VirtualTam's bookmarks

1. A Pattern Language - An abridged, hyper-textual, and copyleft manifestation of the 1977 architecture classic A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander 2024-05-15

   tags: architecture, book, city

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   • zenodotus280/apl
   • Christopher Alexander - Patterns in Architecture
   • HN thread
   • List of related HN threads
2. Servo - The embeddable, independent, memory-safe, modular, parallel web rendering engine 2024-05-02

   tags: graphics/webgl, graphics/webgpu, internet/browser, programming/javascript, programming/rust, user-interface/qt, web

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   • The Servo Book
   • servo/servo
3. The Copenhagen Book - General guidelines on implementing authentication and authorization in web applications 2024-04-05

   tags: cryptography/hash, memory/cache, network/http, network/http/cookie, programming/go, security/authentication, security/authorization, security/oauth, security/password

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   • pilcrowOnPaper/copenhagen
4. Effective Rust - 35 Specific Ways to Improve Your Rust Code 2024-03-31

   tags: book, course, programming/rust

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5. Performance Analysis and Tuning on Modern CPUs 2024-01-13

   tags: book, linux, performance/profiling, programming/c++, programming/rust

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   • PerformanceNinja video courses playlist
   • dendibakh/perf-ninja - An online course where you can learn and master the skill of low-level performance analysis and tuning
   • grahamking/perf-ninja-rs - Rust labs for Performance Ninja Class
6. BASIC Computer Games 2023-12-17

   tags: game, programming/basic

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   An updated version of the classic "Basic Computer Games" book, with well-written examples in a variety of common MEMORY SAFE, SCRIPTING programming languages

   • coding-horror/basic-computer-games
7. Why do libraries give away books? 2023-10-29

   tags: book, library

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   • Why Do Libraries Throw Away Books?
   • Do libraries discard books?
8. 50 Years of Text Games - A definitive book about the first half-century of interactive fiction 2023-07-22

   tags: artificial-intelligence, book, command-line, game/interactive-fiction, game/roguelike, graphics/2d, procedural-generation, text

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   • 50 Years of Text Games parses the rich history of a foundational genre
9. Site Reliability Engineering - Book 2023-07-22

   tags: infrastructure/on-call, infrastructure/site-reliability-engineering, observability

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   • SRE in the Real World
10. OpenSSL Cookbook 2023-05-31

    tags: cryptography/certificate, network/http, network/transport-layer-security, openssl

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    The definitive guide to using the OpenSSL command line for configuration and testing.

    Topics covered in this book include:

    • key and certificate management,
    • server configuration,
    • a step by step guide to creating a private CA,
    • testing of online services.
11. The Level Design Book 2023-05-23

    tags: design, game, gameplay, graphics/3d

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12. The Rust Rand Book - Extended documentation for Rust's Random number library 2022-12-22

    tags: cryptography, cryptography/random, programming/rust

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    • https://github.com/rust-random/rand/
    • https://github.com/rust-random/book/
    • https://crates.io/crates/rand
13. The Embedded Rust Book 2022-10-19

    tags: embedded, programming/rust

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    • https://github.com/rust-embedded/book
    • https://github.com/rust-embedded
    • https://www.rust-lang.org/governance/wgs/embedded
    • https://github.com/rust-embedded/awesome-embedded-rust
14. Learn TLA+ - Temporal Logic of Actions 2022-07-04

    tags: book, formal-specification/tla+

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    • https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/learntla/
15. Programming with Unicode (The Unicode Book) 2022-03-17

    tags: programming/c, programming/python, text, text/unicode

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16. ripgrep-all: rga: ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz, etc. 2021-11-12

    tags: command-line, grep, linux, metadata, pdf, programming/rust, search

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17. Extreme HTTP Performance Tuning: 1.2M API req/s on a 4 vCPU EC2 Instance | talawah.io 2021-05-23

    tags: cloud/aws, linux, linux/kernel, linux/kernel/ebpf, network/http, performance, programming/c

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    • https://blog.packagecloud.io/eng/2016/06/22/monitoring-tuning-linux-networking-stack-receiving-data/
    • https://blog.packagecloud.io/eng/2016/10/11/monitoring-tuning-linux-networking-stack-receiving-data-illustrated/
    • https://blog.packagecloud.io/eng/2017/02/06/monitoring-tuning-linux-networking-stack-sending-data/
    • http://www.brendangregg.com/systems-performance-2nd-edition-book.html
18. Two Quarkus Books for Christmas 2021-01-05

    tags: book, framework/quarkus, programming/java, red-hat

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    • https://developers.redhat.com/books/understanding-quarkus
    • https://developers.redhat.com/books/practising-quarkus
19. Easy Rust: Rust explained using easy English 2020-09-23

    tags: book, programming-language, programming/rust

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20. MuPDF - a lightweight PDF, XPS, and E-book viewer 2020-04-30

    tags: document, ebook, epub, linux, pdf

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    • https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MuPDF
    • https://askubuntu.com/questions/314802/is-there-a-comprehensive-list-of-mupdf-keyboard-shortcuts
    • https://github.com/pymupdf/PyMuPDF