshelves
- BookWyrm - Social Reading and Reviewing
- Indieweb - Personal Library
- Microformats
Book metadata sources:
- Bookbrainz
- Open Library by the Internet Archive
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Maintained forks:
- dathere/qsv - Command-line data-wrangling toolkit with Lua scripting
- medialab/xan - CSV processing tool with a built-in expression language
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- IF Archive Search Page
- searchlib/cli.py @240e47c
- Sygil-Dev/whoosh-reloaded - A fast, featureful full-text indexing and searching library implemented in pure Python
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2025-04-09 Web page archive formats:
Tools for crawling, scraping and archiving Web pages:
- internetarchive/heritrix3 - Extensible, web-scale, archival-quality web crawler project (Java)
- internetarchive/Zeno - State-of-the-art web crawler (Go)
- internetarchive/gowarc - Read and write WARC files in Go
- webrecorder/pywb - Web Archiving Toolkit for replay and recording of web archives (Python)
Self-hosted solutions:
- ArchiveBox - A self-hosted app that lets you preserve content from websites in a variety of formats
- Wallabag - Save and classify articles, read them later
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2025-02-08 -
2025-01-21 It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
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2025-01-20 -
2025-01-19 -
The CLIP OS project is an open-source project designed by the National Cybersecurity Agency of France (ANSSI) that aims to build a hardened, multi-level operating system, based on the Linux kernel and a lot of free and open source software.
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The project is based on Gentoo Hardened and has many similarities with Chromium OS or the Yocto project.
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- Converting UTZOO-Wiseman Usenet Tapes to Website with PostgreSQL backend using Python 3.8
- 2.1 Million of the Oldest Internet Posts Are Now Online for Anyone to Read
- DataHoarders, UsenetArchives.com now includes UTZOO-Wiseman tapes of the earliest internet posts made between Feb 1981 and June 1991
- The UTZOO Wiseman Usenet Archive (data removed following legal action)
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- Electropaint History (archived 2011-07-26)
- Silicon Graphics - Irix - ElectroPaint screen saver
- iamralpht/elektropaintjs - Electropaint screensaver from IRIX in JavaScript
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2024-11-22 Aka "Docker Compose for Podman"
— What do you get if you squash a Kubernetes kubelet? — A quadlet
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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:
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- Matteo Brittanti - How to get rid of homeless? - A 600-page epic split in two volumes documenting the so-called “homeless scandal” that affected the newly released game SimCity (Maxis/Electronic Arts, 2013)
- Stanisław Lem - The Cyberiad
- MIT - Urban Intervention Simulation (archive)
- MIT - City Science Research Group
- The Landlord's Game, a realty and taxation game intended to educate users about Georgism
- Invisible Cities, prose poems describing 55 fictitious cities, many of which can be read as commentary on culture, language, time, memory, death, or human experience